US1032037A - Wire fabric. - Google Patents

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L. J. 'WI'LLEMS.

WIRE FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1911.

' 1,032,037, Patented July 9,1912.

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' --panying drawing,

Figure 1 represents a broken view of a.

portions of the limbs 3. produced by bending a length of wire to produce bottom and well adapted for use in tion with folding beds, sofa beds,

the base portions of ES AENT uric.-

LOUIS :r'. WILLEMS, or KEnosHA, WISCONSIN.

,winn FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

I Application filed July 24, 1911. Serial No. G4=O,189.

Be known that I, LOUIS J. Williams, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State of lVisconsin, have invented a new \Vire Fabrics,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to wire fabrics adapted to serve as a flexible bedconnecfolding and useful Improvement in couches, etc. My primary object is to provide a fabric of the character indicated having links of improved formation, providing for improved pivotal connections between the double-member links employed, the construction being, at: the same time, adapted to prevent abnormal displacement of any of the links in the structure,

while permitting the necessary independent freedom of move- .mentof the strands with relation toeach other.

The invention is illustrated in the accomin which',

frame and a fragmentary viewbf my improved fabric applied thereto; Fig, 2, an enlarged perspective view of-the improved two-ply link of a cross-link employed.

In the drawing, represents the frame,

and B, my improved fabric applied thereto.

The fabric is composed of a plurality of. parallel rows of double-member links 1, said rows being spaced apart and connectedby transverse links 2. Each link 1 is composed of two substantially straight limbs 3 which converge toward their free ends, where they are provided with downturned hooks 4, the

base-ends of said limbs being separated by a space 5 and crossed by a pivot-forming web 6 whose ends are joined b closed loops or eyes 7 to the base-ends o the limbs 3. The character of the formation is such that the loops or closed eyes 7 flank the base-end The link 1' may be a pair of limbs, and a transversely elongated loop at the base portions of the limbs, folding the base portionspf' the limbs to bring the web crosswise beneath them, thus-forming the eyes;'-a-nd then giving to the limbs a second fold employed; and Fig. 3, a view also in direct transverse over the web, so that the web will then lie at theextreme end portion of the base of the link, with the eyes turned away from the web and toward the'hook end of the link.

Another method of formation is to bend a length of Wire so as to produce a base end, with the base ortions of the limbs separated a short distance, and with eyes flanking the base portions of said limbs and connected by a web "which underlies the limbs;

and'thenbending the limbs over the web, thereby producing the formation at the base end of the link, which is shown in the drawing.

Either one of the described methods of formation lends itself to the productionof a machine,

the improved fabric by means of which is an important consideration. In the finished fabric, the links 1 are ranged in longitudinal rows, with the hooks 4 of one link engaging the pivot-forming web 6 of the next link, and so on throughout the row;

transmitted in direct lines; also that the links of the fabric are not liable todisplace ment in use, notwithstanding the fact that the longitudinal rows or strands of doublemember links are permitted individual freedom of movement with relation to each other; and,- finally, that the stantially noiseless in use, freedom of pivotal action between the links, which the construction permits. The'fabric presents a smooth surface to the mattress due to the fact that the hooks engaging over the web form the upper surface of the links in direct longitudinal alinement, and the Patented July 9, 1912.

fabric is sub-'- owing' to the-i.

- and the double-ply links are also ranged in the eyes 7 joined-by 2. The longitudinal.

I freely along either longitudinal. lines or transverse lines; also that stress may be longitudinal lines and several links when so connected together surface of uniform present a continuous thus the WIIBS of the level throughout, and

fabric are well disposed'to produce a fabricmesh which will not be injurious to the mattress.

In some instances, it may be necessary or,

desirable to so place the fabric on a folding couch, or the like, that the links 2,will

I extend lengthwise when the structure is in bed form. In such case, it may be desir able'to substitute for the marginal links-2 joining the fabric'to the frame,- the coiled springs 8., In any case, the fabric will lend itself to thenecessariy folding operation of the structure to whic it is applied.

-' What I regard as new, and desire to secure Letters-Patent, is:

1-. A flexible wire fabric, comprising rows .of links, .each row composed of links having two straight limbs provided withhooks at their free ends and spaced apartat their base-ends and crossed at said' baseends by a pivobforming; web'fia-nked by closed eyes,

"the hooks of one link engaging the web of" the adjacent link of the row between the limbs and eyes thereof, and transverse means connecting the eyes of adjacent rows pivot-forming web and flanked by closed eyes which form the connections between the web and base-ends of said limbs, the

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one end and formed at its'opposite end with adjacent link of-the row, between the limbs and eyes therebf, and transverse means cohnecting adjacent rows of links.

' 3. A flexible wire fabrie, comprising parallel rows of double-member links, each row composed of a series of links, each link having two substantially straight limbs converging toward their free ends and provided at their free ends with hooks, said limbs spaced apart at their base ends andcrossed by a pivot-forming web and flanked. by

closed eyes which form the connections between the Web and base-ends of said-limbs, said eyes lying on that side of the web which is toward the hook end of the link, the hooks of one link engaging the web of the adjacent link of the row between the eyes thereof; and cross linksjoiningthe' eyes of said double-member links. 55 4. In a flexible wire-fabric, a serles of rows of links, each link having a hook at spaced apartimembersand apivot forming web disposedbelow the-plane'of said spaced 6 apartinember s, the hooks of one link en gagingithe web of the next adjacent link between the spaced apart members thereof and in the same plane therewith, whereby the several links when so connected together present a continuous surface of uniform leveLt-hroughout', .and transverse means connecting adjacent, rows of links. I

QLOUIS J. WILLEMS. In the presence of-- SAMUEL Sorrows, JOHN ZENs

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