US699985A - Machine for weaving cross-wires in fences. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES A AfriiNT `VOFFICE.

NATHAN. STEELE AND HAYEsnRowN, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

MACHINE FoR-wi-:AvlNo CROSS-.WIRES IN FENcEs.

SEECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent N. 69 9,9815, dated May 13, 1902.

Apparition filed April 27, 1901.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that we, NATHAN STEELE andl HAYES BROWN,citizens of the United States,

residing at Columbus, in the county of Frank- Weaving Cross-Wires in Fences, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the improvement of machines for weaving cross-wires in wire fences; and the objects of'our invention-are to provide an improved machine of'this class of superior construction and arrangement of parts whereby the weaving of cross-wires in a wire fence may be rapidly and effectively accomplished, and to produce certain im provements in details of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects we accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a side elevation of ourimproved machine. Fig. 2 isa front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section enlarged from the previously-described figures. Fig. 4 is a detail viewshowing Va transverse section through two of the Weaving-,spools and illustrating the .positions of the same when the wire-carrying reelis being transferred from onerweaving-spoolto lthe Otherf: Fig. 5 is a sectional viewfthrough one endof the wire-carryingreel-frame,and Fig. 6 isan enlargedsection on line y fy'ofFig. 1.

Similar. numerals refer to similar. parts throughout theseveral views.

In carrying out our'invention'we provide vertical and parallelframe side plates l and 2, which are'suitably connected at theirupper and lower end portions to produce vthe main weaver-carrying frame. Each of these frame side plates or standards vis providedwith a vertical row of circular openings 3, the latter gradually decreasing in size from top to bottom of the row and said openings being made to communicate l in their upper and lower sides, as shown. In the oppositely-located openings 3 of the Standards l and 2 are made to bear rotatably the disk-like heads 4 and 5' of weaver-carrying spools 6, the transverse shaft portions of each of the latter being. provided with a longitudinally-slotted opening 7. Each of the heads 4 and 5 is formed on senti Nt. 57,632,y da model.;

itsinner, sde witha disk-like enlargement,

resulting in the formation of internal circular shoulders, these shoulders being indicated at 4a and 5m.: Each of the tubular shafts 6 has thatjend portion on which the head 4 is mountedextended through said head and caused-tobear in a bearing-opening formed inavvertically-arranged bar 8, which is secured on the outer side of the frame-standard 1. On the outer side of this bar the enlarged head Vof l,the-shaft 'carries a sprocket-wheel 9, said Sprocket-wheel being formed with an opening 10, arranged out of center therewith andlargenthan the central opening'of the spool- Shafts. and communicating with the slotted opening 7 of the shaft 6. A similar offset or opening 10a is formed in each of the spool-heads or disks i4 and 5, these Vlarger openings v10a communicating with the boreof the vcorresponding Spool-shaft, as indicated in Fig.'3. Each of the disks or heads 4 and 5 is formedwitha peripheral notch 11, which eX- tends inward to the periphery of the shoulders 4a 5a.:

12 represents an oblong reel-frame within which is journaled transversely a wire-carrying spool or reel body 13. The ends of this reel-frame 12 are provided with outwardlyextendingtr'unnions 14 and 15, the trunnion 15 being, as indicated more clearly in Fig. 5 of the drawings, in the nature of a tube. The trunnions 15 and 14 are adapted, as indicated -in the drawings, to be su pported,respectively,

in two oppositely-located spool-head notches 11, while thewire 13a from the spool 13 is adapted, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, to pass through the tubular trunnion 15.

On the inner sides of the standards 1 and 2 andon opposite sides of .the points of connection vof the' openings 3 are pivoted inwardly-extending gravity Apawls orngers 16 and 17. Each of the pawls 16 hasits inner pointed or wedge-like end portion normally bearing by gravity upon the shoulder 4f* of the next lower spool- head 4 or 5, while the pawls or fingers 17 have their outer end portions weighted to insure the contact of the inner pointed portion thereof with the under side of the shoulder 4 or 5*PL of the next higher spool- head 4 or 5, this construction being drawings.

