Improvements in and relating to String, Cord, or Rope Fasteners for Securing the Strings of Tarpaulins or Coverings of Railway or other Wagons, Window or Venetian Blind Cords, Ship or Boat Sails, Laundry Ropes, or any such purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to String, Cord, or Rope Fasteners for
Securing the Strings of Tarpaulins or Coverings of Railway or
other Wagons, Window or Venetian Blind Cords, Ship or Boat
Sails, Laundry Ropes, or any such purposes.
I HENRY WILLIAMS, of Gowan Brae Crosshill, Glasgow, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Having regard and referring to Letters Patent granted unto me and numbered
16580 of 2nd December 1887. My invention now here described relates to a
direct extension and development of my main ideas, devices, and mechanism
employed in, or in some part partly described and employed or carried out in my
above Letters Patent here referred to.
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The present improved developments and combination of parts of mechanism
acting in consort with the V shaped grooved pulley head or body part of my
patent cord, rope or string fastener, is the forming or adding of a projection, hook
or hooks, head or heads or prongs or equivalent acting organs, so as to enable the
"Ropers" or Sheeters" of railway wagons, to fulcrum or draw up tight the ropes
or strings on or against this projecting organ and so haul up tight the tarpaulin
covering of a wagon or truck before fastening the rope or cord in the groove part
of the fastener, and thus cause the tarpaulin or tarpaulins to give a better holding
on support to the load in the wagon, and advance the securing of the loads by the
tarpaulin itself.
Instead of a projection or hook or head or equivalent organ being formed on or
to the fastener to form a fulcrumage for the rope, cord, or string, being hauled up
tight, I by an equivalent improved arrangement form a suitable curved or straight
slot or slots or grooves into the side or across the face or back of the present
V grooved shape pulley head of the fastener for the same purpose as the said
projecting organ is used. Or otherwise I combine together both the said projecting
organ or organs with the suitable curved or straight slot or slots or grooves on or
in my said patent fastener so as to facilitate the fastening of one or more cords to
each fastener.
These described improvements as applied to my patent string cord or rope
fastener, can also be added to or combined with and be of the same equal advantages
or benefits to the line or cord fastener of Messrs. Joseph James Day and Thomas
Isaac Day's Patent No. 8702 of 2nd July 1886. That is the projecting organ or
organs are or can be applied to the front loose part or the back fixed part, or the
screw or other securing organ of same of their line or cord fastener, or a suitable
curved or straight slot or slots or grooves can be formed in their front plate only
and so facilitate the hauling up tight of the tarpaulin or tarpaulins covering a
loaded wagon or truck before the fastening of its string or strings in the fastener,
and which benefits their fastener does not now provide.
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HENRY WILLIAMS.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to String, Cord, or Rope Fasteners for
Securing the Strings of Tarpaulins or Coverings of Railway or
other Wagons, Window or Venetian Blind Cords, Ship or Boat
Sails, Laundry Ropes, or any such purposes.
I HENRY WILLIAMS of. Gowan Brae Crosshill Glasgow Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Having regard and referring to Letters Patent granted unto me and numbered
16580 of 2nd December 1887. My invention now here described relates to a
direct extension and development of my main ideas, devices, and mechanism
employed in, or in some part partly described and employed or carried out in my
above Letters Patent here referred to.
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The present improved developments and combination of parts of mechanism
acting in consort with the V shaped grooved pulley head or body part of my
patent cord, rope or string fastener, is the forming or adding of a projection hook
or hooks head or heads or prongs or equivalent acting organs so as to enable the
Ropers or Sheeters" of railway wagons, to fulcrum or draw up tight the
or strings on or against this projecting organ and so haul up tight the tarpaulin
covering of a wagon or truck before fastening the rope or cord in the groove part
of the fastener, and thus cause the tarpaulin or tarpaulins to give a better holding-on
support to the load in the wagon, and advance the securing of the loads by the
tarpaulin itself.
Instead of a projection, or hook, or head, or equivalent organ being formed on or
to the fastener to form a fulcrumage for the rope, cord, or string, being hauled up
tight, I by an equivalent improved arrangement form a suitable curved or straight
slot or slots or grooves into the side or across the face or back of the present
V grooved shape pulley head of the fastener for the same purpose as the said
projecting organ used. Or otherwise I combine together both the said projecting
organ or organs with the suitable curved or straight slot or slots or grooves on or
in my said patent fastener so as to facilitate the fastening of one or more cords to
each fastener.
