US3313498A - Tie wire dispenser - Google Patents

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US3313498A
US3313498A US414191A US41419164A US3313498A US 3313498 A US3313498 A US 3313498A US 414191 A US414191 A US 414191A US 41419164 A US41419164 A US 41419164A US 3313498 A US3313498 A US 3313498A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H49/00—Unwinding or paying-out filamentary material; Supporting, storing or transporting packages from which filamentary material is to be withdrawn or paid-out
    • B65H49/18—Methods or apparatus in which packages rotate
    • B65H49/20—Package-supporting devices
    • B65H49/205—Hand-held or portable dispensers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/04—Kinds or types
    • B65H75/16—Cans or receptacles, e.g. sliver cans
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04G—SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS
    • E04G21/00—Preparing, conveying, or working-up building materials or building elements in situ; Other devices or measures for constructional work
    • E04G21/12—Mounting of reinforcing inserts; Prestressing
    • E04G21/122—Machines for joining reinforcing bars
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04G—SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS
    • E04G21/00—Preparing, conveying, or working-up building materials or building elements in situ; Other devices or measures for constructional work
    • E04G21/12—Mounting of reinforcing inserts; Prestressing
    • E04G21/122—Machines for joining reinforcing bars
    • E04G21/123—Wire twisting tools
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/36—Wires
    • B65H2701/362—Tying wires, e.g. for tying concrete reinforcement rods

