Improvements in Flexible Wire Ropes, Hawsers, and Warps.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1888.
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th Jan., 1889
Improvements in Flexible Wire Ropes, Hawsers, and Warps.
I ROBERT DIXON of Team Villa Gateshead-on-Tyne in the County of Durham
Wire Rope Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows :-
This Invention relates to Improvements in Flexible Wire Ropes Hawsers and
Warps such as are used on board Steam, sailing, and other vessels being especially
adapted for use on trawlers and other fishing vessels.
The object of this invention is to produce a flexible wire rope hawser or warp
which will be so protected that should a wire break it will not protrude to injure the
the hands of those who may have to handle such rope hawser or
warp and
at same time make the rope hawser or warp more agreeable to the touch
in cold weather. A further object is to produce a covering that will assist in
preventing corrosion and not readily fray out if it should be cut chafed or otherwise
damaged.
To this end the invention consists in covering the flexible wire rope hawser or warp
with a braiding or plaiting of hemp or other fibrous yarn strand or cord.
In some instances it may be necessary to first fill up the spiral interstices
with worming and serving before putting on the braided or plaited fibrous
covering.
1000
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.,
Agents for the Patentee.

page_text: I ROBERT DIXON of Team Villa Gateshead-on-Tyne in the County of Durham
Wire Rope Manufacturer 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 relates to improvements in flexible wire ropes, hawsers, and warps
such as are used on board steam sailing and other vessels being especially adapted for
use on trawlers and other fishing vessels.
The object of this invention is to produce a flexible wire rope hawser or
warp which will be so protected that should a wire break it will not protrude
to injure the hands of those who may have to handle such rope hawser or warp
and at same time make the rope hawser or warp more agreeable to the touch
in cold weather. A further object is to produce a covering that will assist in
preventing corrosion and not readily fray out if it should be cut chafed or otherwise
damaged.
To this end the invention consists in covering the flexible wire rope hawser strand
band cable or warp with a braiding or plaiting of hemp or other suitable fibrous yarn
strand or cord.
In some instances it may be necessary to first fill up the spiral interstices
with worming and serving before putting on the braided or plaited fibrous
covering.
And in order that my present invention may be the more easily understood and
readily carried into practice I have illustrated my said invention in the accompanying
sheet of drawings showing the fibrous covering a braided (or plaited) on the flexible
wire rope strand band or cable which latter may be of any suitable construction
either of round or other sectional wires and either laid up as shown or in any other]
suitable or desired manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I would remark that I am
aware that wire ropes have previously been covered with fibrous material that there-
fore it is in itself not new and to which therefore I make no claim whatever broadly.
but what I do claim as novel and as my invention is:―
The improved method of constructing wire rope hawsers and warps with a covering
of hemp or other suitable fibrous material braided or plaited thereon substantially in
the manner and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1888.