Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Purposes.
I, HERBERT KINGSFORD, of "Excelsior," Priory Hill, Dover, in the county of
Kent, Telegraph Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, which
is partly my own invention and partly a communication to me from abroad by
Samuel Trott, Master Mariner, and Frederick Adam Hamilton, Telegraph Engineer,
both of Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia, in the Dominion of Canada, and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists in improvements in couplings or fastenings for coupling
together, in such a manner that an electrical connection is established, the ends of
ropes containing insulated wire, or for securing the end of such a rope to the
crown of a grapnel provided with an insulated wire, the said improvements
allowing the end of the wire in the rope to be coupled with, or connected to, the
end of the wire from the grapnel in a simple and secure manner and greatly
facilitating the connection and disconnection of ropes. The said improvements are
also applicable to many analogous and similar purposes.
I will now proceed to describe this invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which the same letters indicate like parts in all the figures. The end
of the rope to be coupled or connected is formed into an eye around the thimble a.
as shown in Figure 1., and the end b. of the insulated wire is disengaged, the eye
so formed is placed between a pair of plates or two jaws and is secured therein by
one or more screws d. d. One of the said plates or jaws is provided with a
passage b' through the respective ends of which are passed the ends of the wires
to be connected, the requisite space for effecting such operation is provided by
enlarging the passage 61 into a suitable chamber accessible by the removal of the
plate b

page_text: Figure 2. is a sectional side elevation of the crown of a grapnel having the
jaws c. c. formed thereon, Figures 3. and 4 are respectively side and front elevations
of the same with the end of a rope secured thereto. When it is desired to use this
invention for connecting the ends of two ropes, double jaws c. c. and c¹ c¹, the
same being connected, are required and these double jaws are conveniently formed
by two small plates as shown in Figures 5. and 6., the said plates, when the
coupling is completed, constituting a link. The ends of the wires of the respective
ropes are passed through the passage or chamber b¹ from the two ends thereof to
the centre, when, the plate 6 having been removed, they are easily coupled. It
will be understood, that the capacity of the passage or chamber 61 may be such as
to adunit of a certain length of the connected insulated wires being deposited
therein.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The improvements in couplings or fastenings for ropes, of the nature herein-
before referred to, consisting of the combination of the eye of the rope, formed
around a thimble, and, the double jaws or jaws provided with a passage for the
ends of the insulated wires, and a suitable and accessible chamber for containing
the said ends when connected, substantially as, and for the purposes, herein before
described and shown in the accompanying drawings.