US1163404A - Wire-fence machine. - Google Patents

Description

C. H. HAISLEY.

WIRE FENCE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.24, I913.

Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

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C. H. HAISLEY.

WIRE FENCE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.24. l913.

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Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

c. H. HAISLEY.

WIRE FENCE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 24, I913.

Patent-ed Dec. 7, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. Z, 1915.

Application filed April 24, 1813. Serial'llo. $63,360.

of ndie us 1111 improvements in {Vere-Fence chines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to certain new and useful impror 'ments in wire fence machines. i

lhe invention has for one of its objects to produce a machine for automatically making wire :lence or fence fabric having alternate longand short staydwhereby there is combined in one roll or stretch'oi' fence, a field and a hog fence.

The invention has for a further object to improve the wire connecting devices in a wire fence machine, wh rebythe devices for connecting the ends oi the short stays with an intermediate wire of the fence will, with each alternate operation oi the machine con-- nect the intermediate body portion of a long stay with the corresponding wire towhich the end of the short stay is connected.

Ti rat the invention may he more-fully understood reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which Y Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of so much or": a wire fence machine as is necessary to show the application of my improvements; Fig. 9 is a plan of whatis iown in 1, with the addition of certain stay transferring devices; Fig.3 is a view looking at the right hand end of Fig. 1',

showing only the controlling means for the stay feeding mechanism; Fig. 4 is an enlarged top plan view of a wire connecting device used for connecting the end of a short stay to an intermediate line wire and for alternately connecting the intermediate body portion of a long stay to the corresponding intermediate line wire; Fig. :5 is an elevation partly in section, of the parts shown in Fl l; Fig. 6 shows a plurality of views of the device shown in Fig. 4, said views illustrating successive steps in connecting the intermediate body portion of a long stay to the same intermediate line wire, as the ends of the short stays are alternately connected by the same wire connecting device; Fig. 7 is a.

view similar to Fig. 6, except that there is illustrated the successive steps-ofconnecting the end of a short stay to an intermediate said loops around the line wires.

line wire; Fig. 8 is a plan or" a modified form of wireconnecting device when used to alternately connect the end of a short stay to an intermediate line wire, and the intermediate body portion of a long stay to the same intermediate line wire; Fig. 9is an elevation partly in section of the device shown in Fig. 8, and Fig. 10 is a view illus trating a preferred form of fence made on my machine.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the figures.

My improvements are best applied to a machine for making a wire fence where the stay wire is one continuous piece from one end to tie other and where the intermediate portions of the stay wires, where they inter: sect with. the intermediate line wires of the fenc'e,are looped and such loops wrapped or coiled around said intermediate line wires, in manner seen in Fig. 10. I make no claim to being the first toconnect a. stay wire to the line wires of a fence, by looping the stay wire at int rvals and wrapping or coiling I also make no claim to being the first to produce a fence wherein the stay wires are one continu-- ous piece't'rom end to end, with portions of the stays connected to the line wires, where they intersect, by wrapping portions of the stay wires around said line wires.

W hat I propose, by my improvements,

and what I hare actually used, is a machine including a "feeding mechanism for feeding a stay length of wire, and a controlling means for said feeding mechanism, whereby said stay feeding mechanism will automatically'andalternately feed a long stay wire;

to extend across the fence from one selvage or margin wire to the other, being connected to all or said w1res,.. and also feed a short stay wire to extend across the fence from one selvage or margin wire, terminating at one of the intermediate line wires or" the fence;

the endsor" the short stays being preferably wrapped by a single continuous wrap around such intermediate line wire, while the interme'diateor intersecting body portions or" the longer stays are connected to the correspondintermediate" line wire, by first forming a loop. in the body of said longer stays and wrapping or coiling saidloeps around such intermediate line wire. I

' I do not lay claim to being the firstto combine fence/machine, a mechanismfor 'Qon the same machine. s

making afence having alternate'long and short stays, but I do believe I am the first to use a single stay feeding mechanism which i is adapt-ed to feechfirst, along stay wire, and

then, a short stayfwire, such'mechanis n being adapted to beadjusted so as to vary the length of such long and short stay wires, so that various heights of f nce niay-be'made The advantage in manufacturing a fence with alternate long andshort stay wires is, thatthe manufacturer may combine in the one fence a. hog and a: fieldfence.

