Improvements in Apparatus or Appliances for Cable Haulage on Tramways, Light Railways, and Canals and other Waterways.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Appliances for Cable Haulage on
Tramways, Light Railways, and Canals and other Waterways.
We WILLIAM EDWARD WINBY of The Beeches Nowton Road Sparkhill Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Civil and Mechanical Engineer and WILLIAM MARSTON
WINBY of the same address Brass Founder do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
Our invention has reference in part to the cable hauling apparatus or appliances de-
scribed and claimed in the specification of Letters Patent granted to us on the 18th day of
August 1887 No. 11277 and to the invention described in the Provisional Specification
of the application made by one of us namely William Edward Winby on the 14th day
of May 1887 No. 7125; and our said invention consists in the construction and com-
bination of the parts hereinafter described of the conduit in which the cable works,
the pulley boxes in which the cable supporting pulleys are situated and the pulleys of
Our said invention further consists in the construction of the permanent
way and parts connected with it for light railways and for cable haulage on canals
and other water ways as horeinafter described.
the same.
By our present improvements the parts referred to are simplified and improved and
their manufacture economized.
We make the pulley box in which the cable carrying pulley works, of two symme-
trical halves or parts inade of rolled or cast steel or iron plates the said halves being
provided at bottom with vertical flanges and at top with horizontal flanges. By means
of the bottom vertical flanges the two halves of the pulley box are bolted together and
by means of the horizontal flanges the halves of the pulley box are bolted to the lower
part of the cable conduit and manhole.
Access is given to the pulley box by a lid or in any other convenient way.
Instead of making the manhole in one piece with the pulley box it may be made
separate therefrom and bolted to one or other side of the pulley box as may be
required and instead of making the cable carrying pulley of a grooved rim or
periphery of the ordinary kind we :nake the rim or periphery of the pulley of nearly
the same width us the pulley box so that it works very near the sides of the said box.
The rim or periphery is made of an angular or cranked figure in cross section the rim
being inclined downwards from one side to nearly the opposite side where it is turned
up or cranked the cable taking a bearing at the bottom part that is at the junction of
the inclined and cranked portions the said lowest part of the rim being situated on
one side of the gripper slot in the said box. By this construction the slipping of the
cable off the pulley is prevented as there is no space between the sides of the pulley
and pulley box for the passage of the cable. This construction of pulley may be
applied to cable tramways and to cable hauling on canals and light railways.
We make the cable conduit in halves bolted together at bottom. Flanges may be
rolled or made on the outer sides of the said halves about midway between their tops
and bottoms for attachment to the sleepers or tie rods for connecting the cable conduit
with the permanent way. Or the conduit may rest on a cradle attached by tie rods
to the permanent way or in the construction of light railways for cable haulage the
cable conduit may be combined with cast steel or metallic sleepers on which the rails
of the permanent way may rest and be fixed so that the cable conduit itself adds
strength and rigidity to the structure.
Or rolled bars of such a sectional figure that they form the permanent way rails of
the light railway and the top of the cable conduit may be used in combination with a
conduit made in halves bolted together at bottom and at top to the underside of the
said rolled rail and cover bars. In this case the inner flat edges of the bars are

page_text: separated to a short distance apart on one side of the middle of the cable condui, to
form the gripper slot of the conduit. Or the conduit and permanent way may be
mude in the following manner. We make the coluit of four pieces or hars, the two
lower pieces being holted together at bottom and the two upper pieces or slot beams
being made of rolled trough shaped steef or cast hars to the underside of which the
lower parts of the conduit are bolted. The permanent way rails are made of rolled or
cast lars of a trough shaped section which are bolted to the sides of the trough shaped
bars forming the slot beams of the cable conduit.
Dated this Ind day of Bab 198Ɑ
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Appliances for Cable Haulage on
Tramways. Light Railways, and Canals and other Waterways.
