Improvements in Apparatus for Bending Fender Beads and the like..
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Bending Fender Beads and the like..
I, JOHN DAVIES, of 110 King Street, Dudley, Ironfounder and Fender
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for bending fender curbs.
or beadings and the like and more particularly applies to the bending of beadings.
or curbs which are tubular in section and having an open joint, and is arranged.
that two of such beadings may be bent at the same time.
It consists as follows:-Two tubular strips or beadings are cut to the required
length. These are now passed upon what is generally termed a bowing iron, that
is a flat piece of iron which fits into the open joint of each of the beadings so-
that they are longitudinally face to face with each other upon the said bowing iron
with a small space between them.
Upon a suitable table or frame is now mounted a block or a roller whose edge
is of such a shape and size to correspond with the inside of the desired bend.
Centrally with this roller or block is now pivotted a strong lever carrying at its
forward end a bending roller whose edge corresponds to the edge of the block or
first named roller. The distance between the two rollers or block and roller, and
their edge shape is such as to exactly fit the two beadings having the bowing iron
between them. By the side of the first named roller or block is now provided a
clamp or vice between which the double beading is firmly held. By now pulling
around the lever the forward roller compels the beadings to follow around the
block or forming roller; thus giving to the said beadings the necessary bend.
formation. The two beadings are then separated from off the iron when they may
be further finished and applied to the construction of the fenders &c. Hitherto.
this has been accomplished by first heating the beadings and bending them by
hand while hot, but by this arrangement they may be first brightened and polished.
and then bent while cold.
Dated the 10th day of July 1896.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Bending Fender Beads and the like.
I, JOHN DAVIES, of 110 King Street, Dudley, Ironfounder and Fender
Manufacturer, 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 improvements in apparatus for bending fender beadings
and the like, which are tubular in section and having an open joint, and is arranged
that two of such beadings may be beut at the same time.

page_text: In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have appended
hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures and numbers of
reference.
Fig. 1, is a plan view and Fig. 2 is a side view of this my invention.
Fig. 3, shows a sectional view of two curbs, which are to be bent.
Fig. 4, is an end view of the bowing iron.
Fig. 5, shows the two curbs placed together upon the bowing iron, ready for
bending.
Fig. 6, is an end view of the gripping vice or clamp.
Two tubular strips or beadings 8, 8, are cut to the required length. These
are now passed upon what is generally termed a bowing iron 9, that is a flat piece
of iron which fits into the open joint 10, of each of the beadings so that they are
longitudinally face to face with each other upon the said bowing iron, as seen in
Fig. 5.
Upon a suitable table or frame 11 is now mounted a block or a roller 12 whose
edge is of such a shape and size to correspond with the inside of the desired bend.
Centrally with this roller or block is now pivotted a strong lever 13 carrying at
its forward end a bending roller 14 whose edge corresponds to the edge of the
block or first named roller or more properly to the sectional shape of the beadings
or curbs. The distance between the two rollers or block and roller, and their
edge shape is such as to exactly fit the two beadings having the bowing iron
between them. 15, forms the fixed jaw of a vice, which is firmly secured to the
frame 11, while 16 is the corresponding movable vice jaw, which may be tightened
up ly the screw 17 passing through the fixed nut 18. 19 is an adjustable gauge
carried upon the arm 20 by which the length of the curb from the end to the
bend may be uniformly determined. 21, is a raised surface or fillet, upon which
the curb may rest when being passed through the rollers ready for bending by
which it is kept level with its position in the rollers.
The doubled beading as seen in Fig. 5 being now placed between the rollers 12
and 14, and pushed up to the stop 19, the screw 17 is tightened so that the curbs
are firmly gripped by the vice.
By now pulling around the lever 13 the forward roller 14 compels the beadings
to follow around the block or forming roller 12 thus giving to the said beadings
the necessary bend formation, as seen at 8. The two beadings are then separated
from off the iron 9 when they may be further finished and applied to the con-
struction of the fenders &c. Hitherto this has been accomplished by first heating
the beadings and bending them by hand while hot, but by this arrangement they
may be first brightened and polished and then bent while cold.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is:
Bending fender beads and the like having open joints such as 10, substantially
as in the manner herein described and shown, that is to say, placing two of such
beads upon the bowing iron 9 and submitting them to the mechanism and process
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1897.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12 Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.