US385304A - Fence-machine - Google Patents

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G. F. GILLET. PEE UE MACHINE.

1%. 385,304. Patented June 26, 1888" 0. F. GILLET. FEHGE IMA E-mm.

, Pm ed Jun 26, was.

4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 26 UNITED S ATES AT NT UFF'I E,

" CHARLES r. 'GILLET, or SPRINGFIELD, innrnois;

' FENCE-Macrame,

- SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Pa w 355.304. dated {9135 g vioeeg sAppliegtion m Nhvembertil),i881.v si-nn has.h'stftiifiludlilou i.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that-,1, CHARLnsF. GILnnr, of Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new" and useful Improvements in Fence-Machihes;-

and I do herebytdeelare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof refereneebeing had to the accompanyi ng-draw I ings,.in which.

,Fign re 1 shows a view of my machine inside 'elevation; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same;

Fig, 3, an enlarged vertical sectional viewon linem cc'ofFig. 2; Fig. 4, an enlarged trans verse sectional view on line 3/ got Fig. 2; Fig. 5,a detail perspective ofa portion of the clampshnttle used in 'my machine; Fig. 6, a detail perspective view of one of the jawsupporting plates ofthe clamp'shuttle; Fig. 7, a detail pen.

speetive view of a portion of the tension-pulley.

shaft, show ingone way of ad j ustahly. fi'Xi ngithe" pulleys in the shaft; andFig. 8, a similar view showing a modification of the adjustable attachment of the pdllcys. Letters of like-name and kind parts in each of the figures.

. The object'of my invention is to providea-n refer to like.

improved fence-making machine; and to this end myinvention consists in the machine and in the construction, arrangement, and'eombi-- nation of the specified.

In the drawings, A Adesignate the frame for supporting the operative parts of my maparts thereof, as hereinafter chine or apparatus. Such frame can be of any desired form, construction, and material, though. I prefer to make it of ,wood and in a formsubstantially as shown in the drawings" On the upper side of this frame are the two journal-benrings B I in whichare jonrnaled' theends olth'e shaft of the twister-driving trailer or. drum. 0. A. hand or crank wheel, 0, is shown attached to such shaft for rotating any'desired number.

the roller; but any other desired handor power device. or mechanismcan he used for this pur-- pose instead of the crank-wheel without de-- parture from my invention. Journaled below this roller or. drnm O are the twisters D D, of

similarly-formed devices located at equal dis- ,tances from eachotherybntwith the drivingconneetions used between the roller 0 and the after.

, tion are the reduced portions D D, forming In the drawings I show the series of twisters as consisting of five or diminished in number and readily changed asitotheir relative positions. a A Each twister has the plane cylindrical part twisters, obviously, the-lattercan be increased D; with the flanges D Dat its opposite ends. I

This construction makes 'of .the main portion .of the body of thetwister a flanged pulley or spool, fora purpose to be deseribed'hercin- At the opposite ends of this main porjournals-for the twistersand supportedin suit- 1" able journal-bearings, B B, on'cross-beams of 'frameAiA. From oneof these reducedportions or journals of thetwiste'r there extends a neck, D", having on its outer end'ai'ork, D

' lubes or pipes d d,-for the passage of the two wires to be twisted, runtthroughout" the body and journal portions of the twister, and

shown so as toguide the, wires to then-e spective wire receiving openings dd in' the arms of twister-fork I). The use of these ,tnbes or pipes to form the wire-passages, in-

stead of merely coring out thewbody of-the' mncheasier. Y

The twister-s are connected with the driving roller or drum,so as to be driven therefrom,- by bands E E,'of cord, rope, chain, or other material, passing'around the roller and the pulley or spool portion of the respective twisters,-as.sh0wn best in Figs. 2and 3. 7 With this construction, obviously, the positions of the twisters can be changed as desired, their respective bands being slid along thefroller G as the change, in position of the twis'ters is blade.