We WILLIAM EDWARD WINBY of The Beeches Newton Road Sparkhill Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Civil and Mechanical Engineer and WILLIAM MARSTON
WISHY of the same address Brass Founder do hereby declare the nature of our
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in und by the following statement :—
Our invention has reference in part to the cable hauling apparatus or appliances
describes and claimed in the specification of Letters Patent granted to us on the 18th
day of August 1887 No. 11277 aml to the invention described in the provisional
and complete specifications of the patent granted to one of us, namely Willian Edward
Winby, on the 14th day of May 1888 No. 7125 and our said invention consists of the
construction and combination of the parts herein atter described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawings of the cominit in which the cable works, the pulley hoxes
in which the cable supporting pulleys are situated and the pulleys of the same. Oor
said invention further consists in the construction of the permanent way and parts
connected with it for light railways and for cable haulage on canals and other water-
ways as hereinafter described. By our present improvements the parts referred to
are simplified and improved and their manufacture economized. We make the pulley
box in which the cable carrying pulley works of two symmetrical halves or parts made
of rolled or cast steel or iron plates the said halves being provided at bottom with
vertical flanges and at top with horizontal Hanges. By means of the bottom vertical
flanges the two halves of the pulley box are holte I together and by means of the bori-
zontal flanges the halves of the pulley box are bolted to the lower part of the cablo
conduit. Access is given to the pulley box by a lid or in any other convenient way.
Instead of making the manhole in one piece with the pulley box it may be made
separate therefrom and holted to one or other side of the pulley box ns may be
required; and instead of making the cable carrying pulley of a grooved rim or periphery
of the ordinary kind we make the rim or periphery of the pulley of nearly the same
width as the pulley box so that it works very near the sides of the said box. The
rim or periphery is made of an angular or cranked figure in cross section, the rim
heing inclined downwards from one side to nearly the opposite side where it is turned
up or cranked the cable taking a bearing at the bottom part, that is, at the junction of
the inclined and cranked portions, the said lowest part of the rim being situated on
one side of the gripper slot in the said box.
These improvements are represented in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
Drawings, Figure 1 representing in cross section the pulley box and pulley working
therein together with other parts of the cable tramway and Figure 2 roprosenting a
longitudinal section, partly in side elevation of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both Figures.
a, a are the slot beams at the top of the pulley box 6, 6, the said pulley box being
made of two symmetrical halves or parts of rolled or cast steel or iron. The said

page_text: balves bb of the pulley box have vertical flanges b³, 63 at bottom by which they are
bolted together and have at top horizontal flanges 6, by which they are bolted at
6,6 to the horizontal flanges of the slot beams a a: c is the man hole made separately
from the pulley box bb and bolted to one side of the pulley box at 6º, 6º: d is the case
or box in which the lid or cover e of the manhole is fitted the said case or box d being
bolted at by its horizontal bottom flange to the horizontal top flange of the separate
manhole c; ff are the surface water drain pipes of the apparatus the said pipes
opening into the bottom of the pulley box bb and g is a dirt intercepting pan situated
near the pulley box and below the bottom of the cable conduit and open at top to the
cable conduit.
All dirt and solid matter carried into the cable conduit by the surface water is
caught or intercepted by the said pan 7 before the said surface water reaches the
bottom of the pulley box to be carried away by the pipes ff. The pan g is emptied of
its contents at a manhole having a cover of the kind represented in Figure 1.
is the cable carrying pulley constructed according to our invention, the said pulley
having nearly the same width as the pulley box b, 63 and working near the sides thereof;
1, are the open top bearings in which the axle of the pulley works the said bearings being
bolted to the inner sides of the halves of the pulley box. It will be seen by an examina-
tion of Figure 1 that the rim or periphery of the pulley is made of an angular figure
in cross section, the said rim being inclined at from one side to near the opposite
side of the rim where it is turned up or cranked at the cable taking a bearing at
the junction of the two parts i, 2 of the said pulley.
It will also be seen that the lowest part or seat for the cable is situated on one side
of the gripper slot a² in the slot beams a, a of the cable conduit pulley box.
By this construction of pulley the slipping of the cable off the pulley is prevented
and there is no space between the sides of the pulley and the pulley box for the passage
of the cable.
This construction of pulley may be applied to cable tramways and to cable hauling
on canals and light railways.
Our invention consists further in making the cable conduit in halves bolted together
at bottom.
Flanges may be rolled or made on the outer sides of the said halves about midway
between their tops and bottoms for the attachment to the sleepers or tie rods for
connecting the cable conduit with the permanent way. Or the conduit may rest on a
cradle attached by tie rods to the permanent way; or in the construction of light rail-
ways for cable haulage the cable conduit may be combined with cast steel or metallic
sleepers on which the rails of the permanent way rest and be fixed so that the cable
conduit itself adds strength and rigidity to the structure. Or rolled bars of such a
sectional figure that they form the permanent way rails of the light railway and the
top of the cable conduit may be used in combination with a conduit made in halves
bolted together at bottom and at top to the underside of the said rolled rails and
cover bars. In this case the inner flat edges of the bars are separated to a short
distance apart at the middle or on one side of the middle of the cable conduit to form
the gripper slot of the conduit.
