An Improved Hand Tool for Wire Lapping.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hand Tool for Wire Lapping.
We, HENRY JAMES SHEDLOCK HEATHER, and the corporate body trading as
EASTON ANDERSON AND GOOLDEN, LIMITED, all of 3 Whitehall Place, in the
County of. Middlesex, Engineers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows
This invention relates to a hand tool for lapping wire usually in the form of
tape about another wire to affix the latter to a support such as an insulator.
It is the usual practice in attaching main telegraph wires to an insulator to use
a binding wire about the insulator the ends of which drawn into a tape form are
lapped about the main wire to secure it. This tool has been devised to effect such
lapping with ease and despatch.
The tool consists of a hand lever terminating with a jaw of which one part is
prolonged into a nose. Through the nose is pierced a hole or a slot of a shape
suited to the lapping wire or tape, and the inside of the jaw is provided with a
projecting face of the exact width of the lapping wire or tape.
The end of the lapping wire is passed through the hole or slot in the nose of
the tool and brought round the main wire to be lapped and brought into the jaw of
the tool which is placed upon the main wire.
When the tool is turned about the main wire situated in its jaw the lapping wire
or tape is caused to lap round the main wire and the binding wire is thereby brought
up tight giving a firm attachment of the binding wire to the main wire with ease
and despatch.
Though one application in particular of this tool has been described it may be
applied with advantage to any description of lapping a round core with binding
wire or tape.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicants.
An Improved Hand Tool for Wire Lapping.
We, HENRY JAMES SHEDLOCK HEATHER, and the corporate body trading as,
EASTON, ANDERSON, AND GOOLDEN, LIMITED, all of 3 Whitehall Place, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineers, 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:-
This invention relates to a hand tool for lapping wire, usually in the form of
tape, about another wire, to affix the latter to a support, such as an insulator.
It is the usual practice in attaching main telegraph wires to an insulator, to use
a binding wire about the insulator, the ends of which, drawn into a tape form, are
lapped about the main wire to secure it. This tool has been devised to effect such
lapping with ease and despatch.

page_text: And in order that this invention may be the better understood, we now proceed
to describe the same, with reference to the drawings hereto annexed and to the
letters and figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a general elevation of the hand-tool, as used about a telegraph wire to
bind a tape wire thereon.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
The tool consists of a hand lever A, of any convenient shape for the grasp of
the hand, terminating with a jaw, embracing the telegraph or other wire, and
having a prolonged nose B.
Through this nose B is pierced a slot or hole C, of a shape suited to the lapping
wire or tape D, and the inside of the jaw is provided with a projecting face E, of
the width of the lapping wire or tape D, and bears upon the said tape to bind it
round the main or telegraph wire F.
The end of the lapping wire or tape D is passed through the hole or slot C in
the nose of the tool, and is brought round the main wire F, which is to be lapped,
and is brought into the jaw of the tool between the latter and the main wire.
When the tool is turned about the main wire F, situated in its jaw, the lapping
wire or tape D is caused to lap around the main wire, and the binding tape or wire,
is thereby brought tight, giving a firm attachment of the binding wire to the main
wire, with ease and despatch.
Though only one application in particular, of this tool has been herein before
described it may be applied with advantage to any description of lapping a round
core with binding wire or tape.
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 :-
1st. A hand tool, provided with a handle and jaw, a slot or hole piercing one
nose of said jaw, and a projecting face within said jaw, of the width of the
wire or tape to be lapped by said tool, substantially as and for the purposes
described.
2nd. A hand wire or tape lapping tool, substantially as described, and illustrated
in the drawings annexed hereto.
Dated this 2nd day of Tamu 1905
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, E.C., Agents for the Applicants.