IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING OR HAULING IN FISHING NTUNG
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Howard, of Ann's Place, Sykes Street, Hull, in
the County of York, Engine Fitter, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING OR HAULING IN FISHING
NTUNG "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Howard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1880.
GEORGE HOWARD, of Ann's Place, Sykes Street, Hull, in the County of York,
Engine Fitter. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING
OR HAULING IN FISHING NETS."
This Invention relates to the use of a large (or main) and a small (or supple-
mentary) capstan combined, for the purpose of hauling in and securing the nets on
board fishing smacks.
As the operation is now performed, the large capstan, which may be worked by
hand, but is generally driven by steam power, heaves one end of the trawl beam up
to the vessel, while the other, the after end of the beam, is hauled in by means of a
winch at the stern of the vessel worked by three or four men.
In the place of the winch last named, which takes up some feet of valuable room
on the vessel's deck, a small capstan is provided in close proximity to, and set in
motion by, the main capstan for getting in the after end of the beam. By this
arrangement the manual labour is dispensed with, the net is hauled in more
uniformly and in much less time, while additional space and facilities are given to
the crew for handling the vessel.
In my arrangement the two capstans are each fitted with a toothed wheel, and
the main capstan is worked by a pinion on driving shaft. An intermediate pinion
is inserted between the two toothed wheels, and this pinion works the supple-
mentary capstan, so that both capstans turn simultaneously.
The capstans may be disconnected from each other by raising the intermediate
pinion, when the capstan not worked direct from the driving shaft may be worked
by hand. The other capstan may also be worked by hand by disengaging the
driving shaft pinion.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Howard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th March
1881.
GEORGE HOWARD, of Ann's Place, Sykes Street, Hull, in the County of York,
Engine Fitter. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING
OR HAULING IN FISHING NETS."
This Invention relates to the use of a large (or main) and a small (or supple-
mentary) capstan combined, for the purpose of hauling in and securing the nets on
board fishing snacks.
As the operation is now performed, the large capstan, which may be worked by
hand, but is generally driven by steam power, heaves one end of the trawl beam up
to the vessel, while the other, the after end of the beam, is hauled in by means of a
winch at the stern of the vessel worked by three or four men.
According to my Invention, in the place of the winch last named, which takes up
some feet of valuable room on the vessel's deck, a sinall capstan is provided in
close proximity to, and set in motion by, the main capstan for getting in the after
end of the beam. By this arrangement the manual labour is dispensed with, the
net is hauled in more uniformly and in much less time, while additional space and
facilities are given to the crew for handling the vessel.
In my arrangement the two capstans are each fitted with a toothed wheel, and
the main capstan is worked by a pinion on driving shaft. An intermediate pinion
is inserted between the two toothed wheels, and this pinion works the supple-
mentary capstan, so that both capstans turn simultaneously.
The capstans may be disconnected from each other by raising the intermediate
pinion. The main capstan may be worked by hand by disengaging the driving
shaft pinion. To work the supplementary capstan by hand (from the main
capstan), the wheel E is then put in gear with wheels B and D. Referring to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of
a vessel partly in section fitted with apparatus according to my Invention for
operating upon or hauling in fishing nets, and Fig. 2, a plan of the same,
A represents the large or main capstan with the spur wheel or ring B; C, the small
or supplementary capstan with the spur wheel or ring D; E, the intermediate wheel
gearing into and connecting the two spur wheels or rings B and D, and con-
sequently the two capstans A and C. The two capstans can be disconnected by
raising the pinion E; G is gearing for operating the capstans by hand when
required. In the arrangement shewn in the Drawings, the large capstan, which
through the intermediate wheel drives the small capstan, is itself driven by a
pinion H driven by the engine I through the intermediate shaft K, and vertical
shaft L, and bevil gear M, N. Between the crank shaft O and intermediate
shaft K is a clutch P, controlled from deck by the hand lever Q, link R, and clutch
lever S; T and U are guide pulleys to lead the rope to the supplementary capstan
from the after part of the vessel. In operation the main capstan heaves or hauls
one end of the trawl beam up to the vessel by means of a rope passing over the
side, and the supplementary capstan raises the after end of the beam or net by a
rope passing to the stern of the vessel over the guide pulleys.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which it is to be or may be carried into practical effect, I would have it understood
that what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as secured to
me under the Letters Patent herein before in part recited is,-
As means for operating upon or hauling in and securing fishing nets on fishing

page_text: smacks or vessels, an arrangement of two capstans with connecting gear, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
hand
In witness whereof, I, the said George Howard, have hereunto set my
and seal, this Twenty third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
GEORGE HOWARD. (L.S.)