Mesh Wire-work, Specially Suitable for Perambulator Bodies and Fire-proof Lath-work and other similar Manufactures.
Year: 1885

page_text: Mesh Wire-work, Specially Suitable for Perambulator Bodies
and Fire-proof Lath-work and other similar Manufactures.
We JAMES RIGG COLLIER, Metal Merchant, and DYER STEAD MUSGRAVE, Wire
Worker, both of Sharp Street, Rochdale Road Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The object of this invention is improvements in and machinery for the manu-
facture of straight mesh wire-work and consists in twisting annealed wire of
suitable strength at stated intervals apart around the shoot or laying wires and so
to retain them firmly in their places or in lapping or lacing the said shoot or laying
wire to hard ribs or bars running longitudinally along the work and in carrying the
said work away as it is completed, by the use of rollers-or in the case of wire
work for perambulator bodies and similar purposes in the use of conical drums
which may be made expanding so as to obtain any pitch required or where very
strong work is required the warp may be stretched and the machine made to
travel along and finish the work as it goes, or the warp or a portion of the warp
can be made to rise and fall to form a shed as in weaving and thus to make a
pattern of over and under basket or wicker-work pattern in conjunction with the
twisted or laced bars as may be desired or the over and under warp may be used
for making fire-proof lath-work with hoop iron or steel hoop which in accordance
with this invention is corrugated transversely and being put together entirely by
machinery is produced at less cost and more regularly than heretofore.
In performing our invention we employ a frame-work made of any suitable
material such as wood wrought iron or by preference cast iron and fitted with
suitable pedestals to receive the shafting and spindles. This frame is mounted
upon wheels which can be scotched with screws when not required to travel along.
On top of the frame is a bed on which are fixed a series of spindles each consisting
of two tubes the inner one grooved longitudinally on the outside aud fitted into
the outside tube and projecting sufficiently far behind the same to allow for fixing
two bobbins on each spindle. The ends of the spindles are mounted on a guide or
bridge piece which extends from one side of the machine to the other and thus
serves to steady the spindles when in motion, and to equalize the weight the outer
tube is turned and fitted to suitable pedestals. The ends or tails of each spindle
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page_text: are fitted with spur wheels which are all geared together and driven by a sliding
shaft thrown in and out of gear with one or the other of a pair of bevil wheels by
an eccentric and thus imparting an alternate reverse motion to each spindle as each
shoot or laying wire is placed in position. At the end of the machine is a conical
drum on which the work when finished is rolled up and taken away. When the
work is required to be equal at both sides a roller or drum of similar dimensions
can be slipped on the shaft instead of the cone, motion is communicated to the
drum by a worm and worm wheel shaft geared with mitre or bevil wheels to the
driving shaft. A reel or drum of wire is also provided to supply the shoot or
laying wire and which is first passed through a straightening set of pulleys.
start the machine for twisted straight mesh wire work tix on each spindle two
bobbins containing annealed wire of the guage required thread the ends through
the longitudinal grooves in the spindles and fasten the ends to the drum now give
as many turns of the driving shaft as will make the number of twists required to
give the desired mesh then slide in between the wires the end of the shoot wire up
to a stop on the opposite side to where the reel is situated and then press down
the cutter to cut off the desired length of shoot wire, now slide in another wire and
repeat the same operation and so on continuously.
To
For lacing, the ribs or longitudinal wires must be threaded through the middle
tubes of the spindles and be made fast and in this case one bobbin only on each
-spindle is required filled with wire of suitable size and quality the alternate motion
is also given as in twisting the result being a strong firm piece of straight mesh
wire-work.
The over and under work is effected by gearing as in weaving operation or by
each wire being elevated and depressed by eccentrics.

