Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Drawing and Rolling Wire for Reeds for Looms and other purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Drawing and
Rolling Wire for Reeds for Looms and other purposes.
I DENNIS HITCHEN of 28 Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London, Foreman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to simplify and improve the method of drawing
and rolling wire for reeds for looms and other purposes.
My invention consists of a number of iron pulleys, any size required, which are
loose on horizontal shafts and run parallel immediately and close up to the front of
the flattening rollers, which work in connection therewith.
The said pulleys are so constructed that one or more can be put in motion at the
same time. They are each put in motion by a catch or clutch, fast on each shaft,
and which revolves with the shaft, when the pulley is not in motion. The shafts
are driven by wheels which are connected with the principal wheel on the machine.
The pulleys draw the wire round them successively, one after the other, from the
drawing plate or die, and delivers the wire direct to the rollers, which flatten the
wire to sizes required. The wire is drawn smaller by the pulleys at the same time
it is being rolled, thus, saving the cost of rolling the wire separately. The wire is
kept perfectly straight and bright when passing through the rollers.
This invention can be applied to the present system of drawing wire.
Dated this Eighteenth day of September 1895
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Patent Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Drawing and
Rolling Wire for Reeds for Looms and other purposes.
I DENNIS HITCHEN of 7 Doncaster Street Salterhebble near Halifax in the
County of York Foreman, late. of 28 Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London W.
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 :-
The object of my invention is to simplify, accelerate and improve the method of
drawing and rolling wire for reeds and other purposes.

page_text: the wire is around them) the clutches C with projections D then are in contact,
which makes the blocks fast upon their shafts, the said shafts and blocks run
parallel and near to the front of the flattening rollers EE, which work in
connection therewith.
The said pulleys are so constructed that by means of the clutches any one or all
can be put in motion at the same time, or any one can be thrown out of motion or
gear when required. They are each put in motion by a catch or clutch C fast on
each shaft, and projection D on the blocks, the said clutch revolves with the shaft.
The shafts are driven by a train of gear wheels F from the driving shaft M of the
machine.
The wire is passed one or more times round each block and the pulleys draw the
wire forwards from the drawing plates or dies H successively, and deliver the said
wire direct to the flattening rollers E E, which flatten the wire to sizes required,
after which it passes on to a suitable winding drum N. The wire is drawn smaller
by the pulleys and dies or plates at the same time it is being rolled or flattened,
thus saving the cost of rolling the wire separately. The wire is kept perfectly
straight and bright when passing through the rollers.
For gathering the wire from the flattening rollers and evenly winding it on to
the reel or drum N, which may be either horizontal or vertical, 1 employ a chain
and chain wheel or preferably rope and pulleys L and L' from the main driving
shaft M, the said drum has also a lateral motion imparted to it by means of a
worm Pupon the drum shaft M¹ gearing with a worm wheel P¹ upon a stud P', on
which is a suitable heart or other cam R, this heart cam operates a suitable pivotted
lever S one end of which works within the neck of a collar T fast upon the drum
shaft; as the drum revolves, the worm operates the heart cam, which operates the
aforesaid pivotted lever, this pivotted lever by means of the collar T, imparts a
lateral motion to the shaft and winding drum for winding the wire evenly upon the
same by my arrangement gouging may be dispensed with.
;
This invention relating to the flattening and winding apparatus can be applied
to the present machines for drawing wire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Drawing, reducing and flattening reed or other wire in one machine and at
one operation substantially as shown and described.
2. In a machine for drawing and flattening wire, the combination of the drawing
rollers with the reducing dies or plates and the flattening rollers (such wire being
wound evenly on to the reel or wincel) all operated in the manner substantially as
shown and described.
Dated this Seventeenth day of June 1896.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Patent Agent for the Applicant.