A NEW OR IMPROVED LEVER FASTENING FOR SECURELY HOLDING IN A STATE OF TENSION CORDS, CABLES, WIRE ROPES, CHAINS OR THE LIKE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Timmins and John Gayton, both of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Coppersmiths and Co-
partners, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED LEVER FASTENING
FOR SECURELY HOLDING IN A STATE OF TENSION CORDS, CABLES, WIRE ROPES,
CHAINS OR THE LIKE"
Sealed the 29th October 1869, and dated the 13th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Timmins and
John Gayton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 13th May 1869.
We, JOSEPH TIMMINS and JOHN GAYTON, both of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Coppersmiths and Co-partners, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED LEVER FASTENING
FOR SECURELY HOLDING IN A STATE OF TENSION, CORDS, CABLES, WIRE ROPES,
CHAINS, OR THE LIKE," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is sufficiently indicated by its title.
The Invention consists substantially of a bent lever fitted with a cross
pin in about its middle part and which forms the axis upon which it
works. The upper end of the said lever is grooved or spread open so as

page_text: to form a kind of prong or fork, and is for the reception of the cord or
cable employed, the other end of the lever pressing the cord against the
frame provided when the lever is in use, and so holding it securely in
a state of tension.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-That end of the cord which
it is desired to secure is laid through the opening made in the upper
end of the lever and carried from the front to the back thereof, and
from thence carried under the lower part of the same lever (or as will
be obvious in some positions the mode of securing the cord will be
reversed.)
The fastening is now complete, the principle of the Invention being
that the greater the strain caused by the tension of the cord or cable
running over the upper end of the lever the more powerfully it is held
in its position by the leverage of the lower part of the same lever.
The apparatus herein described may be either used singly or in pairs
when occasion requires it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Timmins and John Gayton in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 13th November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JOSEPH
TIMMINS and JOHN GAYTON, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Coppersmiths and Copartners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Joseph Timmins and John Gayton, Her special
licence that we, the said Joseph Timmins and John Gayton, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Timmins
and John Gayton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention

page_text: for "A NEW OR IMPROVED LEVER FASTENING FOR SECURELY HOLDING IN A
STATE OF TENSION CORDS, CABLES, WIRE ROPES, CHAINS, OR THE LIKE," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Timmins
and John Gayton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar.
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Timmins and John Gayton,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement (that is to say):
:-
The object of this Invention is sufficiently indicated by its title.
The Invention consists substantially of a bent lever fitted with a
cross pin in about its middle part and which forms the axis upon which
it works. The upper end of the said lever is grooved or spread open so
as to form a kind of prong or fork, and is for the reception of the cord
or cable employed, the other end of the lever pressing the cord against
the frame provided when the lever is in use, and so holding it securely
in a state of tension.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-That end of the cord
which it is desired to secure is laid through the opening made in the
upper end of the lever and carried from the front to the back thereof,
and from thence carried under the lower part of the same lever, (or, as
will be obvious, in some positions the mode of securing the cord will be
reversed), the fastening is now complete.
The apparatus herein described may be either used singly or in pairs
when occasion requires it.
That our Invention may be fully understood we have annexed
Drawings thereof which we now proceed to describe.
For the sake of convenience we will first describe Figs. 3 and 4, these
being the lever fastenings specially referred to in our Specification.
Fig. 3 is respectively a side and front elevation of the frame of one
of our improved lever fastenings.
Fig. 4 is respectively a front and side elevation of the bent lever to
work therein, and which is fitted with the cross pin shewn, the upper

page_text: end of which said bent lever is grooved or spread open to form a kind
of prong or fork, and is for the reception of the cord or cable sought to
be secured as herein-before explained.
Fig. 1 shews respectively a side and front elevation of the same kind
of frame already shewn in Fig. 3 although smaller in size.
Fig. 2 is respectively a front and side elevation of another kind of
lever to work therein, which is a modification of our Invention and
which from the description already given of that shewn in Fig. 4 will
be readily understood.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be performed, we desire it to
be understood that, anything contained herein or in our previously
filed Provisional Specification notwithstanding, we do not claim as any
part of our Invention the principle or action comprised in our improved
lever fastening, as we find this to have been anticipated by several other
Inventions, and to have been well known in the trade for some years,
but what we do desire to claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, substantially the improved
lever fastening for holding in a state of tension cords, cables; wire ropes,
chains or the like, substantially as shewn in the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Timmins and John Gayton,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twelfth day of
November, in the year of our Lord 1869.
JOSEPH TIMMINS. (L.S.)
JOHN GAYTON.
(L.S.)
JOSEPH TIMMINS. (L.S.)
JOHN GAYTON.
(L.S.)