farmer in purchasing a hog fence seeks a 151 The low fence with a close mesh, that is, where the stay wires are comparatively close, say,

four inches, six inches, or possibly nine inches or twelve'inches apart, being a fence V .to turnr the small stock; whereas,when he purchases field fence, he seeks height, and the stay wires-may be twelve ior more inches apart. Combining the short and long stay wires in a fence, he mayha've the close mesh at the bottom, and the wider mesh at the top, having two fences in one at a considerable reduction in cost, made possible ov fingto the economy in the use of wire when-manufacturing the fence.

In the drawings I have illustrated only so much ofainiachine as will illustrate the ap-- plicationand working of my invention. 1 designates a table-or bed-plate of the machine frame in which areljournaled a pin,

rality. ofwire'connecting; devices 2, preferably of the coder type. Each device 2 111-,

cludes a tubular spindle 3 throughlwhich strand or linewires A are drawn, by means of the'usual pull-out and wrapping devices (not shown) common in machines of this.

kind; also *a' coiling or wrapping head 4 -journaled in a bushing 5 in the table or bedplate,'and attached to said coiling or wrappingheads, are cap-plates 6.

plates 6 are recessed or slotted as at 7 to receive the rollers S'revolubly secured on the upper surface of'said coiling or wrapping heads and working in therecesses or slots in said cap-plates 6 Said cap-plates are :further. provided with the slot '9 communicating with said recess or slot 7 and opening out of the peripheral face of said capplates,

V for a purposeto be further explainedat stated intervals are moved downwardly V on said spindles 3 drawing down the pins 11 so that their upper ends are'below the upper surface of the coiling orwrapping heads 4.

"The :structure. of the i dl v ili Slidably keyed on the spindles 3, beneath each coiling or wrapping head 4- is a grooved collar 10 and connected with each collar 10 is' a pin 11 which normally projects-up through an openingin the coiling or wrapping head 4 withiits upper end in operative position in the slot 7 of said cap-plate 6.

The collars 10 rotate-with thespindles 3 and These capi ceiling or wrappinghead.

. line or strand wires.

wrapping heads, cap-plates, sliding collars and'pinsare of a well known type in fence machinebuildmg, with the exception of the specific slotted construction of cap-plates.

Thewire connectingdevices, as shown, are spaced at graduated distances from each other,which'is preferable, butit is understood that said wire connecting devices may be spaced at uniform distances from each other, if desired. 1

I have not shown the driving mechanism for the wire connecting devicesybutit is 'understood that whatever type of mechanism is employed, itwillgbe timed to operate said wire connecting devices liar; mony with the remaining mechanisms ofthe machine. I have in mind that the spindles wire B, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,

being laid across the. wire connecting devices between the pins 11 and the strand wiresA, is attached tot-he strand wires by looping the intermed ate body portlons of said stay wire'where it intersects with the strand wires and.;wrapping or coilingsaid loops around the strand wires, the ends of may be continuously driven, in manner i the vstay wire being wrapped or coiled" around theintersecting line Wires by a single contlnuous wrap. coihng spindle be- 111g set in motion the pin 11 will engage with the stay wire producing a loop; such loop.

being formed before the coiling device has made a complete'rotation, when the collar 10, by a suitable means,f(not shown) is moved downwardly on its spindle, retracting the pin 11 and releasing it from the loop formed in the stay wire, when said loop iscoiled orwrapped around the strand wire A througa the continued operation of the The 'coilers make preferably two and one halfto three rotations. r

The foregoing operation refers particu- V larly to the co nnectio'n of the intermediate portions of a stay wire with the intersecting I will explain hereinafter the change which. occurs when connecting or attaching the alternate long and short stays to the line wires of the fence The feeding devices for the stay wires includes the continuously driven friction gripping wheels l2'and l3, which have meshing gear wheels 1% and 1f. Connected with the gear wheel 14 and friction gripping wheel 12 is'a gearwheel 16 driven from a gear wheel 17 meshing therewith, and which may be operated from any of the driving parts of the machine. The gear wheels 1=l and 15 are constantly in mesh with each other, but the friction surface of the gripping wheels 12 and 13 are normally so spaced from each other as to have no gripping effect on a wire passing therebetween and it is the function of the device to move the wheel 13 into impinging relation with the stay feed wire between it and the surface of the wheel 12 so as to feed the wire to the wire connecting devices. To accomplish this result, the wheel 13 is mounted on an eccentric support and connected therewith is a lever 17. To the rear end of'the lever 17 is attached one end of a spring 18, the other end of which is secured to the machine frame. The spring 18 serves to normally hold the wheel 13 from im inging relation with the stay feed wire. ass ing through the outer end of the lever 17 is a rod 19, on the upper end of which, is a nut or collar 20 and surrounding this rod between the nut or collar 20 and said lever 17 is a coil spring 21, which acts to maintain the rod 19 in its normal or operative position. To the lower end of the rod 19 is connected a rod 22 which, at its lower end is connected to an arm 23 on a rocker shaft 2 1. On the opposite end of the rocker shaft 24 is carried an arm 25 to which is connected a bar 26, and said bar 26, at its opposite end, is connected to a lever 27, said lever 27 being pivotally supported at its upper end, and at'its lower end carrying a roller or rollers 28 adapted to be intermittently and successively engaged by cams 29 and 30 for moving said lever 27, to reciprocate the bar 26, which in turn will rock the shaft 24: and draw down the rods 22 and 19 for the purpose of oscillating the lever 17 and rock the. wheel 13 to cause it to im pinge on the stay feed wire lying between the friction surfaces of wheels 12 and 13, the parts being maintained in this same operative relation during the engagement of the cams 29 and 30 with the roller or rollers 28 or the lever 27.

The cams 29 and 30 are segment plates, as shown, so as to be adjustable in connection with the disk 31 to which they may be secured when adjusted. Adjusting the cams 29 and 30 with respect to each other will determine the period of operation of the feed wheel 13 on a stay feed wire, and adjusting the segment plates ofeach cam 29 or 30 will determine the period of the time that the feed wheels 1.2 and 13 are operated to project a stay wire and the length of such stay wire. The disk 31 and cams are of course carried by a suitable shaft, and such shaft geared in a suitable manner to certain other machine parts. j When the cam'29 moves the lever 27, the

longer stay wire B, seen in Fig. 10, and extending from one selvage or margin wire to the other, is projected across the line wires A of the fence, and when the cam 30 moves the lever 27, the shorter stay wire 13, seen in the same figure is projected across the line wires extending from one selvage or margin wire to one of the intermediate line wires A. During the interval between the engagement of the cams 29 and 80, with the rollers on lever 27, the line wires are advanced in the machine so as to properly space the stay wires. The operation of the shaft carrying the cams 29 and 30, is of course timed with respect to the other operating mechanisms of the machine. It will thus be observed that with the stay feeding device shown, a long or a short stay wire may be alternately fed to the line wires of the fence, and that such parts may be so adjusted that the long stay will extend from one selvage or margin wire to the other, and that the short stay wire will extend from one selvage or margin wire to a certain intermediate line wire. With the completion of a stay length whether long or short, the same are severed by a suitable cutter, not shown, for the stay feed wire.

In Fig. 2 is shown in plan, in a general way, certain stay wire transferring and positioning devices, which form no part of the present invention, except as they co6perate with the stay feeding means to place the stay wires on the cooling or wrapping devices, the 7 same being more generally shown in my Patent No. 1,0i7,125.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown the coiling or wrapping devices so fixed that short stays may be fed into the machine with their forward ends coiled, either about the sixth in termediate line wire or about the eighth intermediate line wire, depending of course on how the cams 29 and 30 are adjusted with respect to each other, or how the cam segments of each cam are adjusted with respect to each other. In Fi 2 the machine is shown capable of weaving a ten-bar fence, or a fence with ten line wires, although in Fig. 10, I have shown the fencecomposed of only eight line wires. To provide for at-; taching the ends of the short stay wires, by a single wrap, to an intermediate line wire, say for instance where the fence comprises eight bars, as shown in Fig. 10, or where the ends of such short stay wires are attached by a single wrap to the sixth or the eighth intermediate line wire, in a ten-bar fence as provided for in the machine shown in Fig. 2, I employ a removable attachment or attachments which 1 locate adjacent to or co1nc1dent with the coiler or wrapping device through which passes the line wire around which the plain end of the stay wire is to be wrapped, and said attachment is of such construction, as will be explained,

