Improvements in and relating to Means for Supporting the Hauling and Hoisting Ropes of Overhead Load-transporters or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Means for Supporting the Hauling
and Hoisting Ropes of Overhead Load-transporters or the like.
We, JOSEPH TEMPERLEY and JOHN RIDLEY TEMPERLEY, both of The Tem-
perley Transporter Company, of 72, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the City of
London, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in means for supporting the hauling
and hoisting ropes of overhead load-transporters, cable traction tramways or
the like and is chiefly designed to prevent the trailing portion or portions of
the said hauling and hoisting rope or ropes falling or sagging below the top of
the rope-pulley, which is mounted on the rope support or carrier, before the
closing of the said rope support or carrier after the passage of the traveller or
load-carriage therethrough.
Our said invention is chiefly applicable to travellers or load-carriages and
rope supports or carriers of the kind or class described in the Specification of
former Letters Patent granted to us and dated April 7th, 1897, No. 14,162.
In the employment of rope supports or carriers, as heretofore constructed, it
sometimes happens that, by reason of careless or improper use, the trailing por-
tion or portions of the hauling and hoisting rope or ropes are allowed to become
slack so that they fall or sag below the top of the rope-pulley, which is mounted
on the rope support or carrier before the said rope-support or carrier closes
after the passage of the traveller therethrough and, in consequence, the rope or
ropes are caught or wedged between the closing arms or fall entirely outside
the rope support or carrier. The continued working of the transporter or the
like with the rope, or ropes, so displaced frequently results in the fraying and
breaking of the said rope, or ropes, and, in some instances, the rope support or
carrier is seriously damaged.
To obviate these disadvantages we provide, upon a convenient part of the
traveller, a loop or hanger adapted to maintain the hauling or hoisting rope or
ropes at a higher level than the top of the rope-pulley on the rope support or
carrier until the said traveller has passed a sufficient distance through the said
rope support or carrier and has thus permitted the latter to close.
In the accompanying drawing, we have shown how our said invention may
be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a side view, and
Figure 2 an end view of a rope support or carrier and a traveller or load-
carriage showing our improvements applied thereto.
a is the traveller or load-carriage with curved or inclined projections 6 for
holding apart the arms of the rope support or carrier c. d is the rope pulley
mounted on the rope support or carrier c; and e the hauling or other rope to be
supported.
At a convenient part of the frame or body of the traveller a, preferably upon

page_text: the curved or inclined projections b, we attach a loop or hanger ƒ adapted to
receive and support the rope.
In the working of travellers or load-carriages not provided with a rope-sup-
porting loop or hanger such as that above described it is found that the trail-
ing portion of the rope, when slack, assumes a position such as is indicated by
broken lines at g, Figure 1, and the rope sags or falls below the rope-pulley d
so that no support will be afforded to the said rope by the rope support or
carrier when it closes after the traveller' has passed. As the traveller next
approaches this carrier, travelling in the opposite direction, the carrier will
become entangled in that portion of the rope which was formerly the trailing
portion, now serving as the hauling portion, and be thereby damaged.
Now, by our improved arrangement, the rope. is. supported above the rope
pulley until the inclined or curved projections of the traveller have passed a
sufficient distance through the rope support or carrier so as to allow the arms
to close. Thus, although the rope may be slack, it will assume a suitable posi-
tion to permit its engagement with the rope pulley, as intended, after the rope
support or carrier has closed.
In some instances, however, we prefer to support the loop or hanger f upon
a rod or rods attached to the traveller in any convenient manner and of sufficient
length to support the rope until the carrier is closed.
As herein before described and shown in the accompanying drawings, our
invention is applied to a traveller having a single hauling or hoisting rope only
but it is obvious that it can be applied when any number of ropes are employed
for the operations of lifting, lowering and transporting loads.
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. In combination with a traveller or load carriage provided with inclined
or curved projections adapted to hold apart the arms of a rope-support or
carrier during the passage of the traveller therethrough, loops or hangers
attached to the said traveller or load carriage or to an arm or arms extending
therefrom and adapted to maintain the hauling and hoisting rope or ropes above
the level of the top of the rope pulley until the said rope support or carrier
closes, substantially as, and for the purpose specified.
2. A cable-traction traveller or load-carrier provided with a rope-supporting
loop or hanger substantially as hereinbefore described and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 97th day of Nawamhan 1800
Dated this 27th day of Nawamber 1900
JOSEPH TEMPERLEY..
JOHN RIDLEY TEMPERLEY.
D. Young & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.