A NEW METHOD OF LAYING DOWN AND RAISING OR CUTTING OPP, FOR REPAIRING AND OTHER PURPOSES, OF TELEGRAPH CABLES, CHAINS, OB ROPES
Year: 1860

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Bauer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th July
1860.
I, WILLIAM BAUER, of Munich, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and No. 36,.
Burton Street, Burton Crescent, W.C., London, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF LAYING DOWN AND RAISING OR
CUTTING OPP, FOR REPAIRING AND OTHER PURPOSES, OF TELEGRAPH CABLES, CHAINS,
OB ROPES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of an apparatus for the purpose of laying down or
raising telegraph cables, chains, or ropes, without any tortion or kinks; a part
of my apparatus is constructed to be used for grasping telegraph cables; and
similar objects already laid, and cutting the same at any depth in the sea
between two connected tongs, by means of which I am able to raise the two
ends so cut to the surface of water for the purpose of examining and repairing
the same. The said apparatus is put in action from the board of any suitable
vessel, and works wholly independent from above in regard to the motive-
power.
The vessel which carries the telegraph cable, chain, or rope, which shall be
laid down to the bottom of the sea, or only in a certain depth where it may
be kept floating by means of submarine diving chambers or balloon, as is
stated and described in my Letters Patent No. 590/, will be fitted with a
reservoir filled partly with water of such size as to take up a hollow ball or

page_text: cylinder, on the circumference of which the cable, chain, or rope is wound up.
but its weight is carried by the volumn of the said ball or cylinder floating in
the water of the reservoir. By means of floating the cable in the reservoir,
the tortion power of the cable, chain, or rope passing at a certain height
through suitable guides, will be removed by the ball or cylinder, being allowed
to float freely in any direction or round its axis.
It has been experienced in practice that telegraph cables are liable to break
during submersion, or otherwise injured in a high sea, or at great depth;
now, this my second apparatus relates to the cutting, raising, or
laying tele-
graph cables, chains, or ropes, by means of electro-magnetism, repulsion, or
expansion, produced by water, air, rockets, and springs.
The apparatus consists of two pair of moveable tongs in connection with a
strong cylinder and a rotating or straight saw or cutter with the necessary
gearings and guides. This small machine will be lowered to the telegraph
cable, chain, or rope alongside of the connection of the grasp or anchor,
which take hold of the cable at the bottom or in water. The carrying rope
of this machine contains a telegraph wire to enable the putting in motion of
the saw or cutter after the above-mentioned tongs have taken hold of the
cable, chain, or rope to cut it off. The ends of it can then be raised by direct
pulling on the now connected tongs and ropes, or by means of the self-regula-
ting balloon, as is described in my Patent No. 590/0, fitted for this purpose
with reservoirs of compressed air or gas. The two cut ends of the cable
will be rising to a vertical line, taking distance from each other, without any
disturbance of the cable further laying at the bottom of the sea. The ex-
amination and repair, or joining new pieces to the ends, can be accomplished
either on the surface of the water or by use of my submarine diving chamber,
as is patented by me, No. 590/