Suspension Apparatus for Signals, Lamps, and other objects.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb.,
1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Suspension Apparatus for Signals, Lamps, and other objects.
I MARTIN KÖCKRITZ, Engineer of Cologne Hansaring No. 69 in the Province
of Rhineland, Prussia, 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 the following statement :-
The suspension apparatus hitherto invented have had the drawback that the
objects were attached solely to the hoisting-rope, whereby breakages in the rope
easily occurred, causing disagreable and dangerous interruptions in the working.
The present innovation does away with this drawback by entirely freeing the rope
from all loads as soon as the objects (f.i. discs, and lamps used in signalling and
railway work, on ships, as well as lamps of every description) have reached their
highest position.
Fig. I and II show the apparatus in cross-section. K1 and K2 stand for
2 half ring shaped clicks, turning about P1 P2 and which are continually pressed
against each other by springs F1 F2 as can be seen from Fig. III. R is a fixed,
La loose ring, having a greater diameter than R, G a guide-eylinder which is
firmly attached to the object.
In drawing up an object, the ring R is pushed from below through the clicks and
rests above them, vid. Fig. I.
When one wishes to lower the object, one first of all draws up the rope S so
high that it cannot possibly go higher i.e. until the pegs A1 A2 strike against B.
At the same time the loose ring L has wedged itself in between K1 and K 2. In
lowering the object R rests on L and by means of the weight of the object it
easily pushes the ring L back through the clicks, which go back immediately
afterwards while L falls back on the band D. Fig. II shows now the ring L
wedged in.
Instead of, as has been done here, making R and L as rings, of which one slides
on a vertical bolt, hollow or solid bodies of different shapes can be employed, if the
guidance is made in accordance.
The whole apparatus is enclosed in a case or box, which is fitted with one or
more projecting parts, by means of which it may be attached. This box ends at
the bottom in a tube, having two swallow-tail shaped slits C1 C2 which serve as
guides for the pegs.
The rope S in the present case is fixed inside the guide-cylinder G, but may also
be fixed above it to a ring.
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 suspension apparatus for signals, lamps etc. which frees the rope S of all
weight and transfers the load to a metal body, distinguishe. 1) by the
clicks K1, K2 which turn on pegs in a box. These clicks take hold of the
vertical centre-piece, which bears the suspended object and which moves in
the slits C1 and C2.
2) By the projection or ring R, attached to this centre-piece, which drawn up
between the clicks rests on them and the loose body or ring L of larger dimensions,
which moves up and down on the vertical centre-piece. This ring L when drawn

page_text: up higher, becomes wedged in between the clicks, relieves R of the load and allows
of a lowering of the suspended object by its own weight.
Dated this Tenth day of October 1892.
BERNHARD BROCKHUES,
Applicant's Agent.