Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Woven Wire Fencing.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1899
[Communicated from abroad by COREY EDGAR ROBINSON, of Joliet Wills, County
Illinois, United States of America, Gentleman.]
Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Woven Wire
Fencing.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake and Co., Patent
Agents, 45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to machines for automatically manufacturing woven or
stay wire fence composed of a series of longitudinal or fence wires to which are
secured at intervals transverse or stay wires.
or
The object of my invention is to provide a machine of a simple and efficient
construction for automatically manufacturing that particular kind of woven
stay wire fence wherein the transverse or stay wires are united to the longitudinal
or fence wires at the crossings of the same by slotted metal clips, the transverse
or stay wires being threaded through the slotted clips when the clips are astride
the fence wires and the clips, stay wires and strand wires being all swaged, bent
or crimped into the required form after the parts are assembled.
In my invention a guide or passageway for the clips extends tangentially or at
an angle to the fence wire to assemble the clips astride the fence or strand wire
for each of the several strand wires. After the clip is thus assembled astride the
fence or strand wire a clip carrier and holder having two movements, one to cause
it to embrace the clip and the other to move it into registry with the stay wire
guide, holds the clip in position to receive the stay or transverse wire.
The stay
or transverse wire is guided through the clips by a sectional two-part guide, one
part of which opens from the other to permit the fabric to feed forward and the
transverse or stay wires just secured to the strand wires to be released from said
guide. After the clips, stay wires and strand wires are thus assembled, the clips,
stay wires and strand wires are simultaneously bent or swaged into the required
form to rigidly and firmly unite the transverse and strand wires together at the
crossings by a pair of opening and closing dies, one pair of dies being employed
for each strand or fence wire and the series of pairs of dies operating in succession
one after another to enable the wire from which the stay is formed to feed forward
the necessary amount to compensate for the shortening of the stay by the bends
or crimps formed therein by the dies. The free end of the stay wire is bent around
the clip on the marginal strand wire at one edge of the fence fabric and the stay
wire is cut off by a pair of knives and the severed end folded or bent around the
clip on the marginal strand wire at this other edge of the fence fabric.
My invention consists in the novel construction and in the novel combinations
of parts and devices herein shown and described, and more particularly specified
in the claims.
In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification and in which
similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout all the figures, I have

page_text: illustrated one good construction of mechanism for reducing my invention to
practice, the same being what I believe to be the best construction now known
to me. In said drawing Fig. 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a partial front elevation.
Fig. 3 is a left hand end elevation and Fig. 4 a right hand end elevation. Fig. 5
is a vertical section on lines 5-5 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by
the arrow. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail vertical section corresponding to Fig. 5.
Figs. 7 and 8 are detail vertical sections similar to Fig. 6 showing the parts in
different positions. Figs. 9 and 10 are detail vertical sections of the transverse
or stay wire guide. Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are detail plan views showing
the clip carrier and other parts. Figs. 16, 17 and 18 are detail horizontal sections
showing the dies. Fig. 19 is a vertical section of the dies. Fig. 20 is a detail
horizontal section showing the cutters and folding or bending devices for cutting
off the surplus from the free end of the stay wire and bending or folding the end
of the stay wire around the end of the clip on the top marginal strand wire.
Fig. 21 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 20 showing the parts in a different
position. Fig. 22 is a horizontal sectional view showing the cutters for cutting
the stay from the stay wire and the folding or bending device for this end of
the stay. Fig. 23 is a vertical section on line 23 of Fig. 22. Figs. 24, 25, and 26
are detail perspective views. Parts shown in Figs. 22 and 23; Figs. 27 and 28
are sections on line 27-27 of Fig. 6 showing the clip feed gates. Fig. 29 is a
detail plan view showing mechanism for returning the punches or movable dies.
Fig. 30 is a plan detail sectional view showing the winding drum or reel for
the finished fabric or woven or stay wire fence. Figs. 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 are
details of devices connected with the stay wire feed device. Fig. 36 is a detail
view of the stop motion of strand wire feed device. Fig. 37 is a horizontal section
on line 37-37 of Fig. 6. Figs. 38, 39 and 40 are detail views of strand wire
feed roll carrying block. Fig. 41 is a detail view showing stay wire feed devices
looking to the left frame inside the left frame leg. Figs. 42, 43 and 44 are detail
views showing the mechanism for delivering the clips into the clip feed chutes
or guides. Fig. 45 is a perspective view showing a small portion of the woven
or stay wire fence produced by the machine. Fig. 46 is an enlarged detail view
of the clip, and Fig. 47 is an enlarged perspective view showing a single joint
of the fabric at one of the marginal strand wires. Figs. 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54
and 55 are detail views showing the clip holder and carrier in various positions
and sections, as will be readily understood from the figures and letters indicating
the parts.
In the drawing A represents the frame of the machine. This may be of any
suitable form or construction adapted to give support to the different parts or
devices of the machine. X represents the strand or fence wires; X¹ the transverse
or stay wires; and X2 the clips in their finished form; and X³ representing the
clips in the form in which they are when assembled in the unfinished fabric.
Each of the strand wires at each crossing has a wide bend a forming a shoulder x¹
on each side of the clip; and each stay wire at each crossing point has a seat a
for the strand wire and two reverse bends a³, one as a seat for each end of the
clip. And the clip X3 has a middle bend at as a seat for the strand wire and a
reverse curve or bend at each end of the clip. And each stay wire has at each
end a fold over the end of each marginal clip to make a secure fastening at
the marginal wires of the fabric. The clip X, as will be seen from Fig. 46,
is of a folded or U shape when conveyed to the machine and before it is swaged
or bent into its finished form.
My machine for automatically manufacturing the finished fabric, illustrated
in Fig. 45, comprises in co-operative combination a series of fence or strand wire
guides B for the strand wires X; a take up drum or reel C, upon which the
finished fabric is wound; a series of clip feed guides or passages 1) extending
tangentially or at an angle to the strand wire guides; a sectional two-part
guide E E for the transverse or stay wire; a series of clip carriers and holders F;
a series of pairs of dies G G¹ for swaging and bending the clips and strand and

