Improvements in Hauling Gear Specially Applicable for Hauling or Working the Nets of Fishing Boats.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Hauling Gear Specially Applicable for Hauling
or Working the Nets of Fishing Boats.
We, WILLIAM MORRISON and JAMES BOAG MORRISON, of twenty two Jane Street,
Leith, in the County of Midlothian, North Britain, Engineers do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAULING GEAR SPECIALLY
APPLICABLE FOR HAULING OR WORKING THE NETS OF FISHING BOATS " to be as
follows:-
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This Invention, which consists of improvements in hauling gear specially applic-
able for hauling or working the nets of fishing boats has for its object to effect the
same with rapidity and ease under all ordinary circumstances, but it is especially
designed to be of service in tempestuous weather, when, from the heavy seas, the
operation is rendered difficult and arduous with the means or machines at present
employed for such operations.
The apparatus consists substantially of one horizontal cheek or plate, or of two
such horizontal cheeks or plates secured at a convenient distance apart by bolts or
other stays so as to enclose three or more toothed wheels which gear with one
another horizontally and to which said toothed wheels are cast the grooved or
hauling wheels, each of a peculiar shape.-Two of these double wheels so con-
structed run loosely upon stationary spindles, or shafts, which have their ends
keyed or otherwise fixed to the cheeks or plates herein before mentioned, the third
of these double wheels is keyed or otherwise secured upon the vertical rotating
spindle or shaft which is supported in bearings formed in the before mentioned
cheeks or frames, or vice versa.-The rope of the net which is to be hauled or
otherwise operated upon is passed around the grooved or hauling wheels which are
mounted upon their spindles or shafts the axes of which are preferably arranged
triangularly so that the rope is made to pass over the inner sides of the two outer
wheels and over the outer side of the wheel whose centre forms the apex of the
triangle so constituted. At or near the upper extremity of the shaft, or spindle,
of the hereinlast mentioned wheel is keyed or otherwise secured a bevilled toothed
wheel which gears with a bevilled pinion fixed on a shaft carried transversely in
bearings across a part of the cheek or plate, or of the upper of the two cheeks or
plates when two are employed, and formed at its outer end square or diamond
shaped to admit of a handle or fly-wheel being placed thereon for the hauling or
Price S71

page_text: working of the apparatus.-The motion is imparted to the grooved or hauling
wheels by means of the bevil and horizontal gearing herein before described.-In
addition to the bevilled pinion secured to the transverse shaft before described there
are similarly secured thereto a spur toothed wheel and a toothed pinion which
respectively gear with a corresponding pinion and wheel secured to a further
square-ended shaft which is also supported transversely in bearings across a part
of the cheek or plate or of the upper of the two cheeks or plates, when such
are used. This form of gearing provides for 3 to 5 different speeds being trans-
mitted to the grooved or hauling wheels. A pawl or other equivalent arrangement
is provided upon the mechanisin for checking, holding and reversing the motion of
the gearing.
The apparatus hereinbefore described is secured preferably at or near the stern
of the boat in a manner somewhat similar to that set forth in the Complete Speci-
fication filed in pursuance of Letters Patent granted to the said William Morrison
and James Boag Morrison No 2327 A.D. 1876.
It is to be understood that the hereinbefore described mechanism may be applied.
to the setting of mast sails and to hauling purposes other than those of fishing
nets, and that the said mechanism may be provided with one or two handles.

