Improvements in Apparatus or Appliances for Cable Haulage on Tramways, Light Railways, and Canals and other Waterways.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1889
*Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Appliances for Cable Haulage on
Tramways, Light Railways, and Canals and other Waterways.
We WILLIAM EDWARD WINBY of The Beeches Newton Road Sparkhill Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Civil and Mechanical Engineer and WILLIAM MARSTON
WINBY of the same address Brassfounder do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows: —
Our improvements relate principally to the apparatus or appliances hereinafter
described for supporting and retaining in position the cable carrying pulleys used for
and in connection with cable haulage on tramways light railways and canals and other
waterways but the said improvements are particularly applicable to cable tramways
and may be readily applied to existing cable tramway lines.
Our improvements consist further of the minor details hereinafter described in the
metallic conduit in which the cable works.
By supporting the cable carrying pulleys according to our invention the supporting
parts and the pulley can readily be detached and removed through the ordinary
hatchway for examining and cleaning.
According to our invention we support the cable carrying pulley in two hanging
preferably fork shaped brackets situated on either side of and under the slot beams of
the cable conduit horizontal flanges on the tops of the said hanging brackets being
bolted to the lower flanges of the said slot beams. One of the said brackets is
furnished with a long bottom flange and the other with a short bottom flange. The
long flange of one of the brackets passes under the pulley and also under the short
flange on the other bracket and the two bottom flanges are bolted together where they
meet. We prefer to fix the bolt of the two flanges by means of a specially constructed
screw nut having a long stalk reaching nearly to the top of the hatchway for the
purpose of releasing the pulley and brackets when required.
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The side brackets described are each furnished with a brass bush in which the
axle of the pulley works each bush having a blind" or closed outer end to prevent
the entrance of dirt into the bush. The pulley may also be constructed to revolve
upon a spindle fixed to one of the side brackets and entering the other bracket when
the latter is fixed in its place.
The centre of the pulley may be provided with a brass bush or with a hardened
steel bush furnished with knife bearings to run upon a case hardened steel spindle.
In providing for the application of hanging brackets to slot beans provision
may also be made for carrying-two pulleys one for the working and the other for
the return cable. The pulleys in this case may run upon the same spindle or
may have separate spindles or a separate hanging bracket may be provided for the
return cable pulley.
The bottom flanges of the brackets may be secured by a hinge joint in lieu of
a bolt.
The pulley may be used with a covering box or without.
Cable supporting pulleys of various kinds may be used with the brackets described
but we prefer to use a close fitting pulley leaving its rim constructed in the manner
described in the provisional specification filed with our Application for Patent on the
2nd February 1889 No. 1918.
Our invention consists further of the following improvements in the cable conduit
described and claimed in the specification of letters patent granted to us on the
18th day of August 1887 No. 11277.
Instead of giving the side parts or slot beams of the conduit the form described
and represented in the last named specification we roll (preferably) each of the

page_text: said side parts on its outer side with a top flange that is with a flange projecting
outwards for the purpose of supporting the road paving sets adjacent to the
conduit and for keeping them upright.
The side parts or slot beams described may be either made of rolled steel or iron or
they may be cast.
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W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Appliances for Cable Haulage on
Tramways, Light Railways, and Canals and other Waterways.
We WILLIAM EDWARD WINBY of The Beeches Newton Road Sparkhill Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Civil and Mechanical Engineer and WILLIAM MARSTON
WINBY of the same address Brassfounder do hereby declare the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our improvements relate principally to the apparatus or appliances hereinafter
described for supporting and retaining in position the cable carrying pulleys used for
and in connection with cable haulage on tramways, light railways and canals and
other waterways, but the said improvements are particularly applicable to cable
tramways and may be readily applied to existing cable tramway lines.
Our improvements consist further of the minor details hereinafter described in the
metallic conduit in which the cable works.
By supporting the cable carrying pulleys according to our invention the supporting
parts and the pulley can readily be detached and removed through the ordinary
hatchway for examining and cleaning.
