US1396450A - Reel - Google Patents

Description

S. J. MARTIN.

REEL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.30, 1920.

1 96,450, Patented Nov. 8, 1921..

INVENTOR WITNESSES jfJ/VQWZZW ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI'CE.

REEL.

Application filed August 30, 1920.

To all 207mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, SHERMAN JEFFERSON Mnnrix, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of lVoodlawn, in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to reels especially adapted for use with fence wire or the like.

The object of my invention is to provide a reel of this character of simple and durable construction and extremely light weight, easy and inexpensive to manufacture and of such compact construction and arrangement as to occupy a minimum amount of space.

Other objects and advantages of the invention reside in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification. and in which:

Figure l is a plan view of the reel;

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view thereof; and

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the core members.

Referring to the drawings it will be seen my invention contemplates a reel embodying end frames or pieces F which, as shown in Fig. 2. are constructed of a single piece of resilient wire 5 and are of equilateral triangular form.

A core, designated generally at C, is associated with the end frames F and comprises three core members designated atc, c and 0 respectively. The core members are of identical construction and a description of one will serve as a description of all.

Each of the core members is constructed of a single piece of resilient wire and comprises a longitudinal section orbody portion 6 which extends between the end rames or pieces The opposite ends of the body portion bear against the outer edges of the median portions of the respective sides of the triangular frame, as shown in the draw ings and are then extended at right angles over the sides to form radial sections or portions 7 which as shown in Fig. 2, extend radially of the reel. At the extremities of the radial portions and integral therewith there is provided an offset or offset bend 8, the bight of which defines a recess or pocket Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1921. Serial No. 406,881.

9 and continuous with the offset an arcuate portion orsection 10 is formed, the outer end of which is bent back to form a hook 11. Ad acent each of the radial portions 7 the body portion 6 is provided with a lug 12 which may be formed by pinching the wire at this point. As shown in Fig. l, the lug 12 is adapted to engage the respective side of the frame 5 to prevent displacement of the core members.

The core members 0 c and c are assembled, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the body portions thereof extending between the end frames, and the ends of the body portions lying against the median portion of the respective sides of the triangular frames, with the radial portions 7 extending around the respective sides and radially of the core and with the hook 11 of the core members 0 engaged with the offset 8 of the core member 0 with the hook 11 of the core member c engaged with the offset 8 of the core member 0 and with the hook 11 of the core member 0 engaged with the offset of the core member 0 The end pieces or frames 5 are of such size that the resiliency of the metal of the sides thereof is brought into play when the core members are assembled and this resiliency is exerted to maintain the hooks 11 firmly seated in the recesses 9 and engaged with the offsets 8, thereby locking the core members assembled. If desired, the hooks 11 may be firmly bent into position to so engage the ofi'sets 8 that the core members are positively locked assembled but for ordinary purposes the resiliency of the metal affords a suflicient lock, and provides a knock-down reel. The arcuate sections 10, as shown in Fig. 2 when associated together coact to form the journals J of the reel which as usual are adapted to receive a roll or reel pin upon which the reel is mounted in reeling or unreeling the wire or other fabric thereparts of the reel upon as well as to lock the together. The journals J due to the fact that the radial portions 7 are all equal in extent and the fact that they extend from the median portion of the equilateral triangular frame, are located centrally of the reel.

In practice, the reel presents such a degree of compactness as to occupy a minimum space, and is of such light weight construction as to produce a minimum weight, thereby materially decreasing the cost of transportation. The reel is v easily constructed and is inexpensive in construction and as described maybe made to constitute the permanently locked reel bybending the hooks over the structurerof the offsets or to constitute a knocked-down reel by interlock- -ing themembers-solely by theresili'ency of themetal. I

I claim:

1. A reel of the character describedcomprising end pieces of resilient wire of equilateral triangularaform and a core consisting V of three members constructed of vresilient'. wire and each comprisinga longitudinal section constituting a body. portion extending between the end pieces and bearing at its ends against the meeting portions of the respective sides of the end pieces, a radial .portions of the sides, a radial sectlon consection continuous with eachend of the body ,portionand extendingat right angles thereto, ,each of said radial sections having their outer ends provided with anoffset bend, the bight of which constitutes a recess, and arcuately curved sections integral with the offset ends of the radial sections, each of said arcuately curved sections being provided at its extremity with a bent back portion constituting a hook whereby when said core members are positioned on said end pieces and the hooks andrecesses thereof are interengaged, the core members are in =terlockedto constltute the reel, the arcuate curved portlons thereof defining ournals adapted to receive a roll pin or the like, and

locklugs formed on eachend of each of said body portions of each of the core members adjacent the radial sections thereof adapted to engage the respective sides of the end pieces, all as and for the purposes set jforth.-

2. A reel of the character described comprising end pieces of resilient wire of equilateral. triangular for-m and a core consisting of three members constructed of resilient wire and each comprising a longitudinal section constituting-a body portion extending between the endpieces and bearing at its ends against the meeting portions of the respective sides of the end pieces, a' radial section continuous with each end of the body portion and extending atright anglesthereto, eachofsaid radial sectionshaving their outer ends provided with an offset bend, the bight of which constitutes a recess, and

i adapted to receive a roll pin or the like.

3. .A reel of the character described comprising end pieces ofresilient wire and a core consisting of a plurality of members constructed of resilient wire and each comprising a. longitudinal section constituting a body portion and extending between the end pieces and bearing against the meeting tinuouswith each end of the body portion -'and extended at right angles thereto, each of said radial sections having an offset at its extremity constitutlng a recess, and

arcuately curved sections continuous with the offset ends of said radial sections, each tion constituting a hook,,whereby when said core members are positioned on said end pieces and'the hooks and recesses thereof are interengaged the reel is locked by the resiliency of the metal in assembled position and the accurately curved portions define journals forlthe reel.

41-. A core for a reel ofthe character described, comprising a plurality of members constructed of resilient wire, each consisting of a longitudinally extending section, a radial section formed at each end of the longitudinal section, each of said radial sections having its outer end provided with an offset bend, the bight ofxwhich constitutes -a recess, an arcuately curved section integral with the offset ends of the radial section,

each of said arcuately curved sections being provided with a bent back portion constituting a hook whereby when said hooks and recesses are interengaged, the core members are interlocked and the arcuately curved portions constitute ajournal.

SHERMAN JEFFERSON MARTIN Vitness:

Jnssn D. TARRANT.

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