Improvements in Winding Reels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Appl.cation, 24th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, -22nd-July, 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Winding Reels.
We CHARLES CLIFFORD 'GOSSAGE of 4 Highfield Road Harborne in the
County of Staffordshire Manager and WILLIAM INGRAM JAMES of Green End
House Stafford in the County of Stafford, Engineer do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvement consists in making a reel with flanges or wheels to run on the
ground these flanges having between them a barrel on which the article to be
wound is coiled up.
Our invention is applicable to any article required to be wound up such as hose
pipes ropes &c.
The flanges and barrel may be constructed so to revolve together the barrel
forming the axle of the flanges and revolving with them.
In another arrangement the Aanges may be mounted upon an axle and revolve
together whilst the barrel revolves independently of the flanges.
In a third alternative arrangement we may construct the reel so that one flange
and the barrel revolve together whilst the other flange revolves independently.
In a fourth alternative arrangement the flanges may be placed upon an axle and
revolve independently of one another whilst the barrel revolves independently 'of
both flanges.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1894.
CHARLES CLIFFORD GOSSAGE..
W. INGRAM JAMES.
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We CHARLES CLIFFORD GOSSAGE of 4 Highfield Road Harborne in the
County of Stafford Manager and WILLIAM INGRAM JAMES of Green End
House Stafford in the County of Stafford 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:-
Qur improved winding reel is intended principally for winding up hose pipes.
The accompanying drawings represent our improved reel in various forms::
Figs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 are elevations. Figs. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 are the corresponding
sections.
Fig. 11 shews a section of a convenient form of flange rim on a larger scale.
In Figs. 1 and 6. à are flanges which run upon the ground are bent stays which
connect the two flanges and at the same time form the barrel upon which the hose c
or other article to be coiled is wound.
The stays b are rivetted to the rim at dd or fastened in any other convenient
manner are rods for maintaining the circular form of the reel. Provision is made
at e for holding the loose end of the hose c.
In Figs. 2 and 7 the reel is shewn composed of the flanges a¹ connected by radial
wire spokes cast into or otherwise fastened to bosses g and rivetted to the rim at
their outer ends. The bosses g are traversed by and fastened upon a shaft h.
The barrel is formed by a series of transverse wires ; connected to the radial
wires by being laid in. moulds and cast in as shewn at k.

page_text: In Figs. 3 and 8 the flanges a' take the form of wheels with spokes fand
bosses g¹, these bosses being keyed at or otherwise fastened upon a shaft h
The barrels is formed in a similar way to the combined flange and barrel described
in Figs. 2 and 7 having rims a spokes f and bosses g² and revolves upon the
shaft between and independently of the flanges a³.
In Figs. 4 and 9 the construction is similar to that shewn in Figs. 3 and 8 with
the exception that the barrel s¹ and one of the flanges a' have their bosses g³ g*
keyed on to the shaft h' by keys whilst the boss 9 of the other Hange a revolves.
loose upon the shaft h³ being retained end ways by a collar m and set screw n.
In Figs. 5 and 10 the construction is again similar to that shewn in Figs. 3 and 8
but in this case the barrel s with its bosses g revolve loose upon the shaft * and
at the same time each of the flanges a with their bosses g' also revolve loose upon
the shaft independently of the barrel and of one another. They are retained
in place endways by the collars m¹ and set screws n'.
It will be seen that in the construction shewn in Figs. 1 2. 4. 6. 7. 9 the hose c
will be wound up on the barrel as the flanges are propelled along the ground and
when all the hose has been wound up it can be conveyed to any desired spot by
rolling the reel.
In the construction shewn in Figs. 3 and 8 the barrel can be revolved in order
to wind up the hose, the flanges remaining stationary. When all the hose has
been wound пр it may be wheeled away on the flanges.
The same thing holds good in the, construction shewn in Figs. 5 and 10 but
greater facility is given for steering the reel in any desired direction.
Fig. 11 shews a convenient form of iron flange of crescent section bent into a
circle with the concave side outermost.
The attachments of the rims to the barrel and bosses may be made as shewn in
the figures or in any other convenient manner.
It is desirable that the diameter of the barrel on which the hose is wound shall
approximate as nearly as possible to that of the flanges which run upon the
ground as far as is consistent with the diameter and length of hose it is desired to
coil up.
The mode of using our improved reel is as follows:
Supposing that the hose is ready to be wound up, one end is put on the reel and
through the catch piece e Fig. 6. The reel is then propelled upon the ground in
the direction in which the hose is lying until the whole has been wound up, the
other end of the hose is then secured and the reel wheeled away to any desired
place.
When it is desired to uncoil the hose, the outer end is detached from the reel
and the reel is propelled in any desired direction, the hose being thus paid out on
the ground as the reel advances.
It is obvious that the whole or part only of the hose may be paid out as
desired.
In the case of the constructions illustrated in Figs: 3. 5. 8 and 10 the same
method may be adopted for winding up or paying out the hose or if desired the
flanges may be held stationary upon the ground and the barrel revolved upon the
shaft for the purpose of winding up or paying out the hose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
A reel composed of a barrel with flanges which run upon the ground for the
purpose of winding up and paying out hose piping.
Dated this 20th day of Jul. 1905
CHAS. C. GOSSAGE.
W. INGRAM JAMES.