Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 30th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
THOMAS JAMES TURNER Engine Fitter 41 Audley Street Marsh Lane Bootle, and
MALCOLM DOUGLAS 17 Bostock Street Derby Road Bootle Labourer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
1st. In having a hinge or loose Joint in both sides instead of only one as before.
2nd. a dovetail or Tongued & grooved end may be put on the one side which over-
laps the end of the other for Fastening purposes as also a Block may be made to
consist of 2 links of chain coupled to a bar having a hook to hang by & carrying a
pin on which is a sheave or ferrule to act as one & which pin having a notch to drop
into the link of the opposite side of the block completes this arrangement.
Dated this 28th day of March 1887.
THOMAS JAMES TURNER.
MALCOLM DOUGLAS.

page_text: I, THOMAS JAMES TURNER, 41 Audley Street, Marsh Lane, Bootle Lancs. Fitter
and MALCOLM DOUGLAS, Labourer, 17 Bostock Street, Derby Road, Bootle, Lancs.
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 :—
1st. By making one or more loose Joints, or hinges, on the hanging, or carrying,
(usually known as the back) side of the block ;-(marked 1) see Fig. 1.
2nd. Making an overlapping end on the "Clamp" or "hasp
" which closes
the gap side, (or notch) of the block (marked 2) Fig. 1 (for fastening purposes) and
also to equalise the weight, on the top of Block.
3rd. This block may be made with a Joint at the one end of the hook, eye, or
shackle, to allow the block to give way in the direction of the side strain of the block,
and is called (by users of blocks) a half universal (or with the hook, eye, or shackle,
a full universal Joint, (and marked 3) Fig. 1.
2
4th. A Snatch block may be made thus: (marked 4) Figures 3 & 4-A piece of
material may be made with four arms, the one arm made with an eye, having link,
strap, or plate, fastened therein; the other end of such strap, link, or plate, fastened
to the pin, which pin, carries the sheave or pulley, the other arm, being bent up or
notched to receive a link, strap, or plate, which link, strap, or plate, is fastened to the
pin which carries the sheave or pulley at the opposite end to the one aforementioned,
and thus completes the block. The other arms are for the Joint (whether a double or
single) as of No. 3.
5th. These blocks, may be made to consist of a hook, carrying a bar, (marked 5) see
Fig. 2, which bar, bas an eye at each end, and one eye carries a link, or links, (one or
more) of chain, which carries a pin (loosely, so as to be able to shake the pin about
in the link) and the pin aforesaid carries a sheave, or Pulley the said pin baving a
bend, or notch, at the other end.
The abovementioned bar has a link of chain in the other eye, and one end of the
link drops over the end of the pin & catches in the bend, or notch, and by so doing
carries the other end of the pin, thus making a complete Snatch, or notch, block
in its simplest form, see Figure 2.
6th. It may have a piece of material so bent as to form a guard, at each side of the
sheave, or it may have plates, washers, or pieces of material, between the rope, (or
chain) and side of block, or links &c., as in the other descriptions of the aforementioned
forms of Blocks (marked 6).

page_text: as the half universal (or with the hook, eye, or shackle) whole universal, Joint (it is
also called by them, "a shackle") see description and claim, No. 3.
Fig. No. 2. is of the bar bent so as so carry the links of chain leaving the
clamping link to drop over the end of pin, as No. 5 descriptions & claims.
Figs. 3 & 4. Mark e on Fig. 3 shews the block, with the four arms; constructed
to carry the links (in the link form of manufacture). It has a hole through it, which
is to carry the hook, instead of Universal Joint in Fig. 4. The only differences
between Figs. 3 & 4 is the different ways of fastening the hook as also flat material
is used in No. 4 & Round in No. 3. See No. 4 Description & Claim.
Fig. 6 shows the Guards, whether bent material or washers, see also Figs. 3. 4 & 2.
Note. The figures indicate the same parts agreeably to the Nos. on the different
Figures as 3 on Figs. 1 & 3. the letters also as a on Fig. 2 & its side view,
likewise be&d which only shew the other view of the same thing.
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:
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1st. The using a loose joint, or hinge, as in No. 1 description, with or without
any of the following
2nd. Using the overlap on the "gap side" as in No. 2 doscription, with or without
the foregoing, or any of the following :-
3rd. The using the "half" or whole universal Joint in No. 3 description, whether
on any, or all the foregoing or following
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:-
4th. The form of "block in description (using) 4th, in so far as the loose joint,
in the "block or link form of manufacture, with or without any of the foregoing or
the following:
5th. Using the form of "block" in description-5th whether with or without No. 3
or 6 descriptions :-
6th. The forms of guards mentioned in No. 6 descriptions, whether on Nos. 4 or 5
descriptions of blocks. In each or every of the above forms we claim our novelties
in Snatch or Notch Blocks. These blocks may be used for chain likewise.
Dated this 29th day of September 1887.
THOMAS JAMES TURNER.
MALCOLM DOUGLAS.