Apparatus for descaling wire
AssigneeFastener Engineers Group, Inc.
InventorTroy A. McCabe
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Abstract
A wire cleaning apparatus in which three motor driven rotary wire brushes are mounted on a frame for rotation about axes generally radially of a wire pass line with the axes of the brushes being angularly and axially spaced apart relative to the pass line, and with the rotary brushes each having a bristle end face transverse to the axis of rotation and disposed adjacent the pass line so that the bristles of each brush move crosswise of the wire and in relatively opposite directions during each revolution of the brush. A wire guide shoe is associated with each of the wire brushes for guidably engaging and supporting the wire at a side of the pass line opposite the end face of the associated wire brush to control the position of the wire and the depth of penetrating the wire as it passes the end face of the associated brush.
Claims14
An apparatus for cleaning wire as it is advanced through the apparatus comprising:
- a support frame having a wire inlet guide and a wire outlet guide, a plurality of brush drive motors mounted on the frame and each having a motor shaft disposed generally radially of a wire pass line extending between the inlet and outlet guides, the motor output shafts being angularly and axially spaced apart relative to the wire pass line, a rotary wire brush having an axis of rotation and a bristle end face transverse to the axis of rotation mounted on each motor shaft for rotation thereby with the bristle end face adjacent the pass line, and a plurality of wire guide shoes mounted on the frame each associated with a respective one of the wire brushes for guidably engaging and supporting a wire at a side of the pass line opposite the bristle end face of the associated wire brush.
In a wire descaling apparatus having a scale breaking mechanism for bending a wire in different planes as the wire is advanced lengthwise to break and loosen the scale on the wire and a brush type wire cleaning mechanism for cleaning the wire after it exits from the scale breaking mechanism, the improvement wherein said wire cleaning mechanism comprises a support frame having a wire inlet guide at one end for receiving wire from the scale breaking mechanism and a wire outlet guide at a remote end, a plurality of brush drive motors mounted on the frame and each having a motor output shaft disposed generally radially of a wire pass line extending between the inlet and outlet guides, the motor output shafts being angularly and axially spaced apart relative to the wire pass line, a rotary brush having an axis of rotation and a bristle end face transverse to the brush axis of rotation mounted on each motor output shaft for rotation thereby with the bristle end face adjacent the wire pass line, and a plurality of wire guide shoes mounted on the frame each associated with a respective one of the the wire brushes for guidably engaging and supporting wire at a side of the pass line opposite the bristle end face of the associated wire brush.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.