Improvements in Machines employed in the Manufacture of Coiled Wire Fabrics.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan., 185
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines employed in the Manufacture of Coiled
Wire Fabrics.
I, ALBERT SIDDALL of Central Engineering Works, Sowerby Bridge in the
County of York, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to improvements in machines employed in the manufacture
of coiled wire fabrics such as used for mattresses and the like, and the object. of
the invention is to provide means whereby an increased number or strands of wire
may be coiled and passed through a mesh of given size and such object is effected
by improved manipulation of the guiding pins and mesh or fabric under process of
manufactur, and the appliances employed for effecting the requisite manipulation
of the pins and fabric.
According to this my said invention I employ horizontal pegs in opposite bars
the pegs being arranged one within the other i.e. one opposite the space between
two opposite pins, and a bar carrying vertical or upright pins. The pegs are not
passed through the coils as heretofore but extend only to about the centre of the
coil, and as the bar which carry the coiler pegs and the mesh pegs are controlled
by cams or tappets and there is a screw adjustment which governs the traverse of
the vertical pegs the position of the pegs in relation to the coil is from time to
time such as to leave a wider space between the pin and the coil so that a greater
number of wires or coils may be wormed into a given space at any desired interval
of the fabric.
Dated this 6th day of March 1894.
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines employed in the Manufacture of Coiled
Wire Fabrics.
I, ALBERT SIDDALL, of Central Engineering Works, Sowerby Bridge, in the
County of York, Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in machines such as are described in
Specification of Letters Patent granted to William Phillips Thompson, dated the
3rd day of September 1892, and numbered 15,831, such machines being employed
in the manufacture of coiled wire fabrics such as are used for mattresses and the

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like, and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby an increased
number of strands of wire may be coiled and passed through a mesh of given size,
and such object is effected by improved construction, arrangement, and manipulation
of the guiding pins or pegs, and mesh or fabric under process of manufacture, and
the appliances employed for effecting the requisite manipulation of the pins or pegs
and fabric.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of part of the peg bars and apparatus for operating such
peg bars and the pegs carried therein.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the peg bars and pegs.
Fig. 4 is a sectional end view of the peg bars and pegs.
Fig. 5 is a sectional front elevation of the peg bars and pegs.
Heretofore in machines of this class, long vertical or upwardly projecting pegs
or pins have been employed, and the length of such pegs or pins prevented the free
passage of the coiled wire or wires when the latter was threaded between such
pegs, and in order to allow of two or more wires to be employed, it was necessary
that the pitch of the pins or pegs should be very great.
According to this invention, I employ peg bars 1. 2-in the first bar 1 are fixed
short vertical pegs 3, and in the second bar 2 are fixed the horizontal pegs 4, the
pegs of one bar being about intermediate with the pegs of the other bar, i.e., the
pegs in one bar are opposite the spaces between the pegs on the other bar.
The bar 2 is adjustably connected by link 5 with the lever 6 fulcrumed at 7, and
at its opposite end connected to the arm 8 on which are the runners 9. 9, one on
each side of the cam 10. The end of the peg bar 1 terminates in the screwed
rod 11, which passes through the frame 12, and on each side of such frame 12 is a
spiral spring 13, so that the bar 1 is capable of slight end wise movement, and is
held in its normal position by the springs 13. It will be seen that the cam 10,
when revolving, gives a reciprocating endwise motion to the pegs 4, and the pegs 3
are also allowed a slight end wise movement.
The coiled wire or wires are passed through the trough shaped receiver 14 and
engage with the pegs 3, 4, which accurately determine the course of the wire or
wires, and control the latter. In running the wire into the receiver 14, the short
pegs 4 are in such a position that the spiral wire or wires are guided, and somewhat
stretched or distended, and the direction of the wire is controlled through its entire
length. The pegs do not pass entirely through the coils as heretofore, but extend
only to about the centre of same, and as the cam 10 moves and controls the coiler
and mesh pegs 4, the position of such pegs in relation to the wire is varied and
changed by such cam 10 after each wire is passed along the trough, the wire.or
wires are first steadied and guided by the horizontal pegs 4, then by the vertical
pegs 3.
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By reducing the length of the pegs, and employing two sets in lieu of one set
of long pegs as heretofore, a greater number of wires can be passed between the
two sets of pegs, as the wire can pass over the tops of the pegs, and still the lower
part of the coil be held by one set of pegs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The peg bar 1 with vertical pegs 3; the peg bar 2 with horizontal pegs 4,
the peg bar being connected by link 5 with a lever operated and controlled by
cam 10, all in combination, as and for the purpose herein described, and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
2. In a machine for purpose aforesaid, the peg bar 1 with vertical pegs 3, and

page_text: the peg bar 2 with horizontal pegs 4, all in combination, and for the purpose herein
described, and substantially as illustrated by Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the annexed
drawings.
Dated this 6th day of December 1894.
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.