page_text: stay wires; knives or cutters H H¹ for severing the surplus wire from the free
end of the stay; a folder or bending device K for folding or bending the end of
the stay wire about the upper marginal clip of the fabric; knives or cutters L L'
for severing the stay from the stay wire; a folder or bending device M. for folding
the other end of the stay about the lower marginal clip of the fabric; rolls or
feed devices N N¹ for each of the strand or fence wires; and rolls or feed
devices P P¹ for the transverse or stay wire; and a series of clip delivery devices R
for delivering the clips to the clip feed passage, chute or guide.
As the devices for feeding and guiding the strand wires and the devices_for
delivering, guiding, carrying and holding the clips, and for swaging or bending
the clips, strand wires and cross wires at each crossing are equal in number to
the strand wires and all of the same construction, a description of one set of these
devices will answer for the whole series of sets.
The guide B for each of the strand wires may be of any suitable construction,
but consists preferably simply of a curved passage for the strand wire, as indicated
in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 of the drawing, and it extends from the strand wire feed
devices or rolls N N¹ to the lower end of the clip feed guide or passage I) where
it meets the same tangentially or at an acute angle.
The winding drum or reel C may be of any suitable construction adapted to
co-operate with the other parts and to take up or reel up the fence or fabric as
fast as it is produced. I, however, prefer to employ a take up drum or reel of
a knockdown construction so that it can be readily removed from the roll or coil
of fabric, and this preferred construction consists essentially of a pair of
heads C1 C2 having recesses C to receive the ends of a number, preferably four
loose bars C upon which the fabric is directly wound, as will be readily understood
from Fig. 30. The head C is secured to a driven shaft C and the head C2 is
secured to a sliding stub shaft C6 which may be reciprocated by a hand lever C7
to withdraw the head C2 from the head C and permit the loose bars C to be
disengaged from said heads. To ensure the certain disengagement of the bars C
from the head C², I provide said head C2 with openings C8, nd the shaft C6 with
a spider or stop C, the prongs of which are adapted to enter the holes (8 and
engage the ends of the bars C, and thus cause them to be disengaged from the
head C2 when the head C2 is withdrawn as the stop or spider C rotates with the
shaft C, but is prevented from reciprocating with said shaft by a feather Co
having a shoulder at one end which engages the spider C and a shoulder at the
other end. which engages the box C in which the shaft C is journaled or rotates.
The chute, guide or passageway D for feeding the clips and assembling them
astride the fence wire may be of any suitable form or construction. I prefer,
however, to employ for this guide a simple bar astride of which the U shaped
clips X may conveniently slide. The guide D is furnished with an adjacent
bar to keep the clips in place astride the guide D. The guide D is provided
with an opening or passage d for the strand wire to pass tangentially or at an
acute angle to the path of the clips, as is clearly illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7.
The lower portion of the guide D, in which the guideway or passage d is formed,
is preferably enlarged to substantially the cross section of the interior of the
U-shaped clip, and is clearly illustrated in Fig. 37, while the upper portion of the
guide D may be a plain flat bar, as indicated in Figs. 27 and 28.
To feed the clips one by one astride the fence wire and to the clip carrier and
holder F, I provide the clip feed guide with a pair of feed gates or slides D2 D3
one above the other operating alternately to close the feed passage, the feed gates
or slides D2 D3 being located the width of a clip apart and the feed slide 13 being
longer than the slide D³ and provided with an opening d¹ through which a clip
may pass when said opening is in registry with the path of the clips in the
nide D.
To stop or arrest each clip in proper position on the guide D to be received by
he clip carrier and holder F, I provide the clip feed passage or guide 1 with a

page_text: third feed slide or gate D* at or near the lower end of the guide D, and which stop
gate is alternately opened and closed as required.
A fourth feed slide or gate D5 is provided the width of a clip above the gate or
slide D for the purpose of forcing the clip to proper position to be received by
the clip carrier and holder F in case the clip should not fall to its exact position,
and also as an additional security against the feeding of more than one clip at
a time. The feed slides D2, D3 and D have a central slot or open space ² to
receive, embrace or accommodate the clip guide bars D D', and the lower feed
slide D has a central slot or opening to receive or accommodate the strand
wire X, the base of this slot also serving to force the strand wire against the back
edge of the guide hole or passage d, and thus ensure sufficient space between said
strand wire X and the guide bar D' for the certain passage of the clip to place.
The slotted slide or gate D thus prevents all danger of the clip sticking between
the strand wire and said guide bar D¹.
.
The pair of feed slides D2 D3 are operated simultaneously with each other and
alternately with the pair of feed gates or slides D4 D; this being preferably done
by securing said pairs of slides to the opposite ends of a common lever D.
The clip carrier and holder F may be of any suitable construction adapted to
receive the clips one by one when arrested on the clip guide D by the feed slide
or gate D, and carry the same into position for receiving the transverse or stay
wire and holding the clips accurately in line with the stay wire guide while the
stay is threaded through the clip. The construction of clip carrier and holder
which I prefer to employ in combination with the other parts or devices in
practicing my invention is illustrated in the drawing and has essentially two
movements, one a lateral or horizontal movement to and from the strand wire
to bring the clip carrier astride the clip or cause it to engage or embrace the clip
while the clip is held in position astride the strand wire and on the feed slide or
gate D, and second a vertical movement or movement in the direction of the
strand wire to carry the clip into position for receiving the stay or transverse wire.
The clip carrier F has a forked recess or cavity f f to receive the two limbs of
the U-shaped clip so that the carrier embraces the clip both above and below,
and also between the limbs of the U-shaped clip. The clip carrier F is also pro-
vided with parts or members F1 F¹, which embrace or engage the clip laterally
on the outside of its two limbs. The parts or members F1 F1 have simply a
reciprocating movement in the direction of the strand wire and no reciprocating
movement with the carrier F horizontally at right angles to the direction of the
strand wire as the clip drops down between the jaws or members F¹ F¹. The
central projection or ends f2 of the clip carrier F is provided with a horizontal
shallow curved seat f³ conforming to the stay or transverse wire. And the jaws
or members F1 F1 are each provided with a horizontal bottomless slot or passage f
for the transverse or stay wire to pass or be threaded through the clip held in the
carrier. This guide slot or passage f is bottomless to enable the jaws or
members F F to be freed from the stay by the upward or return movement of
said jaws or members after the stay has been threaded through the clips, but is
closed during the threading of the stay wire by the prongs fo on carrier F. The
jaws or members FF have interior shoulders f³ that engage the curved or out-
wardly separated ends of the two limbs of the U-shaped clip, and thus hold the
clip securely in the carrier against movement outward from the carrier.
the jaws F F¹ have simply a vertical reciprocating movement and no lateral
reciprocating movement with the carrier F, they are secured to or made integral
with a guide bar F2 which is adapted to reciprocate vertically in the frame A
or a block secured rigidly thereto, the carrier F reciprocating laterally in the bar
or slide F2 while causing said slide and the jaws F1 F1 carried by it to move
vertically with the carrier F. The carrier F itself is secured to or made integral
with the vertically moving slide F3 which reciprocates in suitable guides on a
horizontally moving slide F4 that reciprocates in suitable guides on the frame of
the machine.
As

page_text: The stay wire guide E may be of any suitable construction adapted to guide or
direct the stay wire through the series of U-shaped clips held in the series of
carriers F, and which is adapted to co-operate with the other parts, elements or
devices of the machine. The stay wire guide is a sectional guide or made with
notches or intervals to receive or accommodate the clip carriers and the strand
wires and the dies by which the assembled clips, strand wires and stay wires are
compressed or bent to their final shape. To enable the sectional guide to properly
and accurately direct the stay wire through the series of slotted clips and at the
same time permit it to be afterwards disengaged from the stay, I make this guide
in two parts or members E E', one movable in respect to the other, the slot or
passage of the guide being formed in one part or member of the guide, and the
other part or member forming simply the bottom or remaining wall of the slot
or passage for the stay wire. This will be readily understood by referring to
Figs. 9 and 10. The stationary part E¹ of the guide is secured to a longitudinal
bar constituting part of the frame of the machine, and the movable member E
of the guide being connected by the bolts E² to a reciprocating slide E3 by which
the part E is moved from its closed position, as illustrated in Fig. 9, to its open
position, as illustrated in Fig. 10, thus permitting the stay to be discharged from
the two-part guide.
The clip and stay and strand wire swaging or bending dies G G may be of any
suitable kind or construction adapted to give the required or desired configuration
to the assembled clips, strand wires and stay wire. The die G, one for each strand
wire, may preferably be a stationary one and secured by suitable means to the
stationary frame of the machine. The other die G¹ may be preferably given its
opening and closing movement by a reciprocating slide G² to which it is attached.
Each of the dies G G is furnished with a vertical die cavity g to receive and give
the proper bends or configuration to the strand wire; a transverse die cavity g¹
to receive and give the proper configuration or bends to the stay wire; and a
central die cavity g² to receive and give the proper bends or configuration to the
clip. And the dies at the marginal wire are given an additional cavity g³ to
permit the folder for the end of the stay wire to enter. (See Figs. 20, 21 and 22.)
The stay wire guide E also assists in forming the bends in the stay wire. (See
Fig. 17, wherein the guideway E10 engages the stay wire, and causes a permanent
set therein when the dies are setting the clips and stay wire.) The series of
movable dies G¹ or the respective slides G2, by which they are carried, are closed
and operated successively one after another beginning at the outer one near the
free end of the stay wire, so that the stock taken up by the bends or crimps formed
in the stay wire may be compensated for by the further feeding forward of the
stay wire to the amount required during the successive operation of the dies, as
will be hereinafter described in connection with said stay wire feed rolls or devices.
The knives or cutters H H for severing the surplus stock from the free end of
the stay wire, preparatory to bending the free end of the stay wire about the
marginal clip of the fabric, may be of any suitable construction adapted to per-
form this function. I, however, prefer to employ for this purpose a stationary
knife H and a rotary knife H co-operating therewith, as the cutter H¹ may thus
be operated by the same means employed to operate the folder K by which the
free end of the stay wire is folded about the clip. In this way the movable
cutter H is formed by simply providing the folder K with a cutting edge H¹.
I prefer to provide the machine with cutters H H¹ for the free end of the stay
wire, as any irregularity in the feed of the stay wire may be thus compensated
for; and as I in this way do not require so accurate or exact an operation of
the stay wire feed devices as would be desirable where the end of the stay wire is
fed against a fixed stop designed to arrest the further feed.
The cutters L L' for severing the stay from the stay wire and the folder M. for
folding the severed end of the stay about the marginal clip at the other edge of
the fabric may preferably be of the same construction as the cutters H H and
folder Kalready described.

page_text: The feed devices NN1 for feeding each of the strand wires X forward at
intervals, may preferably consist of an ordinary pair of feed rolls, as indicated in
the drawing.
The feed devices P P, which feed the stay wire forward at intervals as required,
may likewise be of any suitable kind or construction, but I prefer, to employ a
pair of feed rolls, as indicated in the drawing, for this purpose. In order to
permit the slight further feed of the stay wire required to compensate for the stock
taken up by the crimps or bends formed in the stay by the dies after the stay
has been threaded through the clips by the feed rolls or devices P P¹, I journal
one of these rolls on a movable bearing or box P so that the pressure, grip or
tension between the two rolls P P may be slightly relieved or lessened at the
time the series of dies G'G¹ begin to act, and such grip, pressure or tension again
restored to its normal extent when the stay wire is required to be fed forward
again for the next succeeding stay.
The clip delivery device R, by which the clips are delivered in proper position
to the clip guide or feed passage D, may be of any suitable kind or construction
adapted to deliver or present the clips in proper position to scid clip guide or feed
passage. The device or means, however, which I prefer to employ for this function
is illustrated in the drawing, and consists essentially of a rocking or vibrating
box or magazine for holding the clips in bulk, and which is provided at its
bottom with a guide bar or rail R' astride of which the crimps may fit and arrange
themselves as the magazine is rocked or tilted back and forth, and from which
the clips may slide on to the curved end of the guide bar D2 when the magazine
is tilted into its upper inclined position, as illustrated in the drawing in Figs. 3, 4
and 5, the inner or hinged end of the clip magazine being provided with an
opening conforming in shape to the clip and through which the clips' on the
guide R may pass to the guide bar D.
In order to prevent the clips from being delivered from the magazine R to
the clip guide when the latter is full, and thus prevent danger of clogging or
wedging the clip passage or way, I provide the magazine or clip delivery device R
with a movable gate R2, which cuts off the further delivery of clips, and which
gate or slide is automatically closed when the clip guide D is full of clips.
As illustrated in the drawing, the fence or fabric produced by the machine is
shown as being provided with alternate long and short stays, in order that the
lower strands of the fence, which are closer together and intended to obstruct the
passage of small animals, may be properly stayed in position at shorter intervals
than the upper wires. To adapt my machine to produce the fence with alternate
short stays when desired or required, I provide the clip feed guide or passage ])
with a supplemental feed gate or slide 17, which slide is alternately opened and
closed so as to permit the feed of the clip when the alternate long stay is fed
across the strand wires, and to shut off the feed of the clip when the short stay
is fed. The supplemental feed slides or gates 17 of course are only provided on
those clip guides which it may be desired to close or shut alternately. The
supplemental feed slides or gates D7 are secured to and operated by a recipro-
cating bar D18.
For this same purpose I provide the stay wire feed rolls or devices P P¹ with
a supplemental pair of feed rolls P2 P3 which may alternately grip or engage the
stay wire and feed it the distance required for a short stay, and with devices for
causing each pair of stay wire feed rolls to alternately grip the stay wire as
required.
Any suitable connecting mechanism or gearing may be employed for communi-
cating to the various moving elements, parts or devices of the machine the required
movements directly or indirectly from the main driving shaft S of the machine.
In the drawing I have illustrated the connecting mechanism or gearing which I
prefer to employ for such purposes, and I will now proceed to describe the same:
The driving shaft S is journaled in suitable boxes on the frame of the machine
and provided with a driving pulley S¹ to which power is communicated through

page_text: the belt S². The power is communicated from the driving shaft S to the cam
shaft T through gears T T
The driven feed rolls N of each pair of rolls N N¹ are all secured to a common
shaft N2 which is given an intermittent and rotary movement to feed the strand
wires forward the required distance at intervals by means of a gear N3 (see Figs. 1
and 5) meshing with a gear N on a counter shaft N5, which is provided with a
mutilated gear No that meshes with the gear T on the cam shaft T. The gear T
being provided with a flange T3 and a big tooth T, the mutilated gear is provided
with two stop blocks N and two big teeth NB, and at the point where the big tooth
is located the teeth are absent in the mutilated gear. The flange 13 of the big
gear is absent for a sufficient space to provide for the travel of the mutilated
gear; the big tooth T engages the big tooth N20 and starts the inutilated gear No
to moving until the teeth of the mutilated gear engage the regular teeth of gear T,
the flange being absent at this point on the periphery. When the mutilated
gear No has revolved a half a revolution, the block N engages the flange T and
arrests the further movement of the mutilated gear until the big tooth T has
conípleted another revolution.
To enable the machine to readily be changed so as to space the stay wires at
greater distance apart, I provide the feed rollshaft N and the counter shaft N³
with supplemental gears N20 N° of different diameters from the gears N3 N4. By
simply fixing one or the other set of these gears on their shafts at the time, the
extent of feed of the strand wires may be varied and the consequent spacing of
the stays.
The take up drum C or its shaft C is driven from the feed roll shaft N2 by a
pulley No thereon and a belt N which passes round a pulley C2 on drum shaft C.
A belt tightener pulley C³ mounted on a bent lever C is held against the 'belt
by a cord C15 on a windlass C1, which is furnished with a ratchet C and pawl (118.
The tension of the belt is adjusted so that the pulley on the take up drum may
slip, and thus cause the drum to rotate the extent required for taking up the
fabric as it is produced. The pulley C is loose on the shaft C and is connected
therewith through a ratchet C fast on the shaft, und a pawl C20 mounted on the
pulley engages the ratchet so that the drum can be turned without slipping the
belt N when required to take up the slack in the fabric.
The upper roll N¹ of each pair of feed rolls N N' is mounted on a swinging
arm N12 pivoted on a shaft N³, and the roll N¹ is pressed against its mate N to
cause the requisite grip or friction on the wire by a thumb-screw N¹ passing
through the spring extension N15 of the arm N12, and which enters a frame bar A.
A stop pin N serves to preserve the adjustment of the thumb-screw when it is
loosened for inserting a new wire.
The clip carrier For its slide F3 is given its vertical reciprocating movement by
means of a reciprocating bar F to which all of the carrier slides 13 are secured,
and which bar is moved up and down by links F connecting the bar with arms F8
on the rock shaft N3 which is provided with an arm F9 that engages a cam F10
on the cam shaft T or on the gear T2 passed on said cam shaft. The horizontal
reciprocating movement is communicated to the carrier F or to its horizontal
moving slide F+ by means of a reciprocating har F" to which each of the slides F4
is connected, and which bar F" is moved back and forth by connecting bars F12 F12
which engage cams F13 F13 on the cam shaft T, there being two of these cams F13
and two of the connecting bars F13, near each end of the bar F. The vibrating
lever D6 by which two pairs of clip feed gates or slides D2 D3 and D4 D5 are
operated is vibrated by a connecting link or bar 110, which engages a cam D on
the cam shaft T, a link 100 and cam D" being duplicated at each end of the
machine, and the series of pairs of feed slides D3 D4 being all connected together
by a bar Ds, and the several pairs of feed slides D¹ D5 being connected together
by a bar D
The supplemental clip feed slide D' is operated, as required to alternately open
and close the clip feed passage, by a reciprocating bar D12 to which all of said

