Improvements in Means for Securing the Ropes or Wires of Tents, Rick Covers, or for Analogous Uses.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Aug.. 1890-Accepted, 6th Sept.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Securing the Ropes or Wires of Tents,
Rick Covers, or for Analogous Uses.
I WILLOUGHBY EDWARD BRYAN of Haskells Lyndhurst in the County of Hants
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide means whereby pegs by which the ropes
or wires of tents, rick covers or the like are secured to the ground are more efficiently
held in position without the necessity for carrying the ropes or wires to such a
distance from the tent as is now necessary.
According to my invention I provide the peg with a device whereby the pressure
due to abnormal pull upon the ropes or wires is taken up without effecting the pin or
whereby the direction of pull is so changed that the tendency thereof is to drive the
peg into the ground rather than to withdraw it. I do not limit myself to any
particular arrangement of the details by which my invention may be carried into
effect as it can be effected in various ways for instance I may connect the rope or
wire to one arin of a lever the other arm of which bears on the top of the peg or on a
spring situated between the lever and the peg this latter plan having the advantage of
restoring the rope or wire to its original tension when the strain thereon is dis-
continued. Or I may make a frame with guides for the rope or wire which frame
can slide on the peg the ropes or wires being led through or under the guides and
then being attached to the top of the peg so that what would otherwise be a pull
tending to withdraw the peg is converted into a force tending to drive the peg into,
or retain it in, the ground.
Datad this 4th day of Ontal 1000
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Securing the Ropes or Wires of Tents,
Rick Covers, or for Analogous Uses.
I, WILLOUGHBY EDWARD BRYAN of Haskell's Lyndhurst in the County of Hants
Gentleman 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 the
following statement :—
The object of my invention is to provide means whereby pegs by which the ropes
or wires of tents rick covers or the like are secured to the ground are more efficiently
held in position without the necessity for carrying the ropes or wires to such a
distance from the tent as is now necessary.
According to my invention I provide the peg with a device whereby the pressure
due to abnormal pull upon the ropes or wires is so utilized that the tendency thereof
is to more firmly secure the peg in the ground.
The accompanying drawing is a perspective view illustrating my invention but I do
not restrict myself to the precise details as they may be varied without departing from
the nature of my invention.
The peg is made in two parts A A* connected or pivotted together at B so as to be
capable of being closed at their upper ends so as to open out or expand their lower
ends or of separating or opening out at the lower and upper ends after the manner
of a pair of scissors. The lower ends or preferably one of the ends of the parts A
or A is curved outwards as shewn at a so as to penetrate the ground in a lateral
direction as hereinafter described whilst the other may be made with a straight point

page_text: to facilitate its insertion in the ground. To the upper end of one of the parts (A) is
hinged a pair of arms C C³ connected at c to a bar preferably provided with an anti-
friction wheel d to bear against the upper end of the other part A². One of the
arms (C) is longer than the other arm (C) and is provided with a ring or hook e to
which the tent rope is attached. The full lines in the drawing shew the position
which the parts occupy when the peg is to be driven into the ground-the bearing
part which connects the arms C02 being in its lowest position near where the
parts A A2 are connected. When the peg is driven into the ground-and the tent rope
or wire is connected to the ring or hook e any upward strain on the rope or wire will
cause the hearing roller d to force the upper ends of the two parts A. A² apart and
consequently separate the lower ends of the said two parts into the position shewn by
dot and pick lines in the drawing and thereby increase the hold of the peg in the
ground more or less according to the amount of strain exerted on the rope or wire.
The greater the strain on the rope or wire the more firmly will the peg be held in the
ground. is a projection on the upper end of the part A2 to prevent the roller d
passing over the end thereof and g is a bar serving as a stop to prevent the parts A A²
opening too wide.
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
First Providing the pegs by which the ropes or wires of tents, rick covers, or the
like are secured to the ground, with means whereby the pressure due to abnormal
strain or pull upon the ropes or wires tends to more firmly secure the pegs in the
ground substantially as hereinbefore described.
Second Pegs by which the ropes or wires of tents, rick covers or the like are
secured to the ground, made in two parts connected together so as to be capable of
opening out and means for causing the parts to open out by the pressure due to
abnormal strain or pull upon the ropes or wires substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described.
Third The construction combination and arrangement of parts constituting an
improved peg for securing the ropes or wires of tents, rick covers and the like, to the
ground substantially as liereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
Dated the 30th day of July 1890.
WILLOUGHBY EDWARD BRYAN.