IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SERVING ROPES AND CABLES WITH YARN
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EDWARD ORANGE, of Lincoln's Inn Old Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Captain in the 81st Regiment of Her Majesty's Forces, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Second day of November, in the fourth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Edward Orange, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Edward Orange, my exors, admors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Edward Orange, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SERVING ROPES AND CABLES WITH YARN;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said John Edward Orange,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Edward Orange, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon; that is to say :-
My Invention of Improvements in Apparatus for Serving Ropes and Cables
with Yarn relates to improving the apparatus called the serving mallet, and
consists is so arranging apparatus connected therewith that a serving mallet,
constructed according to my Invention, will be rendered suitable for serving
ropes or cables with yarn, and at the same time to carry a supply of yarn,
thus dispensing with the necessity of a second person heretofore required to
hand the yarn round the rope during the using of a serving mallet of the ordi-
nary construction. And in order to give the best information in my power,
I will proceed to explain the Drawing hereunto annexed, in the various
Figures of which the same letters are used to indicate similar parts.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figures 1 and 2 show two side views of a serving mallet constructed according
to my Invention; Figure 3 shows a transverse section thereof. a, a, is a portion
of a rope or cable to be served with yarn; 6 is the mallet; and c, the handle;
the mallet being of the ordinary construction, as is clearly shown, there being
a shield of copper d, around which I prefer the yarn to pass two or more
times before serving the rope or cable, in order to cause the yarn to be retained
at an equal tension. e is what I call a yarn holder, applied to a serving mallet.
It consists of a spherical vessel of copper affixed to the mallet 6, as is shown.
The upper part of the vessel or holder e is capable of opening on a hinge at f,
and of being retained closed by a catch and cotter or wedge g, all which is
clearly shown in the Drawing. h is a ball of yarn, the yarn from which, in
being used, passes through an opening i, thence under the friction crampj,
such friction cramp having an eye or opening k, through which the yarn
passes, as is shown; and any required degree of resistance to the passage of
the yarn through such eye or opening k may be obtained by means of the
adjusting screw nut on the screwed end of the stem of the friction cramp j,
there being two metal plates m, m, against which the yarn in its passage to
and from the eye k is more or less depressed, depending on the position of the
screw nut on the stem of the friction cramp. By this arrangement of appa-
ratus it will be evident that one person will be enabled to serve a rope or cable
with yarn, as the mallet will both serve and carry the yarn round the rope or
cable; and I would remark, that although I prefer the arrangement of holder
shown, yet it will be evident that the same may be varied. I do not, therefore,

page_text: confine myself thereto, as other holders of yarn combined with a serving mallet,
such, for instance, as placing the yarn on an axis, and applying suitable
bearings for such axis to a serving mallet, using suitable means for retarding
the delivery of the yarn, in order to its being served tightly around the rope
or cable; and I would have it understood that what I claim as the Invention
secured by the above-recited Letters Patent is, the mode of combining serving
mallets with apparatus for holding yarn, and governing its winding on a rope
or cable, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edward Orange, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
JOHN EDWARD (L.s.) ORANGE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid John Edward Orange came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped' according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that
purpose.
Inrolled the First day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-one.