Improvements in Sustaining Apparatus for Pulley Blocks and Lifting Tackle.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left 20th Nov 1800 Accented 27th Feb 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sustaining Apparatus for Pulley Blocks and Lifting
Tackle.
SYDNEY GIBBS, 97, Beeches Road, West Bromwich, Clerk, ALBERT ERNEST
DOWNING, 34, Spon Lane, West Bromwich, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to suspend and detach any suitable article with
one rope, and to be attached to pullies, hoists etc.
It is a hook with a projection at the top and hole for a pin in the centre so as
to form a pivot.
The hook and projection is divided with a space the thickness of the rope, and
catches with a button placed over a knot in the rope.
To suspend an article, it is attached to a rope that passes through the forks of
the hook.
When the rope is pulled the button which is on the rope, comes in contact with
the hook, and pushes it aside. The rope is then lowered until the button rests
on the hook.
To release the load, the button is raised to the top fork in a like manner as to
the hook, and when the rope is slackened it passes down the fork.
The single hook is specially adapted for cycles they being attached by a hook
attached to the cycle.
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SYDNEY GIBBS,
ALBERT ERNEST DOWNING.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sustaining Apparatus for Pulley Blocks and Lifting
Tackle.
We, SYDNEY GIBBS, of 97, Beeches Road, West Bromwich, Clerk, and ALBERT
ERNEST DOWNING, 34, Spon Lane, West Bromwich, Clerk, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to suspend any suitable article.
It is a simple casting made out of any suitable metal, and can be attached to
anything where a catch is needed, that will be released by lifting the thing caught
a little, then letting it drop. It is specially adapted for pullies hoists etc. It is
a hook A with a projection B at the top and a hole C in the centre for a pin to
form a pivot, and catches and releases by a rod, or anything suitable. For a
pulley the hook and projection can be divided by a space the width of the rope,
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page_text: to catch with a button on the rope (see Fig. 2). To suspend an article it is
attached to a rope passing through the forks of the hook.
When the rope is pulled, the button which is on the rope, comes in contact
with the hook and pushes it aside.
The rope is then lowered until the button rests upon the hook.
To release the article the button is raised to the top fork B, in a like manner
as to the hook; and, when the rope is slackened, it passes down the projection,
and by so doing, pulls back the hook A and allows it to be lowered.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1) By pushing against the sustainer (A) it catches, and pressing down the top
part (B) withdraws the sustainer.
(2) It works quite independently, wanting no projections from the pulley to
check or help its action.
(3) The device being divided so that a single rope can be used.
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ALBERT ERNEST DOWNING.
SYDNEY GIBBS.