Year: 1887

page_text: I JOHN SAVAGE of No. 66 Beoley Road Redditch in the County of Worcester Fish
Hook Maker do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the machinery constructed and worked as hereinafter
described for producing the barbs on and bending the point ends of pieces of wire to
be used in the manufacture of fish hooks and for barbing pieces or lengths of wire and
metallic rods to be used in the manufacture of other barbed articles such for example
as barbed fencing.
My invention is specially applicable to the barbing and bending of the points of
pieces of wire for the manufacture of fish hooks and I will describe a machine
constructed for those purposes.
The pieces of pointed wire are delivered from a hopper into cross grooves in a
feeding drum having an intermittent rotary motion. The grooves in the feeding drum
are made in pairs the grooves of each pair being close together so that two wires are
fed to the barbing tool and barbed simultaneously. The wires fed to the drum project
beyond the faces of the said drum and when a pair of wires reaches the highest
point of the drum's rotation the said drum comes to rest and the pointed ends of
Over the
the said wires are brought onto a fixed bed on one side of the drum.
said fixed bed a vertical grip and bending tool works. By the descent of this tool
the pointed ends of the two wires are held upon the bed while the barbing tool
advances and forms the barbs on the wires the said vertical tool or grip also bending
downwards the pointed ends of the wires in front of the barbs. Before the barbing
tool advances the unpointed ends of the wires at the opposite side of the feeding
drum are supported by the advance of a horizontal slide carrying two spring holding
blocks which bear against the ends of the wires. The barbing tool is carried in
an inclined rectangular frame which has a reciprocating motion given to it. After
the bending and barbing operations described the bending tool or grip barbing tool

page_text: and holding slide retire and the rotation of the feeding drum carries the bent and
barbed wires from the bed on which they have been operated upon and another pair
of wires is brought onto the bed and on the feeding drum coming to rest the
operations described are repeated.
The whole of the motions of the machine are taken from one shaft. The frame
carrying the barbing tool is worked by a crank and crank rod the latter being jointed
to a cross pin at the lower end of the said frame. For the purpose of adjusting
the inclination and stroke of the barbing tool it is supported in swivelling guides
capable of rising and falling and the lower end of the frame to which the crank rod
is jointed is adjusted vertically and horizontally by a slide.
The gripping and point bending tool which is made adjustable is worked from a
cam on the shaft acting through a lever and the slide by which the unpointed ends of
the wires are supported is worked from the cam of the shaft.
The intermittent feeding drum is worked by a ratchet motion from the cam shaft the
pawl being made capable of adjustment on the pawl lever by means of a screw pin and
slot so that the angular motion of the drum may be adjusted with the greatest nicety
to suit different sizes of wires being barbed and to bring the wires accurately to the
bed on which the barbing and bending takes place. Although I have described my
invention as applied to the simultaneous barbing of two wires yet three or more
a single wire may be barbed at each rotation of the shaft of the
wires or
machine.
Instead of employing an intermittent rotary drum for feeding the wire or wires
to the fixed bed a horizontal sliding feeding bar having an intermittent motion may
be used the wires being fed to the said sliding bar and an intermittent motion being
given to it by a ratchet motion substantially as described with respect to the
intermittent rotary drum.
Dated this Eleventh day of November 1887.