whereas in Figs. 8 and 9 the upper face of the cap-plate 6 is flush with the surface of the table or bed-plate 1, being a modification used under certainconditions, as hereinafter described.-

' The attachment detailed in Figs. 4 and 5 includes the approximately semi-circular -ring-likestructure 32jformed with the offset or shoulder 33 and arranged with the vertical slot 3%. lVhen in operative position on the bed-plate or table 1, the at.

tachment partially encircles a cap-plate 6 and issecured in position by feet or supporting members 35 which are bolted or otherwise. suitably securedon the bed-plate or table 1. The lower edge of the attach ment starting from the vertical wall 36 is beveled or arranged with a sloping face 37, extending from said wall 36 a suitable distance. The feet orsupporting members 35 support the attachment with its lower face removed a short distance above the bedplate Or table'l, for a purpose which will be explained. V V

lnFigs. 2 and 4, the coilers or wrapping heads are in their normal or initial position ready to receive a stay wire and just prior to their initial operation which will cause the pins llto engage the staywire- The attachments 32 are so placed that the off-set or shoulder 33 and the corresponding verticalwall 36 are upon diametrically opposite sides of the'line wire passing through the coilers and a stay wire laidon. the coilers will be between the line wire and pin ll and across and in front of the shoulder 33 and vertical wall .36, as shown in dotted lines in Fig, 2, and in full lines on the extreme left hand views of Figs. 6 and 7.

When the coiler is placed in motion and when such coiler has made approximately a one quarter turn the pin 11 is brought into contact with the stay wire, and if the engagement of the pin 11 is with an interme diate portion of the stay wire, as in Fig. 6, a loop C will be formed in the stay wire, to be subsequently engaged by the rollers 8, when the pin 11 is retracted and said loop wrapped or coiled about the strand wire; but if it is the end of the stay wire (preferably the shorter stay wire) with which the pin 11 engages, as in Fig. 7, the end of the stay wirewill pass under the. attachment .32 and because. of the beveled or sloping face.. 3'Z will be forced downwardly passing through the slotted opening 9 in the cap-plate 6 and into a, position in the slotted opening 7 in said cap-plate to be engaged the rollers 8, during the further and-continued rotation of thecoiler, and coiled or wrapped around the line wire, by a single continuous wrap, as distinguished from a f loop wrap; The sloping face 37 of the attachment is of such a length that the end of the stay-wire will be fully within the slotted opening 9 in the cap-plate 6, before the pin 11 is withdrawn, to insure the completion of the stay wrap by the further and continued rotation ofthe coiler. The vertical slot 34x in the attaclr ment 32 is provided so as to receive thev presser f'oot38, see Fig. 2, disclosed in my Patent No. 1,04%1125 and employed as a guard to'prevent the stay wire from becom ing dislodged. No claim is made on the presser foot construction in this application.

The attachment39 detailed in Figs. 8 and 9 differs from that shown in Figs. 4 and 5 to the extent that it is adapted topartially encircle a cap-plate which is set in an annular depression/l0 in the bed-plate or table. In this structure the greater portion of the surface of the attachment, and the surface of the cap-plate Gare flush with the upper surface of the bed-plate or table 1, with the lower face of the attachment removed slightly above the surface of the bushing 5. One end of the-attachment slopes upwardly as at 41 being slightly above the surface of the bed-plate or table 1 so that the end of the stay wire will be forced under saidsloping end 41 and by such sloping surface forced into the slotted opening 9 in the cap-plate, in manner and for the purposes specifically stated in connection with the structure shown in Figsfli and 5. The attachment 39 is secured in place by means of lips 42 which may be bolted or otherwise suitably secured to the bed-plate or table 1.