page_text: Mesh Wire Work, Specially Suitable for Perambulator Bodies
and Fireproof Lath Work and other similar Manufactures.
We JAMES RIGG COLLIER, Metal Merchant, and DYER STEAD MUSGRAVE, Wire
worker, both of Sharp Street, Rochdale Road, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The object of this invention is improvements in and machinery for the manu-
facture of straight mesh wire work and consists in twisting annealed wire of
suitable strength at stated intervals apart around the shoot or laying wires and so
to retain them firmly in their places or in lapping or lacing the said shoot or laying
wires to hard ribs or bars running longitudinally along the work and in carrying
the said work away as it is completed by the use of rollers, or in the case of wire
work for perambulator bodies and similar purposes in the use of conical drums
which may be made expanding so as to obtain any pitch required or where very
strong work is required, the warp may be stretched and the machine made to
travel along and finish the work as it goes or the warp or a portion of the warp
can be made to rise and fall to form a shed as in weaving and thus make a pattern
of over and under basket or wicker work in conjunction with the twisted or laced
bars as may be desired or the over and under warp máy be used for making fire
proof lath work with hoop iron or steel hoop which in accordance with this
invention is corrugated transversely and being put together entirely by machinery
is produced at less cost and more regularly than heretofore.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1. is a side view and Fig. 2. a plan of our
improved machine for the making of straight mesh wire work and which may be
described as follows:-
In performing our invention we employ a frame work a. made of any suitable
material such as wood, wrought iron or by preference cast iron and fitted with
suitable pedestals to receive the shafting and spindles. This frame a. is mounted.
upon wheels b. which can be scotched with screws when not required to travel
along. On top of the frame is a bed c. on which are mounted a series of spindles d.
each consisting of two tubes, the inner one d¹ being grooved longitudinally on the
outside (as seen about full size in transverse section in Fig. 3.) and fitted into the.
outside tube d. and projecting sufficiently far behind the latter to allow for fixing
one or two bobbins e. alongside each spindle. The ends of the spindles d. are
mounted in a guide or bridge piece f. which extends from one side of the machine
to the other and thus serves to steady the spindles when in motion and to equalize
the weight-the outer tubes d. are turned and mounted in suitable pedestals' d².
The ends or tails of each spindle are fitted with spur wheels g. and these spur

page_text: wheels g. are all geared together and driven through an intermediate shaft h. the
mitre wheel h¹ of which is thrown in and out of gear with one or the other of a
pair of sliding bevil wheels i. upon the driving shaft 2 and thus is capable of
imparting an alternate reverse motion to each spindle as each shoot or laying wire
is placed in position. At the end of the machine is a conical drum j on which the
work when finished is rolled up and taken away. When the work is required to
be equal at both sides a roller or drum of similar dimensions can be slipped on the
shaft . instead of the cone. Motion is communicated to this drum by an endless
band and by a worm and worm wheel shaft l. geared by mitre or bevil wheels m.
to the driving shaft. The longitudinal bars or ribs o are carried forward from
the drum n' and pass through the hollow inner spindle whilst a reel or drum of
wire is also provided to supply the shoot or laying wires which are first passed
through a set of pulleys os arranged in zig-zag directions so as to straighten the
same before entering the machine 1.
To start the machine for simply lacing wires or rods of any description together
and to ribs or longitudinal wires as indicated by diagram Fig. 4. the said ribs or
longitudinal wires o must be first passed from the creels of through the inner
tubes d' and their extremities be made fast to the cone j. The ends of the annealed
wires upon the single bobbins e which are carried upon the rods e¹ alongside each
of the spindles must be then threaded through one of the two longitudinal
grooves in the inner tubes of the spindles and also secured to the cone j. We now
slide into position at the desired angle, the shoot wire and then give either one or
as many turns to the driving shaft h as will make the number of twists required
to give the desired mesh, then stop and slide another shoot wire into position, and
so on continuously winding the finished work on to the cone j.
For making straight mesh wire work and for twisting the same together
longitudinally as indicated by diagram Fig. 5. we fix on the rod alongside each
spindle d two bobbins each containing annealed wire of the guage required-
thread the ends thereof through the two longitudinal grooves in the inner spindles
and fasten the said ends to the drum, now give as many turns of the driving
shaft h³ as will make the number of twists required to give the desired mesh--then
slide in between the wires the end of the shoot wire up to a stop on the opposite
side to where the reel is situated and then cut off the desired length of shoot wire-
continue the twisting operation for the desired distance either in the same or in an
opposite direction; stop again; now slide in another shoot wire and repeat the
same operation and so on continuously, the result being a strong firm piece of
straight mesh wire work.
The over and under work forming a wicker work or basket pattern is effected
upon the same machine by the application thereto of triggers or healds for
alternately raising and lowering the warps or longitudinal wires as in weaving
operations whilst the weft consists of the shoot wires rods or bars which run
transversely across the fabric. In this case the spindles remain stationary but the
longitudinal wires are carried round and the finished work received upon the drum
or roller as before. By employing crimped or corrugated transverse bars or
laths p. as indicated by diagram Fig. 6. so secured together by longitudinal wires r
a manufacture is produced suitable as fire proof lath work.
This improved manufacture offers special advantages for keying in plastering
whilst the rigidity acquired by the corrugated transverse strips renders the work
firm and strong divesting it of the flimsy character which straight lattice hand
made work possesses.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is ;-
1st The general arrangement and combination of mechanism for the manufacture

page_text: 2nd In machinery for the manufacture of straight mesh wire work the employ-
ment of a series of spindles for operating the longitudinal wires and either for
lapping or twisting the same to transverse wires rods or laths substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
3rd The employment of expanding conical drums for receiving and carrying
forward the finished work and with the transverse wires set at any desired angle
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.
4th The improved manufacture of woven metallic fabric constituting an improved
fire-proof lath work substantially as herein before described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.