Wire mesh products and manufacturing systems and methods therefore
AssigneeRiverdale Mills Corporation
InventorJames M. Knott, Jr.
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Abstract
A wire-mesh is disclosed that is formed of wires in a warp direction bonded to wires in a fill direction that is mutually orthogonal with respect to the warp direction, wherein the wire-mesh includes at least one gap that extends in any of the warp direction or the fill direction, the gap being formed of mutually-contiguous breaks in any of the warp direction wires and the fill direction wires, the gap facilitating separation of the wire-mesh.
Claims16
A wire-mesh formed of wires in a warp direction bonded to wires in a fill direction that is mutually orthogonal with respect to the warp direction, wherein the wire-mesh includes at least one gap that extends in any of the warp direction or the fill direction to define at least one panel, the gap comprising a series of sequential and adjacent breaks in any of the warp direction wires and the fill direction wires, the at least two series of sequential and adjacent breaks being separated by a retained wire for facilitating handling of the wire mesh while permitting separation of the panel from the wire-mesh.
A wire-mesh formed by the method of:
- receiving a plurality of line wires in a machine direction;
- providing a cross wire to a welding station in a cross-machine direction;
- welding the cross wire to the plurality of line wires, forming a wire-mesh;
- advancing the wire-mesh in the machine direction, providing that additional cross wires may be introduced to the wire-mesh and welded at the welding station;
- selectively cutting a plurality of adjacently sequential wires in any of the machine direction or the cross-machine direction separated by a retained wire in the wire-mesh as it moves in the machine direction, the plurality of cuts demarking distinct panels of wire mesh;
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- separating the wire-mesh into the distinct panels by breaking the retained wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.