page_text: supplemental slides are secured, and which bar is operated by links 113 connected
to eccentrics ] on the counter shaft N³.
The movable member E of the stay wire guide or the reciprocating bar E³, to
which they are all secured, is operated by two cam arms EE which engage a
cam E on the mutilated gear P* and a similar cam E.
The movable dies G or the reciprocating slides G2, to which they are connected,
are operated successively one after another, in their forward or closing movement,
by a series of cams G³ on the cam shaft T, and they are returned simultaneously
by a bar G provided with stops G³, which engage projections G on the slides G²;
and the bar G is moved at one end by the block 7 driven by a cam G8, and at
the other end the bar G is connected by the bolt G to the slide G2 at that end.
Thus the bar G is moved forward its entire distance simultaneously with the
forward movement of the first slide G2 in the slide which carries the die for the
outer strand wire. The several other slides are driven forward the larger portion
of their movement simultaneously by the several cams G³, but each cam is offset
at its finishing point to cause the several slides to go forward to set the clips
successively from the outer end of the stay wire down to the inner or lower strand
wire. Thus each slide G2 is brought up simultaneously to bring the dies in
contact with the clips bent to shape them, the shaping being done successively as
described; and this arrangement of the bar G permits this successive movement
of the slide G2. The folder K, and with it the movable cutter H¹, is given its
rotary movement by the arm K' connected by link K2 to lever K³ pivoted in the
frame of the machine, (see Fig. 1) and actuated by cam K4 on shaft T.
This cam
is designed and made to actuate the folder K at the instant that the dies have
completed the setting of the clip. Thus the clip is held while the end of the stay
wire is threaded thereon. The folder M with its cutter L' is actuated by the
lever M² connected by the rod M³ to a lever M* (see Fig. 1) pivoted in the frame
of the machine, and actuated by the cam track M in cam E. And this move-
ment of the folder M also takes place at the time the die at this end has completed
the setting of the clips, and the movement of the folder M carrying its cutting
edge L settles the stay wire at the same time.
The feed rolls P₁ P3 for the stay wire are driven by the mutilated gear P
mounted on shaft T, and engaging the beveled pinion P on shaft P of feed
roll P. A universal joint P connects the two parts of this shaft to permit
different sizes of feed rolls P to be mounted upon the shaft or different lengths
of stay wires desired to be used. A gear 18 engaging a gear Pº on the shaft P10
drives the stay wire feed roll P. This shaft Pio is also provided with a universal
joint for the same purposes as that of the shaft P. The feed rolls P and Pa
are pressed into engagement with the stay wires alternately by arms P and Pl
on a shaft P3, which is rocked or oscillated by an arm P4 having a butterfly P15
engaging cam tracks P1 and P in the web of mutilated gear P. The character
of these tracks P1 and P7 is such that at one interval of the actuation of the
feed rolls the feed roll P is made to engage and drive the stay wire, while the
other roll runs idle and slightly free from engagement from the stay wire,
and at the next interval the roll P runs idle while the roll 12 drives the wire.
The roll P2 is designed to be of sufficient diameter only to drive the stay wire
for the short stay, and the roll P of such a diameter to drive the stay wire for
the long stay. The cam tracks P16 and P17 are shown to cross each other in
Fig. 33, and the character of the butterfly is such that it will travel across the
slot of one cam track alternately at each revolution, and thus during one revolu-
tion of the shaft T the arm P is pressed downwards in the outer cam track P16.
and during the next revolution it travels the inner track P17, causing the feed
rolls P P to engage the feed rolls as described. In the event that the stay
wires are to be of uniform length in the fence some auxiliary blocks P18 and Pi
(see Fig. 34) are placed in the web of the gear P4, which changes the form of
the outer cam track P16, and causes the butterfly P15 to travel continuously in
the outer cam track; and thus cause the feed roll "P only to engage the stay wire.

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During the interval that the dies are setting clips the cam tracks P1 and P17
are so shaped to cause the arm P¹ to release both sets of stay wire feed rolls to
permit the stay wire to be drawn through them by the shortening of the wire,
caused by the bending which takes place in fixing it upon the strand wire.
pinion P which drives shaft P is driven by the mutilated gear intermittently
during that portion of the travel of the gear which is provided with teeth, and
it is held in exact position ready to be engaged by a projection P24 on the gear P
by a flat side P22 on projection P21 of pinion, which engages a flange P20 on
the gear P. This flange is absent on that part of the periphery of the gear
which is provided with teeth; hence the pinion is permitted to travel at this
part of the periphery. The teeth of the pinion are made to exactly engage the
teeth of the gear on starting, by means of a big tooth P23 on the pinion engaged
by a big tooth P on the gear. These teeth are located at the outside of the
lines of the regular teeth of the pinion in the gear, and hence may be made to
engage squarely at the moment of contact, and thus ensure that the other teeth
will properly engage each other on coming together.
The rolls P and P³ which co-act with rolls P and P2 in driving the stay wire
are mounted in blocks P25 and P adjustably fixed to the frame by the bolts
and slots P2 and P. This adjustment is provided for the purpose of permitting
the rolls P and P3 to be adjusted in the same plane with the rolls P and P³,
as in changing the diameter of rolls P¹ P² a different plane is necessarily given
to them since the stay wire remains always at the same line or in line with the
guide E.
The stay wire is fed a considerable distance very quickly and at very short
intervals; and to prevent too sudden a strain upon the reel or supporting device
for the coil of stay wire, I provide a set of auxiliary feed rolls VV for the stay
wire, which operate to draw forward continuously the stay wire from the coil
and furnish it slack to be drawn forward by the regular stay wire feed rolls.
The feed roll V is mounted upon the shaft T (see Figs. 1 and 2) and driven
thereby, and the feed roll V₁is mounted upon an arm V2 pivoted in the frame
of the machine, and is adjusted to tighten the roll V upon the wire by the
bolt V3. The magazines Rare fixed to and supported by the shaft R³ journaled
in the frame, and vibrated or oscillated by the arm. R connected to the link R
connected to the arm Re fixed on the shaft. T. Thus the magazines are lifted
from the position of the dotted lines in Fig. 4 to the position in full lines in said
figure, causing the clips to fall by gravity from one end of the magazine to the
other, and in this tumbling movement a sufficient number of them will get
astride of the bar R¹ and slide outward and down on to the clip guides D. When
the clip guide D is full the exit r for the clips in the magazine is shut off by
the stop or gate R², which is made of peculiar shape and is supported on the
shaft R3, and has a projection R7 adapted to be engaged by the clips when the
clip guide is full. The gate R2 is held normally open by the spring Rs engaging
the pins R fixed in the gate; and a stop R10 is provided in the said gate and
adapted to be engaged by a spring R by which the gate R2 is held closed (see
Fig. 44) against the action of the spring R8; a stop R12 is fixed to the frame,
and is so shaped that at each time the magazine is lowered to the position of
the dotted lines in Fig. 4 it presses outward the spring R a sufficient distance
to release the stop R10 of the gate R2, and if no clips are in the guides at this
time to engage the projection R of the gate, the spring R8 will then actuate
the gate to open the passageway of the magazine. It will be noticed in Fig. 44
that the positions shown of the stop R1° and spring R" that there is a little
space between them in this view. This permits a sufficient movement of the
magazine to give time for the stop R12 to be released from engagement with the
spring R and permit the spring R11 to engage the stop R10 before the gate R²
has moved away from engagement with the clips in the guide. A stop R13 (sce
Fig. 42) limits the movement of the gate R2 under the influence of the spring R³,
thus in the position of this figure the gate is held normally open at all times,

