Reiner Daelen

Reiner Daelen (born October 10, 1813 in Eupen , † December 6, 1887 in Düsseldorf ) was a German ironworks engineer , inventor and manager .

Life

Daelen received technical training in Belgium and joined Neuman & Esser in Aachen as a works manager in 1831 . In the iron and steel industry he began to work in 1840 for the company Eberhard Hoesch & Söhne in Lendersdorf near Düren. In the course of his work at the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein , he rose to become Technical Director. In 1860 he was a co-founder of the Technical Association for Metallurgy , which was later renamed the Association of German Ironworkers and which Daelen elected honorary chairman in 1880. From 1862 to 1864 he was a board member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). His son Reiner Maria Daelen (1843–1905) also became a successful ironworker.

Inventions and innovations

In 1848 he developed the universal rolling mill, in which the two horizontal rolls of a duo stand are supplemented by two vertical rolls in front or behind. This rolling mill was first used at Piepenstock & Co. in Hörde .
Process for the production of wrought iron wheel disks for railway wheels
Device for gradually increasing the peripheral speed of wire rolls

literature

Hugo Racine: Daelen, Reiner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 469 ( digitized version ).
Ulrich Troitzsch : Reiner Daelen (1813–1887) and rolling mill technology. A pioneer of the West German iron industry in the 19th century. In: Ferrum, Nachrichten aus der Eisenbibliothek ISSN 1422-9137 , Volume 79 (2007), pp. 26-45.

Individual evidence

↑ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in early industrialization: state a. private technician in the Kingdom of Hanover a. at d. Ruhr (1815–1873) (= studies of natural science, technology and economics in the nineteenth century . Volume 10 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-42209-1 , p. 368 (482 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 569-570 .

personal data
SURNAME	Daelen, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ironworks engineer, technical director of the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eupen
DATE OF DEATH	December 6, 1887
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in early industrialization: state a. private technician in the Kingdom of Hanover a. at d. Ruhr (1815–1873) (= studies of natural science, technology and economics in the nineteenth century . Volume 10 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-42209-1 , p. 368 (482 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 569-570 .