Improvements in the Manufacture of Metal Bands, Strips, or Hoops, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1892-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metal Bands, Strips, or Hoops,
and Apparatus therefor.
I, EDWARD HALE of 8 Tabley Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Bale Tie Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Hitherto narrow bands or strips have been manufactured by rolling each strip
or band separately. This is rather a slow and tedious process and at the same
time a costly one.
By my invention, however, I propose to roll or obtain the metal in sheets of
suitable length and width and cut these sheets into strips of the required width
by machinery, adapted to cut one or any reasonable number at a time.
By this means very thin strips of metal can be produced.
The apparatus I propose to use may consist of shears or rotary knives mounted
upon a rotatable shaft, the said knives being adjustable laterally on the shaft,
whereby the width of the strips to be cut can be altered at will. The strips,
bands or hoops thus produced are applicable for use as cotton bale, and hay
bands and for various other purposes.
Dated this 21st day of October 1801
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metal Bands, Strips, or Hoops,
and Apparatus therefor.
I, EDWARD HALE of 8 Tabley Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Bale Tie Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
Hitherto narrow bands or strips have been manufactured by rolling each strip or
band separately. This is rather a slow and tedious process and at the same time &
costly one.
By my invention, however, I propose to roll or obtain the metal in sheets of
suitable length and width and cut these sheets into strips of the required width by
machinery, adapted to cut one or any reasonable number at a time. By this
means, very narrow strips of metal can be produced.
The apparatus I propose to use may consist of shears or rotary knives mounted
upon a rotatable shaft, the said knives being adjustable laterally on the shaft,
whereby the width of the strips to be cut can be altered at will. The strips, bands
or hoops thus produced are applicable for use as cotton bale and hay bands and for
various other purposes.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus ;
Figure 2, a front elevation of an alternative arrangement.
In Figure 1, A, are rotary cutters or shears mounted and fixed upon the
rotatable shafts B B, and alternating with each other. These cutters are separated
and are held at the required distance apart by the distance blocks C, and the
cutters and blocks are all bolted together by the bolts D. The cutters are

page_text: adjustable by varying the width of said blocks C, whereby narrower or wider strips
of metal can be cut from the sheet.
A sheet of metal, therefore, 12 inches wide, can be cut by means of cutters the
required width, into 24 half inch strips, or into 18 three quarter strips. In
Figure 2, the cutters are mounted upon the screwed shaft B, and are adjustable on
said shaft by means of the nuts C, and can be fixed in any required position by the
said nut.
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 improvement in apparatus for the manufacture of metal bands, strips
or hoops, whereby, instead of rolling or forming each strip of metal separately
as hitherto, several strips can be cut simultaneously at one operation from a sheet
of metal, this result being obtained by mounting or fixing on parallel rotatable
shafts (located at the required distance apart) a suitable number of circular
cutters or shears, the said cutters or shears being so arranged on one shaft, to
alternate with those on the other shaft, that a sheet of metal presented to said
cutters can be cut into strips of the required width, substantially as described.
2. The use, in combination with apparatus of the kind described, of means
substantially as set forth, whereby the cutters can be adjusted laterally to regulate
the width the strips are cut.
Dated this 21st day of July 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.