page_text: save only when the clip guide is full, and then the gate R2 is held in the position
of Fig. 44, as above described.
While the machine herein shown and described is specially designed for mak-
ing the particular construction of stay wire fence illustrated in Figs. 45 and 47,
it will be understood by those skilled in the art that my invention may be used
for manufacturing any other construction of woven wire fence wherein the wires
are secured together at their crossings by metal clips.
Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. In a machine for manufacturing woven or stay wire fence, having the cross
or stay wires secured to the strand wires by metal clips through which the stay
wires are threaded, the combination with a series of guides for a series of fence
or strand wires, of a series of guides for the clips, a series of sets of gates or
slides for opening and closing the clip guides and feeding the clips one by one
therefrom, a series of clip carriers and holders for moving the clips into position
for receiving the stay wire and holding them with their openings through which
the stay wire is to be threaded accurately in line with each other, a sectional
two-part opening and closing guide for the stay wire to direct it through the
openings in the series of clips, a series of pairs of dies for swaging, bending or
crimping the strand wires, clips and stay wire, a pair of cutters or knives for
cutting the surplus stock from the free end of the stay, a folder for bending the
free end of the stay about the marginal clip at one edge of the fence or fabric,
a pair of cutters or knives for severing the stay from the stay wire, a folder for
bending the severed end of the stay about the marginal clip at the other edge
of the fence or fabric, a feed device for the stay wire, a series of feed devices for
the strand wires, a take-up drum or reel, a series of magazines in which the
clips are held in bulk each provided with devices for arranging and delivering
the clips in position to enter the clip guide, substantially as specified.
2. The combination with a series of guides for the strand wires, of a series of
guides for the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders, and a sectional two-
part opening and closing guide for the stay wire to thread or direct it through.
the clips, substantially as specified.
3. The combination with a series of guides for the strand wire, of a series of
clip holders, and a sectional two-part opening and closing guide for the stay
wire, substantially as specified.
4. The combination with a series of devices for holding a series of clips in
line with each other astride a series of strand wires, of an opening and closing
sectional two-part guide for directing the stay wire through the clips, substan-
tially as specified.
5. The combination with a series of devices for holding a series of clips in line
with each other astride a series of strand wires, of an opening and closing sec-
tional two-part guide for directing the stay wire through. the clips, and feed
devices for the stay wire, substantially as specified.
6. The combination with a series of devices for holding a series of clips in
line with each other astride a series of strand wires, of an opening and closing
sectional two-part guide for directing the stay wire through the clips, and a
series of devices for feeding the strand wires, substantially as specified.
7. The combination with a series of devices for holding a series of clips in
line with each other astride a series of strand wires, of an opening and closing
sectional two-part guide for directing the stay wire through the clips, feed devices
for the stay wire, and a series of devices for feeding the strand wires, substan-
tially as specified.
8. The combination with a series of guides for the strand wire, of a series
of clip holders, a sectional two-part guide for the stay wire, and a series of pairs
of dies for setting the clips rigidly in position, substantially as specified.

page_text: 9. The combination with a series of guides for the strand wire, of a series of
clip holders, a sectional two-part opening and closing guide for the stay wire,
and a stay wire feed device, substantially as specified.
series of
10. The combination with a series of guides for the strand wire, of
clip holders, a sectional two-part opening and closing guide for the stay wire,
and a series of devices for feeding the strand wires, substantially as specified.
11. The combination with a series of guides for the strand wire, of a series of
clip holders, a sectional two-part opening and closing guide for the stay wire,
a stay wire feed device, and a series of devices for feeding the strand wires,
substantially as specified.
12. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, substantially as specified.
13. The combination with a strand wire guide, of a clip guide extending tan-
gentially thereto to feed the clip astride the strand wire, substantially as specified.
14. The combination with a strand wire guide, of a clip guide extending tan-
gentially thereto to feed the clip astride the strand wire, and feed gates or slides
to feed the clips one by one, substantially as specified.
15. The combination with a strand wire guide, of a clip guide extending tan-
gentially thereto to feed the clip astride the strand wire, feed gates or slides
to feed the clips one by one, and a stop gate or slide to arrest the clip in position,
substantially as specified.
16. The combination with a strand wire guide, of a clip guide extending tan-
gentially thereto to feed the clip astride the strand wire, feed gates or slides to
feed the clips one by one, a stop gate or slide to arrest the clip in position, and a
clip carrier and holder, substantially as specified.
17. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, and a series of feed gates
or slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, substan-
tially as specified.
18. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, and a series
of stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, substantially as specified.
19. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, and a series of clip carriers and
holders, substantially as specified.
20. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
and a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, substantially as
specified.
21. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, and a series of pairs
of dies, substantially as specified.
22. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip

page_text: guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a, series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, a series of pairs of
dies, and devices for feeding the strand wires, substantially as specified:
23. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed: gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides,. a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, a series of pairs of
dies, devices for feeding the strand wires, and devices for feeding the stay wire,
substantially as specified.
24. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, a series of pairs of
dies, devices for feeding the strand wires, devices for feeding the stay wire, and
a take-up drum or reel, substantially as specified.
25. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, a series of pairs of
dies, devices for feeding the strand wires, devices for feeding the stay wire, and
a folder for the free end of the stay wire, substantially as specified.
26. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, a series of pairs of
dies, devices for feeding the strand wires, devices for feeding the stay wire, and a
pair of knives for severing the stay from the stay wire, substantially as specified.
27. The combination with a series of strand wire guides, of a series of clip
guides extending each tangentially or at an acute angle to the strand wire guides,
whereby the clips are assembled astride the fence wires, a series of feed gates or
slides for feeding the clips one by one from each of said clip guides, a series of
stop gates or slides for arresting the clips, a series of clip carriers and holders,
a sectional opening and closing two-part stay wire guide, a series of pairs of
dies, devices for feeding the strand wires, devices for feeding the stay wire, a.
pair of knives for severing the stay from the stay wire, and a folder for the
severed end of the stay, substantially as specified.
28. The combination with feed devices for the stay wire, of a series of suc-
cessively acting pairs of dies for setting the clips, substantially as specified.
29. The combination with a sectional opening and closing two-part guide for
the stay wire, of a series of successively acting pairs of dies for setting the clips,
substantially as specified.
30. The combination with a sectional opening and closing two-part guide for
the stay wire, of a series of successively acting pairs of dies for setting the clips,
and a series of movable clip holders, substantially as specified.
31. In a clip stay wire fence machine a pair of dies having die cavities for
simultaneously bending or shaping the clip stay wire and strand wire, in com-
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page_text: bination with means for automatically operating the same at intervals as required,
substantially as specified.
32. The combination with a clip guide, of a box or magazine for containing
the clips in bulk, and means for arranging and delivering the clips in position
to enter said clip guide, and mechanism for automatically vibrating or tilting
said magazine, substantially as specified.
33. A magazine or holder for assembling and delivering clips to a clip guide
having a longitudinal saddle bar astride which the clips fall and slide upon in
passing out of the magazine, and mechanism for automatically vibrating or
tilting said magazine, substantially as specified.
34. In a magazine or holder for assembling clips and delivering them to a
guideway, a saddle bar fixed in the bottom of the magazine in alignment with
the gate for the escape of the clips, and a fixed guideway located to receive the
clips in succession as they are discharged from the saddle bar, and mechanism
for automatically vibrating or tilting said magazine, substantially as specified.
35. The combination with a magazine or hopper for holding and carrying a
quantity of clips, of a slide for directing the fall of the clips in line to an escape
aperture, and said escape aperture provided with a gate for shutting off the
clips when desired, and mechanism for automatically vibrating or tilting said.
magazine, substantially as specified.
36. The magazine or hopper for holding a quantity of clips, and mounted to
be vibrated or oscillated in a manner to agitate the clips held therein, and having
an escape orifice so shaped that the clips can only escape therefrom in succession
in regular order, combined with a guideway for receiving the clips as they
escape from the way or guide, and mechanism for automatically vibrating or
tilting said magazine, substantially as specified.
37. The combination of a magazine or hopper for holding a quantity of clips,
with mechanism for giving the hopper a vibrating or oscillating motion, an
escape orifice for the clips, so shaped that the clips can escape only in succession
and in regular position, a guideway for receiving the clips in the order that they
escape from the magazine, with a gateway for shutting off the clips from the
orifice actuated by coming in contact with the clips in the guideway when said
guideway is filled therewith, substantially as specified.
38. The magazine or hopper for holding a quantity of clips mounted upon a
shaft in a manner adapted to be oscillated or vibrated by the movement of the
shaft, and having a clip passageway for the escape of the clips from the magazine,
and with a fixed guideway for receiving the clips as they escape from the magazine,
said guideway adapted to receive the clips in a variety of positions of the maga-
zine, substantially as specified.
39. The combination of a magazine or hopper for holding a quantity of clips,
and mounted to be oscillated or vibrated in manner to agitate the clips within
the hopper, with a guideway in the bottom of the hopper adapted to catch the
clips in a determined position and direct their escape from the magazine in suc-
cession and regular order, an orifice so shaped as to permit the escape of the
clips only in the position determined by the guideway, a fixed clip guide for
receiving the clips as they escape from the magazine, and mechanism for auto-
matically vibrating or tilting said magazine, substantially as specified.
40. The combination of a magazine or hopper for holding a quantity of clips,
and adapted to be vibrated or oscillated for the purpose of agitating the clips
vithin the hopper, having an escape orifice so shaped as to prevent the escape
of the clips in all but a certain determined position, with a guideway for direct-
ng the clips to the escape orifice in the desired position, and a fixed guideway
or receiving the clips as they escape from the magazine, a gate for shutting off
he escape of the clips from the magazine, said gateway being automatically
perated by engagement with the clips held in the fixed guideway, and a stop
or holding the said gate closed until the clips are discharged from the fixed
uideway sufficiently to prevent their engagement with the gate, substantially
s specified.

