AN IMPROVED WINDING APPARATUS, PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR STEAM PLOUGH- ING, WINDING AT PITS, QUARRIES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Savory and Paul Haines Savory, both of
Gloucester, in the County of Gloucester, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED WINDING APPARATUS, PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR STEAM PLOUGH-
ING, WINDING AT PITS, QUARRIES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 17th January 1862, and dated the 19th July 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Savory and Paul
Haines Savory at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 19th July 1861.
We, WILLIAM SAVORY and PAUL HAINES SAVORY, both of Gloucester, in the
County of Gloucester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED WINDING APPARATUS, PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR STEAM
PLOUGHING, WINDING AT PITS, QUARRIES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists in applying certain mechanism to the barrel or
cylinder part of the horizontal boiler of a stationary or portable engine, for
the purpose of winding ropes or chains at pits' mouths, or for ploughing or
other similar purposes.
We propose placing a drum or drums round the horizontal boiler, which drum
or drums is or are caused to revolve by suitable wheels or gearing connected
to the engine. This we propose doing by constructing a drum of wrought
iron with a suitable cast-iron head or ring at one or both ends, this ring to

page_text: have teeth cast outside, to gear into a pinion or pinions on engine or other
shaft. A part of the breadth of this ring is turned out true to run on a
number of friction rollers on barrel of boiler. When two drums are used they
may be constructed with a cast-iron head at one end and wrought at the other,
with friction rollers, as before.
We propose guiding the rope on the drum in the following manner:-A
pulley is fixed on a horizontal spindle in a suitable frame, to receive or bear
the rope from the plough or other thing to be drawn; two other pulleys are
fixed on the same frame on vertical studs or spindles, with grooves turned in
each to fit the rope, and placed one on each side of the rope, so that the
grooves form a round opening for the rope to pass through; the frame is pro-
vided with suitable bosses with an internal screw thread cut in, to fit on a
screw which is fixed by bracket or otherwise to frame of engine or boiler;
this screw is placed so that the grooves of guide are opposite the periphery of
drum where the rope runs, and connected with suitable wheels to the internal
gear inside the drum ring. The pitch of the screw is proportioned so as to
move the frame during one revolution of drum a distance corresponding to a
little more than the thickness of rope.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Savory and Paul Haines Savory in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 18th January 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
SAVORY and PAUL HAINES SAVORY, both of Gloucester, in the County of
Gloucester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Niueteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said William Savory and Paul Haines Savory, Her special licence that we,
the said William Savory and Paul Haines Savory, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Savory and Paul Haines
Savory, our 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 "AN IMPROVED WINDING

page_text: APPARATUS, PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR STEAM PLOUGHING, WINDING AT PITS,
QUARRIES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said William Savory and Paul Haines Savory, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 Paul Haines Savory, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in applying certain mechanism to the barrel or
cylindrical part of the horizontal boiler of a stationary or portable engine, for
the purpose of winding ropes or chains at pits' mouths, or for ploughing or
other useful purposes.
We propose to place a drum or drums round the horizontal boiler, which
drum or drums is or are caused to revolve by suitable wheels or gearing con-
nected to the engine. We propose to construct a drum of wrought iron with
a suitable cast-iron head or ring at one or both ends; this ring is to have teeth
cast inside, to gear into a pinion or pinions on the engine or other shaft; a part
of the breadth of this ring is turned out true, to run on a number of friction
rollers on the barrel of the boiler. When two drums are used they may be
constructed with a cast-iron head at one end and wrought at the other, with
friction rollers, as before.
We propose guiding the rope on the drum in the following manner :-A
pulley is fixed on a horizontal spindle in a suitable frame, to receive or bear
the rope from the plough or other thing to be drawn; two other pulleys are
fixed on the same frame on vertical studs or spindles, with grooves turned in
each to fit the rope, and placed one on each side of the rope, so that the
grooves of the guide wheel are opposite the periphery of the drum where the
rope runs, and connected with suitable wheels to the internal gearing of
the drum ring. The pitch of the screw is proportioned so as to move the
frame during one revolution of the drum a distance corresponding with a little
more than the thickness of the rope."
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, I now pro-
ceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus; Figure 2 is a transverse
vertical section; and Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical section. Similar letters of
reference denoting corresponding parts at each of the Figures respectively.
a is a drum of metal placed around the horizontal boiler of the engine, and
caused to revolve by pinions b, b, working within heads or rings c, c, placed or
fixed on each end of the drum a, and having also teeth within them which
correspond with those of the pinions b, b, these pinions being firmly secured to
the engine shaft, as shewn at Figs. 2 and 3. A series of friction wheels or
rollers d, d, are secured by suitable bearings to the barrel of the boiler, for the
purpose of supporting the drum a and maintaining it in position, or the friction
wheels d, d, may in some cases be attached to the rim of the drum a, and
revolve round the periphery of the boiler ends.
At Figs. 1 and 2 will be seen the method of guiding the rope round the
drum a, to prevent its overlapping. A pulley e is fixed on a horizontal spindle
in a suitably constructed frame, to receive or bear the rope from the plough or
other thing being drawn; this pulley has another small pulley or roller e
immediately above it, to steady the rope in its passage through two horizontal
grooved wheels f,f, fixed on studs or spindles attached to the before-mentioned
frame; the edges of these grooved wheels touch each other, thus forming a
circular opening for the rope to pass through; the frame is provided with.
suitable bosses 9, 9, having an internal screw thread cut therein to fit on a
horizontal screw shaft h, secured by brackets or otherwise to the frame of
engine or boiler. This screw shaft is so placed that the grooves of the guide
wheels are opposite the lower periphery of the drum-a, where the rope runs, and.
is connected with suitable wheels to the gearing inside the drum ring, as shewn
at Fig. 3. The pitch of the screw upon the shaft h, as also the number of teeth
upon the wheels driving such shaft, are proportioned so as to move the frame
during one revolution of the drum a, a distance corresponding with a little
more than the thickness of the rope.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, we would remark in conclusion, that
we do not confine or restrict ourselves to the precise details herein described
and shewn in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, as many slight modifica-
tions and variations may be made therein without in any way departing from

page_text: the principle of our Invention; but what we claim as our Invention intended
to be secured to us by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is, the manu-
facture of machinery or apparatus for winding at the mouths of pits or quarries,
hauling for steam ploughing, and other such like purposes, in the manner
herein described and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Haines Savory, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
PAUL HAINES SAVORY. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX³. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.