Improvements in the Manufacture of Wire Net or Trellis, and in Devices Used in such Manufacture.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1896-Accepted, 18th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Wire Net or Trellis, and in
Devices Used in such Manufacture.
A communication to me from the METALLTUCHFABRIK "DÜREN," LEMPERTS
& WERGIFOSSE, of Düren, Rheinland, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturers.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, 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,
and accompanying drawing, that is to say:-
This invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of wire net or
trellis, of the kind in which the shifting of the wires at the points where they cross
is prevented by a separate moveable piece or clip, which holds them both.
The devices and method of manufacture which form the subject of this invention
differ from those which have been heretofore used, in that the connection of the
clip is effected by merely passing one or both the wires through it.
It is also unnecessary to provide any separate arrangement by which the moveable
clip is fixed, when the second wire is passed through.
A great simplification of the method of construction is thus obtained. A device
and method of manufacture is illustrated in detail in the accompanying drawing,
in which Figure 1 is a general view of a finished wire trellis; Figure 2 is a plan
of the device connecting the wires where they cross; Figures 3 and 5 sections
through the line x-x, Figure 2. Figures 4 and 6 are similar sections through
the line y-y, Figure 2. Figures 3 and 4 shew the parts in different positions to
the corresponding Figures 5 and 6 (in which the wires are shewn firmly held).
Figure 7 is a perspective view of the arrangement shewn in Figure 2. As a
modification, another somewhat different clip is shewn in Figure 8, and Figure 9
shews in plan a third modification.
In the first example the moveable clip a, which is to connect the two bars or
wires b, is formed with four ears a', through which a hole a² is made. Of these four
ears a¹ each two adjoining ones are at right angles to each other to correspond with
the two wires which also cross each other at right angles.
The ears a¹ of each opposite pair are bent out in a direction opposite to that of
the other pair, above or below the central part of the clip a, as shewn in Figures 3
and 4. After the introduction of the wires b, the ears a¹ are forcibly bent back
(Figures 5 and 6) so that both wires b are cramped and held fast.
In the modification shewn in Figure 8, the ears a¹ are all bent to the same
ide.
In Figure 9 the metal between the holes through two opposite ears a' is removed,
so that a slit a³ is formed. The opposite pairs of ears a are in this case bent out
on different sides, for the introduction of the wires b, as in the form of arrangement
first described. In this way, as one of the wires is forced into this slit, the clip
remains of a convenient thickness.
The number and position of the ears a', is in every case dependent upon the
umber and position of the wires b, two ears being required for each wire.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and, in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. Improvements in the method of manufacture of wire trellis, in which the
straight wires are passed across each other through holes a² in the corresponding
bent ears a' of metal clips, the wires after having been passed through the ears
being held fast by bending the ears back towards the level of the body of the
metal of which they are made, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. The modification of the device described in Claim 1, consisting in the body of
the clip a being provided with a slit a³, in such manner that by bending back the.
ears a one of the wires enters the slit, substantially as described and illustrated in
Figure 9.
Dated this 17th day of June 1896.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.