page_text: 41. A magazine or hopper for holding a quantity of clips, and adapted to be
vibrated or oscillated for the purpose of agitating the clips held therein, having
a guideway and an escape orifice adapted to direct any of the clips from the
magazine, combined with a gate for shutting off the escape of the clips when
desired, said gateway held normally open by a spring and locked shut at desired
intervals by means of a stop and spring catch, substantially as specified.
42. The combination with a magazine or hopper for holding a quantity of
clips, and mounted in a manner to be vibrated or oscillated to agitate the clips
heid therein, of a guideway and escape orifice so shaped as to permit the escape
of the clips except in a determined position only, a guideway for receiving the
clips as they escape from the orifice, with a gate for automatically shutting off
the escape of the clips from the magazine, said gate mounted to be moved to a
position in contact with the clips held in the receiving guideway, and to engage
any clips that may be located in its path and be moved thereby to a position
shutting off the escape of the clips from the magazine, and a lock for holding
the said gate so closed until the clips in the receiving guideway have passed
beyond the point of engagement with the gate, and an unlocking stop fixed in
position to unlock the gate at certain intervals of the movement of the magazinę
and gate, substantially as specified.
43. A clip guideway for holding the clips in succession in a determined
position combined with a clip feed device mounted in the path of the guideway
and adapted to disengage a single clip at a time, with a secondary clip feed device
for receiving the clips as they are disengaged by the first feed device and holding
them in position to be acted upon by other mechanism of the machine, and
mechanism for alternately operating said feed devices, substantially as specified.
44. A clip guideway for holding the clips in succession in a determined
position, combined with a clip feed device located in the path of the guideway,
and adapted to disengage a single clip at a time, with a secondary clip feed device
also located in the path of the guideway for receiving the clip as disengaged by
the first feed device, said feed devices being operated alternately, substantially
as specified.
45. The combination of a clip guideway for holding the clips in succession
in a determined position, with a strand wire guideway whereby the strand wire
is directed in a position to be engaged by the clips as they descend in the clip
guideway, substantially as specified.
46. A clip guideway adapted to hold the clips in succession and in a determined
position combined with a strand wire guideway merging into and forming a
part of the clip guideway, and a clip feed device located at or near the final junc-
tion of the clip guideway for the purpose of disengaging the clip from the clip
guideway and engaging it on the strand wire, substantially as specified.
47. The combination with a clip guideway for directing the clips in a position
to engage the strand wire, of a strand wire guideway for directing the strand
wire in a position in relation to the clips as directed by the clip guideway, and a
clip feed device adapted to hold the clip in exact position to engage the strand
wire, and also adapted to engage the strand wire and hold it free to permit
the clip to fall freely by gravity to the position upon the strand wire, substan-
tially as specified.
48. The combination with a clip guideway for holding the clips in succession
in a desired position, of a strand wire guideway, merging into and forming a
part of the clip guideway, with a clip feed device for discharging the clip from
the guideway, said device being composed of an upper apertured plate and a
lower notched plate, the bottom of the notch of the lower notched plate being
adapted to engage the strand wire to hold it in registering position to be engaged
by the clip, substantially as specified.
49. The combination of a clip guideway for directing the clips in succession
in a desired position, with a clip feed device for disengaging a single clip at a
time from the guideway, a strand wire guideway for directing the strand wire

page_text: in position to be engaged by the clip as released from the clip guideway by the
clip feed device, and a clip holder for engaging the clip as discharged by the
clip feed device, substantially as specified.
50. The combination of a clip guideway for holding the clips in succession in
a desired position, with a feed device for disengaging a single clip at a time from
a clip guideway, a strand wire guideway for directing the strand wire to a position
to be engaged with the clip as discharged from the clip guideway by the clip
feed device, and a clip holder for receiving the clip as discharged by the clip
feed device and holding it upon the strand wire in a position of registration
for receiving the stay wire, substantially as specified.
51. The combination with a clip guideway for directing the clips in succession
in a desired position, of a clip feed device for discharging a single clip at a time
from the clip guideway, a strand wire guideway for directing the strand wire in
position to be engaged by the clip as discharged by the clip feed device, a clip
holder and carrier adapted to hold the clip in engagement with the strand wire
when the clip is discharged by the feed device, and adapted to be reciprocated
and carry the clip to a position of registration to receive stay wire, substantially
as specified.
52. The combination with a clip guideway for directing the clips to a position
upon the strand wire, of a strand wire guideway for directing the strand wire to
be engaged by the clip as discharged by the guideway, a clip holder and carrier
for receiving the clip from the guideway and holding it in engagement with the
strand wire and carrying it to a position in advance of the clip guideway, a stov
wire guideway adapted to direct the stay wire through the clip so held upon th
strand wire by the holder and carrier in its advanced position, substantially as
specified.
53. A clip carrier and holder made in two parts, one part adapted to reciprocate
longitudinally to and from the other part, and both parts adapted to reciprocate
vertically, substantially as specified.
54. A clip holder made in two parts, one part adapted to move in relation to
the other in engaging the clip, and one part provided with a surface or contact
point for engaging the strand wire, and the other part provided with apertures
for receiving and directing the stay wire to a clear passage beside the strand wire
in threading the stay wire through the clip so held by the clip holder, substan-
tially as specified.
55. A clip holder made in two parts, one part of which is made to conform to
the outer sides of the clip, and the other part to the inner sides, and the part
which engages the inner sides being provided with a contact point for engaging
the strand wire to hold it free of the apertures provided in the clip for the stay
wire, substantially as specified.
56. A clip holder made in two parts movable in relation to each other, and
shaped to engage and positively hold the clip when the two parts are together,
and to release the clip when the parts are separated, in combination with means
for automatically operating the same at intervals as required, substantially as
specified.
57. The combination with a clip guideway terminating at a clip feed device,
of a strand wire guideway directing the strand wire to a position at the clip
feed device, a stay wire guideway located across the path of the strand wire in
advance of the clip guideway and clip feed device, and a clip carrier and holder
reciprocating to and from the clip feed device and to and from the stay wire
guideway, substantially as specified.
58. In combination a clip guideway for holding and delivering the clips in
a desired position, a clip feed device for disengaging a single clip at a time from
the clip guideway, a strand wire guideway for directing the strand wire to a
position to be engaged by the clip at the clip feed device, a clip holder and carrier
for engaging the clip upon the strand wire and carrying it to a forward position
on the strand wire, and a strand wire feed device operating to feed the strand

