IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING A CONTINUOUS TRAVELLING MOTION TO WIRE WHEN UNDER PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE OR FORMATION
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Arnold, of Halifax, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR
IMPARTING A CONTINUOUS TRAVELLING MOTION TO WIRE WHEN UNDER
PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE OR FORMATION."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Arnold at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th February 1871.
I, ALFRED ARNOLD, of Halifax; in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OR
APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING A CONTINUOUS TRAVELLING MOTION TO WIRE WHEN
UNDER PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE OR FORMATION," (to be as follows) :-
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This Invention relates to and is especially applicable in the process
of manufacturing or cutting to proper lengths wires for jacquard engines,
and wires for other purposes required to be of definite lengths.
The apparatus consists of a rotary spindle carrying two or more boss
cams or tappets of equal inclination, placed on the said spindle in such
positions as to act alternately upon reciprocatory tappet boxes or

page_text: grippers which scize the wire and propel it in such manner that whilo
one gripper is being pushed forward another is receding in order to
cominence a fresh propulsion immediately upon the termination of the
first, and so on. Theso cams may be so formed either so as to effect a
continuous motion or so as to effect a slight intermission in the motion 5
at any desired part of the stroke for the purpose of allowing or giving
time for the action of shears or other cutting instrument to cut the
said wires into lengths, or for a stamp punch or any other kind of
instrument to operate upon the said wire at intervals.
In combination with this apparatus I may also employ either an 10
ordinary peg plate as now employed for straightening wire or a rotary
frame having a series of adjustable bars, in each of which said bars is
inserted a rotary bush for the wire to pass through to the cutters or
other instruments, the said bushes being so arranged that by the rapid
rotation of the said frame the wire is straightened in passing through 15
them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Arnold in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Alfred 2
ARNOLD, of Halifax, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in tho
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 2
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Arnold, Her special licence
that I, tho said Alfred Arnold, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Arnold, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term 3
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS
OR APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING A CONTINUOUS TRAVELLING MOTION TO WIRE WHEN
UNDER PROCESS OF Manufacture or FORMATION," upon the condition (amongst 3.

page_text: others) that I, the said Alfred Arnold, 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 Alfred Arnold, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to
say) :—
This Invention relates to and is especially applicable in the process
of manufacturing or cutting to proper lengths wires for jacquard
engines and wires for other purposes required to be of definite lengthis.
The apparatus consists of a rotary spindle carrying two or more boss
cams or tappets of equal inclination placed on the said spindle in such
positions as to act alternately upon reciprocatory tappet boxes or
grippers which seize the wire and propel it in such manner that while
one gripper is being pushed forward another is receding in order to
commence a fresh propulsion immediately upon the termination of the.
first, and so on. These cams may be so formed cither so as to effect a
continuous motion or so as to effect a slight intermission in the motion
at
any
desired part of the stroke for the purpose of allowing or giving
time for the action of shears or other cutting instruments to cut the
said wires into lengths, or for a stamp, punch, or any other kind of
instrument to operate upon the said wire at intervals.
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In combination with this apparatus I may also employ either an
ordinary peg plate as now employed for straightening wire or a rotary
frame having a series of adjustable bars, in each of which said bars is
inserted a rotary bush for the wire to pass through to the cutters or other
instruments, the said bushes being arranged in such manner that by
the rapid rotation of the said frame the wire is straightened in passing
through them.
In order that this Invention may be fully understood, reference is
given to an accompanying Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is the side
elevation; Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 the end clevation of apparatus
constructed in accordance therewith.

page_text: A is the rotary shaft; B and C the cams or tappets; D and E the
tappet boxes or grippers, and F is the slicars or cutting instrument. The
rotary shaft is mounted in a suitable frame and motion given to it by
pullies G driven by belt from any source of power; II is a tappet plate
fixed on the shaft A to act upon and cause the shears to cut, and I is a
spring to draw it back; J are two parallel bars between which the
tappet boxes or grippers D and E are carried and capable of sliding or
reciprocating, the forward motion being produced by the action of the
cams B and C, and the backward movement by springs K. One of
these tappet boxes or grippers D is shown full size at Figs. 4 and 5,
where it will be seen the top gripper is hinged to the box, and has a
projecting pin D' which the cam B operates upon to give action to said
grippers; L are two cross bars slidable on the bars J by means of a
screw M for adjusting the length of stroke of the grippers or the lengths
for wires to be cut; N are the adjustable bars fixed in a frame P on
each end of which is a neck supported in suitable bearings so as to be
capable of rotating, pullies Q being fixed on one of the necks for driving
the same.
These bars are shown full size at Figs. 6 and 7, where will
be seen that in the middle of the bar is a bush or boss R capable of
rotating in a recess formed in the bar N, and a hole being bored of
suitable size for the wire to pass through. The sides of the frame P
are provided with short slot holes to receive the bars N, and to enable
them to be adjusted so that the holes in the bosses form a suitable zig-zag
line required for straightening wire, and similar to the ordinary wire-
drawer's pin board, which is well known.
The action or operation of this machine or apparatus is as follows:-
Wire to be cut into lengths is placed upon a winsel in the usual
manner for any kind of manipulation, and passed through one of the
axis of the frame P, thence through the bars N, and through the other
axis of the frame P to the tappet box D, and thence passing through a ¦
guide eye or hole in the said box to and between the grippers or nipping
jaws D and D³, thenco through the hole in the tappet box E and
between its jaws, and thence through a hole in a boss or bush T fixed
between the guides or bars J in the frame, and which bush is hardened
so as to form one part of the shears or cutters for the other part F to
operate against. Tho machine being now set in motion the cam C in
turning in the direction of the arrow comes into contact with the
pin E of the top jaw E of the tappet box or grippers E, when the

page_text: incline thereof not only presses upon the pin, causing the top jaw to nip
the wire against the bottom one (both of which are ragged or toothed
for the purpose of holding), but by its action forces the said tappet box
or grippers forward along the guide bars J, and they by their gripping
and holding on the wire draw it forward to the full extent of the cam,
or until the said cam ceases to act thereon, when the cutter F is
operated by the tappet H and cuts off the projecting end of the wire.
During the time that the cam C has been drawing the wire forward
the cam B has been turning into position to commence operation on
the pin D¹ of the grippers D which have been brought back along the
guides J by the action of the spring K when the said cam B commences
to operate on the said grippers D, causing them to draw the wire
forward another length which is cut off as before; meanwhile, tho
grippers E have been drawn back by the action of the spring K into
position for a fresh seizure of the wire and to draw it forward again by
the action of the cam C in like manner, and so on, the two tappet boxes
or grippers continuing to reciprocate in the guides seizing and drawing
forward the wire alternately, the one being ready to commence a stroke
immediately on the termination of the stroke of the other, so that a
continuous motion of the wire is produced and it is cut into equal
lengths in its passage. The frame P is caused to rotate upon its axis
during the passage of the wire through the bars N, and the holes in
which being arranged in the same manner as the ordinary wire-drawer's
peg board the wire becomes straightened in its passage; that is to say,
the bars N are set so as to make the wire pass through the holes in a
zig-zag manner, but the degree of this zag-zag is governed by the speed
of the rotation, this makes the wire perfectly straight and passing
through the grippers D and E and the hole T in a right line is cut into
straight lengths by the cutter F.
It will now be readily seen that this apparatus may be employed to
give a continuous travelling motion to wire (or other similar material)
when under operation of being either cut, stamped, punched, or otherwise
operated upon at intervals.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and shewn
by Drawings in what manner the same is or may be performed or
put into practical operation, I would have it understood that I
do not confine myself to the precise details in the construction of the

page_text: apparatus, as various modifications may be made therein, but what I
claim as of my Invention is,-
Firstly. The construction, combination, and arrangement of cams
and tappet boxes or grippers for giving a continuous travelling motion
to wire for purposes set forth in manner substantially as shewn and 5
described.
Secondly. The application and use of the rotary frame P with adjust-
able bars N in connection or combination with the apparatus of the first
part for purposes set forth in manner shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred'Arnold, have hereunto set 1
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
ALFRED ARNOLD