page_text: Improvements in Machinery to be Used in the Manufacture of Fish
Hooks and for Barbing Wires and Metallic Rods for Various
Purposes.
I JOHN SAVAGE of No. 66 Beoley Road, Redditch in the County of Worcester Fish
Hook Maker do hereby declare the nature of my Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
1
My invention consists of the machinery constructed and worked as herein after
described for. producing the barbs on and bending the point ends of pieces of wire to
be used in the manufacture of fish hooks and for barbing pieces or lengths of wire and
metallic rods to be used in the manufacture of other barbed articles, such for example
as barbed fencing.
My invention is specially applicable to the barbing and bending of the points of
pieces of wire for the manufacture of fish hooks and I will describe a machine
constructed for those purposes.
The pieces of pointed wire are delivered from a hopper into cross grooves in a
-rooves in the feeding
close together so that
two wires may be fed to the barbing tool and barbed simultaneously. The wires
fed to the drum project beyond the faces of the said drum and when a wire or
pair of wires reaches the highest point of the drum's rotation the said drum comes
to rest and the pointed ends of the said. wires are brought onto a fixed bed on
one side. of the drum. Over the said fixed bed a vertical grip and bending tool
works. By the descent of this tool the pointed ends of the two wires are held upon
the bed while the barbing tool advances and forms the barbs on the wires, the
said vertical tool or grip also bending downwards the pointed ends of the wires in
front of the barbs. Before the barbing tool advances the unpointed ends of the
wires at the opposite side of the feeding drum are supported by the advance of a
horizontal slide carrying a spring holding block which bears against the ends of
the wires. The barbing tool is carried in an inclined rectangular frame which has
a reciprocating motion given to it. After the bending and barbing operations
described the bending tool or grip, barbing tool and horizontal holding slide retire
and the rotation of the feeding drum carries the bent and barbed wires from the
bed on which they have been operated upon and another wire or pair of wires is
brought onto the bed and on the feeding drum coming to rest the operations described
are repeated.
The whole of the motions of the machine are taken from one shaft. The frame
carrying the barbing tool is worked by a crank and crank rod the latter being jointed
to a cross pin at the lower end of the said frame. For the purpose of adjusting the
inclination and stroke of the barbing tool it is supported in swivelling guides capable
of rising and falling and the lower end of the frame to which the crank rod is jointed
is adjusted vertically and horizontally by a slide.
The gripping and point bending tool which is made adjustable is worked from
a cam on the shaft acting through a lever and the slide by which the unpointed
ends of the wires are supported is carried by the barbing tool holder or frame...
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page_text: The intermittent feeding drum is worked by a ratchet motion from the cam shaft
the pawl being made capable of adjustment on the pawl lever by means of a screw pin
and slot so that the angular motion of the drum may be adjusted with the greatest
nicety to suit different sizes of wires being barbed and to bring the wires accurately to
the bed on which the barbing and bending takes place.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in plan machinery constructed
according to my invention for barbing and bending the point ends of pieces of wire
to be used in the manufacture of fish hooks; Figure 3 represents an elevation of the
feed end of the machinery and Figure 4 represents an elevation of the cam and driving
shaft end of the machinery.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
a is the intermittent rotary feeding drum into cross grooves in which the pointed
wires from the hopper c at one side of the said drum are delivered. The sides of the
hopper c are adjustable by the rods and set pins at c² for fitting the hopper to receive
pointed wires of different lengths. The pointed wires are prevented from rising out
of the grooves in the feeding drum a by the curved plate d best seen in Figure 3:
e is the fixed bed on one side of the feeding drum a on to which bed the projecting
pointed ends of the wires carried by the drum are. brought by its rotation. On the
said fixed bed e the pointed end of the wire is held during the operation of the barbing
tool, the said bed having a curvature proper for the bending downwards of the
point end of the wire; f is the vertical grip and bending tool by the descent
of which the wire is held upon the fixed bed e while the barbing tool advances and
forms the barb on the wire, the said vertical grip also bending downwards upon the
curved bede the pointed end of the wire in front of the barb; 9 is the inclined
barbing tool carried in the frame or holder and having a reciprocating motion as
herein after described; i is the horizontal slide on the underside of the frame or
holder of the barbing tool the said slide being adjustable by a slot and the set screw
at h². The said slide carries the spring holding block which block bears against
the unpointed end of the wire and places the pointed end in the proper position on
the bed e and supports the said wire during the barbing operation; the said block h³
also holds the wire on the bed while the barbing tool is being withdrawn. The action
of the machinery is as follows:-A pointed wire having reached by the intermittent
motion of the feeding drum a the highest point of the drum's rotation the said drum
comes to rest and the pointed end of the wire is brought onto the fixed bed e. The
position of the pointed wire is adjusted on the bed and supported at its unpointed
end by the advance of the spring holding block 3 carried by the barbing tool
holder. When the point end of the wire has reached its proper position on the bed e
the vertical grip and bending toolf descends holding the point end of the wire on
the said bed and at the same time bending downwards the said point end. While the
point end of the wire is thus held the inclined barbing tool 9 advances and forms
the barb on the wire. The bending and barbing of the wire having been effected, the
barbing tool g and holding slide i ³ retire and the vertical grip frises and the
rotation of the feeding drum a carries the bent and barbed wire from the bed e and
another wire is brought onto the said bed and on the feeding drum coming to rest
the operations described are repeated. As the curved and barbed wires on the
descending side of the drum are brought to the receiver they are lifted from the
cross grooves in the said drum by the horizontal plate or take off 62 and fall into
the said receiver b (see Figure 3).
I will now describe the arrangements of parts for giving motion to the feeding
drum and the working tools of the machinery.
The whole of the motions are taken from the shaft k worked from the fast pulley k²
of the fast and loose pulleys k², k³ and provided with the fly wheel k¹.
The barbing tool g is worked guided and adjusted in the following manner. The frame
or holder h of the said barbing tool g is screwed to the outer ends of the sliding guide

page_text: rods 1, the inner ends of the said rods being jointed to the cross pin m to which
cross pin the crank rod n² worked by the crank n on the shaft k is also jointed. By
the action of the crank and crank rod n, n² upon the sliding guide rods la recipro-
cating motion is given to the barbing tool g and supporting slide i, h³ carried by it.
The bearings m, m2 in which the cross pin m works are carried by the vertical
adjusting screw pin m³ and the latter is secured to a slide or slipper m² working in
grooves in the upper and lower faces of the bed plate m³ of the machine. The guide
rods 1, 1 of the barbing tool g are supported and work in the swivelling guides or
bearings 12, 12 jointed at 13 to the upright p. These swivelling guides or bearings are
capable of rising and falling for adjusting the inclination and stroke of the barbing
tool g. For this purpose the cross pin to which the guide rods and crank rod n²
are jointed is adjusted vertically by means of the screw m³ and the lock nuts
represented.
The gripping and point bending tool is worked in the following way. The said
'tool is carried by the slide f2 working in the vertical dovetail in the upright p and is
operated upon by the lever 3 turning on the centre f*, the said lever being worked
from the cam on the driving shaft k. The short arm of the lever f³ carries the
adjusting serew pin f which gives the downstroke to the gripping slide f² and its
tool and the rising motion of the said tool and slide is effected by the coiled
spring f, one end being fixed to the tool slide and the other to the lever (see Figures 1
and 3).
The intermittent feeding drum a is worked in the following manner.
a² is the drum shaft on one end of which the drum is fixed. On the opposite end
of the drum shaft is a ratchet wheel 9 operated by the pawl q² carried by the pawl
lever q³, the latter turning on the drum shaft a².
The pawl is pressed into gear with the teeth of the ratchet wheel q by the coiled
spring q. A rocking motion is given to the pawl lever q³ for producing the required
intermittent motion in the ratchet wheel q and through the said wheel 9 and shaft a²
to the feeding drum a in the following manner; 2 is a cranked lever turning on
the axis. The end of the horizontal arm r of the said lever is pressed against the
cam by the action of the spring and the nearly vertical arm 2 of the said lever is
connected through the connecting rod with the pawl lever q³. By the operation of
the cam lever, ² and rod upon the pawl lever q³ the required intermittent motion
is given by the pawl q² to the ratchet wheel q and the ratchet wheel brought to rest
at the proper times as will be understood by an examination of Figure 4.
In order to fit the machine to barb wires of different lengths and thicknesses feeding
drums of different widths and sizes of cross grooves must be used and this change in
the size of the feeding drum necessitates a change in the position of the ratchet
wheel on the shaft a². For this purpose, I make the ratchet wheel q capable of
sliding upon the shaft by a key and key way so that it can be brought into position
for the pawl q² to gear with it.
The machinery described and represented may be employed for barbing lengths of
wire for various purposes whether pointed or unpointed.
Although I have represented my invention as applied to the barbing of a single
wire at each rotation of the shaft of the machine, yet the simultaneous barbing
of two or more wires or rods may be effected at each rotation of the shaft of the
machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of:-
Improvements in machinery for barbing and bending the points of wires for the
manufacture of fish hooks and for barbing wires and rods for various purposes.
First The combination in machinery in which wires or rods are fed in succession
to the working tools by an intermittent rotary feeding drum, of an inclined barbing
tool having a reciprocating sliding motion given to it by a crank and crank rod the
several parts being arranged and operated substantially as herein before described

page_text: and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings; also the arrangement or combination
of the parts described and illustrated for guiding and adjusting the said barbing
tool.
Secondly: The combination of the fixed bed on which the wire or wires are supported
and on which the barbing and point bending operations are effected with the
vertically sliding gripping and point bending tool actuated by the arrangement or
combination of parts herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
Thirdly-The combination or arrangement of parts herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings for giving the intermittent rotary motion
to the feeding drum of the machinery.
Lastly The combination of the parts claimed in the preceding claims and an
intermittent rotary feeding drum into a machine for the barbing and point bending of
wires for the manufacture of fish hooks and for the barbing of wires and rods for
various purposes substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings.