IMPROVEMENTS IN CABLES FOR HOLDING AT ANCHOR AND TOWING SHIPS AND OTHER FLOATING BODIES."
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Taylor, 16, Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CABLES FOR HOLDING AT ANCHOR AND
TOWING SHIPS AND OTHER FLOATING BODIES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st February 1855.
I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, 16, Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CABLES FOR HOLDING AT
ANCHOR AND TOWING SHIPS AND OTHER FLOATING BODIES" to be, as follows:
"ar the
My Invention consists in constructing, the links of the cable, or part of the
cable of caoutchouc, otherwise called elastic gum, elastic resin, or india-rubber,
or of a mixture of such caoutchouc with another substance, or other sub-
stances; as, for example, in constructing, them of vulcanised india-rubber,
whereby I obtain a cable or part of a cable. which does not depend for its
strength solely on the isolated cohesion of a single link, but over and above
that, and much more, than on that, on the aggregate elasticity of all the links
acting conjointly and simultaneously, and which is more capable than
any,
cable now in use of extending itself, and by this extension delaying and
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page_text: avoiding its rupture, in giving time to the effort which the ship makes to be
exhausted or abated before the cohesive resistance of any one link is called
into action, and of causing the ship, which at first receded before the advancing
wave, afterwards to be drawn back wholly or partially to its primary position by
the elastic force of the links exerted in the resumption of their original shape.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th July 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TAYLOR, residing at No. 16, Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said William Taylor, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CABLES FOR
HOLDING AT ANCHOR AND TOWING SHIPS AND OTHER FLOATING BODIES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Taylor,- by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
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My Invention consists in constructing the links of the cable or part of the
cable of caoutchouc, otherwise called india-rubber, or of a mixture of such
caoutchouc with another substance or other substances, as, for example, in

page_text: constructing them of vulcanised india-rubber, whereby I obtain a cable or
part of a cable which does not depend for its strength solely on the isolated
cohesion of a single link, but over and above that, and much more than on
that, on the aggregate elasticity of all the links acting conjointly and simul-
taneously, and which is more capable than any cable now in use of extending
itself, and by this extension delaying and avoiding its rupture, in giving time
to the effort which the ship makes to be exhausted or abated before the
cohesive resistance of any one link is called into action, and of causing the
ship, which at first receded before the advancing wave, afterwards to be drawn
back wholly or partially to its primary position by the elastic force of the
links exerted in the resumption of their original shape.
The Drawing represents one mode of performing the Invention.
The cable is a short cable of three links, being part of a cable intended for
towing, constructed of vulcanised india-rubber. The first and third links are
supposed to be horisontal, and the intermediate or second link to be vertical.
Fig. 1 is a horisontal section thro' the middle line of the links, supposed to be
horisontal, the strain not being applied; Fig. 2 is the same, the strain being
applied; Fig. 3 is the same, the strain having been withdrawn, and in con-
sequence the links having resumed their original shape; Fig. 4 is a transverse
section of a link when the strain is not applied, at the line A, B.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Taylor, have hereinto set my
hand and seal, this 12th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1855.
W. TAYLOR. (L.S.)