IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS OF APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR ALL PURPOSES WHERE A SIMPLE MEANS IS REQUIRED FOR READILY AND INSTANTLY UNCOUPLING, DETACHING, RELEASING, SLIPPING,' OR DISENGAGING
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Frank Conway Morris and Frank Howard
Bennett, both of the Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, for an
Invention of "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS OF APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
FOR ALL PURPOSES WHERE A SIMPLE MEANS IS REQUIRED FOR READILY
AND INSTANTLY UNCOUPLING, DETACHING, RELEASING, SLIPPING,' OR
DISENGAGING."
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pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Frank Conway
Morris and Frank Howard Bennett at the Office of the Cominissioners of
Patents on the 22nd March 1881.
CHARLES FRANK CONWAY MORRIS and FRANK HOWARD BENNETT, both of the
Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS OF
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR ALL PURPOSES WHERE A SIMPLE MEANS IS
REQUIRED FOR READILY AND INSTANTLY UNCOUPLING, DETACHING, RELEASING,
• SLIPPING,' OR DISENGAGING."
Our said Invention consists in improvements upon the arrangements of apparatus
and parts for the above mentioned purpose described and claimed in the Patent of
the said Charles Frank Conway Morris, in his Specification, No. 1389, bearing date
8th April 1879, and with especial reference to that portion thereof, wherein is
described the "slip" itself, and reference made to some of its special applications
(as distinguished from its "combination" application for the purpose of skidding
wheels.)
The improvements above referred to consist mainly in substituting for the
particular arrangement of enclosing frame and working parts described and shewn
in the Specification, No. 1389, the following essential features, which we prefer to
embody in applying our said Invention to such uses as those indicated in the
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page_text: Provisional Specification of the Invention of the said Charles Frank Conway
Morris, No. 1389, lines 18 to 23 (printed copy of Specification), that is to say,
under one arrangement of "slip," according to our said Invention, the two separate
levers or pivotted side and cross pieces shewn in the Drawing accompanying
Specification, No. 1389, are now combined as one member or part, with an eye
formed in the "locking" part thereof taking into a spring locking and unlocking
bolt or pin with ring releasing attachment or suitable mechanical equivalent
therefor.
According to another and more simple arrangement of our said Invention, in
addition to the two levers being combined in one, this combined limb or member
of the shackle being the locking and unlocking or releasing portion thereof, is also
caused to form one half of the actual framing when the "slip" is locked. In each
of the modifications described in accordance with our present Invention, the locking
and unlocking limb or member is pivotted at the lower end of the "slip," and the
centre line of the pivot being out of the plane of the centre of the releasing spring,
pin, or bolt, at the upper or attachment end of the "slip," to the extent of, say, one
eighth of an inch, to facilitate the freeing of the ring or other attachment when it
is desired to "slip," detach, or uncouple.