Improvements in Wire Netting.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Netting.
I, EDWARD SAMUEL BOND,
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The Crown Machine Works," Lower Hurst
Street East, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention for improvements in wire netting, I will describe thus:
In wire netting made according to my invention, the wire is corrugated or
crimped, so as to give greater strength and especially greater lateral stiffness to the
netting so as to enable wire netting to be made of equal strength and stiffness to
that at present made but with wire of thinner guage that is of smaller diameter
and consequently lighter.
In one means of carrying my invention into effect, I worm the wire or wires to
form the netting before it is fed into the wire netting making machine. Or I worm
the wire by untwisting two wires previously twisted on machines constructed for
such purpose. The wires thus separated are used by the same method as the single
wires are now used that is fed into the wire netting making machine, it will be in
the form of an elongated helix, and the netting made from it will have the wires
wormed between the decussations of the netting.
Instead of forming the wire into a helix as previously described, I may pass the
wire netting when made plain through dies or rollers, which will crimp or corrugate
or indentate the plain part intervening between the decussations of the netting.
Or I may employ two wires twisted in place of the single wire, and form into
netting, and the intervening spaces between the decussations. I should crimp or
corrugate as above set forth.
Or I may construct the wire netting as at present made and corrugate or crimp
both the plain parts between the decussations and the decussations also at the same
operation by passing it through specially constructed rolls or dies.
Wire netting thus made has a more presentable appearance than that hitherto
made.
The meshes forming the wire netting according to my invention may be of any
required shape or configuration and constructed by any mode, mechanical or
manual.
Dated 10th January 1802
THOS. KENDRICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Netting.
I, EDWARD SAMUEL BOND, The Crown Machine Works, Lower Hurst Street
East, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby
déclare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My improvements in wire netting consists in corrugating or crimping, or worming
the wire, to form the netting either before the process of weaving, which I effect or
carry out in various ways, most suitable to my purpose, or in the corrugating,
crimping or worming the wire after the process of weaving into the netting, which
I effect or carry out in various ways, to be hereafter explained.
The aim and object of my invention is the construction of wire netting that

page_text: shall be of greater strength than the ordinary wire netting and an increased lateral
stiffness together with a more presentable appearance.
And in order that this my said invention may be more fully understood I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed, the same
letters of reference indicating corresponding parts, throughout all the figures.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the wire, or thread of metal, after it has been corrugated
or crimped by suitable mechanism.
Fig. 2 is a plan or face view of same.
Fig. 3 is a view of the wire or thread of metal, wormed by a machine, or formed
by the intwisting of two or more strands as shewn at Fig. 4.
Fig. 5 is a plan or face view of a section of wire netting produced or constructed
from a coil of wire as Fig. 3, passed or fed through a wire netting making machine
and according to my invention.
Fig. 6 is a plan or face view of a section of wire netting produced or constructed
from a coil of plain wire, and passed or fed through a wire netting making machine
as hitherto, which I illustrate by the lower part of this said fig., while the upper
purt is shewn crimped or corrugated (as indicated by shaded lines) by the
employment of suitably constructed rolls, or dies, through or under which it is
passed according to my invention.
In Fig. 3, a is the wire, wormed the form of which partakes of an elongated
helix. In Fig. 5 shew the worm wire converted into wire netting by its being
passed through a wire netting making machine, and entwined to the double or
twisted selvedge b, the worming accommodating itself and forming the decussations c.
The wire d, shewn in Figs. 1-2, and which is crimped or corrugated is formed
into wire netting, as above set forth.
In Fig. 6, the wire netting here shewn is constructed from a coil of plain wire,
and passed or fed through a wire netting making machine as hitherto, and entwined
to a single wire selvedge. I shew this at e, and to crimp or corrugate the same I
pass it through rolls or dies suitably mounted, the surface or peripheries of which
are formed to produce the crimping or corrugating as shewn at g, by this process
the single wire and the decussations c are also effected.
Fig. 7 also illustrates this.
In Fig. 8, the wire netting here shewn is as Fig. 6, constructed from a coil of
plain wire, and by the same process but the intervening plain part between each
decussation c, I crimp or corrugate, as shewn at h, by the employment of rolls or
dies as above set forth.
It will be understood that wire netting has hitherto been made plain, and that
my invention consists in employing wire which previous to its passing through the
wire netting making machine which has been wormed, crimped, or corrugated, or
otherwise configurated. Or in passing the wire netting when made from plain wire,
through or between dies or rolls, which will crimp, corrugate or configurate the
surface. Wire netting thus made is of greater strength and lateral rigidity and
can be made from wire of thinner gauge, and lighter in weight, and of a more
ornamental effect.
I would observe in conclusion that I do not limit myself to the precise details as
shewn on the accompanying sheet of drawings as I may vary or modify the same,
without departing from the principle of my said invention; for instance I may
construct the mesh of any required size and configuration, and the netting I have
shewn made from single wire but I may employ two or more wires, twisted or
otherwise to form a required mesh.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1st. In "Improvements in wire netting" the worming, corrugating, or crimping
of on th
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page_text: into wire netting, by passing it through a wire netting making machine, substantially
as herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
2nd. The corrugating or crimping of the surface of wire netting when woven or
formed by passing it through a wire netting making machine and when from a
plain wire or thread of metal, by the employment of rolls or dies, substantially as
herein before described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3rd. The general construction, arrangement and combination of the several and
respective parts, substantially as herein before described, and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Dated 17th October 1803
THOS.
KENDRICK,
Victoria Chambers, Martineau Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.