Improvement in the Means or Method of Cleaning, Galvanising, and Hardening or Tempering Reed Wire to Prevent Rust and Wear.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 31st Mar., 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Means or Method of Cleaning, Galvanising,
and Hardening or Tempering Reed Wire to Prevent Rust and
Wear.
I, SMITH STARKIE, of Clough Mill, Walsden, Lancashire, Machine Broker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention refers to reed wire which is used for dents in the formation of
reeds employed in looms for weaving.
The first part of my invention consists in galvanizing or hardening and tempering
reed wire, and the second part consists in means to be employed for hardening and
tempering such said wire.
In carrying out my invention after the wire has been wound upon the reed
makers tin wheel or flanged pulley, it is unwound therefrom and passed through an
acid bath and afterwards through a metal bath. After leaving the metal bath
in a highly heated condition it passes through one or more clips for cleaning
same.
The said wire then passes through a box of sand or other suitable material for
burnishing and polishing the said wire and finally the wire passes through a bath of
oil or water in order to temper it when finally it is wound upon another tin wheel
or grooved pulley.
By galvanizing or hardening and tempering reed wire it will not so easily rust or
corrode by atmospheric dampness, neither will the reeds be so easily worn away
with the action of the warp, as is now the case.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1895.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.
Improvement in the Means or Method of Cleaning, Galvanising,
and Hardening or Tempering Reed Wire to Prevent Rust and
Wear.
I, SMITH STARKIE of Clough Mill, Walsden, Lancashire, Machine Broker,
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:—
This invention refers to reed wire which is used for dents in the formation of
reeds employed in looms for weaving.
My invention consists in cleaning galvanising and hardening or tempering iron
and steel flattened reed wire.
To carry out my invention, when the wire has been wound upon the reed makers
ordinary tin wheel or flanged pulley, the said wire is unwound therefrom and
passed through an acid bath for cleaning it and afterwards the said wire which has
just been cleaned is passed through a metal bath for galvanising same and on the
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page_text: said wire emerging from the metal bath it passes through asbestos held by a clip
for removing any superfluous liquid metal therefrom. The wire passes then over a
carrier pulley revolving in water, and next it passes through a bath of water for
tempering same, and is finally wound direct on to a reed makers tin wheel.
By galvanising and hardening or tempering reed wire it will not so easily rust or
corrode by atmospheric dampness, neither will the reeds be so easily worn away
with the action of the warp when tempered, as is now the case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The means or method herein described for cleaning, galvanising, hardening and
tempering reed wire whilst it is being unwound from one reed makers tin wheel on
to another reed makers tin wheel as herein described.
Dand thin 90th 1.—
1000
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents..
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents..