US296094A

US296094A - Apparatus for coating wire with metal

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Publication number: US296094A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-04-01
Anticipated expiration: 1901-04-01

Description

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' I L. WILLIAMS.

APPARATUS PORCO'ATINGA WIRE WITH METAL.

A No; 296,094. Patented Apr. 1,1884.

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APPARATUS FOR COATING WIRE WITH METAL.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS WILLIAMS, OF JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE GAMBRIA I IRON COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR COATING W IRE WITH METAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 296,094, dated April 1, 18814:.

Application filed October 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Johnstown, in the county of Oambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Coating WVire with Metal, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus to be used in the application of coils of finewire for the purpose of removing the superfluous metal from wire in the process of coating with zinc or other metal. I

The apparatus is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure .1 is a side view of the mechanism; Fig. 2, an end view, and Fig. 3 atop view.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

it is the vessel containing the melted metal through which the wire passes, and to the top of which the standards b b are secured.

d and d are the coils of fine wire, throughthe rods m, which are hooked to the upper ends of the bell-crank levers 0.- To the other ends of said bell-crank levers 0 may be suspended suitable weights, 1). supports the levers 0.

f is a stand which supports the levers e.

c c are bars, between which the metal-coated wires pass, and on the under side of which the wiping-coils impinge, and are thus held in a proper position. The screws 13 pass through the stand'h, and bear on the ends of the bell crank levers e for the purpose of adjusting the wires 8 centrally between the bars 0 a. The amount of metal left on the wires .3 is regulated by varying the size of the weights 9.

a is a sinker, for the purpose of keeping the wires to be coated beneath the surface of the metal, (indicated by the dotted line w.)

j is a lever secured to the sinker-shaft u, by means of which the sinker can be raised out of themetal by turning the lever into the position shown by the dotted lines 21.

7c and l are pins inserted in suitable holes in the standard I), to retain the sinker in its po sition both within and without the metal.

42. is a stand which I have shown in Figs. 2 and 3 an apparatus for manipulating twelve wires; but by proper duplication of parts it may be arranged for a greater or less number of wires.

The machine is operatedas follows: The weights p being removed from the ends of the bell-cranks 0, and the lever 1) being placed in the position indicated by the dotted lines, the wires to be coated are passed under the sinker a and above the melted metal in the direction indicated by the arrow; then up through the wiping-coils d d, and between the bars 0 c to the reels on which they are to be wound, and to which their ends are fastened. The weights 1) are then placed in their proper positions, and the lever is turned to the position shown at j, which, thrusting the sinker a downward, submerges the wires, the

pin Z being inserted to keep the sinker in this position. The reels are then started, and as the wire is wound up it passes through the melted metal, beneath the sinker a, and up through the wipers d d, which remove all the superfluous metal, the amount removed being governed by the heaviness of the weights 1).

I am aware that prior to my invention wire has been used as a wiper for removing the superfluous metal in coating wire with metal. I therefore do not claim the use .of wire as a wiper; but

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

1. The combination, in a wire-wiping machine, of the wire-wiping coils d d with the bars a c, substantially as described.

2. In a wire-wiping machine, the combination of the wire coils d d with the levers o e,

'weights p,and screws 12, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a wire-wiping machine, the combination of the wire'wiping coils d d, the'bars c 0, and levers 0 c, with sinker a, shaft u, and lever j, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

LEWIS WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

GYRUs ELDER, JAMES M. SwANK, J r.