Improvements in Winding, Hoisting, or Warping Gear for Ships
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Winding, Hoisting, or Warping Gear for Ships
We, JOHN CARTER CAMERON and WILLIAM MILLS, both of the Firm of
Cameron, Mills & Co, Engineers, Stanley Engine Works, Kinning Park, Glasgow,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention bas for its object to provide winding, hoisting or warping gear for
use on board ship in which the engines operating the gear are housed and protected
from the wash of heavy seas, whilst the drums or warping ends of the winding shaft
are exposed and conveniently situated over the deck and may be started or stopped
therefrom.
Under the invention the winding or warping shaft is carried transversely through
a deck house or covering preferably over the engine room or the stokehold and is
fitted with winding drums or warping ends outside. The said shaft has keyed on
it within the deck house a worm wheel gearing with a worm on the crank shaft of
the driving engines which are preferably connected to cranks on opposite ends of
the worm shaft, and are secured to a bulkhead or the plating of the deck house
within the latter, or otherwise.
The valve or other starting gear for the engines may be operated in the usual
way within the deck house, but to permit of any of the deck hands starting, stopping
or slowing the engines and correspondingly operating the winding or waiping shaft
from the outside an auxiliary spindle connected to said valve or starting gear
carried through the deck house and provided with a lever handle in proximity to
each warping end.
Dated 100 Dato 1904
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Improvements in Winding, Hoisting, or Warping Gear for Ships.
We, JOHN CARTER CAMERON and WILLIAM MILLS, both of the Firm of
Cameron, Mills & Co., Engineers, Stanley Engine Works, Kiuning Park, Glasgow,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to he performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement
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This invention has for its object to provide winding, hoisting or warping gear
for use on board ship in which the engines operating the gear are housed and pro-
tected from the wash of heavy seas, whilst the drums or warping ends of the winding
shaft are exposed and conveniently situated over the deck and may be started or
stopped therefrom.
In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is a
midship section of a deck house of a steam ship showing in side elevation the
improved winding, hoisting or warping gear, Figure 2 shows the gear in front
elevation and Figure 3 is an inverted sectional plan of the same.

page_text: Under the invention and as represented in the drawings, the winding of warping
shaft A is carried transversely through a deck house or covering B preferably
over the engine room or the stokehold and 18 fitted with winding drums C, C, ot
warping ends outside. The said shaft A has koyed on it within the deck house
a worm wheel D gearing with a worm E on the crank shaft F of the driving
engines G which are preferably connected to ciauks or discs G¹ on opposite ends
of the worm shaft, and are secured to a bulkhead or the plating of the deck house B
within the latter, or otherwise.
The valve or other starting gear for the engines may be operated in the
usual way within the deck house, but to permit of any of the deck hands starting,
stopping or slowing the engines and correspondingly operating the winding or
warping shaft A from the outside an auxiliary spindle I connected by rods and
levers to said valve or starting gear is carried through the deck house B aud
provided with a lever handle K in proximity to each waiping end.
If necessary reversing gear can be supplied and the apparatus may be applied
for use elsewhere than on board ship.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim 18
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1. Wirding, hoisting or warping gear the parts of which are constructed,
arranged and combined substantially as described with reference to the annexed
drawings.
2. The improved arrangement of winding, hoisting oi warping gear having the
drums or warping ends upon a shaft carried through a deck house on board ship
and the engines housed within said deck house but adapted to be operated from
outside substantially as described with reference to the annexed drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1895.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicants.