AN IMPROVED REEL FOR COILING WIRE ROPES ON BOARD SHIP
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Horatio Harfield of the Mansion House Buildings
in the City of London for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED REEL FOR COILING
WIRE ROPES ON BOARD SHIP"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Horatio Harfield at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd January 1883.
WILLIAM HORATIO HARFIELD of the Mansion House Buildings in the City of
London. "AN IMPROVED REEL FOR COILING WIRE ROPES ON BOARD SHIP."
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of reels for
coiling wire ropes on board ship.
A flanged drum upon which the rope is to be coiled, is mounted loosely upon an
axis formed of a wrought iron bar fixed at each end to a wrought iron A shaped
frame. Near the base there are two other wrought iron bars passing across from
frame to frame forming (with the other bar upon which the drum is mounted)
three distance pieces thus firmly attaching the two A frames together.
Upon the side of the flanged drum an annular wheel is fixed into which a pinion
gears, this pinion is fixed upon a short spindle carried in bearings on a prolongation
of one of the standards. A cranked handle fits upon the outer end of the pinion
spindle, and by rotating the handle the reel also will rotate. By this arrangement
of the pinion spindle it being quite outside and clear of the flanges of reel, a rope
can be led freely in either direction without coming in contact with pinion spindle,
or other impediment, and the reel may be rotated in either direction with
equal ease.
I generally use two annular wheels one upon each flange of reel with a short
spindle with pinion and crank handle to each annular wheel.
Around the outer circumference of the annular wheel I form a groove which I
embrace with a band to form a brake to be used when necessary the lover for
working the band brake I pivot upon a pin fixed to the A frame.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Horatio Harfield in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th June 1883.
WILLIAM HORATIO HARFIELD of the Mansion House Buildings in the City of
London "AN IMPROVED REEL FOR COILING WIRE ROPES ON BOARD SHIP "
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of reels for
coiling wire ropes on. board ship.
The annexed drawing shows a reel made in accordance with my invention.
Figure 1 is an end elevation, and Figure 2 is a plan partly in section.
A Hanged drum a upon which the rope is to be coiled, is mounted loosely upon
an axis formed of a wrought iron bar fixed at each end to a wrought iron
A shaped frame c c. Near the base there are two other wrought iron bars, dd,
passing across from frame to frame forming (with the other bar b upon which the
drum is mounted) three distance pieces thus firmly attaching the two A frames
together.
Upon the side of the flanged drum a an annular wheel e is fixed into which a
pinion gears, this pinion is fixed upon a short spindle carried in bearings on
a prolongation e' of one of the standards c. A cranked handle g fits upon the
outer end of the pinion spindle, and by rotating the handle the reel also will rotate.
By this arrangement of the pinion spindle it being quite outside and clear of the
flanges of the reel or drum a rope can be led freely in either direction, without
coming in contact with the pinion spindle, or other impediment, and the reel or
drum may be rotated in either direction with equal ease.
I generally use two annular wheels e one upon each flange of the reel or drum
with a short spindle with pinion and crank handle g to each annular wheel.
Around the outer circumference of the annular wheel e or one of them I form a
groove which I embrace with a band h to forin a brake to be used when necessary.
The lever i for working the band brake I pivot upon a pin c³ fixed to the
A frame.
What I claim is :-
First, My improved reel for coiling wire ropes on board ship.
Second, The combination substantially as described in a reel for coiling wire
ropes on board ship of a drum a, an annular wheel e fixed upon the flange of the
said drum, a short spindle f and a pinion f' within the annular wheel.
In witness whereof I the said William Horatio Harfield have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
A frame.
What I claim is :-
First, My improved reel for coiling wire ropes on board ship.
Second, The combination substantially as described in a reel for coiling wire
ropes on board ship of a drum a, an annular wheel e fixed upon the flange of the
said drum, a short spindle f and a pinion f' within the annular wheel.
In witness whereof I the said William Horatio Harfield have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.