Year: 1885

page_text: Employed in the said Manufacture.
We JOICEY HUMBLE of Byker Ropery in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne
Wire Rope Maker and HENRY MARTIN MORRISON of 109, Hope Street in the City
of Glasgow Mining Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to
be as follows:-
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Our Invention has for its object to produce a wire rope which will be more
durable than are such ropes as hitherto made.
According to our Invention we employ flattened or bevilled or triangular wires
(preferably the former) or a combination of flattened triangular or bevilled and
unflattened wires in making up the strands and the ropes; the flattened triangular
or bevilled wires being arranged with their sectional length radially to the core of
the strand or of the rope and the unflattened wires when such are used being
arranged preferably as supporting wires between the radially arranged flattened
wires.
The machinery employed in the manufacture of our improved ropes may be of
any suitable description. but we have devised one which answers the purpose
satisfactorily. In it the unflattened wires are led off bobbins operated by cranks
in the usual way but the flattened triangular or bevilled wires are led off bobbins
mounted upon axes which are fixed to the front part of the stranding machine the
said wires being passed through a specially designed lay plate to turn or twist the
wires from the position in which they leave the bobbins into the position they are
to occupy in the strand.
J. HENRY JOHNSON, .
Agent for the said Joicey Humble and
Henry Martin Morrison.

page_text: An Improved Manufacture of Wire Ropes, and Machinery to be
Employed in the said Manufacture.
We JOICEY HUMBLE of Byker Ropery in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne
Wire Rope Maker and HENRY MARTIN MORRISON of 109 Hope Street in the City
of Glasgow Mining Engineer 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 :-
Our Invention has for its object to manufacture a wire rope which will be more
durable than are such ropes as hitherto made. According to our invention we
employ in the manufacture flattened wires in making up the strands which are to
comprise the rope the said flattened wires being arranged with their sectional
length or longer sides readily to the cores or centres of the strands. Our Invention
also consists in an arrangement of machinery or apparatus to be employed in the
said manufacture.
We will describe with reference to the accompanying drawings ways in which
our invention may be carried into effect premising that we do not limit ourselves
to the precise details as the same may be varied without departing from the
essential features of our Invention as hereinafter claimed.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents a transverse section of a
strand for wire rope made according to our Invention shewing the disposition of
the flattened wires A with their sectional length or longer sides arranged radially
to the core B. Figure 2 is another section of a strand consisting of flattened wires
arranged as aforesaid but with ordinary round wires C disposed between the
flattened wires to preserve the said Hattened wires in their proper positions when
the rope is in use. Figure 3 is a similar section shewing however the wire C
between every other of the flattened wires A instead of between each of such wires
as in Figure 2.
The machinery employed in the manufacture of our improved ropes may be of
any suitable description but we have devised a machine which answers the purpose
satisfactorily. Figures 4 and 5 illustrate in side and end views respectively so
much of the machine as is necessary to explain our modifications. The other parts
not shewn may be of the usual kind and therefore it is unnecessary to illustrate
them As shewn it is adapted for making the strands with round wires between the
flattened wires, D are bobbins for the wires. C. the said bobbins being placed in
flyers E operated by cranks F in the usual way but the flattened wires A are led
off bobbins G mounted upon axes g carried on frames which are fixed to the back
or front disc or support as may be preferable of the stranding machine the said
wires A being passed through a conical guide H having grooves therein so disposed
as to properly guide the flattened wires A from the bobbins G into the position
they are to occupy in the strand as shewn in figures 1 and 2-This conical guide
is shewn drawn to a larger scale in cross section in figure 6 it is encircled by a
conical band or cover has shewn in figure 4 to prevent the wires leaving the
grooves sideways-We do not limit ourselves to the use of round wires as the
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page_text: supporting wires C nor to the use of such supporting wires at all as the essential
feature of our Invention as regards the rope is the use of the flattened wires with
their sectional length or longer sides arranged radially to the cores of the strands
of the rope.
The supports may consist of hempen or equivalent cording or material if
desired in combination or not with supporting wires C and if desired there may be
more than two flattened wires between the adjacent supporting wires where such
are used.
When the machine is used to make a strand of the radially arranged flattened
wires alone the bobbins for the wires C will of course not be necessary.
After the strands are made they may be laid or combined to form a rope and
this may be effected in the usual way and in the usual machine. This machine
forms no part of our Invention and therefore it is unnecessary to illustrate it but
in figures 7 and 8 I have shewn in side view and cross section a rope made up of
strands manufactured according to our Invention Of course any number of
strands can be used in the rope and any suitable core can be used for the rope-
Also any suitable number of wires can be used for the strands and any kind of core
can be used for the said strands.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
First. A wire rope composed or partly composed of flattened wires arranged
with their sectional length or longer sides radially to the core or centre of the
strand substantially as herein before described.
Second. In machines for making strands for wire ropes of the kind hereinbefore
described and claimed bobbins for carrying the flattened wires the said bobbins
having their axes in non rotating frames fixed to the machine in combination with
a lay plate or guide H substantially as and for the purpose described.
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