Improvements in Clip Hooks or Devices for Attaching Torpedo Nets to their Ridge Rope or for Analogous Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left. 19th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clip Hooks or Devices for Attaching Torpedo Nets
to their Ridge Rope or for Analogous Purposes.
I WILLIAM PELHAM BULLIVANT of 72 Mark Lane in the City of London Wire
Rope Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows
:-
My Invention has for its object to provide a clip hook or device for attaching
torpedo nets to the ridge rope from which they are suspended or for analogous
purposes which hook or device is very readily and cheaply made and is very strong.
According to my Invention the clip hook or device (which consists of two hooks
capable of being opened out from each other, or of being closed upon each other to
form a
loop) is made as follows:-One part consists of one of the hooks and an eye
at the upper part thereof whilst the other part consists also of a hook and an eye
but the eye has formed around it a flange or projecting annulus upon which the eye
on the other hook is placed and then the said flange or projecting annulus is "upset
so as to embrace the last named eye and to secure the two hooks and eyes together
so that they can be closed upon or opened out from each other by the eyes moving in
the circular path formed by the aforesaid embracing parts.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1888
"
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in "Clip Hooks" or Devices for Attaching Torpedo
Nets to their Ridge Rope or for Analogous Purposes.
WILLIAM PELHAM BULLIVANT of 72 Mark Lane in the City of London Wire
Rope Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by following statement :-
My Invention has for its object to provide a clip hook or device for attaching
torpedo nets to the Ridge rope from which they are suspended or for analogous
purposes which hook or device is very readily and cheaply made and is very strong.
The accompanying drawing represents a clip hook or device made according to
my Invention Figure 1 being a side view Figure 2 a front view and Figure 3 a
section.
According to my Invention the clip hook or device (which consists of two hooks A
and B capable of being opened out from each other or of being closed upon each
other to form a loop) is made as follows:-One part consists of one of the hooks
(that B) and an eye Cat the upper part thereof whilst the other part consists also of
a hook (A) and an eye D but the said eye D has formed around it a flange or
projecting annulus d upon which the eye on the other hook B is placed and then
the said flange or projecting annulus d is "upset" so as to embrace the eye (and to
secure the two hooks and eyes together so that they can be closed upon or opened
out from each other by the eyes moving in the circular path formed by the aforesaid
embracing parts. I preferably make the hooks cut away or recessed at a ba² ²
so that when the hooks are closed upon each other as shewn in full lines a loop is
formed with flush faces. The dotted lines in Figure 2 shew the position when the
hooks are opened out. Any convenient device may be provided for retaining the
hooks in the closed position.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
A "Clip hook" or device for attaching Torpedo, nets to their ridge rope or for
analogous purposes the said "Clip hook" or device being made or arranged
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 10th c
1000
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.