Improvements in Haulage Clips.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Haulage Clips.
We LAURANCE WORTHINGTON, Engine Fitter, and JOHN SOAR, Underground
Manager, of Bolsover Colliery, Bolsover in the County of Derby, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to the clips employed for
attaching corves, trucks, or wagons to a haulage rope or chain, our object being
to construct a strong and durable clip of few and simple parts that can be more
readily and conveniently attached to the rope or released from the same than the
clips at present in ordinary use.
In carrying our invention into effect we form the body of the clip from cast steel
or other suitable material, providing at one end a socket with suitable pivot pin for
the reception of the shank of the hook or shackle connecting the clip to the
wagon.
At the opposite end of the clip body we form a half boss or jaw provided with a
semicircular groove or a recess for the reception of the hauling rope or chain.
Upon the side of the clip body opposite to the rope groove we pivot a locking or
clamping lever or segment having one of its sides of a tapered or wedge shape
which passes through the eye of the lug or projection of the clipping plate, such
lug being caused to project through an aperture formed in the clip body. The
clipping plate has a jaw at one end with a groove or recess corresponding to the
similarly recessed jaw on the adjacent end of the clip body.
When the tapered or wedged shaped locking lever or segment is forced into the
eye of the clipping plate lug or lateral projection, after the clip has been booked
or attached to a wagon and its jaws placed in position on opposite sides of the
moving hauling rope the clipping plate and the clip body are drawn together, and
thus the rope is tightly clamped between the jaws. The clip with the attached
wagon or wagons or train of vehicles is then drawn or hauled by the rope until
released by the driving or forcing of the locking or clamping lever in the opposite
direction, when the jaws can be opened, and the clip detached from the rope.
Complete detachment of the clipping plate is prevented by contact of the locking.
lever with the head of the hook or shackle pin, or with a suitable stop on the.
clip body.
We sometimes provide dies of cast iron or other metal for the clip jaws, which
can be readily renewed when worn through or broken.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any one form of haulage
clip but make such modifications in its details and configuration as may be necessary
to suit the requirements of varying services.
Dated this 21st day of March 1896.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Haulage Clips.
We, LAURANCE WORTHINGTON, Engine Fitter, and JOHN SOAR, Underground
Manager, of Bolsover Colliery, Bolsover, in the County of Derby, 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:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to the clips employed for
attaching corves, trucks, or wagons to a haulage rope or chain, our object being to
construct a strong and durable clip of few and simple parts that can be more
readily and conveniently attached to the rope or released from the same than the
clips at present in ordinary use.
_ In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to 3-
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 an end elevation representing one
form of our improved haulage clip.
Figure 3 is an end elevation of the wedge shaped locking lever or clamping
piece.
Figure 4 is a side elevation, and Figure 5 an end elevation of the clipping
plate.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In carrying our invention into effect we form the body A of the clip from cast
steel or other suitable material, providing at one end a socket with suitable pin B
for the reception of the shank of the hook or shackle C connecting the clip to the
wagon.
or
At the opposite end of the clip body we form a half boss or jaw A' provided
with a semi-circular groove or a recess for the reception of the hauling rope or
chain: Upon the side of the clip body opposite to the rope groove we pivot a
locking lever or clamping piece D having one of its sides of a tapered or wedge
shape which passes through the eye of the lug projection E¹ of the clipping
plate E, such lug being caused to project through an aperture formed in the clip
body as illustrated. The clipping plate has a jaw at one end with a groove or
recess corresponding to the similarly recessed jaw on the adjacent end of the clip
body. When the tapered or wedge shaped locking lever or clamping piece D is
forced into the eye of the clipping plate lug or lateral projection E, after the clip
has been hooked or attached to a wagon and its jaws placed in position on opposite
sides of the moving hauling rope, the clipping plate. and the clip body are drawn
together, and thus the rope is tightly clamped between the jaws. The clip with
the attached wagon or wagons or train of vehicles is then drawn or hauled by the
rope until released by the driving or forcing of the locking lever or clamping piece
in the opposite direction, when the jaws can be opened and the clip detached from
the rope. Complete detachment of the clipping plate is prevented by contact of
the locking lever with the head of the hook or shackle pin B'as shown by dotted
lines at Figure 1, or with a suitable stop on the clip body.
We sometimes provide dies of cast iron or other metal for the clip jaws, which
can be readily renewed when worn through or broken.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any one form of haulage
clip, but make such modificatious in its details and configuration as may be necessary
to suit the requirements of varying, services.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is ;-
1. The improved method for attaching and releasing a haulage clip comprising

page_text: the use of a wedge shaped locking lever or clamping piece substantially as
described.
2. The improved haulage clip constructed and arranged substantially as and for
the purposes described.
Deted this 3rd day of October 1896
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.