IMPROVEMENTS IN FLAT Reddish, near Stockport, in the County of Lancaster, WIRE ROPES AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Whittaker Scott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th October 1883.
FREDERICK WHITTAKER SCOTT, of the Atlas Patent Steel Wire Rope Works,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FLAT
Reddish, near Stockport, in the County of Lancaster,
WIRE ROPES AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME,"
Flat wire ropes are generally formed of round wire ropes composed of a series of
strands twisted together which ropes are placed side by side and secured together
by stitching wires passed between the strands of the ropes, but these and other
stitches or binders passing through the rope have a tendency to cut the wires of
the rope by the slight motion of the stitching wires upon the strand wires of the
ropes caused by the bending of the rope when in use-One modification of my
invention consists in constructing flat wire ropes of a series of strands formed of
wires twisted in the same direction, and with all the strands forming the flat rope
twisted in the same direction, or by preference with each alternate strand twisted
in the reverse direction, and in placing these strands side by side, and uniting or
securing them together to form one flat rope by strips of flat iron or steel or other
suitable metal corrugated so as to pass across the strands under one, and over
another strand alternately and in placing these corrugated strips so that the
corrugations will pass over the strands the reverse way alternately, in such way,
that the strips will be alternately under and over the same strand, and between
them. The strips are secured at the two sides by turning up their ends round or
partly round the strands at the outside of the flat rope and are or may be further
secured by a wire or rivet if desired.
According to another Modification of my invention I make flat ropes of ropes
(formed by a number of twisted strands, twisted together) placed side by side and
secured by strips of metal, same as above described for Hat ropes formed of single
strands only.
My invention also consists in making the flat wire ropes by arrangements of
mechanism similar to a loom for weaving, that is, the strands or ropes to form the
Hat rope are arranged side by side and they each pass from a suitable drum or
from a suitable beam through guides over a table and then on to a taking up beam
to wind up the finished flat rope as it is woven.

page_text: There are treadles cams or excentrics for acting upon the strands or ropes
(corresponding to warp) to open "sheds," as in weaving, and when a shed is formed,
a corrugated strip of metal is inserted, and the shed is then closed and reversed to
form the alternate sheds as in weaving plain cloth into which another but reversed
corrugated strip of metal (corresponding to weft) is inserted and so on alternately.
There is or may be mechanism corresponding to the slay or reed of a loom to
beat up the corrugated strips or place them in the position required, and mechanism
formed of rollers or stampers to press the strands or ropes and corrugated strips of
metal firmly together.
The strips are or may be first cut into lengths, and then corrugated by suitable
toothed rollers or pressing dies-or the strip is or may be drawn from a roll
corrugated by stamping or other dies, fed into the "shed" and then cut off by a
suitable cutter selfacting..