Improvements in or connected with Wire and like Ropes or Cables.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Wire and like Ropes or Cables.
I, GEORGE ELLIOT PYLE, of 16, Great George Street, Westminster, County of
London, Wire Rope Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, rolling or drawing wire into Z like
form, or into hollow cone like form, which with the combination of
ordinary round wires, become locked in the twisting of a strand, or of
a rope,
or cable, which in most cases, may be composed of a number
of strands twisted among themselves, or of wires in strand formation twisted and
then overlaid with other wires, plain or locked, for increasing the thickness and
strength, or the interior wires or strands may be plain and have locking wires
upon them, or some of the liner wires may be wedge shape in cross section and be
overlaid with locking wires.
In some cases also, such wire or wires may, where necessary, have the intervening
or other spaces provided with hemp, coir, or other filling.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said George Elliot Pyle,
Improvements in or connected with Wire and like Ropes or Cables.
I, GEORGE ELLIOT Pyle, of 16, Great George Street, Westminster, County of
London, Wire Rope Manufacturer, 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 object rolling or drawing wire into Z like
form, or into hollow cone like form which with the combination of
ordinary round wires they become locked in the twisting of a strand or of
a rope or cable which in most cases may be composed of a number
of strands twisted among themselves, or of wires in strand formation twisted and
then overlaid with other wires plain or locked for increasing the thickness and
strength, or the interior wires or strands may be plain and have locking wires
upon them, or some of the liner wires may be wedge shape in cross section and be
overlaid with locking wires. In some cases also such wire or wires may where

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necessary have the intervening or other spaces provided with hemp, coir, or other
filling.
My invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed drawings
on which the several figures show different arrangements of wires and constituting
ropes of cables.
According to Figure 1 sectional-elevation, the rope or cable is composed of a
series of round wires A as strands arranged around a central core B of which the
centre may be hollow or of tube like formation for the reception of a separate wire
or of a number of wires drawn loosely through, or it can be filled in with one stout
wire. The several strands of round wires have the small intervening spaces filled
in with hemp or other filling, and where the larger or border spaces are formed,
flattish oval shape of wires C are employed, the whole being sheathed in locking
wires E of like formation, each of which wires not only locks itself but also
the adjoining wires of the same formation, the object of the lock being that should
one or a number of such outside wires break it or they become held within the
others of the series and do not unravel or fray out, the rope or cable being other-
wise kept intact:
I prefer that the wires of each of the strands be twisted and then the strands
twisted among themselves but they may be "laid" in with the flattish wires and
then the outer sheathing wires E put in place. In any case the twisted rope or cable
with the outer sheathing is laid as represented for bonding the lock wires in place.
According to Figure 2 sectional elevation of a rope or cable, the core B is
composed of a strand of round wires and this is partially covered by segmental
wires D, which may be each as a single wire, or of a series of segmental and curved
wires laid one on the other to the desired extent, their ends being in touch with
the outer wires of strands A composed partly of round wires and partly of seg-
mental wires F arranged radially as covering wires thereto.
The spaces between the last named strands and of the segmental and curved
wires being filled in partly with ordinary strands A and partly with hemp or
other filling for the reception of the outer sheathing wires E which in this sectional
elevation are provided with hollow channels and fillets respectively on their
opposite faces in or by which the locking of the sheathing wires E is effected as and
for the same purposes as described with reference to Figure 1.
It will be observed that the sheathing wires E represented at Figure 1 are of
the same respective shape as also are those shown at Figure 2 and produced
each from a single die or draw hole, but at Figure 3 the locking sheathing wires E
are of alternate formation or shape, and these enclose a series of ordinary strands A
of round wires and a series of specially rolled wires which with the hemp or
other filling are built up around the core or centre strand B.
Figure 4 sectional elevation of a rope or cable composed of a core B filled in
with hemp or other filling and surrounded with a series of shape of wires G
which fit into each other and forming a series of flat. sides on which the wires of
ordinary strands A. can be in contact, and these with the hemp or other filling in
conjunction with the intervening wires C prepare the rope or cable for the reception
of the sheathing wires E which in this view are alternately of double convex and
of double concave shape as locking wires.
According to Figure 5 of the drawings, the rope or cable consists of a core B of
two diameters of ordinary round wires surrounded by a ring of wedge shape wires
Hover which the sheathing lock wires are laid helically as a bond to each
other..
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Figure 6 represents a rope or cable of outer strands of lock wire sheathing E
over the centre or core wires A of ordinary strands, and these are twisted around
an ordinary core of round wires B.
Figure shows in sectional elevation, a rope or cable formed of a centre core of
round wires B as a strand and wedge shape of wires H.as.a covering, and these
are sheathed with Z.shape of wires E which when laid as indicated formi a lock
or bond each to the other.

page_text: Figure 8 shows in sectional elevation a rope or cable in which the core B of
ordinary round wires as a strand is sheathed with lock wires E consisting of hollow
cone wires and round wires alternately which when laid as represented lock each
other, this example is repeated at Figure 9 in so far as the sheathing wires E are
concerned but the core B is composed of a series of wedge shaped wires around a
centre wire; the object in each case as before mentioned being to prevent detach-
ment of wires in cases of fracture of any one or more wires of a rope or cable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
Each and all of the several represented combinations of shaped wires, ordinary
wires, or strands of wires with lock wires E as a sheathing thereon, as described
for the purpose set forth.
The 15th day of October 1000.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said George Elliot Pyle.