US1056455A - Reel. - Google Patents

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w. H. Row & A. P. RIETZBL.

A REEL.

APPLIUATII vFILED UIB 11, 1909.

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WALLACE H. RoWE, oF PITTSBRGH, PENNsYLvANIA, AND ADoLP F. Rrn'rzEL, or wEs'rnnLY, RHODE ISLAND; 'SAID DIE'rzEL AssIGNon 'ro SAID nown.

REEL.

'To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, WALLACE HfRown, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, and ADoLPH F.'

R1nTznL,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of lVesterly, in the county of Washington and State o-f Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improveto provide a reel which shall be stronger,

cheaper and lighter than. the wooden reels customarily employed for holding and shipping metal wire and which shall also have the advantage of being indestructible by fire and of withstanding abuse in handlingand,

shipping..

Reels for holding and shipping wire-as now customarily constructed are made from wood and owing to the constant increase in thecost of wood such reels, instead of being made solid as was the practice, originally, have gradually been reduced to a skeleton form thus weakening their construction and causing them to collapse frequently when handled full of wire.

Reels constructed.,according to our invention also havethe advantage that they may be made of uniform Weight whereas wooden reels as ordinarily made for shipping wire, even though of the same standard size and style, will vary in weight a number. of pounds. wooden reels used for'shipping wire isobjectionable for reasons lwell-known to those engaged in the business of manufacturing and dealing in barbed or other wire under prevailing business conditions. y j

Our present invention relates to the construction of a reel'made of metal and in such manner that it may be manufactured.

Specification of Letters .Patent Application med June 11, 1909. serial no. 501,512.

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Vfrom metal tubing or sheet' metal andso as further to permit the utilization of the process of electric welding in its manufacture.

To these ends our invention consists in the novel construct-ion of metal reel herein described in connection with thev accompanying drawings and in the details of constructio-n as more speciioally claimed in the an- Inexed claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan of a piece of metal tubing as prepared for constructing a metal reel. Fig. 2 is an end `View of the section of tubing. Fi 3 is an end View of the reel asmade from said prepared section. 'Fig 4 shows a form of strengthening plate or flange that. is preferably used'in completing the reel. Fig. 5 is a transverse central section through the plate, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an end view of lthe reel showing the metal plate applied to the skeleton reel shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a plan of the complete reel and shows also the employment of rods welded between the arms for increasing the diameter of the drum or body. Fig. 8 shows a sheet metal blank prepared for constructing a reel. Fig.

9 is an end View of said plate. Fig. 10 shows the blank bent up to form the body or drumgportion ofthe reel. Fig. 11 shows vthe skeleton of the reel after bending up of the ends of the tube shown lin end View in Fig. 10. Fig.\12 is a plan of .a strengthening plate or .flange that may be applied and electrically welded vto the end of the Askeleton reel illustrated in Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is an edge view ofthe plate shown in Fig. 12.v

Fig. 14 is an end view of the complete reel.

Referring to Fig. 1, a piece of tubing of the desired length has itsfend slit, as shown, to divide the ends 'of the tube into segments which are lbent radially outward to form reel armsor wings. lThe portion 1 of said tube forms the drum or body of the reel which may be given, if desired, a larger diameter by the employmentof rods welded in place, as will Abe presently described. In

this construction it will be noted that the` parts of the tube that form the arms or wings retain t-heir original shape which opcrates vas a rib to stiften the arms. The project-ed edges of said arms afforded by the outward presentation of the concave of the segments also serve as welding project-ions ridge or rib o formed or provided in any suitable way on one face thereof and adapted'to engage upon the pro-jected edges of the arms 3. By providing a circular or uninterrupted-projection 5 it is obvious that the plate will engage the arms by such a welding projection in any circumferential po-sition in which it may lie when applied to the skeleton reel end shown in Fig. 3.

While it would be within our invention to use awelding projection to formv one of the parts alonel we prefer to employ it upon both. The office of this welding projection, aswell understood 'by those .skilled in the electric welding art, is to provide a contact area of limited extent in which the flow of currentv and the .heating will be localized and at which point the welding will be effectuated when the parts are assembled between welding electrodes and pressure is applied to force the `parts together.- As also well understood in the art, the shape of Said electrodes would be such as to accommodate the particular shape of the parts to be welded and while affording sufficient area to apply current to said-parts will likewise be of such shape as to effectually apply pressure over the welding points or projections. AS will also be' well understood by those skilled in the art, the welding projections may take various shapes while, as already stated, be-

ing provided upon either or both of the parts. 'lVhen itis'desired to enlargel the circumference of 'the drumportion il, rods 6 may be interposed between the arms 3, as

shown in Fig. 7, and welded in position be-l tween them, the ends of the rods 6 being suitably prepared by point-ing or otherwise before being put in place and the slight spring of the arms being suflicient to allow themv to yield in the operation of completing the weld under the compressionv ap' lied'to 'the outer sides of the reel arms over t e rods.

In performing this operation itisobvious 'that Vario-us forms of clampin de vices may be utilized and that-the welding might be simultaneously eHected at both ends-of the rod 6 at once, or -that they might be welded.

first at-one end and then at the other. Itis .obVimIs'further that the provision of a weldowing to the fact that the projection 5 lies In Fig. 8 a piece of sheet metal is shown.

as provided with slits 2 and intermediate ribs 7 between the slits. These ribs are preferably formed so that when theplate is bent into the form of the tube, as shown in the end view Fig. 10, they will project within the tube. After the formation of the plate into the form shown in end View Fig. l0 or prior theretoyif desired, the ends of the plate are bent outwardly to form wings or arms 3. The ribs 7 in this instance form alone or in conjunction with the edges of the wings welding projections to which the strengthening plate 4 maybe welded. In this instance the plate 4 has cooperating welding projections 5 forlned on it in any desired lway and at such points that they will match with or engage the ribs 7 while the portions of the plane face of said plate, unprovided with projections, will lie against or engage the edges of the arms 3. In this -instance the edges 3 may serve alone as welding projections at such points of engagenient, although as will be obvious, the welding may be effected alone at the points where 4projections 5 engage ribs 7. In the latter instance the weldingll would be started with the edges of the armsl untouched by the survfacel of plate l but with projections 5 and ribs 7 engaged. On the application of thc heating current and pressure the parts would yield and the work would be completed with the surface of the plate abutted upon the edges of the arms or wings.

IVhat we claim as our invention is:

1. A metal reel comprising a body port-ion composed of metal tubin reel arms or wings projecting radially rom the ends of the tubular body portion and integral therewith and forming reel arms, and a metal plate welded on its faceto the faces of said wings by welding projections.

2. A metal reel consisting of a tubular sheet metal drum or body portion, radial arms or wings formed by outwardly bent port-ions of the tube and forming reel arms and a plate welded to the projected edges of the arms. 4

3. A sheet Ametalreel constructed of a sheet metal tube whose 'ends are divided intosegments and bent radially outward to form wings `or arms with the'concave of the segment presented outwardly and a plate welded to the edges of said segment as and for the purpose described. Q

4. In a metalfreel, a body or drum portion of metal havingv radial met-a1 'arms or wings forming reel arms and a plate welded ition of the arms or wings.

' 5. In a metal reel, a sheet metal'body portion and 'reel arms or wings projecting) raj dially from the ends of the sheet metal' ody portion and having radial ribs, and a strengthening plate Welded by itsy face to said ribs.

6. In a metal reel, a sheet metal body pori tio-n and integral reel arms or wings projecting radially from the ends of the sheet metal body portion and having radial ribs,

and a plate provided with projections onits face Welded to said ribs.

Signed at Pittsbilrgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, this 29th day of April, 1909.

WALLACE H. ROWE.

Witnesses: Ro'r. D. To'r'rEN JOHN A. McLEAN. Signed at- Stonington in the county d New. London and State vof Conn. this 19th day of March, 1909.

ADOLPH F. RIETZEL. Witnesses: 4

CHARLES F. VINCENT, BELLE MINER..

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