for Cards and for other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 20th Jan., 1888
for Cards and for other Purposes.
We JOHN THORNTON of Cleckheaton in the county of York, Machine Maker and
WILLIAM WALKER of Scholes, Indiarubber Manufacturer, both in the county of York,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in the use of a metal roller, conical or otherwise, (preferably
of steel) on which are formed spiral grooves or channels, the wire is passed through
a hole in the neck of the roller and then passes to the outside or periphery of the
roller, and travels along the spiral grooves; a number of discs or runners or their
equivalents are placed at intervals in slots, along the periphery of the roller, and
around which the wire may pass and return to the grooves, and then out through the
hole in the other neck of the roller, the roller may be either stationary or revolve.
The wire is drawn through by drawing rollers, or it may be drawn direct on to the
wincel; by this means all the bends are taken out of the wire, it being made perfectly
straight, and suitable for manufacturing either steel cards or pianoforte wire, and
for all other suitable purposes, tempering being dispensed with.
Dated this Sixteenth day of February 1887
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a front elevation of roller and apparatus for straightening continuous
lengths of wire.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of Fig. 1 on the line A, B.
E is a metal roller conical, cylindrical, or otherwise (preferably of steel) on the
periphery of which are formed spiral grooves or channels F, the wire G is passed
through a hole H in the neck J of the roller, and then passes to the outside or
periphery of the roller, over a suitable runner or runners C, and travels along the
spiral grooves; a number of discs or runners or their equivalents may be placed at
intervals in slots along the periphery of the roller in the line of the groove or
channel F, and over or around which the wire may pass and return to the grooves,
and then out through the hole in the other neck of the roller.
The roller E may either be stationary or revolve, and is mounted on a frame K
with bearings L for the necks J; the wire is drawn through the roller by suitable
drawing rollers, or it may be drawn direct off and on to the wincels.

page_text: By this means all the bends are taken out of the wire, it being made perfectly
straight and suitable for manufacturing either steel cards or pianoforte wire, and for
all other suitable purposes, tempering being dispensed with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we would have it understood
that we do not claim the straightening of short lengths of steel wire, but we declare
that what we claim is :-
1. Straightening or taking the bend out of continuous lengths of steel wire for the
purposes set forth.
2. The combination of a cylindrical or conical roller, stationary or revolving, with
a series of runners at intervals around its periphery to guide the wire as and for the
purposes shown and described.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicants.