US246728A

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Publication number: US246728A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-09-06
Anticipated expiration: 1898-09-06

Description

(No Model.)

& J. Lemon. WIRE WIPER.

No. 246,728. Patented Sept, 6,1881.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

FREDERICK CRICHpOF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, AND JOHN A. CRICH, OF NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO HENRY ROBERTS, OF ALLEGHENY CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

WlRE-WIPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,728, dated September 6, 1881.

Application filed June 25, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK ORICH, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, and JOHN A. Union, of

Naugatuck, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Wire-Wiper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices that are designed to remove the surplus coating metal from wire as it is drawn through the galvanizing or tinnin g bath.

Theinvention consists of two metallic plates, having opposite edges longitudinally grooved for holding the wiping material and vertically slotted for the guidance and passage of the wires, one plate being stationary, with its grooved edge upward, and the other being pivoted, with its grooved edge downward, and

provided with a lever and weight for regulating the pressure upon the wires, the two plates beingarranged in such a manner that the wires as they are drawn from the metal bath are brought in contact with the wiping material first of one plate and then of the other, all of which will be hereinafter set forth.

Figure l is a sectional end elevation of the device on line 00 m, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device with part broken away 0 to exhibit other parts. Fig.3is avertical section on line y 3 Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. I

.In the drawings, A represents the lower 5 plate, secured on edge at a slight forward inclination on the bed-plate B, the upper edge of said plate A having a longitudinal groove, a, and a number of vertical slots, 1), of about the depth of said groove a. At either end of the bed-plate B is secured by bolts 0 a standard, C, between which, on trunnions d, is pivoted the upper plate, D, whose lower edge is also provided with a longitudinal groove, f, and vertical slots g, corresponding with those in the plate A, the slots b 9 being directly opposite each other. This plate D swings in front of the plate A, and its lower edge reaches below the upper edge of the plate A, so that the wires E, when drawn from the metal bath (No model.)

represented at F, will necessarily be drawn in a slightly double curved line as they pass through the slots g bin succession and in contact with the wiping material C in the respeotive grooves f a. This wiping material is asbestus, G, which is preferably formed into a rope and is held in the groovef of the plate D by transverse plates H, fastened to said plate D.

Above the groove f in the plate D is a cylindrical chamber, I, closed at each end, extending throughout the said plate D, and designed to contain water, that is introduced therein-through a tubular opening, 7c, extendin g into it from the upper edge of said plate D. From said chamber I short passages m extend to the groove f, opening into said groove f above each slot g, so that the wiping substance G shall be kept always wet directly over each wire E as it is drawn between the plates AD.

Attached to the front of the plate D, near the top thereof, is a lever, K, which, extending forward, has a movable weight, M, suspended on it, and by the adjustment of this weight M on the lever K the plate D is held in position with greater or less firmness or 7 pressure as the wires E are drawn beneath it in contact with the wiping material Gr, so that the surplus coating metal on said wiresG shall be more or less thoroughly removed.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 1. Animproved wire-wiper, constructed substantially as herein shown and described, consisting of fixed lower plate, A, havinga longitudinally-grooved and transversely-slotted upper edge, and pivoted upper plate, D, having alongitudinally-grooved and transversely-slotted lower edge, both plates holding asbestus orother wire-wiping substance in their grooves, as set forth.

2. Ina wire-wiper, the swingingupper plate,

D, provided with the longitudinal groove f, vertical slots g, the longitudinal water-chainber Q, the supply-opening, and the delivery- 5 openings m, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby water is supplied to the wire-wipingsubstance, as set forth.

wiping substance, G, and provided with a water-chamber and water supply and discharge [5 openings, substantially as herein shown and described.

FREDERICK ORICH. JOHN A. ORIOH.

Witnesses as to signature of Frederick Orich:

HENRY ROBERTS, H. E. HOLMES.

Witnesses as to signature of John A. Crich:

JOHN BOOTH, JACOB HORNER.