Improvements in the Method of Making Bars, Fences, Latticed Work, Fillings, Ornamentations, and the like of Suitable Material in Strips without Waste.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1899-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Making Bars, Fences, Latticed Work,
Fillings, Ornamentations, and the like of Suitable Material in
Strips without Waste.
I, ALFONS MAUSER, of 30, Marien Strasse, Cologne-Ehrenfeld, in the Empire
of Germany, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object improvements in the method described in
Patent No. 18860 of September 3 1898, of making bars latticed work, fencings,
and the like from strip steel without producing waste or scrap.
The said patent in fact merely relates to the stamping out of annular or circular
pieces.
Such elements can however also have any other suitable form such for instance
as polygonal, star shaped or a combined form (an alternate inner and outer form)
without any waste or scrap being produced during the treatment of the strip
or band of material. Patent No. 18860/98 also only makes mention of treatment
of strip steel whilst of course instead of strip steel any other suitable material
in strips such as iron, brass, copper, zinc, papier maché, or the like may be
employed.
The treatment shown more particularly in Figure 4 of the drawings of Patent
No. 18860/98 for forming the zigzag strips, left over when stamping out the
rings, into double bands is by the present invention also considerably simplified.
Instead of fastening the two pointed or zigzag bands together by means of
rivets or the like, two bands are first inter twined one with the other and then
connected at the points of meeting by being twisted over together so that any
other separate fastening is dispensed with.
The double bands as compared with the former ones thus have a considerably
greater flexibility and strength more particularly at their weakest points.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figures 1 to 6 and 9, 9 and 10 show as examples the treatment of a strip A,
Figure 1, to form star shaped stamped out pieces, and the formation of fencings
and the like therefrom.
The treatment takes place in precisely the same manner as was the case in
Patent No. 18860/98. As shown in Figure 2, star shaped rings B, C, D, and
star shaped discs E are formed, the remaining part A¹ of the band having star
shaped apertures a¹. If these apertures meet with their lateral points, two
bars A2 provided with points a are formed, as shown for instance in Figures 3
to 6.
Figure 3 shows a spiked band to which two spiked strips A2 are connected,
and having one strip A¹ on each side.
The spiked band shown in Figure 4 is made of two spiked strips A². Whilst
in Figures 3 and 4 the bands A1, A2, are twisted or interlaced one with another, in
Figures 5 and 6 they are simply laid together and then connected. Figures 7

page_text: and S show the new way of making a double spiked band of two spiked strips A³.
As shown in Figure 7 two strips A2 are first interlaced, as was shown in Figure 4,
in such a way that their spikes a stand in opposite directions, then as shown in
Figure 8, both strips are twisted together at their weakest point a² so that
they are firmly held together without any separate connection with rivets or
the like.
Figure 9 shows a fence bar formed of star shaped rings D which may be
collapsed as shown in side view in Figure 9. The cross bar, Figure 10, is also
collapsible in a similar way., Figure. 11 shows. a filling formed of star shaped
rings D.
Figure 12 shows as an example a method of treating the band material with-
out causing waste or scrap so as to form pieces, the outer form of which differs
from the inner form, here the ring B is circular outside and its inner edge is rect-
angular, the next ring C on the other hand is outwardly rectangular and in-
wardly circular, the ring D again in its form resembles the ring B, whilst the
disc E is square, and the remaining part A¹ of the strip has circular openings.
Polygonal, star-shaped, or star-shaped and circular, edges may be combined in
a similar way without proceeding beyond the scope of the present invention,
which consists essentially in the treatment of the strip or band material in such
a way as to avoid waste or scrap. Figures 13 and 14 show further combinations
of the rings made in the manner shown in Figure 12 for instance, for use as
filling or ornamental plates..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. The improvement in the method of making bars, fences, latticed-work fill-
ings and the like from strip steel without producing waste or scrap described in
Patent No. 18860 of September 3rd 1898, consisting in the employment of strips
or bands of any suitable metal, or papier machè, or the like, instead of strip
steel, and in the stamping out of rings and discs of polygonal, star-shaped or
any other suitable form, or combination of such forms instead of a circular form
and the employment of same in any suitable arrangement, substantially as here-
inbefore set forth.
2. In the hereinbefore described method of making bars, fences, latticed-work,
fillings and the like, from the combination of simple spiked bands to form
double bands by two of such spiked bands being first interlaced, and then twisted
together at the points of crossing, thereby dispensing with any separate fasten-
ings such as rivets or the like, and stiffening and strengthening considerably the
double band at the points which were previously the weakest in the single band,
substantially as described.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.