Improvement in Benches for Drawing Wire.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 15th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th May, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Benches for Drawing Wire.
I, FRANZ CARL GUILLEAUME, of the firm of Felten and Guilleaume, of Mülheim on
the Rhine, in the Empire of Germany, Wire-manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to wire-benches on which the wire is drawn in succession
through a number of draw-plates arranged together with the requisite drawing-
sheaves on a table, and the improvement consists in constructing the said table in
form of a trough adapted to be filled with a liquid lubricating material, so that the
wire, during its passage through the machine will be constantly surrounded by tho
lubricant.
For this purpose the table is provided with an upright rim of suitable height, and
the upper bearings of the spindles of the drawing-sheaves are constructed to form
sleeves projecting upward. The wire is or may be passed into and out of the machinę
through holes in the said rim.
Dated the Sixteenth day of June 1886.

page_text: I, FRANZ CARL GUILLEAUME, of the firm of Felten and Guilleaume, of Mülheim on
the Rhine, in the Empire of Germany, Wire-manufacturer, 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 wire-benches on which the wire is drawn in succession
through a number of draw-plates arranged together with the requisite drawing-
sheaves on a table, and the improvement consists in constructing the top of the said
table in form of a trough adapted to be filled with a liquid lubricating material, so that
the wire, during its passage. through the machine, will be constantly surrounded by
the lubricant.
On the annexed sheet of drawings a wire-bench comprising my improvement is
shown by Fig. 1 in sectional elevation, by Fig. 2 in transverse section and by Fig. 3
in plan, a portion from the middle of the machine being omitted.
e,
The machine consists mainly of a table having the top plate b, of the shafts d
carrying the drawing-sheaves and the upper bearings whereof are arranged upon
the said plate b, and of the draw-plates e fixed thereto. The plate b is provided with a
rim projecting upward and forming, together with the plate, a receptacle or trough
adapted to contain so much liquid lubricating material as is necessary to cover the
wire on its course through the draw-plates. In order that the lubricant may not leak
out between the shafts and their upper bearings, these are arranged to form tubes
projecting upward from the plate 6. The wire passes into and out of the trough
through holes h and i in the rim f. These holes may also serve for the introduction
of fresh lubricating liquid and for the eduction of liquid having become heated by the
drawing operation.
The shafts & with the sheaves e are rotated in known manner by a common driving
shaft and toothed wheels, or pulleys and straps, each sheave being impelled with the
speed required for winding up the length of wire to be drawn through the corresponding
draw-plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner.the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
:
In a machine for drawing wire, the construction of the top plate b, on which are
arranged the draw-plates c and the drawing-sheaves e, in form of a trough or
receptacle adapted to contain a liquid lubricating material, so that the wire during its
passage through the draw-plates will be constantly surrounded by the lubricant,
substantially as specified.
Dated the Tenth day of March 1887