Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Wire Fabric.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Wire Fabric.
I FREDERICK HAINSWORTH of the City of Chicago in the County of Cook in the
State of Illinois United States of America, Blacksmith 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 :-
The nature and object of this invention are to produce a Machine with which coiled
wire can be formed and interlocked with each other and at the same time a straight
wire can be inserted within the coils and clasped by both interlocking wires.
Figure 1, is an end view.
Figure 2 is a side view.
Figure 3 is a detail of the fabric.
Figure 4, is view of the coiling spindle.
Figure 5, is an end view of the coiling spindle.
I use the spindle B with a coiled groove around it and working in the jacket A.
The wire is fed to this spindle through guide tube D, and driven through by the push
wheels E and F, and comes out in coils T. Through the center of the spindlo B
I form a hole its entire length. Through this hole is inserted the wire H and is urged
or pushed through the hole by the push wheels I and K, located immediately at the rear
of the spindle B.
At the side of each push wheel is a cog wheel arranged in sets of two of equal size,
and those of the same size meshing into each other, thus E and F mesh into each
other and so do I and K. J, is the driving shaft on which is the pulley L. The push
wheel E and its attendent cog wheel O, are located on this driving shaft. The
cog wheels attendent to push wheels I and Kare shown at P and Q fig. 1. The push wheel I
has a cominon shaft R, with push wheel F. The various push wheels and cog wheels
are placed in a proper frame and housings. Motion is communicated to drive wheel L
thence to the cog and drive wheels O, and E thence to the drive and cog wheels F
and V which push the wire S through the jacket A, and through grooves on
spindle B, and forms the coils. At the same time motion is communicated to the cog
and drive wheels I, K, P and Q which drive the straight wire through the hole in
spindle B. As fast as the coiled wire T, is delivered from the spindle Bit is inter-
locked at each revolution with a coiled wire already formed see fig. 3. Also

page_text: at the same time and simultaniously with this forming of the coil, the straight
wire His fed or pushed through these coils so that each coil at its point of
interlocking with its neighbour, embraces the straight wire. H see fig. 3. The
last coil always has a straight wire in it. The succeding coil as it interlocks with
the preceeding coil reaches far enough into this preceding one at each revolution to
embrace the straight wire, thus the two coils simultaniously interlock each other and
embrace the straight wire. The straight wire H must be delivered through the spindle B
no faster than the coiled wire is delivered from the spindle. This is accomplished
by making the push wheels I, and K, proportionately smaller than the push wheels F,
and E, which will make them about one third smaller, as the push wheels E, and F',
have to push about three times more wire in length than the push wheels 1 and K.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the sanie is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
1. A coiling device provided with a hole the length of the spindle ás and for the
purpose shown.
2. In combination with a coiling device provided with a hole through the length of
the spindle the push wheels I. and K as and for the purpose shown.
Dated at the City of Chicago in the County of Cook in the State of Illinois,
United States of America this 10th day of February 1888.
FREDERICK HAINSWORTH.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant..