Improvements in and Machinery for Rolling Wire for Making Wire Cards and for other Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 25th June, 1887:
Complete Accepted, 26th July, 1887.
Improvements in and Machinery for Rolling Wire for Making
Wire Cards and for other Purposes.
I WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the County of Lancaster,
Wire Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE FOR MAKING WIRE CARDS AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES, to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in and machinery for rolling wire of more
than one section, say alternately round, and either angular, oval or flat, the object of
my improvements being to produce wire which is particularly applicable for use in
the manufacture of card clothing, the round being for the base where the tooth passes
through or bears against the foundation of the card and the angular oval or flat
section being intended for the carding point or edge.
I am aware that wire of more than one section has already been employed in the
manufacture of cards the wire having a round base and the remaining part previous
to being pointed flattened by punching or by squeezing or rolling process such
as that described in the Specification to Letters Patent No. 1518 of A.D. 1873,
but I lay no claim to wire thus manufactured.
In carrying my Invention into effect. I employ a pair of rollers each of which has
grooves and recesses formed alternately on its periphery so that when the round wire
is passed between the rollers a certain length of it is shaped into an angular, oval, flat,
or other section in the grooves while the recessed portions of the rollers which may or
may not bear lightly upon the remaining part of the wire do not alter its shape. I
thus obtain a rolled wire of more than one section.
By making the rollers as described in the Specification to Letters Patent No. 1008
granted to me the said William Walton and to John Thomas Fallows on the 5th day
of April 1872 and then making recesses in the rollers as above described I could
roll and shape two wires simultaneously, alternately round and angular.
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page_text: Improvements in and Machinery for Rolling Wire for Making,
Wire Cards and for other Purposes.
I WILLIAM WALTON of Haughton Dale Mills Denton in the County of Lancaster
Wire Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE FOR MAKING WIRE CARDS AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES, 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 improvements in and machinery for rolling wire of more
than one section say alternately round and either angular oval or flat the object of my
improvements being to produce wire which is particularly applicable for use in the
manufacture of card clothing the round being for the base where the tooth passes
through or bears against the foundation of the card and the angular oval or flat
section being intended for the carding point or edge.
I am aware that wire of more than one section has already been employed in the
manufacture of cards the wire having a round base and the remaining part previous
to being pointed flattened by punching or by a squeezing or rolling process such as
that described in the Specification to Letters Patent No. 1518 of A.D. 1873 but I lay
no claim to wire thus manufactured.
In carrying my Invention into effect I employ a pair of rollers each of which has
grooves and recesses formed alternately on its periphery so that when the round wire
is passed between the rollers a certain length of it is shaped into an angular oval flat
or other section in the grooves while the recessed portions of the rollers which may or
may not bear lightly upon the remaining part of the wire do not alter its shape. I
thus obtain a rolled wire of more than one section.
By making the rollers as described in the Specification to Letters Patent No. 1008
granted to me the said William Walton and to John Thomas Fallows on the 5th
April 1872 and then making recesses in the rollers as above described I could roll
and shape two wires simultaneously alternately round and angular.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of a pair of rollers constructed with alternate
grooves and recesses according to my Invention and Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the nip of the rollers. Fig. 4 is a similar view but
with the rollers in different positions. Figs. 5 and 6 are also similar views to Fig. 4
but show the rollers grooved and recessed for simultaneously rolling two wires round
and angular Fig. 5, or round and "curved angular," Fig. 6.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
a is the frame for the rollers 6 and c which are mounted in suitable bearings and
are geared together by the toothed wheels d d. The rollers b and c are of equal size
and are finished in the same manner short grooves b¹ and c¹ being cut at regular

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intervals around the periphery of each roller, and recesses 6' and c³ separate or divide
grooves as shown in Fig. 2 and the enlarged views Figs. 3 to 6. The recesses b*
and respectively which separate each transverse row of grooves from the next row
are cut or ground almost across the face of each roller a narrow collar only 6 or o³ as
the case may be being left at the edge to ensure rolling contact at all points between
the rollers. A suitable guide e is supported on the frame and employed to lead the
wire or wires f into the groove.
In place of recessing the rollers as shown and described they may be ground
smooth on the periphery and then have the grooves and recesses formed continuously
round their periphery the grooves flattening the wire or wires and forming it or them
angular oval or flat according to the shape of the grooves while the recesses which
may be half round in section permit the round wire to pass through without being
flattened or altered in form. This method of grooving and recessing the rollers is
also practicable where two wires are passed through a single groove and recess
though I prefer to recess the rollers as shown in the Drawings.
The wire is fed between the rollers b and c through the guide e and may either be
drawn through by the rollers as they revolve or by independent drawing through
rollers. The intermittently grooved portions 6 c¹ on the rollers shape the wire into
an angular oval or flat section while the alternate or recessed portions b² leave the
other portions of the wire round or of the original section or may be so formed as to
give the wire any other special section desired.
In Figs. 5 and 6 each groove in each roller is made double or in duplicate as
described in the Specification to the aforesaid Patent No. 1008 A.D. 1872 but alter-
nately grooved and recessed according to my present Invention so that two wires may
simultaneously be rolled into wires of two sections in one groove in each roller.
By my Invention I am enabled to produce a wire (or two wires) simultaneously of
two sections by passing the wire or wires once only through a pair of specially grooved
and recessed rollers geared together and driven continuously during the rolling
process.
Wire or wires rolled in the manner described may be used for various purposes
but it is particularly suitable for being made into wire cards for carding cotton and
other fibres as the round base of the wire when set in the foundation of the card
clothing forms a good abutment to resist the pressure on the point or carding edge of
the wire and the skin of the wire being hardened by the operation of rolling the
point or carding edge is rendered much more durable and does not require to be
ground or set so frequently as ordinary card wire.
My invention is applicable to rolling iron steel brass or other metal wire or rods.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be perforined I declare that what I claim is-
1. The improved wire rolled of two alternating sections and produced by a single
process of continuous rolling between two rollers each of which is alternately grooved
and recessed on its periphery substantially as and for the purposes herein described
with reference to the Drawings annexed.
2. The construction use and application of rollers each of which has alternate
grooves and recesses formed around its periphery so as to produce a wire or wires of
two sections substantially as herein described and as shown."
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.