Fitzalan Steel Works

Name	Fitzalan Steel Works
Ortssitz	Sheffield (England)
Ortsteil	Attercliffe
Straße	Effingham Road
Art des Unternehmens	Stahlwerk
Anmerkungen	Eingentümer früher: Marriott and Atkinson, um 1890: Cocker Brothers. Umfaßt Stahlschmelzöfen, Schmiede, Walzwerk und Feilenherstellungsmaschinen, ferner für die Herstellung von Federn und Achsen von Straßenfahrzeugen
Quellenangaben	[Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Visits to Works (1890)] = Grace's Guide

Produkt	ab	Bem.	bis	Bem.	Kommentar
Fahrzeugfedern			1890	Besuch Inst. Mech. Ing.	für Straßenfahrzeuge
Feilen			1890	Besuch Inst. Mech. Ing.

ZEIT	1890
THEMA	Beschreibung
TEXT	These works comprise steel-melting furnaces, forge, rolling mills, and file-making machinery. The newest machinery has recently been put down for manufacturing road-van and carriage springs and axles. In the file department are nine file-cutting machines by Mr. Ambrose Shardlow of Sheffield; a considerable number of files are also cut by hand. A file-grinding machine by Mr. David Ashton of Sheffield, capable of grinding forty dozen blanks per day, consists of a large revolving gritstone carried on a horizontal spindle which has a longitudinal reciprocating traverse imparted to it by means of a cam. The blanks to be ground are placed in a rest, which holds from eighteen to twenty-five at a time; in this they are fed under the stone and withdrawn again, by means of a screw attached to the rest; the screw is actuated by fast and loose pulleys with crossed and open belts. In the carriage-spring department are forging machines of various kinds, one of which forms at a single blow the two bosses on the ends of the springs. Carriage axles are made from scrap, forged in dies under a steam hammer in a single heat. A specialty made at these works is a railway-wagon card and ticket fastener, adopted on several of the leading railways, to which over half a million have already been supplied.
QUELLE	[Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Visits to Works (1890)] = Grace's Guide