A New and Improved Method of Manufacturing Buokle Tongues for use in the Harness and Saddlery Trades, or any other Trade or Trades, or for any other purposes whatsoever.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Method of Manufacturing Buokle Tongues for
use in the Harness and Saddlery Trades, or any other Trade or
Trades, or for any other purposes whatsoever.
We GEORGE SKIDMORE of No. 139 Oxford Street Mesty Croft Wednesbury in
the County of Stafford Fitter and Turner and THOMAS JONES of Walsall Street
Wednesbury aforesaid Solicitor of Her Majesty's Supreme Court of Judicature do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The new and improved method consists in rolling wrought iron, brass, or nickel,
wire or wire of any other metal or material by means of circular dies. Each die
will bear impressions of the tongues proposed to be made; one set of impressions
raised and the other set sank thereon. By means of cog wheels the dies will
revolve together, the raised and sunk impressions fitting into each other. One end
of a roll of wire is then placed between the dies, which would draw in the wire
without further assistance and shape it according to the impression of the tongues
on the revolving dies. Cutters dovetailed into the dies would then cut and point
the wire, as it is shaped, into proper lengths.
Dated this 28th day of August 1891
GEORGE SKIDMORE.
THOMAS JONES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Method of Manufacturing Buckle Tongues for
use in the Harness and Saddlery Trades, or any other Trade or
Trades, or for any other purposes whatsoever.
We,
GEORGE SKIDMORE of No. 139 Oxford Street, Mesty Croft, Wednesbury,
in the County of Stafford, Fitter and Turner, and THOMAS JONES of Walsall
Street, Wednesbury, aforesaid, Solicitor of Her Majesty's Supreme Court of
Judicature, do hereby declare the nature of this said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Our invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of buckle
tongues by which we greatly cheapen the production as a considerably greater
quantity can be made in shorter period and with much less attention than under the
old system.
The new and improved method consists in rolling wrought iron, brass, or nickel
wire or wire of any other metal or material by means of circular dies. Each die
will bear impressions of the tongues proposed to be made: one set of impressions
raised, and the other set sunk thereon. By means of cog wheels the dies will
revolve together the raised and sunk impressions fitting into each other. One end
of a roll of wire is then placed between the dies which would draw in the wire
without further assistance and shape it according to the impression of the tongues
on the revolving dies. Cutters dovetailed into the dies would then cut and point
the wire, as it is shaped, into proper lengths.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice we have appended hereunto a double sheet of drawings upon
which we
have fully illustrated our improved mode of manufacturing buckle tongues.
Figure 1., is an elevation of part of the face of one of a pair of rolls suitable for
the manufacture of buckle tongues.

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Figure 2., is a section through part of both rolls near the nip shewing them in
action.
Figure 3., is a side and front elevation of the tongue after leaving the rolls.
Figure 4., is a front elovation of a buokle having the tongue attached.thereto.
In carrying our invention into effect we form a pair of rolls or dies A and B
which are shaped with the raised projections a' and the sinkings b' which are
rounded: and shaped: to, form, the, roote of the buckle tongue.E. The dies and
rolla A and Blare mounted, in suitable housings so as to revolve together by means
of cog wheels the one end E of a roll of wire being placed in between is drawn in
and shaped without any further assistance into the form shewn by Figure 3 suitable
cutters F are dovetailed into the dies to cut and point the wire as seen at e' into the
proper length while the ends e are severed from the ends e by the faces of the dies
meeting at the point es and thereby squeezing the wire into two at that point. The
small end pieces ate are then shaken off in burnishing as in the old mode the
tongues are then ready for attachment to the buckle as shewn by Figure 4.
The length and shape of the tongue can of course be modified by a different
formation in the shape of the dies and the attachments of the cutters to the dies
may be effected in any suitable manner..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in the manufacture of buckle tongues in which the tongues are
shaped and formed between two rolling dies: substantially as and for the purpose
and such as herein set forth, and shown upon the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1891.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.