ROLLING MILLS

apparatus for reducing ma es of metal to plates, bars, etc.; metal is first heated, then roughly flattened by steam-hammer or coarse cogging-mill, then reduced between two iron rollers, flat or grooved, according to shape required; vertical rolls sometimes used to smooth sides of plate; proce repeated with smaller geared rollers till desired thinne is reached; there are generally three rollers, plate goes through lower pair, repa es through top rollers; s shaped rollers for shaping tires and tubes. See Iron anp STEEL. TON (1869), an American college president, 6. at Newton, Ma achusetts. He uated from Dart mouth College in 1894 and was ordained a Congregational minister in 1898. Pastor at Black stone, Ma achusetts, 1898-1900 and at Wilmington, 1900-1906. At the ist Church, Waterloo, Iowa from 1906-14 and since then president of Fair mount College, Wichita, Kansas.