.
The last described improvements are represented in cross section in Figures 3. 4. 5
and 6 of the Drawings.
In Figure 3 the cable conduit is marked m the said conduit being made in halves
which are bolted together at bottom: m³ m² are horizontal flanges on the outer sides
of the halves of the conduit. To the flanges m² m² the cast steel or metallic sleepers nn
on which the permanent way rails p of the cable tramway or light railway rest or
are seated are bolted in the manner represented in the drawing; that is to say, the
sleepers n n are bolted at their underside to the stay pieces m³ which latter are bolted
to the bottom of the halves of the cable con luit, the said sleepers are also bolted to
the vertical brackets or stay pieces qq the latter being bolted to the flanges m² m² and
to the halves of the conduit. Or the tie rods for connecting the cable conduit to the
permanent way rails may be attached to the flanges m² m² of the cable conduit.

page_text: In Figure 4 the cable conduit m made in halves is supported on a cradler and the
latter is bolted to the flanges m², m² of the conduit. The said cradler is attached by
the tie rods to the permanent was p p.
Figures 5 and 6 represent modifications of the arrangement represented in Figure 3.
In the modification Figure 5 the cast steel or metallic sleepers na carrying the rails pp
have the figure given to them represented in the drawing and are used in combina
tion with a cable conduits made in halves; are separate cover or slot bars which
are bolted to the conduit by the bolts at which connect the sleepers to the top of the
cominit. In the modification Figure 6 different shaped separate cover intra 5ª, aª are
used and the cable conduit is made in one piece, the said conduit t being without a
flange at bottom and the under stays are omitted.
For cable Imulage on light railways the cover bars, the sleepers and the perun-
nent way rails may be made in one piece.
The cable conduits represented in Figure 5 may be made in one piece instead of
two pieces.
Our invention consists further in making the cable conduit and perm went way in
the following manner. We make the conduit of four pieces or hirs the two lower
pieces being bolted together at bottom and the two upper pieces or slot beams being
made of railed trough shaped steel or cast bars to the underside of which the lower
of the conduit are bolted. The permanent way rails are made of rolled or cast
bars of a trough shapes section which are bulted to the sides of the trough shaped hars
forming the slut brains of the cab·fe conduit.
This part of our invention is represented in cross section in Figure 7 where the
four parts of which the cable conduit is masie are marked respectively u, w²º,1°, n* ;
being the side parts of the body of the conduit and a², the cover or slot beams
which are holted to the tops of the sile parts at a ²; we are the permament way
rails consisting of trough shaped bars which are bolted at rë, d to the sides of the
trough bars, constituting the cover or slot beams of the conduit as represented.
The trough bars w², r, rare filled with paving blocks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention of Improvements in apparatus or appliances for cable haulage on tramways
light railways and canals and other water ways
First Making the pulley box of two symmetrical halves or parts fastened together
at bottom by vertical flanges and provi le at top with horizontal flange to which the
slot rails of the pulley fox are bolted substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings.
Sevondly-The combination with a pulley box made of two symmetrical halves of
a separate manhole which can be bolted to either side of the sail pulley box as may
be required substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly Constructing the rim or periphery of the cable supporting pulley in the
manner and for the purpose hereinbetore described and illustrated in Figure 1 of the
accompanying Drawings.
Fourthly The combination near the pulley box of the cable conduit of a dirt
intercepting pan as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the accom-
panying Drawings.
Fifthly Making the cable conduit of two symmetrical halves bolted together at
bottom and provided preferably with flanges on their outer sides for the purposes
and substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the
accompanying Drawings.
Sixthly Making the cable conluit of two symmetrical halves or parts bolted
together at bottom or making it of one piece to the top of which cable conduit slot
beams or cover plates are bolted substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: Seventhly The combination with the cable conduit of sleepers for supporting the
permanent way the said sleepers being constructed and connected to the conduit
substantially as bereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the
accompanying Drawings.
Lastly Making the cable conduit and the permanent way of six bars of the kinds
and bolted together in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 7
of the accompanying Drawings.
Dated the Fifteenth day of October 1889.
WILLIAM EDWARD WINBY.
WILLIAM MARSTON WINBY.