Patent GB-190816013-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of and Machine for Wiring Bottles and the like.
Inventor: OLSEN HERMANN EMIL
Filed: 1908-07-28
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 16,013. Olsen, H. E., and Schmidt, E. A. Aug. 31, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Wiring.-In a machine for wiring bottles, wire is drawn from a reel by a wire carrier and is cut off automatically to the desired length ; it is next bent at or near the middle into two parts between which the bottle neck is placed, after which, by shaping and twisting devices, two nooses are formed, one round the bottle neck and one 104, Fig. 10, outside, and the binding proper is effected by passing one or both of the wire ends 106 through the loop 104 bent up over the bottle mouth, Fig. 11 ; finally, the free wire ends are bent back along the bottle neck, Fig. 12. The wire carrier consists of a circular rail 11, Figs. 1 and 2, carried by an arm 12 mounted on a spring-controlled shaft 13. The carrier is provided at its lower end with a spring- controlled hook 24 adapted to hold the wire, and at its upper end with wire-cutters 33, 34. The shaft 13 is operated through link-work by an eccentric on the main shaft 2 to cause the wirecarrier to draw wire from the reel 4 through a gripping-device 6 and lay it in a V-shaped groove 22. Link-work mounted on the carrier co-operates with rollers 36, 37 on a lever 35 mounted on a spring - controlled and cam - operated shaft 38, to operate the hook 24 and cutters to release and sever the wire at the end of the downward movement of the carrier, and, on the upward movement, to return the parts to the position shown in Fig. 2, and cause the hook to re-engage the free end of the wire. The severed wire is bent at or near its centre, and pushed down through a slot 45 to the shaping and twisting devices, by a vertically-moving rod 46 mounted by a pin and-slot connexion at one end of a pivoted arm 52, Fig. 1. The rod is raised by link-work and an eccentric on the main shaft, but descends under the weight of the system. The wire passes down through a hollow cylinder 59 until its bent middle part comes against a solid cylinder 60. The bottle is then placed on a rest 89 with its neck passing between the parts of the wire. The position of the bottle is regulated by a spring-controlled cup-shaped rest 91, adapted to be withdrawn at the proper time by link-work and an eccentric on a vertical shaft 76 driven from the main shaft. The cylinders 59, 60 are splined in pinions 61, and each carry two sets 82, 103 of shaping-devices. These devices are operated by cones 64, splined to the cylinders and engaging rollers on the pivoted arms which carry the shaping-devices. The devices 82 consist of flat plates, and the devices 103 of thin plates. In operation, the plates 82 close on and flatten the wire and interlock, after which, owing to movement of the cones 64 along the cylinders after the latter have completed their vertical movement, the pates 103 pass between tlhe closed plates 82 and shape the wire 104, 106 round the bottle neck 105, Fig. 5. The vertical movement of the cylinders and cones is effected by pivoted arms 68 and cams 72 on the shaft 76. The wire is next twisted to form the nooses, and for this purpose the cylinders 59, 60 are rotated exactly twice. The gearing is such that during this rotation the cylinder-driving shaft 123 makes half a revolution, and the shaft 123 is stopped exactly at every half revolution by a spring-controlled brake 127 operated by an eccentric on the shaft 76. The binding proper is effected by swinging arms 139, 142, Figs. 2, 6, 10, 11, 12, operated by a rack and pinion 135, 138 and draw-bar 148 respectively, the rack and draw-bar being operated through linkwork by cams on the shaft 76, while their return movements are effected by springs. The bar 139 bends up the noose 104 and then, after the arm 142 has pushed the wire ends 106 through the noose, bends back the ends along the bottle neck. In some cases, when the wire is not bent quite at the centre, one end only is passed through the noose, both ends being then laid along the neck and twisted together.