Pivoted or jonrnaled in the lower portion oi thegframe below and beyond-the ends of the twister-forkarms is the transverse rock shaft F, provided with the upright arms Ff F. Carried by these-arms is a frame consisting, essentially, of the upper and lower parallel bars G G, and extending across the machine opposite the series of twister-s. Said bars can be supported entirely by. attachment to arms F E, or they can be connected with such arms Ice in any desired way and have distancepieees or upright bars between them to makea solid frame. I

. 7 7 at their ends from which the wires ssueeare' turnedonward in opposite fiiTEUlifGfiS; as

2 asseos- Pivote'd, respectively, in the upper and lower bars of this frame are the upper. and lower pivots or bearings of a series of swinging wings or jaws, III-I. Each of these wings consists of the projectingportion or body with the pivots. 711 h in line with each other, but to one side of the body of the wing. The swing ing wings or jaws of the series are arranged in pairs, so that as the two composing any pair moved outward by the rocking of shaft F aud swinging the arms 1 I the wings will then be held by lugs 0; i from being swnngback by anything pressing against them.

At the outer sides of the wings, away from the twisters, are the cams i on the plate 1- one for each wing-so situated and shapedthat as the wings are swung outward away from each other'their lower ends'will ride up the cams,.so asto cause the wings to be raised. bodily upward, as indicated inFig. 5. The cams are, as shown, curved lugs having inclines beginning close to the wing-bottoms when the'wingsstand swung inward toward each other-and rising upward and outward from such points; The lugs are curved on arcs struck from the axis of motion of the wings, in order that their inclines may properly engage the lower ends of the wings throughout the swing of the latter.

-At the-upper and outer ends of the inclines on the lugs are projections M, to act as stops to limit the outward swing of the wings. The upper pivots of the wings are made long, so as to allow the necessary upaud-down movement of the wings as the latter swing and ride up and down the cam-inclines on lugs i" With the wings swung outward, and consequently raised bodily upward by the cams, as described, if they be released their weight will cause their lower ends to ride down over the inclines'of the caius, so as to swing the wings inward toward each other again.

Where the wings are made of metal, as I prefer, their own weight will be sufficient to cause them .to ride down and be acted upon by the earns, as described. To supplement the weight of the wings in this matter, springs K K can be used, coiled aboutthe upper pivots of the wings and pressing down upon the latter. The pair of wires from each twister passes out between the 'wings of the respective pairopposite such twister.

On the rock-shaft F is a lever, M, for actuatingit; but any other desired .incuns for that purpose may be used.

The spools or reels N N, for supplying the two wires tocach twister, are mounted onsuitable shafts, N N, supported one above the other in hearings on the frame A A.

As it is most desirable in order'to insure n niform action of the machine and-the making of good even fence that the wires should all be under equal tension as they pass to the twisters, Iemploy the tension devices, con-f structed as follows:' Journaled in bearings on the frame .A, A is the transverse shaft 0, carrying grooved or flanged pulleys PP, arranged in pairs, as shown, one pulley for each wire coining from reels N N. Such pulleys are attached to the shaft, so as to rotate therewith,

but preferably by connections allowing adjust ment of them along the shaft to suit the de- Any desired form of adjustable connection between sired spacing or location of the wires.

the tension-pulleys and the shaft 0 can be used. For instance, a keyway, 0, can be cut along in the shaft'and in the pnlleysfand keys 0 0 can be used, as shown, to key the pulleys,

to the shaft at any desired points; or, as shown in Fig. 8, the pulleys can be provided withhubs p and set-screws p, tapped through the hubs and engaging the shaft. Upon loosening the set -s'crews the pulleys can be adjusted along the shaft, and then lixed'as adjusted by screwing said screws in again;

Where the keys and kcyways in shaft and pulleys are used, the keys can be loosened, the

pulleys adjusted, and the keys driven in again to iix the pulleys in place as adjusted.

I contemplate providing friction devices, preferably adjustable, to prevent the too easy turning of the pulley-bearing shaft 0.

With the adjustable friction devices the resistance to the turning of the shaft, and consequently of all the pulleys alike, lated as desired.

The wires L L from the reels N N pass around their respective pulleys]? P, so that the latter must revolve'as the wires are drawn out in the operation of the mach ne.

As the pulleys are fixed on the shaft Q so as to beincapable of rotation with reference thereto, any frictional or other resistance applied to the shaft against -its rotation will, obviously, through the shalt be applied to control the r0 ration of all the pulleys alike. ,The resistance to rotation of all the pulleys being the same, the wires passing around the pulleys to the twist-er will be put underexactlythe same tension. \V'ith this construction and arrangement of tension devices not only will the two wires of cachpair be put under-equal tension, so that they will be twisted with equal tightness behinda slatand the slat will be exactly in line with the slats premding it in the completed fence, but the several pairs of wires will be subjected to a like tension, so that no one pair can be drawn out more rapidly or'easily than another, and the slats must consequently, as pushed out and twisted between the wires, be always parallel with each other.

If the pair of wires at one end of the series of twisters should be under less tension than can be regu- ICO IIO

the others, so as to be more readily and easily #5 pleted fence the spaces between the slats at their ends engaged by the wires of said pair would be liable to be greater than the spaces between their other ends. 3 i

p The grooved pulleys for the two wires of each pair can be made separate and laced close together on shaft- O, or a single doublegrooved pulley can be used, madeinpne-piece, and having a groove for each wire; I

I do not limit myself to the. use of any form 1 of friction device or brake to be applied to thev shaft O to'rcgulate the tension on the wires, as described.

If desired the shaft can be used without any such device or brake, itsends being merelyim 2o serted insuitable bearingson the frame.'

7 The turning of the shaft without a friction device will require pull enough on the wires to insure sorn'e tension, and'asthe pulleys rotate together all the wires-will be fed forward an eqnal'amount. I

Journaled in suitablebearings-at: the outer end of the fraine A A is the reel-shaft It, car

rying the reel, R, for reeling up the fenc e as ifcompleted by the machine.- Upon oneendof this shaft is a 'ratchet-WheeL'R engaged-by the two pawls S S on the oppositeends off-the rocking piece S, pivoted to the frainejatfi.

A lever, S", is attached to the piece 8 for rocking the same, so as to move thepawls; alterggnatel'yontw ard and" back again." Tlie pa-wls" are simply pivoted to the arms of the rocking piece, so as to be kept by their own weightinposition to properly engage the teeth a r of the wheel R. j i 40 With the construction described, as the'lever S is swung up and down, the pawls will alternately act by their engagement with the teeth of theratchet-wheel toturn such wheel always in the proper direction to wind up the com- 5, pleted fence upon the reel.

The operation of my clamp-shuttle 'is briefly as, follows? As it is swung back-toward the twistcis by the rocking of rock-shaft F and swinging of arms F F, the fork-arms of the twisters engage theswinging wings orjaws H' H and force them open. Such opening of the jaws causes them, as described hereinbe .fore, to,rise bodily upward as their lower'ends ride up the inclines on cams i 11. When a slat has been inserted between "the wires issuing from the twister-fork=arrus, the clamp=shuttle is swung outwardlby rocking the shaft F, and lhejaws or wingsHH, being disengaged from the fork-aim ends, are caused by their own 6Q weight, or by the action of their weight and I springs, where thelattcrare used, toride'down again over theinelined faces of the cams i i and be swung-inward again toward'each other. In this position the wings or'jaws'ou the clampshuttle, being held from further swinging by lugs 11' i, engage the edge of: the slat between the wires squa rely,fand as the shuttle moves outward carry itout into position between the wires and against the twist previously formed in the wires behind the preceding slat or picket.- a

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is-f-e j v 1. In aclainp-shutile for fence-machines, swinging-jaws or-wings, in combinationwith cams up 'over which the jaws ride as they are swung outward, substantially as and for the .purpose specified. a