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Secured to the outer sides of the plates or standards 1 and 2 are parallel forwardly-projecting arms 18 and 19, andjournaled between the outer ends of these arms is a shaft 20, on one end of which is carried a sprocket-wheel 21. The inner portion of the arm 18, in front of the standard 1, has pivoted thereon an idle sprocket-wheel 22. The shaft 20, as indicated at 23, carries an operating-crank. Through the medium of dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings and in fulllines in Fig. 2 I have indicated a continuous driving-chain 24, this chain running, as shown in Fig. 1, alternately over the rear and front sides of the sprocketwheels 9 and running from the upper sprocketwheel 9 downward beneath the sprocketwheel 22 and over the sprocket wheel 21, thence to the lower sprocket-wheel 9.

25 represents the parallel horizontal wires of a wire fence. These wires, as indicated in the drawings, are in utilizing my invention made to pass, respectively, through the tubular shafts of the spools 6, the main frame of our device being thus supported in a vertical position. In order to illustrate the operation of weaving cross-wires in connnection with the horizontal wires 25, we will assume that the trunnions 14 and 15 of the wire-reel-carrying frame 12 are located, respectively, in the peripheral notches 11 of the upper oppositelylocated reel- heads 4 and 5, and that that portion of the wire 13 which extends outward through the trunnion 15 has been previously engaged with the top or upper horizontal wire 25. By turning the crank-handle 23, and thus through the chain 24 imparting rotary motion to the spools 6, which motion, we will assume, is such as to cause the upper spool to rotate in the direction indicated by the dotted arrow in Fig. 3, it is obvious that the wire-reel frame 12 may be made to travel about the shaft of the upper spool o' the desiredI number of times, thereby causing the wire 13zx to be wound or coiled upon the upper wire 25 the desired number of times. In this operation it is obvious that at each rotation of the spoolheads 4 5 the inner ends of the pawls 17 will be depressed during the passage of the trunnions 14 and 15 over the same. In order to 17 in the manner indicated in Fig. 4. In this manner the reel-frame is carried into connection with the notches 11 of the next lower spool-heads, and through its traveling action about said next lower spool results in the wire 13n being wound upon the next lower wire 25. It is obvious that the operation of transferring the wire-carrying reel from one spool to another may be continued throughout the spools of the vertical row to the bottom of the frame, after which the frame may be made to slide in the direction of the length of the wires 25 and the operation of successively connecting the cross-wire 13a with the horizontal wires carried on by such rotary movement of the spools as will result in carrying the reel upward.

In cases where the horizontal fence-wires have been spliced or enlargements formed therein by kinking or otherwise it is obvious that any difficulty which might be experienced through the failure of the wire where these enlargements occur to pass through the tubular shafts of the spools 6 may be remedied by forcing the wire temporarilyout into the larger sprocket-wheel openings 10 or until the obstruction is passed.

From the construction and operation described it will be seen that a machine is provided for weaving cross-wires in fences by which the operation may be carried on rapidly and effectively.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a machine for weaving cross-wires in fences, the combination with a framework comprising vertical frame standards and spools G having enlarged heads journaled in said frame-standards, said heads having peripherial notches 11, the shaftsof said spools being tubular and a gear connection between the outer ends of said shafts, of a reel-frame 12 having journaled therein a wire-carrying spool, said frame 12 having trunnions 14 and 15, the latter being tubular, said trunnions adapted to engage oppositely-located notches of the spoo1-heads4 and 5, and means for directing said trunnions from the notches of one pair of heads into the notches of an adjacent pair, substantially as specified.

v NATHAN STEELE.

HAYES BROWN. In presence of- C. C. SHEPHERD, P. S. KARSHNER.

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