A NEW OR IMPROVED HAULAGE CLIP FOR WIRE AND OTHER ROPES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hanson, of Kilburn, Horsley, in the County of
Derby, Engineer, for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED HAULAGE CLIP
FOR WIRE AND OTHER ROPES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hanson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st January 1880.
JOSEPH HANSON, of Kilburn, Horsley, in the County of Derby, Engineer.
NEW OR IMPROVED HAULAGE CLIP FOR WIRE AND OTHER ROPES."
"A
The object of my present Invention is to produce a simple, cheap, and efficient
apparatus to clip or grip wire and other ropes for hauling, especially applicable to
endless ropes in motion.
I make a metal framing or casing, consisting of two side plates, held open at
their upper parts by two blocks of suitable thickness so arranged as to leave an
opening or space between such plates for the insertion of a lever to operate a
moveable block. On the lower part of one of these plates, which I call the back
plate, is made or fixed a thicker piece of metal grooved to suit the size of the rope
to be clipped. The other or front plate is cut or formed shorter than the back
The said blocks
plate so as to admit such rope into or upon the said 'groove.
between the plates are so formed and fixed that their lower surfaces form portions
of an inclined plane. Within the space between the said blocks and the said groove
works an inclined sliding block made to the same angle of inclination as the said
two blocks, the under side of which sliding block is also grooved to suit the size
of the rope. About midway down the incline of the said sliding block a recess is
formed to receive the end of the said operating lever. Through such sliding block
I form two slots made parallel to the said incline, one on either side of the said
recess. These slots work on two pins passed through both the said plates, and
thus cause the under edge of the sliding block to move parallel with the groove
formed at the lower part of the back plate. The lower end of the said sliding
block is formed for attaching thereto the load to be drawn by any suitable
meana.

page_text: In using my said improved clip the rope is placed upon or within the said
groove of the frame, and the sliding block is then moved towards the load to be
drawn by the said lever when it instantly clips the rope, and the load is at once
set in motion.
The clip is disconnected from the rope by moving the said operating lever
towards the load, which thus raises the said sliding block clear of the rope, and the
clip can then be taken off.
Some of the advantages of my improved clip are, that the heavier the load the
tighter it holds; that the rope is not bent or injured by the pressure upon it;
that it is easily applied and disconnected; that in the event of any obstruction on
the road the lever would strike against it, and the clip would thereby be disengaged,
and accidents or injury be thus alleviated or prevented.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Hanson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th July
1880.
JOSEPH HANSON, of Kilburn, Horsley, in the County of Derby, Engineer. "A
NEW OR IMPROVED HAULAGE CLIP FOR WIRE AND OTHER ROPES."
The object of this Invention is to produce a simple, cheap, and efficient apparatus
to clip or grip wire and other ropes for hauling purposes, especially applicable to
endless ropes in motion.
In order that my said Invention may be more fully understood and be more
readily performed, I will explain the same with the aid of the accompanying
Drawing, which forms part of this Specification, reference being made thereto by
the numerals and letters marked thereon. The same index letters refer to the same
parts in each Fig. of the said Drawing.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved clip, and Fig. 2 is an end elevation of
the same; Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the said clip, showing the
inclined block with chain and hook attached thereto.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation, and Fig. 5 an end elevation of my said improved clip
as adapted to bogies.
The framing of this clip is formed of two metal plates a, a¹, which are placed and
kept at the proper distance apart by two blocks 6 of equal and suitable thickness,
to which such plates are securely fixed. Within the space thus formed between
the said plates slides the block c. On the lower part of the back plate a I fix a
thicker piece of metal grooved to suit the size of rope d to be clipped, or such back
plate may be made thicker than the front plate a¹, and be turned up at the bottom,
as shown at a², in Figs. 2 and 5. The front plate a¹ is formed shorter than the
back plate a so as to admit the rope d into or upon the said groove or hook.
The inner ends of the said blocks 6 are so formed and placed as to allow the free
action of the lower part of the lever e, as shown in Fig. 3. The underside of these
blocks is made and fixed so as to have the same angle of inclination as the slide-
block c, see Fig. 3.
Within the space, between the under edges of the said blocks b and the part
required for the rope d, works the inclined slide-block c, the upper edge of which
is made to the same angle of inclination as the undersides of the blocks b, and the
lower edge thereof is made parallel with the lower edges of the plates a, a', as
shown. Through this sliding block c I form two slots a parallel to the said incline
of such block, one on either side of its centre; these slots work on and are guided
by two pins x¹, which pass through the side-plates a, a¹, and are fixed thereto, in
order that the under edge of the block c shall work parallel with the rope groove
or hook a², so that it shall press fairly on the upper part of the rope d throughout
its entire length. The lower or smallest end of this sliding block c is formed at c²
for attaching thereto by shackle or otherwise the load to be drawn. In the centre
of the upper or inclined edge of this sliding block c a recess is formed to receive
the lower end of the operating lever e.
In using my said improved clip the rope d is placed upon the said groove or in
the bend a² of the plate a, as shown; the sliding block c is moved towards the
load to be drawn by operating the lever e, when it instantly clips the said rope, and
the load is set in motion.
The said clip is disengaged from the rope by operating the lever e in the opposite
direction, or to the position shown in the Drawing, which raises the sliding block c
clear of the rope, as shown in Fig. 1, when it can be removed.
In applying my improved clip to bogies I fix on the underside of the frame of
such bogies two transverse bars ƒ and g (connected to the drag or draw-bar), about
twelve inches apart; the body of the clip being about nine inches in length gives

page_text: the latter three inches play between such bars. The back plate a of the clip is
extended upwards and so bent as to form two claws or hooks, by which the clip
is suspended on the bar or bolt h fixed to the upper part of the framing of the
said bogie. The rope d is "clipped," as herein-before described, see Figs. 4 and 5.
The object of the bars ƒ and g is to prevent the clip sliding on the bar h more
than the said three inches, or the space required for the motion of the slide-block c.
These bars and 9 also operate the said slide-block thus:-When the wide end of
the said block is foremost in going down an incline the clip slides to and presses
such block against the bar f, and thereby forces the block c forward and against
the rope d; when the narrow end of the block c dips foremost downward, the body
of the clip slides to and presses against the bar g, which produces the same effect
upon the rope d, so that the heavier the load being hauled the tighter the block c
will be forced upon such rope.
Some of the advantages of my improved clip are, that it is simple in construction
and efficient in practice; that the heavier the load hauled the tighter it clips the
rope; that the rope is not bent or injured by the pressure thus put upon it; that
it is instantly and easily applied to and disengaged from the rope; that in the
event of any obstruction on the road the lever e would strike against it, and the
clip thereby be disengaged, and accidents or injuries be thus alleviated or
prevented.
Having thus fully described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the method of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that I do not
restrict myself to the precise details now given by way of illustration, as they
admit of and indeed require varying to suit different modes of application, as partly
berein-before described, without departing from the main characteristics of the
Invention, but I claim as my Invention, and desire to secure by the aforesaid in
part recited Letters Patent, the haulage clip for wire and other ropes, fitted with a
sliding block, substantially as and for the purpose herein described and shown in
the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Hanson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.