A Fishing Brake Од ГА
Year: 1896

page_text: I HENRY SULLIVAN THOMAS, of Bolham House, at Tiverton, in the County
of Devon, England, of Her Majesty's Indian Civil Service Retired do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The brake winch, variously applicable, is kept normally free by a spring, till
regulated to a nicety by pressure on a button up to complete stoppage, but springs
free again immediately pressure is removed.
The position fixer is needed to prevent the winch being pulled out of its rings.
The principle of the position fixer, variously applicable, is that an extra heel
projects from the heel plate of the winch into a notch in the rod, and is kept there
by the ordinary ring fittings.
The two separate things are interdependant.
A Fishing
Brake
Од ГАСЬ.
HENRY SULLIVAN THOMAS, of Bolham House, Tiverton, in the County of
Devon, England, of Her Majesty's Indian Civil Service, Retired, 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 following
statement:
The winch or reel being all metal except the handle C, A is the ordinary
revolving plate to be found on both insides of any fishing winch. B is the same
continued externally on the one side to which the handle C is attached, such
external continuation B of the revolving plate, for the purpose of attaching the
handle C, being also common to many unpatented winches. The novelty of
structure in this revolving plate B is that it is thickened so as to bear having
a V shaped groove D in its outside edge, the said groove being continued all the
way round. Into this groove D fits a wedge shaped brake E, which has a button F
above it, and a flat watch-spring G, attached by screws at H to the ordinary
heelplate I. The flat watch-spring G is placed at such an angle as to hold the
brake E in the normal position of being just free of the groove D, so that there
may be no friction till the brake E is pushed home into the groove D by pressure
of a finger on the button F, and so as to bring the brake back by spring to its
normal position of freedom the moment the pressure on the button F is discontinued.
The brake acts by friction of the wedge shaped brake E in the groove D.
In this brake the brake E is wedge shaped and the groove DV shaped, but the
principle of the extra friction obtained would be the same if vice versa E were

page_text: a V shaped groove, and D wedge shaped, or if E and D were respectively convex
and concave, or concave and convex. It is desired to protect the principle.
The form of the margin of the point of the wedge E is a segment of the same
circle as B, so as to bite or cause friction throughout its length.
The brake can be made to act so strongly as to completely lock the winch. The
top of the rod has then to be lowered, and the tension of the line becoming direct
from the fish to the winch, the winch is pulled against the upper moveable or
sliding ring of the ordinary winch fittings, till the sliding ring is pulled out of
position, and the winch must fall off the rod unless secured in position. The
position fixer therefore becomes a necessary adjunct.
The position fixer is a piece of metal K screwed to the under side of one end of
the heel-plate I, so as to project like the heel of a boot, and fall into a notch cut in
the wood of the rod to receive it in which notch it is kept down by the ordinary
sliding ring of the ordinary winch fittings passing over the ordinary heelplate of the
winch.
The position fixer is not soldered but attached by screws to facilitate its transfer
to either end at the option of the angler, or its removal in case of the rod being
already fitted with special winch fittings such as would preclude the use of the
winch if the position fixer were not removeable.
The brake winch and position fixer are not two separate patents improperly
brought into one, but are interdependant parts of one winch, as the brake would be
incomplete and useless without the position fixer, except in the few instances
mentioned in the previous paragraph.
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
I. Novelty of structure in the form of the revolving plate B.
II. Novelty in the form and principle of the brake by wedge and groove, or
convex and concave, and by being a segment of a circle.
III. Novelty in the attachment of the brake by flat watch-spring as being both
more sensitive and rapid in action than a coiled wire spring.
IV. Novelty in the manner of applying pressure through a button.
V. Novelty in principle that the brake is never adjusted or set to any degree of
friction at which it must remain till it is unset, but on the exactly opposite
principle is normally free, and automatically frees itself without any attention the
instant the pressure of the finger ceases.
VI. Novelty of structure in the position fixer K.
VII. Novelty of principle in the position fixer, the principle of which is a lot of
some sort falling from the winch into a notch or hole in the wood of the ri, and
held down in it by the ordinary sliding ring of the ordinary winch fitting All
direct tension on the winch when the brake is in action is thus removed fi m the
sliding ring and borne by the slot.
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