IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN OR PICKING UP, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN TELEGRAPH CABLES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Griffith, of Greenwich, in the County of
Kent, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN OR PICKING UP, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE
TO PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN TELEGRAPH CABLES."
Sealed the 22nd June 1866, and dated the 27th December 1865..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Griffith at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, en
the 27th December 1865.
I, SAMUEL GRIFFITH, of Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN OR PICKING UP, PARTICULARLY
APPLICABLE TO PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN TELEGRAPH CABLES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment in machinery for paying out
and hauling in of two drums, the axes of which are set at an angle to
each other. The cable which is being payed out or hauled in passes under
or over the first drum, then under or over the second, back to the first,
and so on for as many turns as may be required. Owing to the drums
being set at an angle to each other the turns of the cable are separated or
freed from each other without the use of the "knife" or other appliance

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Griffith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
GRIFFITH, of Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Samuel Griffith, Her special licence that I, the
'said Samuel Griffith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I; the said Samuel Griffith, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN
OR PICKING UP, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO PAYING OUT AND HAULING IN
TELEGRAPH CABLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
:Samuel Griffith, my executors, or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Griffith, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, that is to say:
My Invention consists in the employment in machinery for paying out
and hauling in of two drums, the axes of which are set an angle to each
other. The cable which is being payed out or hauled in passes under
or over the first dum, then under or over the second, back to the first,

page_text: and so on for as many turns as may be-required. Owing to the drums
being set at an angle to each other the turns of the cable are separated or
freed from each other without the use of the "knife" or other appliance
which is generally adopted for the purpose. The drums may be
horizontal, vertical, or otherwise.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation; Figure 2,
an end elevation; and Figure 3, a plan of an arrangement of two drums
A, B, the axes of which are set at an angle to each other as shown. C is
the cable or rope to be payed out or hauled; it is passed under the
drum A, then under the drum B, and back to the drum A, as many turns
being taken as may be found necessary. As before stated, owing to the
drums A, B, being set at an angle to each other the turns of the cable C
are naturally separated from each other as shown, so that I am enabled to
dispense with the "knife" or other appliance ordinarily used.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the
construction and employment in machinery for paying out and hauling in
of two drums, the axes of which are set at an angle to each other, substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein-before described and represented in
the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Griffith, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.