IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOCKET SLIDES FOR SUPPORTING SHOP WINDOW ARMS AND FOR OTHER LIKE USES IN TOOLS ΤΟ BE USED IN THE SAID MANUFACTURE, AND
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Randle of Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manager of Tube Mill for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF SOCKET SLIDES FOR SUPPORTING SHOP WINDOW ARMS AND
FOR OTHER LIKE USES
IN TOOLS ΤΟ BE USED IN THE SAID
MANUFACTURE,
AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Randle at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd April 1882.
WILLIAM RANDLE of Birmingham in the county of Warwick, Manager of Tube
Mill IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOCKET SLIDES FOR SUPPORTING
SHOP WINDOWS ARMS AND FOR OTHER LIKE USES; AND IN TOOLS TO BE USED IN
THE SAID MANUFACTURE
The socket slides to which my invention refers consist of a tubular socket having
at its sides one, two or more eyes or smaller sockets parallel to the said tubular
socket. The large tubular part of the socket slides upon and is fixed to a vertical
rod secured in the shop window and in the smaller sockets or socket eyes the
window arms, on which articles are to be supported, are inserted. The said socket
slides are usually made by casting and are finished by dressing.
My invention consists in making, the said socket slides from tubing of brass or
other ductile metal or alloy by a drawing process conducted with the tool herein
after described.
I take a length of cylindrical tubing by preference of brass, the said tubing
having a diameter somewhat greater than that of the socket slide to be made, and
I flatten or contract one end of the said tubing.
I use a draw plate or tool the front face of the hole in the said plate or tool
having the form of the cross section of the socket-slide to be made.
The back or rear face of the said draw hole has an elliptical figure, the said
elliptical figure at the back passing into the draw hole proper at the front of the
draw plate.
The flattened or contracted end of the cylindrical tubing being passed through
the elliptical back of the draw-hole, the said end of the tubing is taken hold of

page_text: by the longs or forceps of the draw-bench and drawn through the draw hole in the
usual way.
By this drawing and by the use of the tool described, a length of tubing
having in cross section the figure of the socket slides to be manufactured is
produced.
This tubing is cut transversely into pieces of the required length for the socket
slides and to each length or piece a pummel or screw-box is secured in any con-
venient way for receiving the binding screw by which the socket slide is fixed to
the rod upon which it works and on which it is adjusted.
Besides being used for supporting shop window arms socket slides made
according to my invention, may also be used for supporting articles elsewhere than
in shop windows.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Randle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd October
1882.
WILLIAM RANDLE of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manager of Tube
Mill. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOCKET SLIDES FOR SUPPORTING
SHOP WINDOW ARMS AND FOR OTHER LIKE USES; AND IN TOOLS TO BE USED IN
THE SAID MANUFACTURE
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The socket slides to which my invention refers consist of a tubular socket
having at its sides, one two or more eyes or sinaller sockets parallel to the said
tubular socket. The large tubular part of the socket slides upon and is fixed to
a vertical rod secured in the shop window and in the smaller sockets or socket
eyes, the window arms on which articles are to be supported are inserted. The
said socket slides are usually made by casting and are finished by dressing.
My invention consists in making the said socket slides from tubing of brass or
other ductile metal or alloy by a drawing process conducted with the tool herein-
after described.
I take a length of cylindrical tubing by preference of brass, the said tubing
having a diameter somewhat greater than that of the socket slide to be made and
I flatten or contract one end of the said tubing.
I use a draw plate or tool the front face of the hole in the said plate or tool
having the form of the cross section of the socket slide to be inade. The back or
rear face of the said draw hole has an elliptical figure, the said elliptical figure at
the back passing into the draw hole proper at the front of the draw plate.
The flattened or contracted end of the cylindrical Lubing being passed through
the elliptical back of the draw hole, the said end of the tubing is taken hold of by
the tongs or forceps of the draw bench and drawn through the draw hole in the
usual way, the large tubular part of the socket and the socket oyes being supported

