Improvements in the Manufacture of Ropes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ropes.
I, JOHN BRIGGS, of Bank Bottom Mill, Elland, in the County of York, Cotton
Spinner, and Rope Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of ropes, and is
specially applicable to driving and hauling ropes wherein great tensile strength is
necessary. The invention consists in the combination of an ordinary rope having
a core or centre of wire rope, which so strengthens the rope, that the diameter of
same can be greatly reduced without lessening the strength of the rope, or reducing
the pliability of same.
According to this invention, I employ a wire rope (preferably of iron or steel)
around which the strands of an ordinary rope are twisted or coiled in the usual
manner. The wire core rope is surrounded by the ordinary rope, and the tensile
strength of same is greatly increased without lessening its pliability.
Dated this 4th dow of October 1895
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ropes.
I, JOHN BRIGGS, of Bank Bottom Mill, Elland, in the County of York, Cotton
Spinner and Rope Maker, 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:
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This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of ropes, and is
specially applicable to driving and hauling ropes wherein great tensile strength is
necessary. The invention consists in the combination of an ordinary rope having
a core or centre of wire rope, which so strengthens the rope, that the diameter of
same can be greatly reduced without lessening the strength of the rope, or reducing
the pliability of same.
According to this invention, I employ a wire rope (preferably of iron or steel)
around which the strands of an ordinary rope are twisted or coiled in the usual
manner. The wire core rope is surrounded by the ordinary rope, and the tensile
strength of same is greatly increased without lessening its pliability.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of improved rope.

page_text: At A. is the internal or core stranded wire rope, and at B is the outer and
enclosing stranded rope of either cotton, flax, or other fibres.
In some cases it is an advantage for purpose of obtaining greater pliability of
the internal wire core rope, to twist the strands of the latter around a core of hemp
or fibre as shewn by Fig. 3 enlarged view at C.
A convenient means of splicing for purpose of making an endless rope is shewn
at Fig. 4, wherein the iron or metallic clips D. D are employed for enclosing the
two ends of the wire core rope, and the whole is secured by the rivets or pins E,
the outer rope of fibre is then spliced in the ordinary way.
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 :-
The improved manufacture of ropes, wherein is comprised a stranded wire rope,
combined with a stranded enclosing rope of cotton, hemp, or other like fibres, as
and for the purpose set forth and as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
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Dated this Ord day of July 1900
JOHN BRIGGS,
By his Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.