An Improvement in or connected with Warp Guides of Fishing Vessels.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1898
Complete Specification Lett, 14th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or connected with Warp Guides of Fishing
Vessels.
We, HENRY THOMAS HOWARD, of 70, Rosamond Street, Fisherman, and
ALEXANDER ROBB, of 25, Somerset Street, Boiler Maker, both in Hull, in the
County of Yorkshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
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The object of our invention is to obtain a straighter lead of the trawl warps
running from the warp guides commonly known as gallows, and to dispense
with the guide bollard usually placed at or near the centre of the vessel amidships.
Hitherto the warps when in use have run from the gallows over a guide bollard
fixed on the deck of the vessel some distance away from the vessel's side, with
that arrangement the warps have been in the way, taking up a great part of
the vessels deck, and persons wishing to pass have had to step over them, this
has been a source of great danger to 'life and limb.
With our invention this is entirely obviated.
For the purpose of our invention, we provide the foot of the gallows with a
sheave which may be placed either inside or outside, the bottom of such gallows
may be enlarged and strengthened to form a bracket or bearing for the sheave,
the warp runs from the swinging sheave of the gallows around the sheave in the
foot, a straight lead being thus obtained thereby reducing the strain on the warp
and dispensing with the awkward and dangerous leads hitherto necessary when
the warp was led from the gallows to the bollard fitted some distance away on
the deck of the vessel.
If desired, in place of fixing the sheave in the foot of the gallows, we may fix
it separately either to the deck or side of the vessel.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicants.
An Improvement in or connected with Warp Guides of Fishing
Vessels.
We, HENRY THOMAS HOWARD, of 70, Rosamond Street, Fisherman, and
ALEXANDER ROBB, of 25, Somerset Street, Boiler Maker, both in Hull, in the
County of Yorkshire, 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:-
Our invention has wofurence to the warn quides commonly known as callows

page_text: used on board fishing vessels for taking the warps attached to the trawl boards
and the winch respectively, and has for its object to obtain a straighter lead of
the trawl warp running from such gallows, and to dispense with the angular
block, guide bollard or sheave which is at present placed at the after part of the
vessel as a rule about three feet away from the gallows and fixed either to the
deck of the vessel at or near the galley or engine room casing, or to the galley
or engine room casing itself.
Hitherto the warps which are connected to the otter board at one end and to
the winch at the other end have when in use run from the swinging sheave of the
gallows, around the angular block, guide bollard or sheave fixed at or near to
the galley or engine room casing, and about three feet away from the gallows as
previously described, thence to another fairlead at the side of the vessel and has
then been run to a third fairlead or bollard round which it has passed to the winch.
The warp has therefore run down from the swinging sheave on the gallows to
the angular bollard or the like fixed at or near the engine room casing, then it
has run across at an angle to the second bollard or fairlead at the vessel's side,
thus as it were blocking up the narrow space between the gallows and the engine
room casing at the after end of the vessel, so that anyone requiring to pass that
way had to step over the warp or under it at the part where it ran over the
swinging sheave of the gallows from which it will be seen that if a person had
to pass at the time of shooting or hauling in the net he ran a great risk of
being caught by the warp and receiving serious injury if not of being killed
outright with our invention the angular bollard or the like at or near the engine
room casing is dispensed with, thereby dispensing with the necessity of running
the warp in an angular direction to the second guide bollard or fairlead at the
side, and allowing of a straight lead from the gallows direct to such second
bollard or the like, by this means leaving the deck between the gallows and the
engine room casing clear for those aboard the vessel to pass to and fro without
the liability to injury which the old cross style of lead engendered.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. Represents a front view of our improved gallows.
Fig. 2. Represents an end view of Fig. 1.
For the purpose of our invention, we provide the foot A of the gallows frame B
with a sheave or antifriction runner or runners C which may be placed either
inside or outside such foot A the bottom of such gallows may be enlarged and
strengthened to form a bracket or bearing, D and leaving a space for the sheave C,
the warp E runs from the swinging sheave F of the gallows around the sheave Û
in the foot A, a straight lead being thus obtained, thereby reducing the strain
and dispensing with the awkward and dangerous leads hitherto
De they when the when has lead from the gallows to the angular bollard or
guide sheave fitted on or near the galley or engine room casing.
necessary
Both feet of the gallows may be provided each with a sheave if found necessary.
When our invention is applied to the forward gallows it is attached to the
front leg of such gallows the bracket which takes the sheave being set at an
angle, the warp is by this means led direct from the sheave to the centre bollard
and thence direct to the winch, thus dispensing with the angular bollard at
the fore end of the vessel.
If desired in place of fixing the sheave in the foot of the gallows we may fix it
separately either to the deck or side of the vessel near the rail and make a hole
at or near the bottom of such gallows for the warp to pass through.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. Providing gallows for use on fishing vessels, with a sheave or roller or
rollers C, mounted in one foot A, or both feet, in the manner and for the purposes,
substantially as shown and described.

page_text: 2. In gallows for use on fishing vessels, the combination of the frame B,
sheave A, and swinging sheave F, in the manner and for the purposes, sub-
stantially as shown and described.
TY
1
107
1000
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicants.