US1036644A

US1036644A - Support for wire-reels.

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Publication number: US1036644A
Application number: US57321710A
Authority: US
Inventors: William A Kilmer; Sanford Swanbum
Original assignee: American Steel and Wire Company of New Jersey
Current assignee: American Steel and Wire Company of New Jersey
Priority date: 1910-07-22
Filing date: 1910-07-22
Publication date: 1912-08-27
Anticipated expiration: 1929-08-27

Description

W. A. KILMER & S. SWANBUM.

SUPPORT FOR WIRE REELS.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 22,1910.

Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

"WILLIAM A. KILM'ER ANDfiZiNlEORD SWAN'BUM, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS T0 AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY 01 NEW JER$EY, 01: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, all. CKDEIQRATION fill NEW JERSEY.

SUPPORT FOR WIRE REELS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

Application filed July 22, 1910. Serial No. 573,217.

T9 all whom may concern:

\ Be it known that we, WILLIAM A. Kimunn and SANFORD SWANBUM, both of De Kalb, inthe county of- Dekalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Supports for Wirel'teels, oi? which the following is a specification.

This application relates to means for sup porting a skeleton wire reel during the operation of reeling barbed wire, or other. similar product thereon, and has particular reference to a support for wire reels such as disclosed in'our co-pending application, Serial No. 535,262, filed December 28, 190$).

As willbe understood. by those skilled in the art, the marketing of barbed wire has almost exclusively, been accomplished by reeling the wire into bundles on rigid wooden reels. lhis has been necessary in order to provide means whereby the wire could be unreeled bythe user without inconvenience, but the use of this rigid wooden reel has been attended with certain manufacturing diificulties, the principal of which is that of providing a sutiicient number of these wooden reels ready for use without at the same time provid mg a very large storage space therefor. l'o that end, we have devised. skeleton reels such as shown in the drawings of this application, as well as in our co-pending application, Serial No. 1, 297, filed June 26, 1909, either of which skeleton reels adapted to be collapsed prior to use and therefore occupy a very small storage space. However, in order to use such reels, it has been necessary to devise a support therefor which shall be adapted to readily secure the reel in the barbed wire machine during the reeling operation, and such a reel is disclosed herein.

' it has been found in practice that the wire must be placed on the reel in such manner that the central opening through the bundle of wire shall be of substantially circular outline; that is to say, where the wire is wound on a support having but four cross members the opening is substantially rectangular, and that in unwinding the bundle of wire, the wire becomes tangled. for the last four or five. turns and considerable thereof is wasted. lit has been found also that where the support for the reel during the winding operation is provided with at toast sir cross members, and. that therefore portions, 8, 01* the reel are perforated, as

the opening through the bundle is substantially circular, the Wire will unwind to the last strand without tangling. It has also been found in practice that it is undesirable to wind the barbed wire on the cross wires of the wire reel; that is, that the barbed wire must be wound on the cross members of the support and not contact the light cross wires of the reel.

Our invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 'is a sectional'elevation on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 2 .is a cross section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an end elevation showing the method of securing the removable head of the reel support.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, it will be seen that our device is provided with end portions, A, -B, both of which are similar in outline and construction. The end portion, A, comprises a substantially circular middle portion, 5, and radial extensions or arms, 6, 6. The middle portion, 5, is provided with a transverse slot or opening, 7, in which is adapted to be seated, the end portion, 8, of a skeleton reel such as shown in the drawings. .This' reel comprises channel end portions, 8, 8, and connecting cross wires, 9, 9. The end at, 10, 11, 11, the opening, 10, being provided for an unreeling arbor, the openings, 11, being provided for the accommodation of cross rods of the reel support. The metal which is punched out from the opening, 11, is bent over and provides clips for securing the cross wires, 9, 9, to the end portions, 8,8.

Resuming the description of the end por-' tion, A, a further slot, 12, is provided on the outside of the portion, 5, in which is mounted a slide, or catch, 13, havin the key-hole slots, 14, 14, the larger en s of whichare adapted to fit over the reducedend portions, 15,15, of two cross members, 16, 16, of the support. These contracted end portions are provided with transverse slots, as best shown in Fig. 3, .in which the contracted portions of tlie ke hole slots, 1%, are adapted to be seated? he remaining cross members, 17, 17 18, 18, also have reduced end portions which lit into corresponding openings in the end portion, 'A, but no fastening means are provided.

15 hereinbefore is used as follows:

support, the cross member, 1.6,

The head, B, is provided with a circular middle portion, 19, and radial arms, 20, 20, similar to those of head, A. The central portion, 19, is also provided with a transverse slot or opening, 21, in which is seated the channel end member, 8, of the collapsible reel. The cross members, 16, l7, 18, have reduced end portions which fit Within openings in the head, B, and are riveted or otherwise securely fastened in said head, B. Both heads, A, and B, have through openings, 22, mating with the opening, 10, in the end members, 8, of the reel.

In practice, a support such as described The 7 head, A, being removed from the ends of the cross members, a skeleton reel of any approved construction, preferably one similar to that shown in the drawings, is placed on the being passed through the openings, 11, as shown in Fig. 2. The head, A, is then placed on the cross members, the slide, 13, securing the said head, A, thereon. T he support and the reel are then placed on the barbed wire machine and the wire wound thereon. hen the requisite amount has been wound the machine is stopped, the wire severed and the support removed from mandrel in the the machine. After removing the head, A, the bundle of wire is lifted from the support and after binder Wires are applied by means of the openings, 23, in the ends of the channel member of the Wire reel, tl1e bundle of wire is ready for the markets Various modifications of our construction will undoubtedly suggest themselves to those skilled in the art and We do not therefore wish to be limited to the precise construction herein shown.

\Ve claim:

A support for skeleton reels for barbed wire, comprising in combination, head portions, and at least circularly arranged cross connecting members, said cross connecting 'members being rigidly secured in one head and removably held in the other head, and means for locking at least two of said cross connecting members in said 1emovable head, said locking means including a latch slidably movable upon the head, substantially as described. WILLIAM A. KILMER. SANFORD SWANBUBL.

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