page_text: CARMEN Banning wear specialy Аppшcable for Hauling
or Working the Nets of Fishing Boats.
We, WILLIAM MORRISON and JAMES BOAG MORRISON of twenty two Jane
Street, Leith, in the County of Midlothian, North Britain, Engineers do hereby
declare the nature of our said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN HAULING GEAR
SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR HAULING OR WORKING THE NETS OF FISHING BOATS
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Our Invention, which consists of improvements in hauling gear specially
applicable for hauling or working the nets of fishing boats, has for its object
to effect the same with rapidity and ease under all ordinary circumstances, but
it is especially designed to be of service in tempestuous weather, when, from the
heavy seas, the operation is rendered difficult and arduous with the means or
machines at present employed for such operations.
The apparatus consists substantially of one horizontal cheek or plate, or the two
such horizontal cheeks or plates secured at a convenient distance apart by bolts or
other stays so as to enclose three or more toothed wheels which gear with one
another horizontally and to which said toothed wheels are cast the grooved or
hauling wheels; each of a peculiar shape. Two of these double wheels so con-
structed, run loosely upon stationary spindles or shafts, which have their ends
keyed or otherwise fixed to the cheeks or plates hereinbefore mentioned, the third
of these double wheels is keyed or otherwise secured upon the vertical rotating
spindle or shaft which is supported in bearings formed in the before mentioned
cheeks or frames, or vice versa. The rope of the net which is to be hauled or
otherwise operated upon, is passed around the grooved or hauling wheels which are
mounted upon their spindles or shafts the axes of which are preferably arranged
triangularly so that the rope is made to pass over the inner sides of the two outer
wheels and over the outer side of the wheel whose centre forms the apex of the
triangle so constituted. At or near the upper extremity of the shaft or spindle, of
the bereinlast mentioned wheel is keyed or otherwise secured a bevilled toothed wheel
which gears with a bevilled pinion fixed on a shaft carried transversely in bearings
across a part of the cheek or plate, or of the upper of the two cheeks or plates
when two are employed and formed at its outer end square or diamond shaped to
admit of a handle or fly-wheel being placed thereon for the hauling or working of
the apparatus. The motion is imparted to the grooved or hauling wheels by means
of the bevil and horizontal gearing herein before described. In addition to the
bevilled pinion secured to the transverse shaft before described there are similarly
secured thereto a spur toothed wheel and a toothed pinion which respectively gear
with a corresponding pinion and wheel secured to a further square-ended shaft

page_text: which is also supported transversely in bearings across a part of the cheek or plate
or of the upper of the two cheeks or plates, when such are used. This formn of
gearing provides for 3 to 5 different speeds being transmitted to the grooved or
hauling wheels. A pawl or other equivalent arrangement is provided upon the
mechanism for checking, holding and reversing the motion of the gearing.
The apparatus hereinbefore described is secured preferably at or near the stern
of the boat.
It is to be understood that the herein before described mechanism may be applied
to the setting of mast sails and to hauling purposes other than those of fishing nets,
and that the said mechanism may be provided with one or two handles.
In order that our said Invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect, we will now proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a plan of the top side and a plan of the
underside of a machine constructed according to our present Invention.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively a front and a side elevation of the same, n
portion of the latter Figure being represented partly in section.
Figure 5, is an elevation of the standard of the same represented as detached
from the machine.
In the machine which we have represented upon the annexed drawings, the
horizontal cheek or plate a, is formed with the downwardly projecting edge b, and
is secured upon the standard c, in the manner hereinafter described. In the said
plate a, there are formed holes for the reception of the vertical shafts d, e, and f,
the shafts d, and e, being secured in position by the nuts g, as indicated more
particularly at Figure 4, of the annexed drawings in which Figure a portion of the
plate a, is represented as broken away and the shaft d, is shewn in elevation. The
shafts d, and e, are stationary and are formed with the heads h, which support
the pulleys i, and j, respectively so that they are free to rotate upon the said shafts:
The rotating shaft f, is formed with the square head k, which fits into a square
recess formed in the underside of the boss of the pulley l, as indicated more
particularly at Figure 2.-To the upper end of the shaft f, the bevil gear wheel m,
may be secured by a key or its equivalent, but we prefer to secure the said bovil
wheel upon a slightly conical portion of the said shaft, the bevil wheel m, being
forced down upon the said conical portion by means of the nut n. The pulleys i, j,
and I, each of the form which is represented more particularly at Figure 4, are
formed in part with the spur wheels o, which gear with one another horizontally as
indicated at Figure 2.
The bevil wheel m, gears with the bevil wheel p, which is preferably cast in one
with the spur wheel q, and which wheels p, and q, are keyed or otherwise suitably
secured upon the shaft u. This shaft u, is supported at the required height in the
bearings r, which are cast on the webs 8, formed upon the horizontal plate a, and
between the bearings r, the said shaft u, has the spur wheel t, keyed or otherwise
secured upon it. A second shaft v, is supported in the bearings w, (Figure 1) and
upon. this shaft the spur pinions x, and y, are secured as indicated at Figures 1
and 3. At one end, each of the shafts u, and v, is formed square as indicated at 2,
(Figures 1 and 2), or it may be triangular or diamond shaped and at the outside
of these portions z, the said shafts are provided with the screws a¹, and nuts b¹, to
secure the fly-wheel c', upon either shaft as occasion requires. The hood d¹, is
secured down upon the upper surface of the bearings r, and w, by the bolts e¹, and
the said hood d¹, is provided with the lugs f', and g', in which are respectively
pivoted the reversible pawl h, and the latch 2. The pawl h, is so arranged as to
engage with the teeth of the gear wheel t, (Figures 1 and 4) in either direction as
indicated in dotted lines at Figure 3, and the lid or plug, which is preferably
secured to the machine by the chain k¹, is provided for the purpose of supporting
the pawl, when it is not in gear with the said wheel t. The latch ¹, which is
represented more particularly in dotted lines at Figure 3, is so arranged relatively
with the position of the spur pinion y, on the shaft v, as to secure the said shaft

