IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE WOVEN FABRIC
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Arnold at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th May 1882.
ALFRED ARNOLD of Halifax in the County of York Barrister at Law
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE WOVEN FABRIC
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My Invention has reference to fabrics woven from wire and used in rice mills,
flour mills, paper mills, blinds, davy lamps and for other purposes. The object of
my Invention is to make such wire woven fabric stronger and more durable than
it is made at present, which I accomplish by weaving fabrics of suitable size and
After the fabrics are woven they are
strength with bright or annealed steel wire."
hardened and tempered by a suitable employment of the system described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to John Carter Ramsden No 131575 or by
other methods of hardening and tempering.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred Arnold in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th November 1882.
ALFRED ARNOLD of Halifax in the County of York, Barrister at Law
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE WOVEN FABRICS
"
My invention has reference to fabrics woven from wire and used in rice mills,
flour mills, paper mills, blinds, davy lamps and for other purposes. The object of
my invention is to make such wire woven fabric stronger and more durable than
it is made at present, which I accomplish by weaving fabrics of suitable size and
strength with bright or annealed steel wire or a combination of part iron wire and
part steel wire. After the fabrics are woven they are hardened and tempered by
an adaptation of apparatus to the system described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted to John Carter Ramsden No 131578 or by other methods of
hardening and tempering.
Such being the nature and object of this my said invention I will now
'proceed to describe the apparatus and means suitable for carrying the invention
into practical effect the apparatus illustrated by drawings being marked with
figures and letters of reference like parts being indicated by the same letters in
the several views or figures.
Fig: 1 is a side elevation of apparatus suitable for directing and controlling the
passage of the fabric and for hardening and tempering the same.
Fig: 2 is a plan view of Fig: 1.
Figs 3 and 4 are details.
At 1 is a roller around which the metallic fabric 2 is wound, at 3 is the furnace
constructed of fire clay slabs enclosing the fabric 2 and heated by the steam and
volatile oil jets 4. 5 (or other fuel) there being one or more series of such jets
according to the nature of fabric operated upon. At 6 is a bath containing water
or oil into which the heated fabric 2 is passed thereby hardening the same, the
said bath being furnished with supply and waste taps whereby the supply of water
or oil is maintained and kept cool: at 7 is a roller for depressing and ensuring
immersion of fabric in the bath 6, at 8 and 9 are two pairs of brushes between
which the hardened fabric is passed 10 are guide rollers. 11. 12. 13 are like
pairs of guide rollers placed within the tempering furnace 14, the hent for
teinpering being obtained from the combustion of a mixture of (by preference) coal
gas and atmospheric air-the gas being supplied from the pipes 15 to the open
ends of the air pipes 16 upon the upper ends of which are the rectangular
receivers 17 covered by wire gauze and on the surface of which gauze the gas and
air burns, supplying the heat necessary to temper or reduce the degree of hardness
of the steel portion of the fabric, the latter being thence passed under the draw
roller 18 to and is wound around the taking up roller 19 which roller is free to
rise in the slotted standards 20 the roller 19 turns or rotates through frictional
contact with the roller 18 and maintains an uniform speed and draft of fabric
through the apparatus. The operation and action of the apparatus is as follows-
Metallic tapes 21. 21. 21 extend from the roller 19 and are connected to the leading
end of the fabric 2 on the roller 1 and are employed to draw the fabric 2 through
the apparatus until its leading end is gripped by the roller 18-the said metallic
tapes 21 being received and wound within the grooves or recesses 22. 22. 22. 22 of

page_text: the roller 19 the fabric 2 is passing through the furnace 3 becomes heated thence
into the bath 6 whereby it is hardened, forward between the brushes 8 and 9
which are for the purpose of removing moisture arising from immersion in the
bath 6. the fabric 2 thence passes to the tempering furnace 14 and by exposure to
the heat therein is tempered or reduced in degree of hardness of the steel portion
of the fabric, the excess heat from the gas and air at 17 is utilized for further
drying the fabric at the point 24 of the furnace 14 thence to the funnel 25. the
guide rollers 10. 11. 12. 13 serve to keep the fabric straight and even during its
passage through the apparatus, 23 is the driving pulley on axis of the roller 18.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said invention
together with the apparatus and manner by and in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect I would have it understood that of the
apparatus employed I do not claim any of the parts separately but what I do
claim is.
Firstly The improvement in the manufacture of wire woven fabric comprising
the employment of steel wire or iron and steel wire combined the steel being
afterwards hardened and tempered for purpose, uses and as herein described.
Secondly The combination of apparatus comprising heating furnace, hardening
bath, drying apparatus, tempering furnace and winding on apparatus for purpose
herein described and substantially as illustrated by drawing.
In witness whereof I the said Alfred Arnold have hereunto set my hand
and seal this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
5 Witness
WALTER BRIERLEY
Patent Agent
Halifax & Blackburn.
ALFRED ARNOLD. (L.S.)