page_text: wire during the interval of movement of the clip carrier, whereby the clip and
the strand wire move forward simultaneously, substantially as specified.
59. In combination a clip guideway for directing the clips to a position of engage-
ment with the strand wire, a strand wire guideway for directing the strand wire
to a position to be engaged by the clip and released from the clip guideway, a die
for setting the clip upon the strand wire, located in the path of the strand wire in
advance of the clip guideway, and a clip carrier for carrying the clip from the
terminus of the guideway to a position at the die, substantially as specified.
60. In combination a clip guideway for directing the clips to a position to engage
the strand wire, a strand wire guideway for directing the strand wire to a position
in relation to the clip as held by the clip guideway, a stay wire guideway located
across the path of travel of the strand wire in advance of the terminus of the clip
guideway, à die for setting the clip upon the strand wire located adjacent to the
line of the stay wire guideway, with mechanism for carrying the clip from the
terminus of the guideway to and in line with the stay wire guideway, substantially as
specified.
61. In combination a clip guideway for directing the clips to a position of en-
gagement with the strand wire, a strand wire guideway for directing the strand
wire to a position to be engaged by the clip held in the guideway, a stay wire
guideway for directing the travel of the stay wire across the path of the strand
wire, a clip holder for holding the clip upon the strand wire after delivery by the
clip guide in registering position with the stay wire guide, and devices for feeding
the stay wire through the stay wire guide and the clip held by the clip holder,
substantially as specified.
62. In combination a stay wire guide for guiding the stay wire across the path
of the strand wires, a series of dies located adjacent to the stay wire guide and
along the path of travel of the strand wires, a series of clip holders for holding the
clips in engagement upon the strand wires and in line with the stay wire guide-
way, said clip holder being adapted to hold the clip during the threading of the
stay wire through the clip, and to release the clip and move it clear therefrom
after the threading, and a series of movable dies or slides adapted to swage and
bend the clip and stay wire to a locking position upon the strand wire, substantially
as specified.
63. In combination a stay wire guideway for guiding the travel of the stay wire
across the paths of the strand wires, a series of dies fixed adjacent to the path of
the stay wire, mechanism for holding the clips upon the strand wires in register-
ing position with the stay wire guideway, whereby the stay wire may be directed
through the apertures in the clips, with a series of reciprocating dies or slides
adapted to move forward and swage and bend the clips and stay wire after the
threading of the stay wire, substantially as specified.
64. In combination a stay wire guideway for directing the travel of the stay
wire across the paths of travel of the strand wires, a series of fixed dies located
adjacent to the stay wire guideway, a series of movable dies or slides adapted to
engage the clips and wire between it and the fixed dies for the purpose of setting
the clips and stay wires upon the strand wires, in combination with mechanism
for automatically operating the movable diés at intervals, substantially as specified.
65. In combination a stay wire guideway for directing the path of travel of the
stay wire across the paths of travel of the strand wires, a series of fixed dies located
adjacent to the stay wire guideway, with a series of reciprocating dies adapted to
co-act with the fixed dies in setting the clips and stay wire upon the strand wires,
with means for operating successively the reciprocating dies in order that the sur-
plus wire required for the bending of the stay wire in the fixing of the strand wire
may be drawn from the stay wire stock without excessive stretch of the stay,
substantially as specified.
66. In a clip stay wire fence machine, the combination with a sectional guide for
the stay wire, of a series of pairs of dies operating between the section of said

page_text: guide and adapted each pair to simultaneously bend or shape the clip and strand
wire, substantially as specified.
67. In a clip stay wire fence machine, the combination with a series of strand
wire guides, of a series of clip guides, a stay wire guide, devices for holding a
series of clips in line with each other astride the strand wires, and means for
feeding the stay wire alternately for a long and short stay, substantially as specified.
68. The combination with guides for a series of strand wires, of guides for a
series of clips, a guide for the strand wire, a device for holding a series of clips in
line with each other astride the strand wires, and means for alternately shutting
off certain of the clip guides, to adapt the mechanism to apply alternately long
and short stays, substantially as specified.
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69. The combination with a series of clip guides, of means for alternately shutting
off certain of said guides to adapt the mechanism to apply long and short stays,
substantially as specified.
70. The combination with a stay wire guide, of feed devices or rolls for the stay
wire, a series of successively acting dies for setting the clips, and means for re-
lieving the tension or grip of the feed rolls or devices, on the stay wire when the
dies are operating, substantially as specified.
71. The combination with a series of dies for setting a series of clips on a series
of strand wires and a stay wire, of a pair of folders for bending the two ends of
the stay about the marginal clip, substantially as specified.
72. The combination with a series of clip setting dies, of mechanism for suc-
cessively operating the dies, substantially as specified.
73. In a clip stay wire fence machine, the combination with a series of strand
wire guides, of a series of clip holders reciprocating longitudinally of the strand
wires, substantially as specified.
74. In a clip stay wire fence machine, the combination with a series of strand
wire guides, of a series of clip holders reciprocating longitudinally of the strand
wires, and to and from the same, substantially as specified.
75. In a clip stay wire fence machine, the combination with a series of strand
wire guides, of a series of clip holders reciprocating longitudinally of the strand
wires, and a guide for the stay wire having a movable part to permit the guide to
release the stay, substantially as specified.
76. In a clip stay wire fence machine, the combination with a series of strand.
wire guides, of a series of clip holders reciprocating longitudinally of the strand
wires, a guide for the stay wire having a movable part to permit the guide to release
the stay, and a take up drum or reel, substantially as specified.
77. The combination with a clip guide, of a strand wire guide and two pairs of
clip feed gates or slides, and means for alternately operating said pairs of feed
gates or slides, substantially as specified.
78. The combination with a clip guide, of a strand wire guide, and a movable
clip holder, and a stay wire guide, substantially as specified.
79. The combination with a clip guide, of a strand wire guide, a movable clip
holder, a stay wire guide, and a stay wire feed device, substantially as specified.
80. The combination with a clip guide, of a strand wire guide, a movable clip
holder, a stay wire guide, a stay wire feed device, and a pair of dies for setting the
clips, substantially as specified.
81. The combination with a clip guide of a strand wire guide, a movable clip
holder, a stay wire guide, a stay wire feed device, a pair of dies for setting the
clips, and a folder for bending the end of the stay about the clip, substantially as
specified.
82. The combination with a clip guide, of a strand wire guide, a movable clip
holder, a stay wire guide, a stay wire feed device, a pair of dies for setting the
clips, a folder for bending the end of the stay about the clip, and a pair of knives
for severing the stay from the stay wire, substantially as specified.
83. The combination in a clip stay wire fence machine, of a stay wire guide,

