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Description

(No Model.)

H. W. STRUSS.

TUBULAR BRAIDING MACHINE.

No. 450,684. Patented Apr. 2l, 1891.

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Afro/MKS CII W/T/VESSE UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE HENRY STR-USS, OF NEV YORK, N.

TUBULAR BRAIDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,684, dated April 21, 1891.

Application filed September 19, 1890. Serial No. 365,506. (N o model.)

To all whom t may concern/ Be it known that I, HENRY IV. STRESS, a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Tubular Braiding Machine, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part thereof, wherein-- Figure l represents a plan view of the track portion of a braiding-machine containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in section, showing the arrangement of toothed wheels and claws for moving the carriers. Fig. 3 is a side view of a double-braided tubing made by my invention; and Fig. 4, a crosssection thereof on the line c c, Fig.

This invention relates to a machine for producing double-braided and connected tubing for the covering of telegraph-wires and analogous purposes 5 and it consists, mainly, in a novel arrangement of the tracks and disposition of carriers for laying the threads of the braid, said tracks being constructed of two sets, each set being a double track, and one track of each set crossing a corresponding track of the opposite set, all as hereinafter more fully described.

For a general type of machine to which my invention relates I referto Patent No. 1119415, of March 2l, 1871. The class of machine there described is by me improved so far as the arrangement of tracks and direction of motion of carriers is concerned. Thus in Fig. l it will be seen that I employ on my machine four separate and distinct tracks, one being an undulating track d, somewhatin the shape of a cross, although it may have a greater or less number ot' undulations, the other being a similar undulating track l), also shaped like the track c, said two tracks@ b being placed side by side at a distance from one another. The track a is crossed by another track d, which is also undulating; but which has an extension at d3 or loop, which projects toward the track b, and in like manner the track l) is crossed by an undulating track e,

which has an extension or loop e3, that projects toward the track a and that crosses the loop (Z3, as clearly shown. These tracks are used in conjunction with four sets of carriers, the track a having the carriers a2 and the. track Z1 having the carriers b2. These two sets of carriers run in the same direction; but in the track d the carriers d2 run in the opposite direction, and likewise the carriers e2 in the track e run also opposite to the carriers a2 b2. Thus the carriers a2 d2 form one braided tube f, and the carriers b2 e2 form the other braided tube g, Fig. 3, the carriers d2 and e2, where theycross on the loops (Z3 e3, forming connecting-links such as shown at 71, in Fig. et, whereby the two tubesfg are intimately connected.

The mechanism for moving the carriers is represented in Fig. 2, being composed` of toothed wheels m carrying claws n.; but in View of the well-known state of the art it is not deemed necessary here to further specify with reference to each of said wheels how the said carriers receivetheir motion.

lVhat I claim, and' desire to secure by Letters Patent, isn

In a machine for producing double-braided and connected tubing, the combination of the undulating track a and undulating track b wit-h the undulatingtrack CZ, which crosses the track a and forms the loop d3, and with the undulating track e, which crosses the track l) and forms the loop e3, the loops d3 and e3 interlocking, and with a series of carriers a2 b2 d2 e2, and mechanism, substantially as described, for moving the same, all arranged so that the carriers a2 b2 will travel in the tracks a Z2 in one direction, While the carriers d2 e2 travel in the tracks d e in the opposite direction, substantially as herein shown and described.

HENRY W. STRUSS.

Witnesses:

HARRY M. TURK,

UsTAv SCHNEPP.

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