US747286A - Die for tying intersecting wires. - Google Patents

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No. 747,286. PATENTED DEG. 15, 190s. s. s. WITHINGTON.

DIE PoR TYING INTERSEGTING WIRES.

APPLIGATIUN FILED AUG. 20, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES :Patented December 15, 1903.

PATENT CEEICE.

SHERMAN S. WITHINGTON, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.

DIE FOR TYING INTERSECTING WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 747,286, dated December 15, 1903. Application filed August 20, 1903. Serial No. 170.141. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SHERMAN S. WITHING- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Adrian, in the county of Lenawee, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dies for Tying Intersecting Wires; and I do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates unit-ingintersectingwires, especially adapted for use in the making of wire fencing; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out particularly in the claims.

The object of the invention4 is to provide means for confining the intersecting wires of a wire fence or fabric in a manner to permit of the driving of a staple around said cross- Wires to unite or tie them together, the arrangement Vbeing such as to direct the legs of the staple in forming the' tie for the intersecting wires in a manner to obviate any abrupt departures from a general course in a given direction and at the same time firmly unite said wires.

The above object is attained by the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichl Figure l is a perspective view of the working face of One of the dies between which the cross-wires are united. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the working face of the other of said dies. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the dies with their working faces together, showing between them the cross-wires and the tie in position thereon. Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section through said dies as on line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the cross-wires united by the tie-Wire, which is driven in position between the dies. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view in perspective of the end of one of the dies looking from the opposite direction to that of Fig. 2.

Referring to the characters of reference, 1 designates a die having the greater portion to dies for tying or of its face dat, but provided at one end with a raised shoulder 2. Formed in the face of the die are the parallel channels 3, which are concaved or depressed near their central portion and which unite at one end in an inclined plane 4, that 4leads upwardly to the face of the die. The opposite ends of the channels 3 terminate in the channels 5, which are formed in the vertical face of the raised portion 2 and curve inwardly or toward each other and lead into the slot 6, cut vertically through said raised portion. Crossing the parallel channels 3 is a transverse groove '7, adapted to receive one of the cross-wires 8. Crossing the groove 7 at right angles is a second groove 9, which lies centrally between the channels 3 and terminates at one end in the slot said groove 9 being adapted to receive the other of the cross-wires 10. The opposite die 11 is provided with an inclined way 12 for the reception of the driving-plunger, (not shown,) which is employed to force the tying-staple into position and whose inner end when the dies are placed together registers with the incline 4 in the die 1. Crossing the face of die 11 is a groove 13, which registers with groove 7 in the rstmentioned die. Crossing the groove 13 at right angles is a short groove 14, which is adapted to register with groove 9 in die l. In' the face of die 11 is an oset 15, adapted to receive the raised portion 2 of the opposite die when said dies are placed together, and formed in the vertical face 16 of said odset (see Fig. 6) are the downwardly-curved channels 17, which are adapted to register with the channels 5 in the vertical face of the shoulder 2.

The tie 18, which unites the cross-strands 8 and l0, is in the form of a staple, and when the dies are placed together upon the crosswires which lie in the registering grooves 7 and 13 and 9 and 14 and the staple or tie is forced into the dies through the inclined Way 12 the legs of said staple are directed by said incline and the incline 4 into the parallel channels 3 under the Wire 8. A further inward movement of the staple will cause its legs to enter the channels 5 in the vertical face of the shoulder 2 and the channels 17 in the vertical face 16 of the ofset in the opposite die, whereby the legs of said staple IOO are curved inwardly across the wire and cross each other, the terminal of one being directed from the channel 17 on one side into the channel 19 across and upon the outside of the opposite leg of the staple, while the opposite channel 17 directs said opposite leg of the staple across channel 19 and into channel 20, whereby the terminals of the JLie are bent down wardly upon each side of the crosswire 10, as shown at 2l in Fig. 5, completing the operation of uniting the wires 8` and 10. By forming the channels 5 in the Vertical face of the shoulder 2 and the corresponding channels 17 in the vertical face of the odset the legs of the staple may be forced across the wire 10 and caused to lie across each other, with their end portions curved inwardly, so as not to leave any sharp ends projecting from the knot, at the same time uniting the cross-wires in a very substantial manner.

Having thus fully set forth'my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A die for tying intersecting wires comprising opposed members, one of which is provided with a raised shoulder and with parallel channels formed in the face thereof, said member also having an inclined way with which one end of each of said parallel channels communicates and having` converging channelsin the vertical face of said raised portion with which the opposite ends of the parallel channels communicate, and crossgrooves in the face of said member for the reception of the cross-wires to be tied, the opposite member having an offset to receive the raised port-ion of the first-mentioned member, and having in the vertical face thereof,

channels which register with the channels in the vertical face of said raised portion, said last-mentioned member having an inclined way and cross-grooves adapted to register with the crossgrooves in said first-mentioned member.

2. In a die for uniting intersecting wires, the combination of a die member having a raised shoulder and a fiat working face below the plane of said shoulder, channels for directing the tying-staple formed in the flat face of said memberand extendinginto the'vertical face of said shoulder, an opposed die member having an offset in its working face adapted to receive the shoulder of the first-mentioned member, the vertical face of said offset having channels therein adapted to register with the channels in the vertical face of said shoulder, each of the die members having registering cross-grooves adapted to receive the wires-to be joined.

3. A die for uniting intersecting wires comprising opposed members, oneof which has a raised shoulder and the other of which has an odset adapted to receive said shoulder, cross-grooves in the meeting faces of said members adapted to receive the intersecting wires, channels in the meeting faces of said members adapted to direct the tying-staple around said wires, said channels extending into the vertical faces of said raised portion and of saidoffset in opposed relation.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

SHERMAN S. WITHINGTON.

' Witnesses:

PAUL H. SMITH, J. N. SAMPsoN.

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