page_text: against longitudinal motion, in either of the two positions in which it is caused to
operate. Upon the annexed drawings we have represented the shaft v, as secured in
the position in which the spur pinion y, is in gear with the spur wheel t, Figures 1
and 4. When it is desired that the pinion, be geared with the toothed wheel q,
the latch ¹, is raised and the shaft v, is moved longitudinally in its bearings, so
that the spur pinion y, is passed beneath the latch i', which is then lowered at
the opposite side of the said pinion y. The arins or spokes , of the fly wheel c¹,
are bent in the manner shewn at Figures 1 and 4, so as to prevent their coming in
contact with the ends of the shafts u, and v. The plate a, as herein before
mentioned is supported upon the standard c, and the upper surface of the flange m³,
of the said standard is corrugated as indicated at Figure 5 of the annexed
drawings. The corrugated surface of the flange m', engages with the corrugated
surface of the annular projection n¹, which is formed upon the underside of the
plate a, as indicated at Figure 2, the said plate a, being secured upon the
standard c, by the screwed bolt o¹, and nut p², or their equivalents. By sufficiently
loosening the nut p², upon the bolt o¹, the plate a, may be turned through an angle
corresponding to one or more of the corrugations, of the flange m², and by the
tightening again of such nut p¹, the plate a, is secured in the position so arrived at.
The square portion q², of the standard c, passes down into a recess formed in the
deck preferably at or near the stern of the boat. When the fly-wheel c', is secured
upon the shaft u, of the machine, the pulleys i, j, and l, are operated directly, but
when, by reason of there being great stress upon the machine it is found difficult
to operate the said machine in this manner, the By wheel c, is removed from the
shaft u, and is secured to the shaft v. The pulleys i, j, and l, are then operated
through the spur pinion y, and wheel t, or through the spur pinion x, and wheel q,
as may be found most advantageous.
With the view of producing further variations in the speed and power of the
hauling machine as bereinbefore described and shewn upon the annexed drawings,
it is to be understood that in addition to the shaft v, there may be applied a
further analogous shaft carrying other spur pinions of a different diameter which
spur pinions may be caused to engage directly with either of the aforesaid spur
wheels q, and t, in a manner similar to that herein before described with reference
to the spur pinions x, and y, respectively, or such pinions on the additional shaft
may gear with either of the spur pinions a, or y, as the case may be, either of
which communicates the motion from the additional shaft to one or other of the
wheels q, or t, upon the aforesaid shaft u, or, such additional spur wheels and
pinions may be carried upon the shafts u, and v, respectively, which shafts may,
for this purpose be made longer than shewn upon the annexed drawings.
It is to be further understood that the machine hereinbefore described may not
only be operated by band as shewn, but that driving pulleys or other suitable
gearing, or an engine coupled to the machine may be used for driving it by
applying such driving pulleys to the shafts u, and v, or by coupling an engine
directly or indirectly thereto.-It is further to be understood that in lieu of using
spur gearing upon the shafts u, and v, or the additional shaft herein before referred
to, that tangent screws and worm-wheels may be employed for operating the snid
mechanisin as is well understood.
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
First. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the
apparatus for hauling or working the nets of fishing boats consisting of the cheek
or plate a, standard c, shafts d, e, f, u, and v, pulleys i, j, and 1, formed in part
with the spur wheels o, the bevil gear wheels m, and p, the spur wheels and
pinions q, t, x, and y, fly wheel c, hood d, pawl h¹, latch ¹, lid or plug 7, all
operating substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth with reference

page_text: to the annexed drawings or the mechanical equivalents of all or any of the parts
thereof.
Second. In a hauling machine the horizontal hauling pulleys i, j, and l, in
combination with two or more horizontal driving shafts, which driving shafts are
BO arranged as to produce variation of speed and power substantially as herein- &
before described.