These described improvements as applied to my patent string cord or rope
fastener can also be added to or combined with and be of the same equal advantages
or benefits to the line or cord fastener of Messrs. Joseph James Day and Thomas
Isaac Day's Patent No. 8702 of 2nd July 1886. That is the projecting organ or
organs are or can be applied to the front loose part, or the back fixed part, or the
screw or other securing organ of same of their line or cord fastener, or a suitable
curved or straight slot or slots or grooves can be formed in their front plate only
and so facilitate the hauling up tight of the tarpaulin or tarpaulins covering a
loaded wagon or truck before the fastening of its string or strings in the fastener,
and which benefits their fastener does not now provide.
And in order that my said improvements and the manner in which they would or
may be carried into practice may be clearly understood, I have hereunto appended
two explanatory sheets of drawings illustrating a few of the modes of effecting
same.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to indicate corresponding
parts in the several figures where shown the italic letters a a¹ showing the new or
improved organs or parts.
Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a fastener A and
Figure 2 a front end view of same.
Figure 3 is an elevation looking at the onnosite side to Figure 1 and showing

page_text: the fastener A as ntted to the framing or body or a ranway wagon or Other
structure, while
Figure 4 is a plan or top view of the fastener A shown in Figures 1 to 3, all
illustrative of one application of my improvements.
In Figures 1, 2, and 4, a tarpaulin string cord or rope C is shown as wound
round or wedged within the pulley or grooved part B of the fastener A in the
manner described in my prior Patent No. 16580 December 2, 1887; and the new
parts or organs a, a' are also shown as cast to or formed on the fastener A, the
part a being shown as cast on or applied to the side of the front face B', in the
form of a round lug or fulcrum hammer head, and the part a preferably of an
octagonal or hexagonal shape annularly round the body or fixing spike part A of
the fastener.
These parts a, a', are used for hauling up the tarpaulin sheet string C or wagon
ropes C before being secured in the grooved or coned part B of the fastener A
the part a being preferably used for the former and the part a' for the latter, and
the wagon rope C¹ would or may be hitched or secured round the part a' as shown
in Figure 3.
Figures 5 and 6 show side and front end views respectively of the fastener A
shown in Figures 1 to 4, but with two projecting parts a on opposite sides of the
face part B, and with the part a' on the centre front face of same.
Figures 7 and 8 show views corresponding to Figures 1 and 6, but with the new
or improved string or rope hauling up parts or organs, made in the form of slots a,
the part a' being the same as in Figure 1.
Figures 9 and 10 show side and front end views respectively of a fastener A as
constructed in accordance with the Patent of Joseph James Day and Thomas
Isaac Day No. 8702 July 2 1886 but having cast on or fitted to same my improved
string or rope hauling up projecting parts or organs a, a'. Two such parts a, a¹,
being shown as cast or formed on the loose front plate B' for hauling up the
tarpaulin strings C before being lapped in the securing part B, and one such
part a shown projecting from the front fixed part of A, analogous to that shown
in Figure 5, but it might be from the loose part B₁ for hauling up the wagon
rope C', which would or may be secured as shown in Figure 3.
Figures 11 and 12 show side views of two forms of the parts or organs a which
would or may be used in combination with the fastener A shown in Figures 9 and 10,
either by being screwed to it and forming parts of its fixings, or by being screwed
alongside of it to the wagon or its framing.
Figures 13 and 14 on Sheet 2 show side, and front end views respectively and
Figure 15 a plan view of the fastener A illustrated in Figures 9 and 10, but
showing the new auxiliary projecting part or organ a as cast or formed on the fixed
part A, instead of the movable part B¹ shown in Figures 9 and 10.
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 :-
First. A grooved pulley shaped head, or plate, or washer string or rope fastener,
cast or formed with a projecting part, or organ, or organs, or acting in combination
with such, for hauling up tight railway wagon ropes, tarpaulin strings or like
purposes, substantially as herein described, in reference to and by way of application
shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second. In string or rope fasteners constructed as herein described, the combina-
tion of one or more projecting or annular parts or organs, substantially as and for
the purposes herein set forth in reference to and by way of application shown at a, a¹,
in the accompanying drawings.
Third. In string or rope fasteners constructed as herein described, the forming of
one or more slots, grooves, or slitted parts substantially as and for the purposes

page_text: herein set forth in reference to and by way of application shown at a, a¹, in
Figures 7 and 8 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of March 1891.
HENRY WILLIAMS.