US1825214A

US1825214A - Wire transfer apparatus

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Publication number: US1825214A
Application number: US411145A
Authority: US
Inventors: George G Swank
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1929-12-02
Filing date: 1929-12-02
Publication date: 1931-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 1948-09-29

Description

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WI-RE TRANSFER APPARATUS Filed Dec. 2, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 FIG. 1.

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.mk wwm mww S 5 E .E D #5 dnmlusks Patented Sept. 29, 1931 UNITED STATES GEORGE G. swaNx, or cmwroansvrrm, INDIANA' WIRE APPARATUS Application flled'December 2, 1929. Serial No. 411,145.

The present invention relates to the handling of wire in coiled form for the manufacture of fences and the like, and has more particular reference to an improved device for use in transferring formed coils of wire from the forming block to the reel from which the wire is directly taken in the manufacture of wire fence fabrics.

At the present time, the manufactured wire is wound upon a form block or the like andafter the coil is formed to the desired size it is thenstripped from the block, placed upon a cruciform frame and bundled or tied thereto, and then put on a truck. The truck is then moved to a fence department and unloaded by placing the coiled wire on'reels from which the wire is unwound in the manufacture of the fence fabrics.

In order that the coils of wire may be readily handled and transported by truck, it has been found necessary to make relatively small bundles or coils of wire which are about 300 pounds each in weight. I According to the present invention the coils of wire may be made considerably larger and may be approximately 1000 pounds in weight each, and wherein the mounting and tying of the coils of wire to a frame is eliminated, and also the use of the truck may be eliminated. An object of the present invention is to provide a transfer device which may be used directly between a' portable reel and the form block so that the coil of wire may be transferred directly from the form block onto the reel and then the reel shifted to the desired point for feeding the wire directly therefrom to the machines for making the wire fence fabrics.

Another object of the invention is to provide a transfer device which may be quickly and easily detached from the reel and from the form block, and which may be quickly and easily adjusted into place between the reel and the form block so that the time required 46 for the transfer is reduced to a minimum and wherein the transfer device may be quickly and easily handled.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views 5 Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section,-of the transfer device constructed according to the present invention and as applied to the Wire reel and the form block.

Figure 2 is a detail side elevation of the transfer device.

Figure 3 is a front side elevation of the same, looking into the upper reduced end of the device.

Figure 4 is a rear side elevation of the same. 5

Figure 5 is a top plan view of the device.

Figure 6 is a transverse section taken through the base or larger end of the device subistantially on the line 6-6 of Figure 2, an 7 Figure 7 is a transverse section through the upper end of the device taken substantially on the line 7-7 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates the longitudinal supporting rods of the frame block which are connected at one end to a head flange or disc 11 against which the coils of wire are adapted to be pressed during the winding or coiling, and 12 designates a connecting. outer ring to which the opposite ends of the bars 10 are secured. The ring 12 is located at the inner sides of the bars 10 so that the coil of wire, indicated at 13, may he slid outwardly from the head 11 over the opposite ends of the bars 10.

As the wire is drawn or manufactured it is Wound upon the form block thus described, andwhen the coil is completed it is adapted to be transferred by suitable means and in a suitable manner to the reel 14, shown in Fig- 00 ure 1. The reel 14 may be of any suitable construction and is shown in the present instance as comprising a main cylindrical body portion mounted upon a base plate 15 adapted for rotation upon a spindle or shaft 16' which rises through the reel 14 and extends slightly above the same. Theshaft 16 is mounted upon a base 16 having castors or rollers 17 b means of which the reel may be quickly an easily transported over the floor are connected together by a plurality of wires or rods 21 sccured'at one endto-the-ringl9 and at their other ends to thering 20. The

ring 19 forms the base ring and adapted when in position to bedisposedhorizontally and is provided with a central hub :22 adapted to freely lit over the upper-end of the; shaft 15 and with arms 23 which extend-racinally fronrthe hub 22 to .supportthe ring-19. The ring 19 is connected to the outer-,ends ofg the arms near the upper surface of; the

ring 19 sothat thecavity, or seatisformed in the lower side of. the V ring adapted to .re,

ceive the upperendof-the reel ljel. The ring- 19 is .thus heldupon the rcellel so thatthe transfer device. willnot tiltwhenitrests upon the upper end of the reel, andgthe;huh22, of the transfer. device engages-the -shaft115 sufficiently to substantially, center; the base, portion of the transfer device over the: upper endof the. reel;

The wires or rods 2l,which ,form the;bo.dy part of, the transfer, device are suitably curved so as to dispose the upper-i ring-20 at: substantially right angles-to the ring;19,,o.r; at such angle as is found convenient for the application-of; a transfer device fbetaveen the form block 10 and the. reel 14.7

The lower or base. ends ofthe rodsQl: are suitably, secured to the base ring 19zat; the outer side thereof,,or-at any-otheri suitable or convenient point, and therodsi2lconverge upwardly and toward one'side of: the device asshown in FigureLand-arc secured tothe inner side of the ring-20; The ring 20 is of less diameter thanthegring ltl so that the;upper end of the. device tapersor issufli: ciently reduced in diameter to freely, receive the coil of wire, 13 upon the device; and to. direct the coil ofwireinto position over the upper end of thereel 1-1.

The ring; QO'has anexterior-diameter to freely .fit in the ring12 ofthe form block, and any suitable means may be provided for lim iting or suitably interconnecting the,

rings

12 and 20 so thatthe same; arerelated as shown in Figure 1.

The transfer device may-be retained per1nanently upon-the upper end ofthe reelul l so as to be transported therewith 'asaipart thereof and so that it is only necessary-to swing the ring QO into alignment with the-ringlz of the forming block whenit is desiredto load-the reel 14. In unloading; thereell l the wire is merely unwound therefrom so that the transfer device plays no part in this op eration and is not in the way when carried upon the upper end of the reel.

It is apparent that in the use of the device all of these intermediate steps which are usually required for the transfer of the coil 13 from the form block 10 to the reel 1 1 is eliminated, It, is only necessary. to place the transfer; device of. this invention between the reel 14 and the form block 10 and to then slide the wire coil 13 from the form block made considerably, larger than they are at presentiso thatgreaterquantities of the materiaLmay behandled iandthe transfer is required at greater intervals of time.

The device is-ofisuchconstruction that it flClTDltSg of:solidityandstrength while at the sametilne it is relatively, small andilight in wleightand may be quickly and easily han- (1 ed;

It is obvious that various changes and modifications-may be made in the details of construetion ,and design ,of'the above specifically describedfenibodinientof this invention without departing from the spirit: thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by, the scope of the-following claims.

What is claimed is 1. In, combination With an open ended form block for wire coils, a reel, means for supporting the reel: for transportation from pl ace. to. place, and an upwardly tapering and laterally. curved.transfer-device having an opening, in itslower end ,receivingthe upper end' of-the reel; and supporting the adjacent end of; the device over; the upper. end of the reel; and havingits-upper, end detachably engaging; intheopen, end of the form block for-receivingand guidingacoilof wire from the formblock onto the reel. 7

2.. Anv-ire coilitransfer; device adapted for usehbetween a fornrblock andareel, comprising; a; pair; of. rings of. different diameters, andaiplurality of rods'secured to the inner wall of the ring of smaller diameter, and to theouten walliofthe ringtof larger diameter-in spaced relation the-reabout-to provide a body. portion, .said rods being curved longitudinally to shape the body portion into the form of an elbow, the first mentioned ring havinga smooth outer, surface adapted to engagein theopen end ofthe form block for receivinga Wire coil therefrom and the second mentioned ring adaptedto. receive the endofthe reel.

3. Awire. coil {transfer device adapted for use betweenalform blockandia reel, coma prising a main body part, means at one end of the main bod part for detachable engagement with the orm block and means at the opposite end of the main body part for detachably seating upon the reel, said last mentioned means comprising a ring carried by the main body part and a spider carried by the upper portion of the rin forming a cavity in the lower portion of t e ring to receive the upper portion of the reel.

GEORGE G. SWANK.