US523415A - Machine for weavinb cross-wires in wire fences - Google Patents

Description

(No 'Model.)

F. W. SHELLABURGER; MACHINE FOR WEAVING (moss WIRES IN WIRE FENCES.

No. 523,415. Patented-July 24; 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLAVIOUS W. SHELLABURGER, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

IMACHINEQFOR WEAVIN'G QROSS- WIRE SiIN WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,415, dated July 24, 1894. Application filed April 26, 1894- Serial No. 609,145. (No model.)

- To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it'known that I, FLAVIOUS W. SHELLA- BURGER, of Dayton, county of Montgomery,

State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Weaving Wire Fences; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to following specification and drawings, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the drawings herewith, upon which similar letters of reference indicate corrresponding parts, Figurel is a front elevation of the weaver in the act of weaving the woof or vertical wire to the horizontal wires of the fence. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the weaver with the reel detached. Fig. 3is an end elevation looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig, 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view showing the weaver being removed from a horizontal wire, also a kink or curve formed in said wire by the weaver, which prevents the vertical wire from slipping from its position.-

a and a designate the sides of the supporting frame having ahub b with a central opening therein, and longitudinal slots 0.

e designates a bevel gear wheel mounted between the sides a and a. and movable in the slots 0. v

fis a shaft or bit that may be socketed in a brace, or may be an integral part of the brace as shown in the drawings, for rotating the wheel 6; said shaft penetrates the opening in the hub b of the frame, to journal in an opening in the axis of the wheel 6.

g designates a handle attachedto one side of the frame by which the weaver is carried while being operated, in the left hand.

it is a needle shaft, loosely journaled in the sides a and a of the frame.

i is abevel pinion cast preferably, a solid part of the needle shaft, and at one end thereof, and adapted to mesh with the gear wheel 6 on the outside'of theframe.

j is an integral plate or flange projecting downwardly in avertical plane from the outer face of the pinion 'i,'to which and with which, the wire reel 7a is rigidly attached, and movable. n-n are spurs cast on the pinion z' and projecting vertically from the outer face' thereof, in a direction diametrically opposite to the flange j; these spurs radiate from the periphery of said pinion, and provide means for guiding the horizontal wires 0 into the slot 0' extending through the longitudinal axis of the needle shaft, and from the center to the periphery of the pinion 'i; the axes of the sis a spring-latch pivoted to the rear of the frame, with its outer end 3 turned at a right angle to enter a notch in the wheel 6 to lock the rotating parts whilethe weaver is being carried from one horizontal wire to another. The needle shaft is locked by this latch in a position to enable the slot therein,

and in the pinion,to be broughtin alignment with a horizontal wire. At each point on said horizontal wires, wherethe vertical wire is twisted, a kink or curve 25, is left, see Fig. 4.

This kink in the horizontal wire is an effect ual means of preventing said vertical wire from slipping from its position, and is made by the machine when brought in rigid contact with said wire under the strain due tothe operation of twisting the wire.

The operation of weaving the vertical wires is as follows: Said wire isfirst given an initial wind around the top horizontal wire, at

the end of the fence, or at any point from whence the weaving is to commence; the

weaver is then carried downwardly by the handle until the forwardly projecting part or end it thereof comes against the next lower horizontal wire, which gages the length of wire to be unwound, to reach .from one horizontal wire to the other. When the weaver is thusbeing carried from one wire to another, it is preferable to hold it in the position shownin Fig. 3, to admit of the free unwinding of the wire, anda convenient gaging of said wire by the end not the handle. When the weaver is brought to the horizontal wire with which the woof or vertical wire is to be woven, it is brought to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the horizontal wire is guided into the slotin the needle shaft and pinion, through the spursm-n; the brace f isthen turned by the right hand to rotate the wheel 6, the needle shaft and pinion, and the reel, which as herein before stated, is carried bysaid pinion;

, the twistingof the vertical wire is thereby accomplished, a couple of turns of the needle shaft being sufficient to effect a substantial connection between the two wires, but a greater numberof turns may. he made if re The ratio of the wheel and the pinion fer toconstruct the wheel and pinion in the form of Initerwheels. I

In practice I1 premy invention, I

tothe horizontal wires of a fence, the combination with the supporting frame and agear wheel mounted therein, andmeansforlrotating said gear wheel; of aneedlelshaft journaled in said; frame, a gearpinion rigidly mounted on the needle shaft, through which and said needleshaft there is a'common slot; at awire reel carriedby said gear. piniomanda' pin lying across, the slot in the needle shaft forming an eye to secure the wire in said needle shaft, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set. my hand this 19th day of April,189-l..

FLAVIOUS W. SHELLABURGER.

Witnesses:

R. J. MoCARTY, B. L. BOND.

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