Improvement in Cleats for Holding Ropes, Cords, and Chains.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Loft 8th June 1806 Accented 14th July 1306
TROY DIUNAL DE BOLERUATION.
Improvement in Cleats for Holding Ropes, Cords, and Chains.
I, CHARLES JAMES WHISTLER HANSON of 11 Great Ormond Street,
London, W.C., in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows
My invention has for its object improvements in cleats for holding ropes, cords,
and chains, in such a way that a rope, cord, or chain, having a tension on it and
wound once round my cleat will be held securely.
My cleat is formed of a plate or saddle of metal bent downwards at a convenient
angle on each side of its diameter-such bent plate or saddle of metal being fixed
to the top of a metal support. This said metal support I make of elliptical cross
section, and I make its narrower ends or sides decrease preferably equally from
below upwards towards each other in a curvelinear manner, and I fix it at
right angles to a convenient base. The said bent plate or saddle of metal may
bave corrugations running parallel or at right angles with its diameter and such
corrugations may be above and below the said bent plate of metal.
When a rope, cord, or chain with a tension on it is wound once round a cleat
constructed as above described, the cord slides up the metal support, and a loop
being formed the under cord presses or jams the upper cord against the aforesaid
bent plate of metal and securely holds it.
Dated this 9th day of Sentember 1895.
C. J. WHISTLER HANSON.
1, CHARLES JAMES WHISTLER HANSON, of 11 Great Ormond Street,
London, W.C., in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, 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 has for its object improvements in cleats for holding ropes, cords,
and chains, in such a way that a rope, cord, or chain having a tension
wound once round my cleat will be held securely..
on it and
My cleat is formed of a plate or saddle of metal bent downwards at a convenient
angle on each side of its diameter-such bent plate or saddle of metal being fixed
to the top of a metal support. This said metal support I make of elliptical cross
section, and I make its narrower ends or sides decrease preferably equally from
below upwards towards each other in a curvelinear manner, and I fix it at right
angles to a convenient base. The said bent plate or saddle of metal may have
corrugations running parallel or at right angles with its diameter, and such
corrugations may be above and below the said bent plate of metal.
When a rope, cord, or chain with a tension on it is wound once round a cleat
constructed as above described the cord slides up the metal support, and a loop
being formed the under cord presses or jams the upper cord against the aforesaid
bent plate of metal and securely holds it.

page_text: In order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and carried
into effect I will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully to
describe the same.
Figure 2 is an end elevation thereof.
Figure 3 is a plan thereof.
Figures 4, 5, and 6 are various views of the cleat showing the manner in which
a rope or cord is held.
Figure 7 is a side elevation of a cleat constructed according to the present
invention, and showing another method of carrying it into effect.
Figure 8 is an end elevation of Figure 7.
Figure 9 is a plan of Figure 7.
Figures 10, 11, and 12 are various views of the bent plate or saddle of metal
embodying a slight modification.
In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
The plate or saddle of metal a is bent downwards on each side of its diameter,
the angle varying from 40° to 60° according to the size of the rope or cord, and is
fixed to the top of a metal support b. Figure 2 shows the plate or saddle of metal a
bent downwards at an angle of 45° on each side of its diameter. The aforesaid metal
support is of elliptical cross section as shown in Figure 3, and its narrower ends
or sides ff decrease upwards towards each other in a curvelinear manner from its
base e to its top cas shown in Figure 1. The base e may be oblong with its
narrower ends or sides rounded off as shown in Figure 3, or it may be circular, or
any other convenient shape suited to the requirements of the case for which the
cleat may be made.
The base e may in some cases be done away with and the metal support 6 end in
a screw to screw into wood or metal, or it may have one or more metal points
projecting downwards to enable the cleat to be driven into wood like a nail thus
doing away with the necessity of screws.
Without departing from the claims of my invention I may also construct my
cleat according to Figures 7, 8, and 9-where Figure 7 is a side elevation,
Figure 8 is an end elevation, and Figure 9 a plan. These figures show the plate
or saddle of metal a bent over at right angles to the way depicted in Figures 1, 2,
and 3.
The plate or saddle of metal a-see Figures 1 to 9-may in some cases have
corrugations running parallel or at right angles to its diameter, and such corrugations
may be above and below the said bent plate or saddle of metal a. Figures 10, 11,
and 12 show such corrugations above and below the bent plate or saddle of metal a
and running parallel with its diameter-Figure 10 being a side elevation, Figure 11
an end elevation, and Figure 12 a plan thereof.
Figure 4 is a vertical section of my cleat showing a rope or cord wound
round it. Figure 5 is a plan of Figure 4, and Figure 6 is a side elevation of
Figure 4.
When a rope or cord d with a tension on it is wound once round my cleat-see
Figures 4, 5, and 6-in the direction d, d¹, d³, d³, it slides up the metal support b
and a loop being thus formed the under part of the cord d-see Figure 4-presses
or jams the upper part of the cord against one of the sides of the bent plate or
saddle of metal a and thus the cord is securely held.
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:
1. A cleat for holding ropes, cords, and chains, formed of a plate or saddle of
metal bent downwards at a convenient angle on each side of its diameter and fixed

page_text: to the top of a metal support-the said metal support being approximately of
elliptical cross section and having its narrower ends or sides decreasing equally
from below upwards towards each other in a curvelinear manner and fixed at right
angles to a convenient base substantially as herein shown and described and for
the purpose stated.
2. The construction of cleats with reference to Figures 1, 2, and 3 substantially
as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
3. The construction of cleats with reference to Figures 7, 8, and 9 substantially
as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
4. In cleats the bent plate or saddle top of metal a shown in Figures 1, 2, 3
and 7, 8, and 9 substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
stated.
5. In cleats the metal support 6 shown in Figures 1 to 9, substantially as herein.
shown and described and for the purpose stated.
6. In cleats substantially as above described one or more metal points projecting
downwards from the aforesaid metal support b to enable the cleats to be driven into.
wood substantially as herein described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 8th day of June 1896.
C. J. WHISTLER HANSON.