page_text: by mandrils during the drawing process. By this drawing and by the use of the
tool described a length of tubing having in cross section the figure of the socket
slides to be manufactured is produced.
This tubing is cut transversely into pieces of the required length for the socket
slides and to each length or piece a puminel or screw box is secured in any con-
venient way for receiving the binding screw by which the socket slide is fixed to
the rod upon which it works and on which it is adjusted.
Besides being used for supporting shop window arma, socket slides made
according to my invention may also be used for supporting articles elsewhere than
in shop windows.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings
the manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figuro 1 represents a side elevation and end elevations of the cylindrical tubing
of brass or other ductile metal or alloy from which the socket slides are to be made,
the end b of the said tubing being flattened or contracted for passing it through the
draw plate or tool.
Figures 2 and 3 represent the tubing after a portion of it has been drawn or
fashioned, the elevation of Figure 2 representing the broad face or side of the
drawn tubing and the elevation Figure 3 representing the narrow face or edge of
the said tubing. By tho drawing process conducted by the use of a tool of the
kind heroinafter described, a length of tubing is produced having in cross section
the figure of the socket slide to be manufactured; that is, it consists of the tubular
socket c having at opposite sides and parallel thereto the eyes or smaller sockets d, d.
By dividing transversely the drawn and shaped tubing at the dotted lines e a
Figure 2, pieces of the required length to form the socket slides are produced. One
of these pieces or lengths is represented in elevation in Figure 4 and cross section
in Figure 5. The length or piece Figures 4 and 5 is converted into a socket slide
by piercing the side of the larger tube cand soldering in the pierced holo a pummel
or screw box for receiving the binding screw as represented in elovation in Figure 0
and cross section in Figure 7, where the pummel or screw box is marked fand the
binding screw is marked g.
Figure 8 represents the socket slide Figures 6 and 7 applied to a vertical rod h
which is fixed in the shop window or elsewhere, the smaller eyes or sockets d, d
being fitted with ordinary shop window arms i i
Figure 9 represents in back elevation. Figure 10 in front elevation and Figure 11
in vertical section, the draw plate or tool which I use for converting the cylin-
drical tubing Figure 1 into the shaped or drawn tubing d, c, d Figures 2 and 3.
It will be seen that the front face Figure 10 of the hole in the draw plate or tool
has the form of the cross section of the socket slide to be made, but the back or
rear face Figure 9 of the said draw hole has a nearly elliptical Figure, the said
elliptical figure tapering from the back to the front or draw hole proper.
means of the tapering or trumpet mouth form of the draw hole the metal of the
tubing is gradually gathered in as it passes through the said hole, the shaped
tubing emerging from the front face Figure 10 of the draw plate or tool having
the sectional form represented in Figures 2 and 3.
By
In using the draw plate or tool Figures 9 10 and 11, it is fixed in a frame on
the draw bench in the usual way and the flattened or contracted end b. Figure 1
of the cylindrical tubing, is passed through the elliptical back of the draw hole.
Mandrils having the figures of the socket c and eyes d, d being placed in the said
tube, the flattened end is taken hold of by the tongs or forceps of the draw bench
and drawn through the draw hole in the tool in the usual way, the parts d, c, d
of the drawn tubing being supported during the drawing operation by the mandrils
described.
Figure 12 represents a piece of drawn tubing for the production of socket slides
having a single side eye and Figure 13 represents a socket slide made from the
said tubing Figure 12.
Figure 14 represents a piece of drawn tubing for the production of socket slides

page_text: having three side eyes and Figure 15 represents a socket slide made from the said
tubing Figure 14.
Figure 16 represents a piece of drawn tubing from which socket slides or brackets
having the sectional form represented in Figure 17 are produced. In this socket
slide, the eyes d d for receiving the window-arms are situated at the edges of a
flat middle piece k.
In making the drawn or shaped tubings Figures 12, 14 and 16 or other
analogous tubings I use draw plates or tools, the draw holes of which have Figures
corresponding to those of the tubings to be produced, the back and front faces of
the draw plates or tools being constructed in the manner described with respect to
the draw plate or tool Figures 9, 10 and 11.
Having now described the nature of my invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
invention :-
First The improvements in the manufacture of socket slides for supporting
shop window arms and for other like uses herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings; that is to say, manufacturing the said socket
slides from cylindrical tubing of brass or other ductile metal or alloy by a drawing
process conducted with the tools herein before described and illustrated, the drawn
or shaped tubing being cut transversely into lengths-and-the-said-lengths-converted-
into socket slides substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly-The improvement herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings in tools to be used in the manufacture of socket slides of
the kinds claimed in the preceding claim.
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In-witness whereof I the said-William Randle-have-herounto set my hand
and seal this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT
37 Temple Street
Birmingham.
_WILLIAM_RANDLE (L.s.)