page_text: with a pair of cutters for severing the stay from the stay wire, one of said cutters
having a rotary movement to enable it to also serve as a folder to bend the severed
end of the stay about the clips, substantially as specified.
84. The combination with stay wire feed devices, of a rotary cutter and folder
operating to both sever the stay and fold or bend its severed end, substantially as
specified.
85. A knock down take up drum for a woven or stay wire fence machine, com-
prising a fixed rotary head, a reciprocating rotary head, a series of loose connecting
bars fitting in recesses in said heads, and a non-reciprocating spider rotating with
one of said heads, and adapted to engage the ends of said loose bars to free them
from the sliding head when it is withdrawn, substantially as specified.
86. A stay wire guide in a fence machine, in two parts, one part of which is
composed of a groove of a section to conform to the stay wire, and the other part
having a flat surface permitting the parts to be articulated in contact with each
other without binding upon the stay wire, substantially as specified.
87. A stay wire guideway made in two parts, one part having a flat surface and
fixed rigidly to the frame and the movable part provided with a groove for engaging
the stay wire and carrying it with it in releasing the stay wire from the guideway,
substantially as specified.
88. The combination of a stay wire guideway made in two parts, one part fixed
and the other movable, the movable part having a groove which engages and carries
with it the stay wire in its movements, with a series of dies located adjacent to
the stay wire guideway, whereby a bend or set is made in or upon the stay wire by
the die, and mechanism for moving the movable part of the stay wire guideway,
whereby it carries the stay wire free from the die, substantially as specified.
89. In combination with a series of strand wire feed devices, of a stay wire
guideway having a movable part adapted to move the stay wire in order to release
it from the stay wire guideway, means for moving the stay wire guideway to
release the stay wire and hold it free to move at the period of operation of the
strand wire feed devices, whereby the stay is permitted to move in conjunction with
the strand wires, substantially as specified.
90. The combination of a stay wire guideway, with a series of dies located ad-
jacent to the stay wire guideway, and a series of movable dies co-acting therewith
in setting the stay wire upon the strand wire, and said stay wire guide provided
with engaging surfaces for co-acting with the dies in bending and setting the
stay wire to the desired form, substantially as specified.
91. The combination of a set of dies for setting the clips, and strand wires upon
the stay wire, with a folder for folding over the end of the stay wire upon the
clip, said folder acting upon the stay wire during the period of the pressure or set
of the dies, substantially as specified.
92. The combination of a set of dies for setting the clip and stay wire upon the
strand wire, with a folder for folding the end of the stay wire upon the clip, said
folder being pivoted to turn upon an axis in folding the end of the stay wire,
substantially as specified.
93. The combination with mechanism for setting the clip and stay wire about
the strand wire, a pivoted folder adapted to swing about a pivot and fold over the
end of the stay wire for the purpose of making a secure joint at the marginal
wire, substantially as specified.
94. A pivoted folder adapted to swing about a pivot in folding over the end of
the stay wire, and pivoted with a cutting edge for severing the stay wire the
desired length for the purpose of folding, substantially as specified.
95. The combination with a pivoted folder and cutter for cutting and folding
the ends of the stay wire, of a fixed knife co-acting with the cutting edge of the
folder and also serving as a guide for directing the feed of the, stay wire stock,
substantially as specified.
96. A stay wire folder for folding the end of the stay wire and mounted to

page_text: swing about a pivot in so doing, a lever connected to the folder and pivoted to a
reciprocating rod for actuating the folder, substantially as specified.
97. In combination with a folder for folding over the end of the stay wire, a set
of dies for setting and holding the stay wire upon the strand wire, one of which is
provided with a cavity adapted to permit the folder to enter in folding the stay
wire, substantially as specified.
98. In combination with a stay wire guideway, a series of dies located adjacent
to the stay wire guideway for setting the clips and stay wire upon the strand wire,
of a cutter for the stay wire located adjacent to the stay wire guideway and adapted
to act upon the stay wire while held in the guideway, and a folder for folding over
the end of the stay wire before the stay wire is released by the dies and stay wire
guideway, substantially as specified.
99. The combination of a stay wire fence mechanism having two independent
feeding, devices engaging the stay wire, with mechanism for alternately engaging
with the wire ends of said two sets of feeding devices, substantially as specified.
100. The combination with a pair of feed rolls, of a driving shaft for one of
them provided with a universal joint, and the bearing for this shaft adjacent to
the roll provided with an adjustable box whereby rolls of different diameter
may be placed upon the shaft without changing the location in relation to the
frame of the point of contact of the rolls with the stay wire, substantially as
specified.
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101. The combination of a set of feed rolls for the stay wire, with a rocker shaft
for tightening the rolls upon the stay wire, said rocker shaft being operated by a.
cam which varies the tension of the rolls at each interval of operation of the rolls,
substantially as specified.
102. The combination with two sets of feeding rolls for the stay wire, a rocker.
shaft for alternately tightening the pairs of feed rolls, substantially as specified.
103. In combination with two sets of feeding rolls for the stay wire, a rocker
shaft for alternately tightening each set of rolls, and a cam for actuating the
rocker shaft, and provided with two cam tracks alternately in engagement with
the rocker shaft, substantially as specified.
104. In combination with a take up drum for the finished fabric, a longitudinal
movable head for engaging the drum, and an objector provided with projections
for discharging the drum from the head during the movement of the head, sub-
stantially as specified.
105. In combination with the drum for taking up the finished fabric, a longi-
tudinally movable head for engaging the drum, and an ejector for discharging the
drum, from the head, located upon the shaft carrying the head and rotating there-
with, substantially as specified.
106. In combination with the drum for taking up the finished fabric, a longi-
tudinally movable head for engaging the drum, and an ejector for discharging the
drum, from the head, located upon the shaft carrying the head and rotating
therewith, and a lever for moving the drum head shaft, substantially as specified.
107. The combination with a stay wire feed mechanism adapted to alternately
feed a long and a short stay, clip feed devices adapted to feed alternately a greater
and less number of clips to suit the requirements of the different length of stays,
substantially as specified.
108. In combination with a series of clip feed devices adapted each to feed single
clips at a time, a slide or gate for shutting off alternately a portion of the clips,
and a stay wire feed mechanism, substantially as specified.
109. In combination with a series of sets of feed rolls for feeding the strand
wires, a counter shaft intermediately transmitting the power from the driving
member to the feed rolls, an interchangeable gearing for connecting this counter
shaft with the feed roll shaft, whereby the amount of travel of the feed rolls may
be varied for the purpose of differently spacing the stay wires upon the strand
wires, substantially as specified.

page_text: 110. In combination with the large spur gear driving cam shaft, a small driving
pinion by which motion is imparted to the large gear of the machine, a mutilated
gear mounted to be operated intermittently from the teeth of the large gear, a
large tooth and a mutilated flange upon a large gear, and a large tooth and a stop
block upon the mutilated gear, whereby the intermittent motion is transmitted
from the large gear to the mutilated gear, and the pinion is permitted to drive the
large gear at all times, substantially as specified.
111. In combination with a series of progressively operated dies or slides, a bar
for automatically and simultaneously retracting the dies or slides, and mechanism
for operating the bar, substantially as specified.
112. In combination with a series of dies or slides, a series of cams for actuating
the dies in their forward movement, and a bar for retracting the dies independently
of their cams, substantially as specified.
113. In a clip stay wire fence machine a series of pairs of dies having each die
cavities for simultaneously bending both the strand wire and the stay wire, in com-
bination with means for automatically operating the same at intervals as required,
substantially as specified.
114. In a woven wire fence machine, the combination with a series of devices
for making bends in a series of strand wires, with a series of devices for making a
series of bends in a stay wire, and mechanism for automatically operating the
movable dies at intervals, substantially as specified.
115. In a woven wire fence machine, the combination with a series of devices for
making bends in a series of strand wires, with a series of devices for making a
series of bends in a stay wire, and a series of devices for bending a series of clips
to secure them on the stay and strand wires at the crossings thereof, and mechanism
for automatically operating the movable dies at intervals, substantially as specified.
Dated July 28th 1898.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.