Improvements in Machinery for Straightening and Cutting Steel Wire, also Applicable for Dressing Steel Wire for Card Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 22nd Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Straightening and Cutting Steel
Wire, also Applicable for Dressing Steel Wire for Card
Purposes.
We JOHN MEDLEY WOOD and FREDERIC SMITH, both of harlestown, Halifax
in the county of York, Wire Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
We employ a revolving fly box or carriage, carried in suitable heads on a gantry;
within the carriage are a number of steel dies, with suitable angular recesses, the dies
are mounted in carriers or brackets in which they are adjustable so that the recesses
can be fixed more or less (alternately) out of the centre line of the wire, the wire is
passed in through an eye in the centre of the carriage, then through the recesses in
the various dies, and through the guide eye at the other end of the carriage where it
is cut off by a cutter operated by a lever and cam and suitable change gear to regulate
the lengths at which it is cut or when operating on fine wire such as card wire, the
cutter is put out of gear, and the wire is drawn on to a wincel, the thick wire is drawn
through by two nippers or jaws mounted on slides or carriages operated by tappets the
tappets work the nippers and push them forwards after they have seized the wire
(alternately) the carriages being drawn back by weights as they leave loose of the wire,
the tappets are operated by gear wheels on a separate shaft to the revolving carriage,
the dies may be either flat or rounded in the recesses, and there may be a number of
recesses in each die varying in height and size according to the hardness and size of
the wire to be operated upon, or runners may be placed in the dies.
By the above arrangement all sizes of steel wire may be thoroughly straightened or
dressed and cut off to any suitable length.
Dated 22nd March 1887
JOHN E. WALSH,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: separate shaft (to the revolving carriage) this shaft is driven by gear wheels from a
counter or other shaft, the dies D may either be flat or rounded, and with or without
the recesses, or there may be a number of recesses in each die varying in height
and size, according to the hardness and size of the wire to be operated upon.
Each of the dies D can be regulated to any nicety by means of its screwed stud E,
nuts U¹, and set screws U2, also crosswise by the screw U' and small bracket U*.
By the above arrangement various sizes of steel wire may be thoroughly straightened
or dressed, and cut off to any suitable length.
For straightening card wire see Figs. 7. 8. 9. 10 and 11.
A is the revolving flyer made on a smaller scale, and mounted on a suitable head B',
and with adjustable pegs or dies D', the pegs D' are adjustable in slots E¹ by means
of thumbscrews E2, the wire F' is fed from the wincel T, and passes through the flyer,
and between the pegs or dies, and is drawn on to a second wincel, the wincel T is
preferably mounted upon a vertical shaft V, driven by a worm wheel W and worm W¹
on a second shaft X this shaft may also drive the flyer by strap or band upon the
pulleys Y and Z.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The construction and adjustment of the dies upon the revolving flyer or carriage
for straightening lengths of thick wire as shown and described.
2. Automatically cutting off any required lengths of thick wire by means of the
combination of the tappet or striker, M, spring catch, L', pivotted rod, N, and the gear
or change wheels P and R having the projection R¹, for automatically cutting off any
required length of thick wire as shown and described.
3. The general arrangement and construction of apparatus for straightening, thick
wire as shown and described.
.
4. The general arrangement and construction of apparatus for straightening or
dressing fine steel wire for cards and other purposes as shown and described.
5. The arrangement of adjustable dies or pins within the flyer for dressing fine
steel wire for cards and other purposes as shown and described.
Dated this Twenty first day of December 1887.