ment to Wire Ropes, and to Means for Attaching such Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: ment to Wire Ropes, and to Means for Attaching such Articles.
We, JOHN HARDY, Senior, and JOHN HARDY Junior, trading as John Hardy
and Son, of Brunswick Street, West Hartlepool, in the County of Durham, Engineers,
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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Our invention relates to hooks, eyes, sockets, and the like for attachment to wire
ropes, and to means for attaching such articles to wire ropes: the said invention
being applicable to ropes for raising and lowering cages in mines, hoists, and lifts
for hauling, and for other analogous purposes.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of an eye constructed according to my invention and
adapted to receive a round rope.
Figure 2 is an end view of the same, and
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the oye in a position at right angles to that shown
in figure 2, the said eye being represented as having a rope attached thereto.
a is the eye proper to which a cage or other article is connected and 6 is a shank
formed integral with the said eye and adapted to receive the rope.
For this purpose a round holo c is bored longitudinally through the shank, the
portion of the hole at the neck or end of the shank nearest the eye being of a conical
shape. The end of the shank farthest from the hook or eye is grooved or slit say as
far as the centre, as shown at d, to facilitate the introduction of the rope into the
hole c.
e, e are rings, or clamps which are placed on the shank 6 and adapted to press the
divided portion of the said shank into close contact with the rope, the exterior of the
shank being slightly tapering so as to permit of this tightening.
The end of the rope to be attached is inserted into the hole or sockot c of the shank
at the end most remote from the eye and is passed through towards the hook. The
wires at the end of the rope are then taken and laid back, as shown at f, and. wrapped
and trimmed with binding wire to make the end of pear or conical shapo as

page_text: shown. The rope is then pulled until the end is properly housed or scated in the
conical portion of the socket or attachment. The rings or clamps e, e are then driven
tight so that the socket is perfectly secure.
No cotter pins, screws, rivets, or wedges are required according to this invention
consequently the wires and strands of the rope are not damaged.
Instead of forming an eye a integral with the shank it is obvious that the same
may be formed with a hook or other device.
Although I have described my improvements as applied to a round rope I wish it
understood that they can also be applied to flat ropes, the hole in the socket in this
case being suitably enlarged.
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 :-
1. A. hook, eye, or other device for attachment to wire ropes, the shank portion of
which has a longitudinal hole formed therein corresponding to the shape of the rope,
the said hole being of conical shape or enlarged near the hook or eye proper, and
which at the end most remote from the said hook or eye proper is slit or divided and
provided with one or more rings or clamps, substantially as, and for the purpose,
specified.
2. The method of securing a hook, eye, or the like to a wire rope, which consists in
inserting the rope into a socket integral with the hook, eye, or the like, one end of
which socket is of conical shape or enlarged internally and bending over the wire at
the end of the rope so as to enlarge the same to fit into the conical or enlarged portion
of the socket, and in clamping the parallel portion of the socket upon the rope,
substantially as described.
3. The manufacture and use of hooks, eyes, and the like for wire
rope constructed
substantially as horeiubefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Deted the 28th day of March 1888.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicants.