Improvements in Reels for the Reception of "Barb-wire" and other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Reels for the Reception of "Barb-wire" and other
Purposes.
I, GEORGE GATTON MELBUISH HARDINGHAM, of 191, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention (a communication to me from abroad from the firm of Felten & Guilleaume,
of Mulheim-on-the-Rhine, in the Empire of Germany, Telegraphic Engineers and
Wire Manufacturers) and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved reel principally intended for the reception
of barbed fencing wire but also adapted to contain any other material capable of
being wound; the objects of the present improvements being to provide a reel which
is compact in form and cheap. in construction.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents in perspective a reel made in
accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 shows the cord detached; Fig. 3
being a similar view of one of the terminals or side-pieces. Fig. 4 illustrates a
modification in which a terminal consisting of two side-pieces crossing each other
at right angles is employed at each end of the core.
The core a consists of a piece of 'grown' timber; that is, a piece of timber
corresponding in diameter with the stem or the branch of the tree from which it is
cut, as distinguished from a piece of timber cut from a hown log and reduced to the
requisite size. To each end of the core is nailed a terminal consisting of a flat
piece of board 6 (Figs. 1 and 3) or two such pieces crossed (Fig. 4). The con-
struction shewn in Fig. 1 is preferred, on account of its being less expensive to
produce and occupying less space in stowage than where the terminal is composed
of two thicknesses of board. A longitudinal hole c is bored through the reel for
the insertion of an axle whereon the reel may turn whilst being charged with barb-
wire or other material or whilst the latter is being unrceled.
Reels of the kind hitherto usually employed are made with terminals consisting of
two side-pieces crossed, as in Fig. 4, the core being composed of four strips of wood
respectively placed in the angles formed by the side-pieces, these four pieces being
arranged parallel with one another and at a distance apart corresponding with the
width of the side-pieces. With reels of this class the innermost coils of the material
are subjected to sharp bends as they pass round the angular core. Such bends are
avoided when a cylindrical core is employed; which, moreover, may be smaller in
diameter, bulk being thereby saved. A further economy in bulk is effected when
each terminal is composed of a single side-piece instead of two boards crossing one
another.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents and in what manner the same
is to be performed, I claim :-
:-
The improved manufacture of reel, adapted for the reception of 'barb-wire' and
other material capable of being wound, substantially as herein described; the same
comprising a 'grown' timber core, perforated axially and provided at its extremities
with terminals formed of single or crossed boards nailed or otherwise fastened to the
core.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM