IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING APPARATUS FOR HAULING PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hayes, of Stony Stratford, in the County of
Bucks, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING APPARATUS FOR
HAULING PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS."
Sealed the 5th March 1858, and dated the 17th September 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hayes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
September 1857.
I, EDWARD HAYES, of Stony Stratford, in the County of Bucks, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING APPARATUS
FOR HAULING PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved method of arranging winding
apparatus for hauling ploughs and other agricultural implements. The
apparatus consists of a rectangular iron frame mounted on road wheels; across
this frame a strong hollow iron shaft is fixed, and two winding drums are
mounted so that they can turn loosely upon this shaft. On one side of each of
the winding drums a projecting ring is formed, and on the inside thereof are teeth
into which a toothed pinion gears; this pinion is mounted on an axis carried
by a bracket securely keyed upon the hollow shaft, which carries the winding
drums, and it has also at its other end a toothed wheel, which gears with and
receives motion from a pinion formed on the side of a belt pulley mounted so
as to turn loosely on the hollow shaft already mentioned. When this

page_text: apparatus is at work it is placed near a steam engine, and a belt from the
driving pulley of the steam engine passes to this belt pulley, or to the corre-
sponding pulley which drives the other winding drum; and between these two
driving pulleys there is a third pulley for receiving the driving belt when it is
required that the two winding drums should remain stationary. The driving
belt as it passes from the engine to the driving pulleys passes through a
forked guide mounted on a bar, placed across the frame and capable of sliding
for a short distance, from side to side laterally; this bar has three notches
formed in it, into either of which a locking bolt can drop, so as to retain the
bar in position when the fork is opposite one of the three belt pulleys. In
connexion with the locking bolt is a trigger, to which a string may be
attached and led to any part of the field, so that by pulling this string the
locking bolt may be withdrawn by a person stationed at a distance. When
the locking bolt is removed, the fork bar is, by means of springs or weights,
caused to traverse a distance so as to shift the belt on to the loose pulley, and
the same movement of the fork bar allows the same or other springs or
weights to bring breaks to act on the winding drums; but when the fork bar
is moved by a hand lever, so as to throw one of the driving pulleys again into
gear, the same motion of the bar removes the break from the drum to which
that driving pulley gives motion. In order to distribute the rope evenly on
the winding drums I cause it to pass through guides to which a to-and-fro
motion is given, by means of a pinion mounted on a shaft, which is driven by
a screw on the boss of the winding drum. The guide is attached to a bar on
which are a series of pegs or teeth, and the pinion works alternately on the
upper and under sides of these teeth, as in a mangle motion.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Hayes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HAYES, of Stony Stratford, in the County of Bucks, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Hayes, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Hayes,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said

page_text: Edward Hayes, 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WINDING APPARATUS FOR HAULING PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Hayes, 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 Edward Hayes, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists of an iron frame of either wrought or cast iron, of
any convenient width or length, secured by stays, also by a large hollow
or solid shaft, which shaft serves also as the axle to the drums and pullies
to rotate on. On the said hollow or solid shaft are placed two drums, which
rotate freely and independently of each other; on these drums are wound the
wire or other rope. By the side and on the same large shaft or axle are
placed two strong brackets or carriages, which brackets or carriages are
bored to fit the large axle or shaft but do not rotate, being secured, so as to
carry a counter shaft or spindle, with spur, bevil, screw, or other gearing. By
the side of the said brackets or carriages, and on the same large shaft or axle,
are placed three pullies of any convenient width and diameter, which three
pullies rotate on the large shaft or axle, the two outer pullies having a wheel
attached to their boss, which wheel is geared into other wheels, which give
motion to the drums named the centre pulley, being what is termed a loose
pulley, to receive the strap when neither drum is in motion or work. Across
the frame of windlass, parallel to the large shaft of axle, is a bar of any con-
venient size moving on each side of windlass frame, or antifriction rollers,
which bar carries a wrought or cast eye or fork, through which the strap
passes, which eye or fork moves the strap from one pulley to another, as may
be required, to give motion to either drum or on to the loose pulley when the
drums are required will be out of motion. In this bar are three spaces cut in
any convenient part of the said bar, so as to allow a lock bolt to enter. When

page_text: motion is required to be given to either of the drums before named the bar is
moved by a lever placed at the end of the said bar by the person in care of
the windlass. The strap, guide, or eye being connected with the said bar gives
motion to either drum, as may be required, by moving the strap. When the
motion of the drum is to cease, the lock bolt before named is withdrawn from
the spaces in the bar, and the said bar carrying the strap guide or eye is
quickly moved by strong springs, and in this way the strap is moved on to the
centre or loose pulley. Attached to the lock bolt is a cord or wire, which may
be carried to any part of the field, so that by pulling the said cord or wire the
bolt may be withdrawn and the windlass stopped; on the said lock bolt is a
small bell, and by a pull of the string or wire from any part of the field gives
the signal to go on.
On each side of the windlass frame is an iron box of any
convenient size or shape, which box is fitted with a block of wood or any other
suitable substance; the said box is attached to the frame by two or more
screws, while through the side and in the centre of the said box is bored a
hole, having fitted in it a rod of iron, which rod presses the said wood block by
one of its ends, the other end of the said rod being pressed by a strong spring
communicating the whole of its strength through the said iron rod to the
wood block, which wood block presses on the side of the revolving drum, and
thus becomes a self-acting break.
When the strap is required to give motion to the drum again, the bar which
carries the strap guide, as has been said, must be moved; on the end of the bar
is fixed a chain or rod having one end fixed to the said break spring, and by
the time the said bar has moved its distance the chain or rod has drawn the
spring from the break, the pressure of the spring then resting on the bar
ready to give motion to it to move the strap on the lock bolt being withdrawn.
Beneath the frame and at right angles to the side of the same are two guides
having two pulleys, through which the rope passes; these guides have their
motion given the same length as the drums have width between the flanges,
backward and forward by a rack and pinion, which rack is formed by having
wrought-iron pins or teeth, thus forming a double rack on the principle of the
old mangle wheel, the wheel forming the rack, named the rack and pinion,
receive their motions from a worm on the side of the drum working a worm
wheel fitted on a shaft of convenient length and size with the worm wheel on
one end and small pinion on the other; by this motion I purpose winding the
rope evenly on the drums.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention I will now proceed to
describe the means pursued by me.
Figure 1 is an plan of the entire windlass. A, A, A, A, framework of wind-

page_text: lass; B, B, the hollow or solid shaft forming the axle ; C, C, the drums which
wind and unwind alternately as the strap gives them motion; W, the wire
rope; D, D, two strong iron brackets which are fitted on the said axle,
and which carry the wheels and spindle which drive the drum; E, E, tooth
wheels communicating motion to a pinion which drives the internal gear wheel
of the drum; F, F, internal gear wheel; G, G, G, are the three pulleys
which rotate on hollow axle or shaft, the centre one being the loose pulley to
receive the strap when the drums are required to be stationary; H, H, iron
bar carrying the eye or guide for strap, which bar forms a strap motion; I,
eye or guide through which the strap runs; J, lever for moving the bar; K,
lock bolt which secures the bar to run the strap on either pulley; L, L, two
strong springs to draw the bar central; M, M, break boxes secured to sides
of frame; N, N, iron spindles or piston rods communicating pressure of
strong springs to the break; 0, 0, chain or rod which connects the break
spring with the bar H, H; P, cord or wire going to any part of field or
convenient place; Q, lever to which the cord or wire P is attached for the
withdrawal of the lock bolt K and ringing the bell R; S, S, S, S, two strong
break springs; T, T, traverse motion composed of worm wheel, shaft, pinion,
mangle wheel, rack groove pullies, studs, and bar for carrying the same;
U, U, carriage wheels and axles; V, V, the shafts for draft. Figure 2 is a
side elevation, and its letters with all its parts and particulars correspond with
Figure 1, which is a plan of windlass.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim
to any of the parts separately; but what I claim is the combination of
mechanism herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Hayes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
EDWARD HAYES. (L.S.)
Witness,
FREDERICK CHARLES GITTINS,
Stony Stratford.