US237375A

US237375A - Barb-holding device

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Publication number: US237375A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-02-08
Anticipated expiration: 1898-02-08

Description

(No Model) T.W..EAT0N.

Barb Holding 'De-vice.

Patented Feb. 8,1881.

N PERS. PHOTDLLITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT f OFFICE.

` THOMAS W. EATON, `OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BARB-HOLDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,375, dated February 8, 1881.

Application tiled August 30, 1880. (No model.)

it being of necessity that some device be employed that is new and novel that will allow the said metal barbs to be deposited by the punch, or other machine forming them, in an even uniform way, so that they may be safely transferred therefrom. to the twisting mechanism in such :manner as to be readily handled Without snarlin g, and placed with facility therein. rlhe objects are fully attained by the mechanical device illustrated in the drawings, and hereinafter more fully shown and described.

Having thus defined the necessity of Vmy invention to the manufacture of continuous metalbarb fencing, I will proceed to describe the device.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view,

and Fig. 2 is a section, ofthe longitudinal strips A, illustrating how the metallic strip C is kept in position vertically and how the barb is caught in position thereon.

Similar letters of reference are used in both views to indicate similar parts.

The longitudinal wooden strips A, Fig. l, are slotted their entire length, as shown at C', that they may receive the metallic strips C, and thus hold them firmly in a vertical position. The wooden strips A, together with their metallic adjuncts C, are formed into a frame by connecting them to the transverse wooden strips, to which they are firmly attached by screws or bolts, as shown at b, Fig. l. Into the inner faces of the transverse strips, and at their lower edges, are cut the transverse slots, as shown at C C, and in the dotted lines at CW', the object being to bind the metallic strips C firmly in their position.

The longitudinal strips Aare set equidistant, and at such distance from each other as to allow the angles of the continuous metal barbs D to drop thereon and retain their equilibrium, the upper edges of the metal strips C being sharply beveled, as shown in Fig. 2, to facilitate this desired result. The frame as a whole is set at a sharp angle as regards its length, the metal barbs D dropping from the punch or other machine of manufacture upon the upper end of said frame sliding down one against another until the frame is filled, when it is replaced by another one, and so on ad I do not confine myself to the material used in the construction of this holder, or to the described points of jointure of the longitudinal and transverse strips, as they may be mortised and tenoned or halved together; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

For use jointly with a machine for punching fence-barb strips of sheet metal, the frame herein described for receiving such strips as they fall from the forming-machine in an even and uniform manner, substantially as described.

THOMAS W. EATON.

Witnesses:

F. M. CoMsroeK, D. S. BALDWIN.