What I claim is: V 1. In a wire fence machine, a stay feeding device, and means for operating said device -to cause the same to alternately feed a short stay-wire and a comparatively longerstay wire. j

'2. In a wire fence machine, a stay feeding device, means for operating said device to intermittently engage and feed a stay length of wire, said operating means adapted to cause said device to alternately feed a short llO stay-wire and a comparativelylonger staywire. 7 l

3. In a wire fence machine, a stay feeding device, including a pair of continuously driven feed wheels, said wheels arranged to intermittently impinge upon a stay, feed wire for the purpose of feeding a stay length of wire, means for causing said wheels to im-. pings-upon thestay feed wire, said means operating to alternately cause the feed wheels to first feed ashort stay length and then a comparatively longer stay length.

a. In a wire fence machine, a continuously operated stay feeding device, said device arranged to intermittently feed a stay length of wire, and controlling means for causing the device to alternately feed irregular lengths of stay wires.

5. In a wire fence machine,'a stay feeding device, said device adapted to feed a stay length of wire in a continuous piece and of a length to span two or more line wires of a fence, and controlling means for said feeding device, said controlling means causing said feeding device-to alternately feed ir regular lengths of stay wires.

6. In a wire fence machine, a stay feeding device, including friction gripping wheels, means for operating said wheels, said wheels arranged to intermittently feed a stay length of wire, lever means for bringing the wheels into impinging relation with a stay feed wire, and a revoluble body including cams for operatin said lever means, said cams being unequal for causing said wheels to alternately feed a short stay length and a comparatively longer stay length.

7. In a wire fence machine, a coiling device including a wrapping head and a retractable pin, said pin adapted to engage astay wire and place it so as to be wrapped around another wire by said wrapping head, an attachment associated with said wrapping head, said attachment having a sloping surface for guiding the stay wire down into said wrapping head as the head is revolved and immediately following the engagement of said wire by said pin.

8. In a wire fence machine, a ceiling device including a wrapping head, said head being slotted from its periphery inwardly, a retractable pin movable in said head and through the slot therein, said pin adapted to engage a stay wire and place it so as to be wrapped around another wire by said wrapping head, an attachment having a sloping surface for guiding the stay wire down into the slot in said head as the'head is revolved and immediately following the engagement plate and having a sloping lower surface for guiding the stay wire down into the slot in said cap-plate'as the head and can-plate are revolved and immediately following the engagement of said wire by said pin.

10. In a wire fence machine, in combination, a bed-plate, a coiling head journaled in said bed-plate,- a wire depressing member ens circling a portion of said head, said member having a sloping lower surface.

11. In a wire fence machine, in combination, a bed-plate, a coiling head journaled in said bed-plate, a bushing for said head, a wire depressing member encircling a portion of said head, the lower surface of said member being removed above the surface of the bushing and being inclined from one end portion thereof. V

12. In a wire fence machine, in combination, a bed-plate, a coiling head journaled in said bed-plate, a cap-plate attached to said head, a wire depressing member encircling a portion of said cap-plate with its lower surface spaced above the surface of the head,

said lower surface of said member being inclined.

13. In a wire fence machine, a coiling head, a retractable pin in said head, said pin being normally adapted, when said head is rotated, to engage and form aloop in the body of a stay wire to be subsequently wrapped by said head around a wire passing through said head; a wire depressing lllell'li ber associated with said head and having a slopinglower surface, said member adapted, when the end of a stay wire is coincident with said head to depress the stay wire when engaged by the pin, whereby the head will wrap the single end of the stay wire around the wire passing through the head.

1d. In a wire fence machine, in combination, a series of twisting devices through which strand wires pass, means for operating said twisting devices, a stay wire feeding means, said feeding means adapted to alteiu natelv'feed a short stay wire and a co1nparatively longer stay wire, one of said twisters adapted to engage and wrap the end of each short stay wire around a certain internicdiate strand wire, said twister also adapted to engage an intermediate portion of said comparatively longer stay wire, form a looptherein, and wrap said loop around the said intermediate strand wire, to which the end of each short stay wire is connected.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: V

C. "W. BLACKBURN, J. WV. POQRMAN.

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