According to our invention we support the cable carrying pulley in two hanging
preferably forked shaped brackets situated on either side of and under the slot
beams of the cable conduit, horizontal flanges on the tops of the said hanging
brackets being bolted to the lower flanges of the said slot hoams. One of the said
brackets is furnished with a long bottom flange and the other with a short bottom
flange. The long flange of one of the brackets passes under the pulley and also
under the short flange on the other bracket. and the two bottom flanges are bolted
together where they meet. We prefer to fix the two flanges by means of a specially
constructed screw bolt or nut having a long stalk reaching nearly to the top of
the hatchway for the purpose of releasing the pulley and brackets when required.
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The side brackets described are each furnished with a brass bush in which the
axle of the pulley works, each bush having a blind or closed outer end to
prevent the entrance of dirt into the bush. The pulley may also be constructed
to revolve upon a spindle fixed to one of the side brackets and entoring the other
bracket when the latter is fixed in its place.
The centre of the pulley may be provided with a brass bush or with a hardened
steel bush furnished with knife bearings to run upon a case hardened steel spindle.
Our invention consists further of the following improvement in the cable conduit
described and claimed in the specification of Letters Patent granted to us on the
18th day of August 1887 No. 11277.
Instead of giving the side parts or slot beams of the conduit the form described
and represented in the last named specification we roll (preferably) each of the said
side parts on its outer side with a top flange, that is, with a flange projecting outwards
for the purpose of supporting the road paving sets adjacent to the conduit and for
keeping them upright.
The side parts or slot beams described may be either made of rolled steel or iron or
they may be cast.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in cross section and Figure 2

page_text: partly in longitudinal section and partly in side elevation a portion of a cable tramway
with which our improvements are combined.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both Figures.
a is the pulley box and the hatchway or man hole; c is the manhole cover fitted
in the case d made in one piece with the upper part of the said manhole 6 (see
Figure 2). The said pulley box a is connected at one side to the bottom of the slot
beams of the cable conduit and at the other side to the bottom of the upper part of
the manhole by flanges as represented; e e are the slot beams of the cable conduit ;
fis the cable carrying pulley which is supported in the pulley box a by the hanging
brackets g and situated under the slot beams e, e in the position represented in
Figure 1. The said hanging brackets g h are preferably forked as best seen in
Figure 2. The tops of the banging brackets g, h are furnished with horizontal
flanges ii which are bolted at 1, 7 to the lower flanges of the slot beams of the cable
conduit. The hanging brackets y, support the closed outer ended bearings or
busbes m, m in which the axis or spindle of the cable carrying pulley works.
bracket has a long bottom horizontal flange g² and the other bracket
horizontal flange ². The long flange o extends under the pulley
the short flange 2 of the bracket and the two flanges 92 and 2 are
by the long screw bolt or nut p being screwed into the said flanges.
or stalk of the said bolt or nut has a square or angular head for
spanner and the said stem or stalk nearly reaches the top of the hatchway or
manhole b.
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has a shorter
and also under
bolted together
The long stem
turning it by a
The arrangement described and represented gives great stability to the cable
supporting pulley fand when repairs are required the said pulley can be removed
without disturbing the entire structure.
In order to remove the pulley the side of the manhole case d has an opening d² in
it at which the hanging bracke; h can be unbolted from the slot beam e after the man-
hole cover has been removed.
After the top of the bracket bas been unbolted the lower part of the said
bracket is unfastened by unscrewing the long bolt or nut p when the said bracket
can be removed and afterwards the pulley f without disturbing the other bracket g
and the other parts of the cable conduit; q is the dirt or mud intercepting pan
bolted to the cable conduit and rr are the continuous surface water drain pipes
opening into the pulley box.
It will be seen by an examination of the Drawing that the upper part of each of
the slot beams ee of the cable conduit has on its outer side a top flange or a flange
projecting outwards marked e². By means of the said outer projecting top flanges e², e²
the road paving sets t t adjacent to the cable conduit are supported and kept upright
and the case c of the manhole cover adjacent to the cable conduit also supported as
seen in Figure 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention of "Improvements in apparatus or appliances for cable haulage on tramway's
light railways and canals and other waterways
First Supporting the cable carrying pulley by means of hanging brackets bolted
at top to the slot beams of the cable conduit and bolted together at bottom substantially
in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing.
Secondly The addition to the slot beams of cable conduits of an outer projecting
top flange for the purpose and substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated the Thirty first day of October 1890.
WILLIAM EDWARD WINBY.
WILLIAM MARSTON WINBY.