, well asfa swinging movement, opposite earns the jaws, substantially as andfor the purpose shown. t t

v 3. In combination with a suitable support -ing-framc, two swingiugjaws pivoted in the clined cams adapted, respectively to engage the two jaws as they areswuug away from each othcasubstantially asa-ndl for the purpose set forth.'

j 4; In combination with a suitableframef, two 'jaws pivoted onvnpright pivots within, the

frame so as tobe capable of rising and falling as well as swinging, and the two opposite cams having inclined surfaces beginning close to the lower ends of thejawswhen the latter are swung towardeach other, and extending thence the p'urpose described. t

5. In eombinationwith the swinging wings orjaws, the plate having opcniugs'for the piv ots of the jaws and the two oppositely-inclined as and for the purpose specified.

6. In combination with the swinging jaws pivoted so as to be capable of longitudinal as well as swinging movement, stops to limit the engage and move the jaws longitndinallyas they are swungin the other direction, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

7. In combination with a suitable supporting-frame, two jaws pivoted therein so as to be capable ofan up and-down aswell as a swinging movement, the stops'to lipiit'theswing-of the jaws in one direction, and the opposite earns to engage and cause the jaws to rise as they are swung in the opposite direction, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

rising and falling jaws, springs forcing-the jaws downward and opposite cams inclined upwardly and outwardly adapted to engage the lower ends of the jaws as they are swung outward away from each other, substantially l as and for the purpose described.

9.111 a clainpshnttle for fence-machines, in

the series of j aws arranged in pairs and'pivoted in the frame so that the two jaws can swing upward and outward, snhstantiallyas andfori 2, In aciaui'p shuttle forfennejnachinespiu I combinationwith the two jaws or wings piv-' oted so, as to be capable of an np-and-downas adapted to'engage the lower sides or ends of frame so as to be capableof rising and falling v as well asswinging, and the two oppositely-inswing of the jaws in one direction and cams to In combination with the swinging and r30 combination witha suitable c'arryingframe,

toward and from each other and. also have up I cams for engaging thejaw ends, substantially the series of jaws arranged in pairs and pivotedin the fraiueso that the two jaws of each pair can swing toward and from each other and also have an up-anilwlowu movement, cams on the frame having, inclines up over which the jaws ofeaeli pair must ride as they areswung outward from each other, and springs forcing the jaws downward, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

11. 'In aelainp-slinttle for fence-machines, in

, combination with a suitable carrying-frame, thejaws arranged in pairs. and pivoted in the frame so as to be capahleof swinging and also moving bodily up and down, the plates I I, one for (3210111)}il1' of jaws, the. stops i i, and the rains i t? on the plates, and the springs K K, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 12, In a=fenee-n1acliine, in combination with a seriesof twisters and the reelsof wire, the shaft and the grooved pulleys fixed thereon, around which the wires are passed on their wayfroni the reels to the twisters, substantially as and for thepnrpose described. 13.-- in a tension device for fence-machines, theshaftand the seriesot grooved pulleys fixed on and rotating with the Shafhsnhstantially as and for the purpose specified.

14. In a tension device for fence-machines, in combination with the shaft, the pulleys thereon, around which the wires are passed, andconneetions between the shaft-and pulleys allowing the latter to he adjusted along the shaft, huteansing them to rotate with it, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

15. In a tension device for fence-machines,

in combination with the rotary shafthaving the I keyway out along it, the series of tension-pulleys, eaeh having a'keywaygand the series of removable keys engagingthe way in the shaft and the ways in the respective pulleys, substantiall y as and for the purpose described.

16. in a fenoe-m'aehinajn combination with the series of twister-s and the reels for supplying wiresthereto, the rotary shaft and they grooved pulleys thereon, aroundwhieh the wires pass on their way to the twlsters, fixed this 19th day of 'to the shaft so as to turn with the same, but to be adjustable relatively along it, substan-

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