Apparatus for manufacturing interconnected springs

Claim 1

IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SPRING INTERIORS, IN WHICH APPARATUS TWO SERIES OF COIL SPRINGS ARE HELD SIDE BY SIDE WHILST THEY ARE INTERCONNECTED; THE COMBINATION COMPRISING A SERIES OF SUPPORTS, A SERIES OF CLAMPING MEANS MOUNTED RESPECTIVELY ON SAID SUPPORTS AND ADAPTED TO HOLD AN END WINDING OF EACH OF THE SPRINGS WHLIST THE END WINDINGS OF SAID SPRINGS ARE INTERCONNECTED, MEANS FOR OPENING AND CLOSING SAID CLAMPING MEANS, AN EXPELLER ELEMENT COOPERATING WITH EACH OF SAID CLAMPING MEANS AND ADAPTED BY AN EXPEL MOVEMENT TO EXPEL THE INTERCONNECTED SPRINGS FROM SAID CLAMPING MEANS WHEN OPEN, A RECIPROCABLE TABLE SERVING TO RECEIVE THE INTERCONNECTED SPRINGS, A SERIES OF ELEMENTS SECTRED TO SAID TABLE EXTENDING PARALLEL TO SAID SERIES OF CLAMPING MEANS AND SERVING TO ENGAGE THE SPRING INTERCONNECTIONS, MEANS FOR IMPARTING A RECIPROCATING MOVEMENT TO SAID TABLE, SAID RECIPROCATING MOVEMENT COMPRISING AN ADVANCE MOVEMENT WITH SAID ELEMENTS IN POSITIVE DRIVING ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID SPRING INTERCONNECTIONS TO ADVANCE THE EXPELLED SPRINGS AND A RETURN MOVEMENT WITH SAID ELEMENTS OUT OF POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SPRING INTERCONNECTIONS, A LEVER PIVOTABLY MOUNTED ON EACH OF SAID SUPPORTS AND HAVING TWO ARMS, ONE OF SAID ARMS COMPRISING SAID EXPELLER ELEMENT, A CAM PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON THE OTHER OF SAID ARMS, FIRST SPRING BIAS MEANS BIASSING SAID LEVER AGAINST SAID EXPEL MOVEMENT, SECOND SPRING BIAS MEANS WEAKER THAN SAID FIRST SPRING BIAS MEANS BIASSING SAID CAM TO AN ERECT POSITION, AND A CONTROL BAR ON SAID TABLE EXTENDING PARALLEL TO SAID SERIES OF CLAMPING MEANS AND ADAPTED TO CO-OPERATE WITH SAID LEVERS TO ACTUATE SAID EXPELLERS IN SYNCHRONISM WITH MOVEMENT OF SAID TABLE, SAID CAM, DURING A PART OF THE RETURN MOVEMENT OF THE TABLE TOP, BEING HELD IN A NONERECT POSITION BY THE CONTROL BAR AGAINST SAID SECOND SPRING BIAS MEANS AND SAID CAM, DURING A PART OF THE ADVANCE MOVEMENT OF THE TABLE TOP, EXERTING IN ITS ERECT POSITION A FORCE ON THE LEVER SUFFICIENT TO PIVOT THE LEVER AGAINST SAID FIRST SPRING BIAS MEANS TO EFFECT SAID EXPEL MOVEMENT.