Method of rolling railroad-rails and steels of similar shape by universal rolling

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method for multiple pass rolling of railroad-rails in a universal rolling mill having horizontal rolls and vertical rolls, comprising measuring the axial displacement of the horizontal rolls and the radial displacement of the vertical rolls when a blank passes through a roll caliber defined by the horizontal and vertical rolls. The measurements include the relation of the displacement of the horizontal and vertical rolls and the difference of the rolling forces acting on the rolls each of the two vertical rolls. The values of the rolling forces of the vertical rolls during the intented passes, can be calculated by, arithmetic oprerations, independently of the above mentioned measuring so …