Improvements in the Manufacture of Harness Rings, Buckles, Boot Heel Tips, Ohain Links, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Harness Rings, Buckles, Boot
Heel Tips, Ohain Links, and the like.
I, WILFRED LAWSON BULLOWS, of the firm of Alfred Bullows & Sons, of Long
Street, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in the manufacture of harness rings,
buckles, boot heel tips, chain links, and the like, my object being to produce
such articles in a more economical and efficient manner than by the existing
methods of manufacture.
In the production of harness rings in accordance with my invention I arrange
adjacent to the rear or leaving side of the rolls in which the wrought iron or
steel rods or bars are reduced to the required size and section, a coiling apparatus
having a revolving spindle on which the wire or rod is coiled whilst in the
highly heated state required for the rolling operation. The forward end of the
rod or wire can be connected to the coiling spindle and the latter set in motion
before the whole length of the rod has passed through the rolls, the speed of
the coiling being made uniform with the speed at which the rod is delivered
through the rolls. But I preferably pass the complete length of the rod through
the rolls before commencing to coil it on the spindle.
After the rod has been coiled it is cut in any convenient manner to form a
number of split rings which are subsequently united by electrical welding or
by other means.
In the manufacture of heel tips in accordance with my invention, the coiling
spindle is made of such a section as to produce a number of rings of a shape
similar to that formed by placing a pair of tips with their ends in contact with
each other. The coil formed upon the spindle is subsequently cut on opposite
sides and it is thus divided into a number of tips of the required shape.
The application of my invention to the manufacture of chain links and other
like articles differs only in the necessary modification of the parts required to
produce such articles, from its application to the manufacture of harness rings,
and boot heel tips as herein before described.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Harness Rings, Buckles, Boot
Heel Tips, Chain Links, and the like.
I, Wilfred LawSON BULLOWS, of the Firm of Alfred Bullows and Sons, of Long
Street, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, 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 consists of improvements in the manufacture of harness rings,
buckles, boot heel tips, chain links, and the like, my object being to produce
such articles in a more economical and efficient manner than by the existing
methods of manufacture.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to:-
Figure
is a plan and Figure 2 an elevation representing the arrangement
of machinery for the manufacture of harness rings and the like in accordance
with my invention.
Figure 3 is a section showing, to a larger scale, the form of coiling spindle
I employ in the manufacture of harness rings, whilst Figure 4 illustrates the
form of spindle for the manufacture of boot heel tips.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In the production of harness rings in accordance with my invention I arrange
adjacent to the rear or leaving side of the rolls A in which the wrought iron or
steel rods or bars are reduced to the required size and section, a coiling apparatus
having a revolving spindle B on which the wire or rod C is coiled whilst in
the highly heated state required for the rolling operation. The forward end of
the rod or wire C can be connected to the coiling spindle B and the latter set in
motion before the whole length of the rod has passed through the rolls A, the
speed of the coiling being then made uniform with the speed at which the rod
is delivered through the rolls. But I preferably pass the complete length of the
rod through the rolls before commencing to coil it on the spindle, sometimes
employing two sets of the coiling apparatus for each set of rolls. The wire or
rod is guided as it is coiled on to the spindle B by the guide D which is free
to slide along the rods E E¹.
After the rod has been coiled it is cut in any convenient manner to form a
number of split rings which are subsequently united by electrical welding or
by other means. To assist in the ready cutting of the coil I form a slot or
aperture as (Figure 3) throughout the spindle upon then cutting through the
coil along the line of such slot I can readily produce a number of split rings.
In the manufacture of heel tips in accordance with my invention, the coiling
spindle is made of such a section (as shown by B₁ at Figure 4) as to produce a
number of rings of a shape similar to that formed by placing a pair of tips
with their ends in contact with each other. The coil formed upon the spindle B'
is subsequently cut on opposite sides along the line of slots 61 62 and it is thus
divided into a number of tips of the required shape.
In the manufacture of buckles and other articles of a D, square, or other
shape, I employ a correspondingly shaped coiling spindle.
The application of my invention to the manufacture of chain links and other
like articles differs only in the necessary modification of the parts required to
produce such articles, from its application to the manufacture of harness rings,
and boot heel tips as hereinbefore described.

page_text: 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:-
1. The manufacture of harness rings, buckles, boot heel tips, chain links, and the
like, by coiling the wire or rod whilst in its highly heated state on leaving the
reducing rolls, and subsequently cutting the coil and, when necessary, welding
the open ends of the rings or like parts so formed, substantially as described.
2. The arrangement of rolling and coiling machinery substantially as and for
the purpose described and as illustrated.
Dated this 17th dor of Desambau 1000
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.