An Appliance for Facilitating the Stowing and Paying Out of Chain Cables.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Facilitating the Stowing and Paying Out of
Chain Cables.
I, JOHN KENNEDY, Engineer of 11 Fellows Road, London N.W. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to means of facilitating the stowing and paying out of
chain cables, which I effect as follows:-I provide a cylindrical receptacle the
cover of which has through it at some distance from the centre a vertical tube
through which the cable passes froin or to the windlass or capstan above.
This cover is caused to revolve by suitable gear preferably worked from the
windlass or capstan. When it revolves in one direction while the chain is
delivered to the receptacle from the windlass or capstan, the chain is carried
round by the tube through which it passes and laid regularly in the receptacle.
When the cover revolves in the opposite direction while the chain is drawn from
the receptacle, the chain is regularly guided from its coils.
The cover is preferably, for the sake of lightness, an open circular frame, and in
order to reduce friction I prefer to provide balls or rollers on which its periphery
runs.
Dated this 14th day of January 1896.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Appliance for Facilitating the Stowing and Paying Out of
Chain Cables.
1, JOHN KENNEDY, Engineer, of 11 Fellows Road Loudon N.W. 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:-
My invention relates to means of facilitating the stowing and paying out of
chain cables, which I effect by means of apparatus of which Fig. I of the
accompanying drawings is a vertical section and Fig. 2 is a plan. I provide a
cylindrical receptacle the cover A of which has through it at some distance from
the centre a vertical tube B, through which the cable C passes from or to the
windlass or capstan D above.
This cover A is caused to revolve, preferably on antifriction rollers E, by
suitable gear preferably worked from the windlass or capstan D. As shewn in the
drawings, a sproket wheel d on the windlass is connected by a chain to another
sprocket wheel F, a pinion G on the axis of which gears with teeth on the
cover A.
The chain from the sprocket wheel d instead of working a pinion G may itself
be carried over suitable guide rollers and around the circumference of the cover A,
thus driving it directly and dispensing with the gear teeth upon it.

page_text: When A revolves in the one direction while the chain C is delivered to the
receptacle from the windlass or capstan D, the chain is carried round by the tube B
through which it passes, and is laid regularly in the receptacle below A.
When the windlass or capstan D and consequently the cover A revolves in the
opposite direction while the chain is drawn from the receptacle, the chain is
regularly guided from its coils.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In combination with a windlass or capstan a receptacle for the chain moved by
it with a circular cover caused to revolve with the windlass or capstan and having
an eccentric tube through which the chain passes, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 14th day of July 1896
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.