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  • This invention relates to a wire dispensing reel and more particularly relates to the type of wire dispensing device utilized by workmen in dispensing tie wire used in fastening steel reinforcing rod.
  • FIG. 1 An improved device is described yand claimed in my prior Patent 3,134,556, patented May 26, 1964.
  • a reel comprised of two cup-like shells, hinged at the center to open like a clam shell and provided in its end walls with openings in each of which a shaft is mounted with teeth or dogs at their central ends so that when mated on closing the reel the shaft becomes a unit as far as rotation is concerned.
  • the two shafts are provided with tapered hubs so Athat when the reel is hinged open a coil of wire can be mounted on one hub and the reel closed.
  • the side walls are provided with openings through which the end of the wire can pass and also through which the small lengths of light wire which holds the coils together can be cut after the reel is closed to permit wire to be pulled out.
  • Two end plates are formed as part of the ends of the hubs or attached thereto so that with the hubs they form a reel holding the coil of wire and turning as a unit with the shaft.
  • This improved reel eliminates a problem presented by wire catching in the slit where the two portions of the reel in my earlier patent meet. This can cause jamming of the wire but this is impossible in the improved device because the wire opening is a continuous edge without any split.
  • the construction also presented an additional advantage that when a new coil of wire is to be inserted before the previous coil of wire is completely used up, as when a workman in moving to la different part of the building construction wishes to be sure that he has a full coil of wire to work with, the end wall with the short hub can be more easily opened when there is still some coiled wire on it than if the hub is of the same length as in my earlier patent.
  • the second feature is that if a fairly long piece of wire is withdrawn, for example when the workman reaches to make a -tie of a reinforcing rod which is not close to his body, it may be desirable to wind the wire back in when the workman is finished and has to descend ladders or move elsewhere.
  • the projecting piece of wire will be in the way.
  • the present invention eliminates both of these drawbacks Vand may be considered .as having two aspects.
  • the iirst aspect that is to say the rigid dimensions of the turning reel inside the dispenser is solved by the present invention by interposing resilient means, such as various kinds of springs, so that the end plates of the inner reel are pushed together. It is of course necessary that these plates must be slideable on a portion of the shaft.
  • a closing of 4the casing causes the coil to push the two inner end plates apart against spring pressure and they are always maintained snugly .against the edges of the coil of wire even though their width dimension may vary somewhat. There is therefore no possibility that the wire as it is withdrawn will slip between a loosely fitting end plate and the coil itself and so become wedged.
  • the second aspect of the present invention involves the provision of a particular kind of handle which can wind up wire on the reel inside the dispenser.
  • Handles are not new things.
  • the old types of dispensers prior to the improvements of my patent and application above referred to had an end plate which rotated as one part of the reel and on this there was a short handle.
  • the dispensers presented all of the problems of disassembly, loosening, losses of clamping nuts and the like which rendered the earlier wire dispensers less advantageous and which were avoided by the improved dispensers of my patent and application above referred to.
  • the present invention solves this problem without any drawback by means of a folding handle which, in the folded position7 forms a journal in which the shaft of the inner reel turns but when folded to a central position engages the fastening nut on the end of the shaft and when turned in this position turns the whole of the shaft thus permitting winding up wire on the inner reel.
  • the handle When returned to its unfolded position the handle iits snugly lagainst the peripheral surface of the dispenser and permits the reel to turn freely as if the handle were not there.
  • FIG. l is a section through a dispenser hinged in the middle of its peripheral surface as described in my earlier patent, and
  • FIG. 2 is a similar section through a dispenser accordto my copending application.
  • FIG. 1 the dispenser is shown in its closed form having two outer end plates 1 and 2 with a central opening in depressions of each in which shafts 5 and 6 are journalled.
  • the shafts are fastened by nuts 13 and 14 and at their inner ends are provided with teeth 11.
  • the two halves of the outer dispenser casing are hinged at 22 and held by spring fastener Z1 when the dispenser is closed which is the position in which it is shown in FIG. l.
  • hubs 9 and it? which are developed into inner reel end plates 3 and In the position shown in FIG. 1 the hubs 9 and 10 and end plates 3 and 4 form a reel which receives the coil of wire to be dispensed.
  • the coil is shown at 24 riding on the hubs 9 and 10. Openings 25 and 26 are on opposite sides of the peripheral wall through which wire can be dispensed and/or wire coil fastenings can be cut.
  • End plate 1 is provided with two integral belt loops 27, only one of which shows in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • These belt loops are conventional on wire reel dispensers and are mounted near the peripheries to give a good grip on the workmens belt and prevent undesired twisting.
  • the belt loops are not significantly changed by the improvements of the present invention.
  • a handle 17 with a round portion 16 through which the shaft 6 passes and in which opening it turns.
  • the member 16 is then provided with an offset portion 15 bringing it out to the level of the end plate 2.
  • the handle 17 is journalled on a pin 19 in this member and can be folded back against the end wall 2 as is shown in FIG. 1.
  • the handle is provided with a depression 18 which iits over on the nut 6 when the handle is swung into closed position, which is illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 2 This figure also illustrates hinging of the outer dispenser casing at one end at the hinge 23. This is in accordance with my co-pending application above referred to in which the openings 25 and 26 are in solid walls of the longer portion of the -peripheral walls so that there is no crack at the point where the two sides of the peripheral wall join, as in FG. 1.
  • the inner ends of the hubs are provided with dogs 25 which engage corresponding dogs on the hub 1G so that the two hubs rotate as one when the dispenser is snapped shut.
  • the dogs are sufficiently long so that they engage even though there has been slight movement of the hubs under the influence of the springs. Again the hubs and bolts form a solid shaft when the dispenser is snapped shut and therefore when the shaft 6 is turned by the handle 17 as described above the inner reel turns as a unit.
  • the central depression of the end plate 1 of the dispenser is suiiciently deep so that the nut 13 does not project far beyond its plane.
  • the nut 14 does project slightly beyond the plane of plate 2.
  • the handle 17 in its unfolded position does n'ot turn and so doeg not catch on the workmans clothing. It of course projects beyond the end plate 2 which is away lfrom the workman.
  • Means for locking the handle onto the shaft 6 is shown in the form of a depression with uted sides which engage the nut 14. Of course this is only one form and any other shape which would cause engagement, for example a square of hexagonal projection fitting into a corresponding depression in the end of the shaft 6 could be used.
  • the essential requirement is only that there be a connection of the handle to the shaft 6 in the unfolded position so that when the handle is turned the inner reel turns.
  • a cylindrically shaped, tie Wire dispensing device comprising two'opposing shells, at least one of which is cup shaped, hinged to open and close in a clamshelllike manner, each shell containing an end plate and at least one shell having a sidewall integral therewith, the shells having centrally located openings, a shaft journalled in each opening, an inner plate slideable on each shaft and rotatable therewith, a half hub on each shaft and integral with each of said inner plates and means for connecting the hubs to rotate as one in the closed position of the dispenser, the improvement which comprises resilient means p'ositioned to slide said inner plates toward each other whereby the hubs and inner plates form a reel of variable width and capable of accommodating coils of wire of different widths.
  • a tie Wire dispensing device in which the resilient means is a spring surrounding each shaft at intervals between the end plates of the dispenser and the inner plates and hubs.
  • a tierwire dispensing device in. which each shaft has an end on which the corresponding hub is slideably movable but l'ocked against rotation with respect thereto and the resilient means is a spring mounted in at least one hub and bearing on the end of the shaft positioned to move such hub inwardly with respect to the dispenser end plate.
  • a cylindrically shaped, tie Wire dispensing device comprising two opposing shells, at least one of which is cup shaped, hinged to open and close in a clamshelllike manner, each shell comprising an end plate and at least one shell having a sidewall integral therewith, the shells having centrally located openings, a shaft journalled in each opening, an inner plate slideable on each shaft, hubs slideable on said shafts but not rotatable thereon, resilient means for moving said inner plates toward each other and means for connecting the hubs to rotate as one in the closed position of the dispenser, the improvement comprising a foldable handle hinged on a member through which one shaft is journalled, members provided on the handle and said one shaft cooperating References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,291,368 1/1919 Bass 242--71 X 10 3,001,738 9/1961 Quenot 242-84 3,134,556 5/1964 Wasson 242-96 STANLEY N. GILREATH, Prmaly Examiner.

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US3731887A (en) * 1971-03-08 1973-05-08 C Wheeler Portable storage reel for lines
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US5044770A (en) * 1990-03-28 1991-09-03 Cyrus Haghkar Thermometer for hot asphaltic concrete application
US5509671A (en) * 1995-03-24 1996-04-23 Campbell; William F. Cart for carrying spools of wire
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