Improvements in Haulage Rope Clips.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Feb.,
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Haulage Rope Clips.
I, JAMES WILLIAM GLOVER of Newton-le-Willows in the County of Lancaster,
Mining Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object rope hauling clips that can be very quickly applied
to the rope and detached therefrom, that being all in one piece are not liable to get
out of order or parts lost therefrom, and that can be cheaply manufactured, yet at the
same have a perfectly safe grip upon the rope.
In place of the various gripping clips where movable pieces are employed I form
my clip of a shank placed at right angles to the rope and a long skeleton or other
socket with means for introducing the rope sideways into this socket and yet so
arranged that wherever the rope bears upon the socket in actual work there shall
be an absolutely solid abutment for the rope to bear against. Thirdly that
this socket shall hold the rope with comparatively little play so that there shall
be no cutting action of the edges of the clip upon the rope. To still further prevent
this I prefer to round the terminal of the edges of the socket. The opening into
the socket is so arranged that when the clip is in position for hauling and there is
a weight upon it the effect of the haulage is to keep the rope away from the
entrance into the socket.
In carrying out my invention I prefer to form the socket of two hooks projecting
from a base in line with their backs said hooks being a little more than the
diameter of the rope apart from each other and having their openings on opposite
sides. In applying the clip the socket is placed at right angles to the rope, the rope
slipping in between the two hooks, the socket is then turned at right angles and the
rope slips at once into the two hooks. In this position the clip is right for haulage
and the loop of the clip is then in right position for the hook of the wagon or wagon
chain to be inserted into it. The hook then prevents the clip from turning round;
the harder the pull, the stronger does the end of one hook and the base of the other
press against the rope and thus cause a grip or friction which prevents the clip from
sliding on the rope.
To undo the clip all that is required is to unhook the load from it and turn the
clip at right angles when it can be lifted off the rope or if the load is slack
and the hook comparatively free as in the case of a hook at the end of a chain the
clip can be simply turned at right angles without unhooking and taken off.
It will be obvious that there are many other ways of forming the socket than the
one above described where it consists of two hooks and a base. The socket could be
formed opening like a hinge or a single hook with a separate piece applied blocking
up the entrance and fixed in any desirable manner. All these ways however will be
'found more expensive and less finished than the one already described.
Dated this 4th day of June 1889
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Haulage Rope Clips.
I, JAMES WILLIAM GLOVER of Newton-le-Willows in the County of Lancaster,
Mining Engineer, 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 :-
This invention has for its object rope hauling clips that can be very quickly applied
to the rope and detached therefrom, that, being all in one piece, are not liable to get
out of order or parts lost therefrom, and that can be cheaply manufactured, yet at the
same time have a perfectly safe grip upon the rope.
In place of the various gripping clips, where movable pieces are employed, I form
my clip of a shank placed at right angles to the rope, and a long skeleton or other
socket with means for introducing the rope sideways into this socket, and yet so
arranged that wherever the rope bears upon the socket in actual work there shall be
an absolutely solid abutment for the rope to bear against. Thirdly, that this socket
shall hold the rope with comparatively little play so that there shall be no cutting
action of the edges of the clip upon the rope. To still further prevent this, I prefer
to round the terminal of the edges of the socket. The opening into the socket is so
arranged that when the clip is in position for hauling and there is a weight upon
.it, the effect of the haulage is to keep the rope away from the entrance into the
socket.
In the drawing:
:-
Figure 1 is a front view of a clip constructed according to this invention.
Figure 2 a side view, and
Figure 3 a side view of the clip showing it in the act of gripping a rope.
I form the socket of two hooks or slotted eyes A A' projecting from a base B in
line with their backs, said hooks being a little more than the diameter of the rope a
apart from each other and having their openings on opposite sides. In applying the
clip the socket is placed at right angles to the rope, the rope slipping in the spaces c
between the two hooks A A', the socket is then turned at right angles and the rope x slips
at once into the two hooks. In this position the clip is right for haulage and the
loop D of the clip is then in right position for the hook of the wagon or wagon chain
to be inserted into it. The hook then prevents the clip from turning round; the
harder the pull, the stronger do the end of one hook A and the base of the other A¹
press against the rope x and thus cause a grip or friction which prevents the clip
from sliding on the rope.
To undo the clip all that is required is to unhook the load from it and turn the clip
at right angles when it can be lifted off the rope or if the load is slack and the hook
comparatively free as in the case of a hook at the end of a chain, the clip can be simply
turned at right angles without unhooking, and taken off.
It will be obvious that there are many other ways of forming the socket than the one
above described where it consists of two hooks and a base. The socket could be
formed opening like a hinge or a single hook with a separate piece applied, blocking
up the entrance and fixed in any desirable manner. All these ways however will be
found more expensive and less finished than the one already described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. A haulage rope clip consisting of a suitable shank adapted to be connected to a
wagon or its equivalent, and of an elongated eye or socket, of approximately the same
internal diameter as the rope, lying at right angles to the shank and having a suitable
lateral opening (or openings) through which the rope may be introduced sideways
into the socket, substantially as described.

page_text: 2. A haulage rope clip in which two hooks or slotted eyes, rigidly attached to-or
forming part of a base or looped stem, adapted to be coupled to a wagon or its
equivalent, and having sufficient space between them for the insertion of the haulage
rope, are so arranged with their openings on opposite sides that when the rope is
slipped into the space between the two hooks, and the clip turned at right angles to
its former position, the rope slips simultaneously into the two hooks aforesaid, and
the pull of the rope causes the outer end of one hook and the base of the other to
press against or clutch the rope and prevent the clip from slipping, substantially as
described.
Dated this 21st day of December 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.