IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF 'LINGOES' USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING, ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OTHER ARTICLES FROM WIRE REQUIRING TO BE STAMPED OR PRESSED AND PUNCHED
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward James Smith, of Halifax, in the County
of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
THE MANUFACTURE OF 'LINGOES' USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING, ALSO IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF OTHER ARTICLES FROM WIRE REQUIRING TO BE STAMPED OR
PRESSED AND PUNCHED."
Sealed the 16th July 1867, and dated the 18th January 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward James Smith at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th January 1867.
I, EDWARD JAMES SMITH, of Halifax, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LINGOES' USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING,
ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OTHER ARTICLES FROM WIRE REQUIRING TO BE
STAMPED OR PRESSED AND PUNCHED," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates chiefly to means of manufacturing articles technically
known as "lingoes," which are small weights, usually made from round wire
cut to suitable lengths, flattened at one end, and having a hole or eye in the
parts so flattened.
This improved machinery or apparatus consists of two levers mounted on an
axis after the manner of a pair of pincers or nippers, attached to which are
two steel dies or nipping jaws, so arranged that when the said levers or pincers

page_text: are closed upon a piece of wire placed between them the wire is flattened
thereby as required; a punch is also fixed in one of the said dies exactly
opposite to a hole in the other, so that when the said nippers are elosed upon
the flattened part of a wire placed between them a hole or eye will be
punched or formed therein. The punch is passed through the die from
behind, where it is supported by a set screw or cotter, and prevented from
being drawn forward by an arrangement at the back, or by being made taper
in form. These pincers are closed by tappets or cams revolving between the
arms thereof and opened by a spring, and may be moved up and down by
cams, so as to bring the flattening dies and the punch alternately opposite the
wire lying between them; or the wire itself may be moved alternately into
the proper positions to be flattened and punched.
The wire is drawn intermittently through an ordinary dressing plate or
straightening apparatus by ordinary drawing tongs, and passing between the
dies or nippers and punch above described is flattened and punched or per-
forated thereby; it is then cut off to the required length by cutters fixed in
the drawing tongs; but in order that any required length of wire may be cut
off exactly at the flattened part, or at any given distance therefrom, the mean
distance between the pincers and the cutting tongs must be variable. This
may be effected by either varying the distance between the cutting apparatus
and the crank or lever by which reciprocatory motion is given, or betwixt
the pincers and said crank or lever; but I prefer the former, which is
accomplished by a screw coupling, or socket jointing, or other equivalent
means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward James Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th July 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
JAMES SMITH, of Halifax, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Edward James Smith, Her special licence that I, the said
Edward James Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Edward James Smith, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LINGOES' USED
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING, ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OTHER ARTICLES FROM
WIRE REQUIRING TO BE STAMPED OR PRESSED AND PUNCHED," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward James Smith, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward James Smith, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Sheets of Drawings (that is to say):-
This Invention relates chiefly to means of manufacturing articles technically
known as "lingoes," which are small weights, usually made of or from round
wire cut to suitable lengths, flattened at one end, and having a hole or eye in
the part so flattened.
The improved machinery or apparatus consists of two levers mounted on an
axis after the manner of a pair of pincers or nippers, attached to which are
two steel dies or nipping jaws so arranged that when the said levers or pincers
are closed upon a piece of wire placed between them the wire is flattened
thereby as required; a punch is also fixed in one of the said dies exactly
opposite to a hole in the other, so that when one of the said nippers are closed
upon the flattened part of a wire placed between them a hole or eye will be
punched or formed therein; this punch is passed through the die from behind,
where it is supported by a set screw or cotter, and prevented from being drawn
forward by an enlargement at the back, or by being made taper in form;
these pincers are closed by tappets or cams revolving between the arms
thereof, and opened by a spring, and may be moved up and down by cams, so
as to bring the flattening dies and the punch alternately opposite the wire
lying between them, or the wire itself may be moved alternately into the
proper positions to be flattened and punched. The wire is drawn inter-
mittently through an ordinary dressing plate or straightening apparatus by
ordinary drawing tongs, and passing the dies or nippers and punch abova

page_text: described, is flattened and punched or perforated thereby; it is then cut off to
the required length by cutters fixed in the drawing tongs. But in order
that any required length of wire may be cut off exactly at the flattened part,
or at any given distance therefrom, the mean distance between the pincers and
the cutting tongs must be variable; this may be effected by either varying
the distance between the cutting apparatus and the crank or lever by which
reciprocatory motion is given or between the pincers and said crank or lever;
but I prefer the former, which is accomplished by a screw-coupling or socket-
jointing, or other equivalent means.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
In order that my Invention may be clearly understood, I herein give
reference to two accompanying Sheets of Drawings of a machine constructed
according to the said Invention.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation; Fig. 2 is a plan; and Fig. 3 is a cross
section, taken through the line A, B, in Figs. 1 and 2.
The general features of this machine are in some measure similar to an
ordinary wire straightening and cutting machine, C being the "dressing plate,"
which consists of a series of pins carrying small rollers for the wire D to pass
betwixt, and which, as is well known, are so arranged or set as to produce a
straightening effect on wire drawn between them. E are ordinary drawing
tongs or apparatus for drawing the wire through the rollers intermittently, and
having cutters fixed thereon for cutting the said wire into suitable lengths;
this apparatus is supported in slide frames F, and operated by a connecting
rod G attached to a crank arm H, fixed on an upright shaft I, which receives
motion by gear wheels from a main shaft J. The upright is capable of being
thrown into or out of gear with the main shaft by a catch box K, which is
operated by a hand lever L and connecting rod L'. The particular features
or points of Invention are as follows:-M and M¹ are a pair of levers mounted
like pincers on an axis R, and supported, yet capable of moving up or down in
pedestals or bearings N and N¹. To the upper end of each of these levers is
fixed a steel die or swage P and P¹, the former carrying a punch S, which is
slightly conical or swelled at one end, and being pushed into so as to project
through a hole in the die from the back part is thereby prevented from being
drawn through the die, and by means of the set screw S¹ and the binding
screw S² it is set and kept in position in the said die, the other die having a hole
the size of and opposite to the punch. Fig. 4 is a full size view of the upper
part of these levers with the dies and punch, shewing also a section of the wire in
position to be punched; and Fig. 5 is a plan of the top of these pincers; these

page_text: levers or pincers are closed by means of tappets T fixed in a boss U, keyed
on the shaft V, which receives motion by gear wheels V₁ and V1 from the
upright shaft I, and they are opened by the action of a spring W; this boss U
is also formed into cams U', by which two rods U attached to the axis, R of
the levers are moved up and down in the guides Z, carrying with them the said
levers, so as to bring the flattening part of the dies and the punch alternately
into operation upon the wire. X is a vessel to supply oil or other lubricant
to the punch. The crank arm II is formed with a slot to admit of the crank pin
or stud being fixed so as to give any desirable length of stroke or motion to the
tongs, according to the length the lingoes are required to be cut off; and to
adjust the movement of the tongs so that they shall seize and cut the wires off
at the proper place a screw-coupling or socket-jointing piece Y is applied
between the connecting rod G and the tongs, having right and left handed
screw threads, so that the distance betwixt the tongs and the crank pin may
be varied to suit the requirements of the case.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward James Smith, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Edward James Smith,
in the presence of
WM. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax and Bradford.
EDW. J. SMITH. (L.S.)