SUNDRY NEW IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LARGE CABLES AND CORDAGE IN GENERAL
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HUDDART, of Highbury Terrace, in the Parish of Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, on or about the Thirtieth day of October, in the forty-sixth year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Huddart, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Huddart, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend the Invention therein
mentioned, to wit, "SUNDRY NEW IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LARGE
CABLES AND CORDAGE IN GENERAL," within that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Joseph
Huddart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should
seem meet, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein granted unto me, the said Joseph Huddart,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full
end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next
and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, according to

page_text: the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
there is (amongst other things) contained a proviso that if I, the said Joseph
Huddart, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Huddart, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows
(that is to say)-
These improvements have for their object the laying of cables and cordage
by the machinery exhibited in the annexed Drawing, which will be intelligible
on inspection by ropemakers and others conversant in mechanism. Such
persons will of course understand which of the wheels are intended to have
teeth in them, and will suppose the necessary supports or framework for the
machinery represented, these being omitted in the Drawing with a view to
the more clear and distinct exhibition of the other parts. I do not alledge that
any single thing represented in the Drawing above referred to is in itself new,
or that the particular combination of any part or parts thereof with any other
part or parts thereof is new, supposing the same to be separately taken and
considered. But what I lay claim to as my Invention in these improvements
is, the ultimate combination of these several parts, as forming one intire
machine or system of machinery tending to the laying of cables and cordago
in a manner that is, to all substantial and essential purposes, new.
I
The following description will assist those who may want instruction
beyond what the bare inspection of the Drawing above referred to will furnish.
propose to make use of some parts of the machine described in the Speci-
fication of a Patent granted to Mr. Edmund Cartwright, about the Fifteenth
of May, Ono thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, under the name of the
Cordelier.
In the annexed Drawing, A is the axis; B, the top fixed to it as a gudgeon,
with holes therein for the strands to pass through; C and D are circular planes.
or tables fixed to the axis, and connected together by three or more pillars-
which are not expressed in the Drawing; E, E, are two similar jacks or
spole frames, of which as many are to be used as shall be equal to the

page_text: number of strands of which the cable is to consist, being most commonly three.
Those in the Drawing are represented in different positions, by which means
the several parts are the more distinctly soen. Fis.a dead or fixed wheel,
within which the axis revolves, and the teeth of which connect with those
of G, G, which are counterwheels upon the circular plane or table D; and the
said G, G, connect also with H, H, the jack or spole frame wheels.
or clutch
:
The above described parts, although not similar to Mr. Cartwright's con-
struction, are intended to produce the same effect, and therefore may perhaps
be considered as part of his Invention. The strands I presume to be previously
prepared by means of the register which I invented, and described in the Specifi-
cation of a Patent granted me in One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three,
which I call registering, in order to produce a more equal distribution of the strain
upon the yarns, as without such preparation no machinery whatever can, in my
opinion, lay the first strands of cordage so well as by the old or common mode.
The strands are to be wound upon the reels R, R. Friction blocks or clutches
(a), (a), connected with the axis of each reel, are fixed to regulate the tension
of the strand on its being drawn from the reel. The friction block
is applicable to many useful purposes invented by me, and described in my
inrolled Specification, dated about the Twenty-eighth day of July, One thousand
eight hundred. From the reel in each spole frame the strand passes through
a guide to direct it into the plane of the groove of the two whirls b and c, which
guide is provided with a friction roller (n). Those whirls being grooved, and
in all respects equal to each other, and having equal motion given to them
by the two equal wheels i, i, and by the strands winding round them, as
represented in the Drawing, will deliver equal quantities in every revolution
without slipping and without bruising the strands. The counterwheels G, G,
above mentioned, are to give to the spoles with the strands a contrary motion
to that of the axis A, and will thereby produce a relative motion between the
plane or table C and the spoles; and in order to regulate the motion of the
whirls b and c, I have fixed to C the wheels d, d, in which the hollow gudgeons
of E (the spoles) revolve, and those wheels communicate the
planet wheel e, e, and the bevil pinion ff, and the wheels 9, 9, and to the
shifting wheels h, h, which last may be varied in their dimensions and number
of teeth according to the size of the rope, to regulate the motion of the whirls
6 and c, which are carried by the shifting wheels, and which two whirls have,
as before mentioned, equal motion by reason of the equal wheels i, i, upon
their shafts. Or, instead of the shifting wheels h, h, being changed, the
construction or size of the whirls may be varied according to the size of the
rope. By these means, and by having the wheels, whirls, &c. respectively
to the

page_text: equal and similar in each spole, equal quantities will be delivered in every
revolution from each spole. From the whirl C the strand passes in the line
of the axis of cach spole through the gudgeon, which is perforated as in
the spole of a spining wheel, and through the wheel fixed to the axis A,
and also through the perforated top or gudgeon B, where the the strands
are formed into a rope or cable. The application of the whirls 1, 1, 1,
which are also carried by the equal wheels w, w, w, and a friction block
or clutch (m) upon the axis of one of them, are peculiar use to regulate
the tension upon the rope or cable; and the shafts of those whirls being by
means of the said friction block or clutch connected to a shaft from the
power, the tension may be more accurately adjusted than by weights upon
the sledge, as in the common mode of laying cordage.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Huddart, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.
JOSEPH (L.s.) HUDDART.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stampt) in the presence of
AMBROSE WESTON.
CHARLES MALLET.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
November, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Huddart came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.