Apparatus or Machinery for Slitting or Cutting up Rings, Hoops, or Tubes for the Manufacture of Wire Tape or Strip.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1893—Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus or Machinery for Slitting or Cutting up Rings, Hoops, or
Tubes for the Manufacture of Wire Tape or Strip.
I, BENJAMIN MOUNTAIN, of Mountains Wire Manufacturing Company Limited,
Castleford, in the County of York, Managing Director, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to apparatus or machinery for slitting or cutting up
metallic rings, hoops or tubes for the mauufacture of wire tape or strip.
According to my invention I employ a frame upon which are mounted horizontal
shafts free to revolve in their bearings (or be driven by suitable gearing) carrying
revolving cutters which revolve with the horizontal shafts. The top cutter is
adjustable by means of hand-wheel and screw engaging with block connected with
the top horizontal shaft, or the bottom cutter may be made adjustable. The said
cutters are secured between face plates and back plates, the whole being bolted
together. Guide pulleys secured upon brackets bolted to or cast upon the frame
of the machine are employed for controlling the movement of the ring or hoop
during the cutting up or slitting of the same.
Upon the said or a separate frame is a horizontal shaft driven from the engine
which carries a bevel wheel gearing with another bevel wheel upon a vertical shaft
carrying a drum cone, or wire drawing block at its top end and revolving in a bush
at its lower end carried upon a bracket affixed to the frame.
The ring or hoop to be slitten or cut up is placed upon the lower cutter (a portion
of its edge having been first started or opened by means of a pair of strong shears,
such as "Crocodile shears ") sufficient strip is then started by the ordinary" pulling
in" wire process to connect the ring or hoop with the revolving motion of the drum,
cone or block, which draws the metal through the cutters and by so doing causes
them to revolve and the necessary action is imparted so that the ring or hoop is
converted into metal strip.
Dated this 8th day of October 1892.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus or Machinery for Slitting or Cutting up Rings, Hoops, or
Tubes for the Manufacture of Wire Tape or Strip.
I, BENJAMIN MOUNTAIN, of Mountains Wire Manufacturing Company Limited,
Castleford, in the County of York, Managing Director, 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 :-
My invention has reference to apparatus or machinery for slitting or cutting up
metallic rings, hoops, or tubes for the manufacture of wire tape or strip.

page_text: According to my invention I employ a frame A upon which are mounted horizontal
shafts B and C free to revolve in their bearings (or be driven by suitable gearing)
carrying revolving cutters D and E which revolve with the horizontal shafts. The
top cutter D is adjustable by means of hand wheel F and screw G engaging with
block H connected with the horizontal shaft B; or the other bottom cutter may be
made adjustable. The said cutters are secured between face plates J and back
plates K, the whole being bolted together. Guide pulleys L, secured upon
brackets M bolted to or cast upon the frame A of the machine, are employed for
controlling the movement of the ring or hoop, during the cutting up or slitting of
the same.
Upon the said, or a separate frame N, is a horizontal shaft O, driven from the
engine, which carries a bevel wheel P gearing with another berel wheel R upon a
vertical shaft S carrying a drum, cone, or wire drawing block T, at its top end, and
revolving in a bush U at its lower end, carried upon a bracket or plate V affixed to
the frame N.
The ring or hoop A¹ to be slitten or cut up is placed upon the lower cutter E
(a portion of its edge having been first started or opened by means of a pair of
strong shears such as "Crocodile shears") sufficient strip is then started by the
ordinary pulling in" wire process to connect the ring or hoop with the revolving
motion of the drum, cone, or block T, which draws the metal through the cutters
and by so doing causes them to revolve and the necessary action is imparted so
that the ring or hoop is converted into metal strip.
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 :-
1. A machine or apparatus for slitting or cutting up metallic rings, hoops, or
tubes in the manner and for the purposes substantially as before set forth.
2. In machinery or apparatus for slitting or cutting up metallic rings, hoops, or
tubes, for the manufacture of wire tape or strip, the construction and arrangement
of revolving cutters, as shown and described.
Duted this 10th day of Tul, 1802
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.