GB191120922A - Method of and Machine for Producing Slat and Wire Fabrics. - Google Patents

Abstract

20,922. Ziegler, J. J., and Esch. J. Sept. 21. Driving, starting, and stopping arrangements; leno and like motions. - In making slat-and-wire fabrics for plastering purposes, garden fencing, mats, &c., the slats are placed on tension wires and connected thereto by binding-wires which are wound round the slats and then round the tension wires several times in the position of rest; the tension wires are then advanced and the binding- wires again wound several times round them. The tension wires 2 are fed from drums 1, under tension rollers 3, through hollow shafts 5, which carry spring-regulated coils 6 of binding- wire 7 and are mounted in laterally-adjustable supports to vary the distance between the tension wires. The tension wires pass through hollow pins 5<a> and the binding-wires through hollow pins 9 on cranks 8. Members 10, 10<a> for guiding the binding-wires and maintaining by friction the tension thereof to prevent formation of loops are provided on both sides of the pins 5<a>, 9. The slat 12 is placed on the tension wires in front of the members 10, 10<a> when in the dotted-line position shown in Fig. 8, and the members are then moved to force the slat into the joint and to release the pins by a bar 11 engaging therewith and operated by bars 19<b>, rollers 19<a>, and wedgeshaped bars 18 from a pedal lever on a shaft 16<a>. The pedal lever, on further depression, moves the clutch member 22 into engagement with the member 22<a> on the loose pulley 26 through levers 20 and forked lever 21. The lever 21 carries a projection, which is held by a spring in contact with a disk 24 on a countershaft 27 driven from the shaft 25 by removable reduction gearing 29, 28, the clutch being disengaged when the projection enters a recess in the disk. One or more recesses may be provided according to the number of turns desired. The shafts 5 are rotated by bevel-gear 4, 4<a>, the pinned transporting-roller 14 by a ratchet 33, rod 32, and crank-disk 30 on the shaft 27, and the winding-roller 15 by a belt 35 on a pulley 36, which is pressed by a spring 38 against a friction disk 39 on the roller shaft. The slats may be attached alternately on opposite sides of the tension wires.