Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Attaching Flags to Flag Staffs.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1899-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1899
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Attaching Flags to
Flag Staffs.
I, AUGUST FRIEDRICH WILHELM KRAUSE, of No. 6/7, Zimmerstrasse, Witten-
berge, Germany, Factory Owner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Heretofore flags have been attached to flag staffs by fixing the lower and upper
parts of the flag by means of thin cord, string or the like, to the line,
which has been carried over a pulley at the upper end of the flag-staff and when
the flag has been attached, it has been drawn up the flag staff. In order to
obviate this tedious mode of attachment of the flag to the line of the flag staff,
I use sleeves by means of which the flag can be attached to the line of the flag
staff very much more quickly than has been possible before. A flag staff with
flag attached thereto according to my invention is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the
accompanying drawings and, to a larger scale, in Fig. 2.
As will be seen sleeves d and e are arranged upon the line c of the flag
staff a which line is adapted to pass over a pulley b. The flag f is hooked to
the sleeves by means of hooks, which may, for example, be spring snap hooks.
Figs. 2 to 6 inclusive show more clearly the details of the construction.
The sleeve d (Fig. 2) consists of a simple tube, whose inside diameter is
approximately equal to the thickness of the line c; it is held in position as
regards its height upon the line by means of a knot c¹ against which the lower
end of the sleeve 6 bears. Fastened to the sleeve is an eye or ring d¹ in which
is hooked a hook that is fixed to the flag f. The hook preferably employed
is a spring snap hook, such hooks not being liable to accidental disengagement.
The lower end of the flag is likewise attached by means of a hook e³ to a ring e¹
on the sleeve e. A knot is formed in the line c, above the sleeve e, so that
by this means, no shifting of the flag with the sleeves d and e can take place
along the line c.
The knots and are only shown by way of example, as various other
means of fastening the rings or eyes d and e might be employed such, for
example, as the spring shown in Fig. 3, which clips the line in the sleeve;
or the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, in which a screw is provided for clipping
the sleeve on the rope; or the arrangement illustrated by Figs. 5 and 6 which
show a sleeve which is composed of a slotted tube, such that it can be placed
from the side on to the line c and there fixed, for instance, by means of a screw
as shown.
For the purpose of mounting a flag attached to the line by means according to
my invention it is merely necessary to pull down over the pulley 6 that end of
the line c which carries the sleeves, and then, after hooking the hooks & and e³
into the rings d and e¹, to draw up the flag.
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I, AUGUST FRIEDRICH WILHELM KRAUSE, of Nos. 6 & 7, Zimmerstrasse, Witten-
berge, Germany, Factory Owner, 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:
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Heretofore flags have been attached to flag staffs by fixing the lower and upper
parts of the flag by means of thin cord, string or the like, to the line (halliard)
which has been carried over a pulley at the upper end of the flag-staff and when
the flag has been attached, it has been drawn or hoisted up the flag staff. In order to,
obviate this tedious mode of attachment of the flag to the line of the flag staff,
I use sleeves by means of which the flag can be attached to the line of the flag
staff very much more quickly than has been possible before. A flag staff with.
flag attached thereto according to my invention is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the
drawings left with my Provisional Specification and to a larger scale, in Fig. 2
of those drawings.
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As will be seen sleeves d and e are arranged upon the line c of the flag
staff a which line is adapted to pass over a pulley b. The flag-f is hooked to
the sleeves by means of hooks, which may, for example, be spring snap hooks.
Figs. 2 to 6 inclusive show more clearly the details of the construction.
The sleeved (Fig. 2) consists of a simple tube, whose inside diameter is
approximately equal to the thickness of the line c; it is held in position as
regards its height upon the line by means of a knot c¹ against which the lower
end of the sleeve b bears. Fastened to the sleeve is an eye or ring d in which
is hooked a hook 'd that is fixed to the flag f. The hook preferably employed
is a spring snap hook, such hooks not being liable to accidental disengagement.
The lower end of the flag is likewise attached by means of a hook e to a ring e¹
on the sleeve e. A knot c² is formed in the line c, above the sleeve e, so that
by this means, shifting of the flag with the sleeves d and e along the line c is
prevented.
The knots and c³ are only shown by way of example, as various other
means of fastening the rings or eyes d and e might be employed such, for
example, as the spring shown in Fig. 3, which clips the line in the sleeve;'
or the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, in which a screw is provided for clipping
the sleeve on the rope; or the arrangement illustrated by Figs. 5 and 6 which
show a sleeve which is composed of a slotted tube, such that it can be placed
or slipped from the side on to the line c and there fixed, for instance, by means
of a screw as shown.
For the purpose of hoisting a flag attached to the line by means according to
my invention it is merely necessary to pull down over the pulley b that end of
the halliard or line c which carries the sleeves, and then, after hooking the
hooks and ea into the rings d and e¹, to draw up the flag.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is: :-
1. For fastening flags to the lines or halliards of flag staffs, the arrangement
comprising sleeves d and e placed on the line or halliard and formed with
eves d¹ and e¹ into which latter the flao f is hooked by means of books
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page_text: 2. Sleeves such as referred to in Claim 1, provided with a screw or with a
spring, for the purpose of fastening the sleeves at the required point on the line
or halliard.
3. Sleeves such as referred to in Claim 1 slotted laterally, and thereby adapted
to be slipped laterally on to the line or halliard, substantially as described.
4. My improved means as described and illustrated for the purpose specified.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1899.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.