IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF WIRE ROPE AND CORDAGE, AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Bateman, of Low Moor, near Bradford, in
the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF WIRE ROPE AND CORDAGE, AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED
THEREIN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Bateman at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th February 1863.
I, SAMUEL BATEMAN, of Low Moor, near Bradford, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF WIRE ROPE AND CORDAGE, AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED
THEREIN," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of certain improvements in the manufacture of
twisted metallic rope or cable and of cordage, and also in the machinery
whereby such ropes are made. I propose to arrange on standards and a bed
plate a horizontal frame consisting of an oblong square framework of iron
continued to a narrower frame, the end of which latter is provided with a
hollow shaft on which a horizontal bevelled or mitre pinion is fixed, the hollow
shaft continuing some distance to the bearings in the standard, the other end

page_text: of the machine supporting in corresponding bearings a short shaft or axis
projecting from the centre of the oblong frame. This frame serves to contain
a large iron reel or beam set in journals on each side of the frame by means
of trunnions. The narrowed extension of this frame contains two grooved
rollers in suitable bearings one above the other, and the further continuation
consisting of the hollow shaft is provided between the mitre wheel and the
standards with a large driving pulley; on one side of the narrow frame a large
bevil toothed wheel is set on a shaft passing underneath the frame, holding on
its centre and within the frame the undergrooved roller, and on the other side
of the frame carrying a grooved pulley, round which a cord or band is placed,
which band extends and surrounds a second grooved pulley placed outside the
larger frame on the shaft or axis of the large reel or beam. At the end of
the hollow shaft and near its standard there is placed a vertical plate, the upper
part of which is pierced with a number of holes in order to guide and keep in
position a series of wires or of fibrous strands of which the rope or cordage is
to be made. These wires or strands are wound on reels or bobbins set on
fixed shafts on a plate or disc still further beyond the guide plate. The
operation of the machine is as follows, and it will be obvious that the system
of manufacture is a reversal of the modes at present in use wherein the wires
or strands are themselves twisted by means of the revolution of the bobbins to
form the rope or cordage, whereas by this Invention the wires are taken into
the machine direct from the reels without any revolving motion being given
thereto as has before been done, and the rope itself is twisted by the machine.
Motion being given to the driving pulley by means of a band from a driving
shaft in connection with a steam engine, it will follow that the entire framework
and hollow shaft will be caused to rotate; the wires being brought within the
hollow shaft and through the centre of the fixed mitre wheel and between the
two grooves of the pressing rollers on to the large reel or beam, it will follow
that the wires or strands will be twisted into a rope in the interior of the
machine, and will be wound off or taken up by the beam which turns in its
bearings by the following motion :-The large vertical bevil wheel takes into
the teeth of the small fixed mitre wheel, and turning in common with the frame
derives rotary motion with its shaft turning the grooved pressing rollers and
the grooved pulley, which latter gives the take-off motion to the large reel by
means of its pulley, as before described. The proportion of the number of
teeth in the two mitre wheels should be about three to one.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Bateman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
BATEMAN, of Low Moor, near Bradford, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and graut unto
me, the said Samuel Bateman, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Bateman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Samuel Bateman, my 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE ROPE AND CORDAGE,
AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Bateman, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, 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 I, the said Samuel Bateman, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This Invention consists of certain improvements in the manufacture of
twisted metallic rope or cable and of cordage, and also in the machinery
whereby such ropes are made.
In order that my said Invention may be completely understood, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet
of illustrative Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon; Fig. 1.

page_text: being a side elevation of the machine, and Fig. 2 a plan view; similar letters
denoting corresponding parts in each of the Figures respectively.
I arrange on standards and a bed plate a or other convenient framework a
horizontal frame of iron consisting of an oblong square frame b, continued to a
narrower frame c, the end of which latter frame is provided with a hollow
shaft d, on which a horizontal bevelled or mitre pinion e is fixed, the hollow
shaft continuing some distance to the bearings in the standards, the other end
of the machine supporting in corresponding bearings a short shaft or axis f,
projecting from the centre of the oblong frame. This frame serves to contain
a large iron reel or beam g, set in journals on each side of the frame by means
of trunnions. The narrowed extension of this frame contains two grooved
rollers h, h, in suitable bearings, one above the other, and the further con-
tinuation, consisting of the hollow shaft, is provided between the mitre wheel
and the standards with a large driving pulley i. On one side of the narrow
frame a large bevil toothed wheel k is set on a shaft passing through the
frame, holding on its centre and within the frame the undergrooved roller,
and on the other side of the frame carrying a grooved pulley 1, round which a
cord or band m is placed, which band extends and surrounds a. second grooved
pulley n, placed outside the larger frame on the shaft or axis of the large reel
or beam. At the end of the hollow shaft and near its standard there is.
placed a vertical plate o, the upper part of which is pierced with a number of
holes in order to guide and keep in position a series of wires or of fibrous
strands of which the rope or cordage is to be made. These wires or strands, P
are to be wound on reels or bobbins set on fixed shafts on a plate or disc at
any convenient position still further beyond the guide plate. The operation of
the machine is as follows, and it will be obvious that the system of manufac-
ture is a reversal of the modes at present in use, wherein the wires or strands
are themselves twisted by means of the revolution of the bobbins to form the
rope or cordage, whereas by this Invention the wires are taken into the
machine direct from the reels, without any revolving motion being given
thereto, as has before been done, and the rope itself is twisted the machine.
Motion being given to the driving pulley i by means of a band from a driving
shaft in connection with a steam engine, it will follow that the entire frame-
work and hollow shaft will be caused to rotate; the wires being brought
within the hollow shaft, and through the centre of the fixed mitre wheel and
between the two grooves of the pressing rollers on to the large reel or beam,
it will follow that the wires or strands will be twisted into a rope in the interior
of the machine, and will be wound off or taken up by the beam, which turns

page_text: in its bearings by the following motion :-The large vertical bevil wheel k takes
into the teeth of the small fixed mitre wheel e, and turning in common with
the frame derives rotary motion with its shaft, turning the grooved pressing
rollers and the grooved pulley 1, which latter gives the take-off motion to the
large reel g by means of its pulley n, as before described. The proportion of
the number of teeth in the two mitre wheels should be about three to one.
In some cases, especially in large machines, I prefer to substitute a drum for
the roping to go inside instead of the pulley or reel.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark in conclusion that I do
not limit myself to the precise detail or configuration of parts which I have
described and shewn, as the same may obviously be varied or modified without
departing from the principles thereof; but what I claim as my Invention and
desire to be secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters Patent are the
general arrangement and combinations of parts herein specified and illustrated,
or others substantially to all intents and purposes the same, constituting
"Improvements in the Manufacture of Wire Rope and Cordage, and in
the Machinery employed therein," as set forth in the title hereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Bateman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
SAM. BATEMAN.
(L.S.)