IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS AND APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO TRAWLERS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR WINDING WIRE WARPS OR METAL ROPES FOR DEEP SEA FISHING AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Lake and George
Kingdon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 6th June 1870.
We, SAMUEL LAKE and GEORGE KINGDON, both of Coombe, Dart-
mouth, in the County of Devon, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS AND APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO
TRAWLERS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR WINDING WIRE WARPS OR METAL ROPES FOR
DEEP SEA FISHING AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improved arrangements and apparatus
applicable to trawlers and other vessels, for winding wire warps or metal
ropes for deep sea fishing and other purposes, and has reference to the
adaptation of apparatus for winding wire warps or metal ropes to
trawlers and other vessels. In order that wire warps or metal ropes
may be employed, according to our Invention, we provide a suitable
bow roller or stern roller, as the case may be, in the bow or stern of
the vessel to guide the wire warp or metal rope whose inner end passes
to the drum of a winding apparatus upon which the warp or rope is
to be wound or unwound as may be necessary. We prefer to arrange
the apparatus with its drum below the deck, and for this purpose we

page_text: carry the standards down to the lower part of the hold of the vessel,
to which they are securely bolted or otherwise fixed; and in order to
provide for the passage of the wire warp or rope from the drum to the
bow roller or stern roller, as the case may be, we pass the warp or rope
thro' the hatchway which is provided with suitably arranged hatchway
rollers to form guides for the warp or rope. Or otherwise we form the
deck with a raised part provided with an opening for the passage of the
warp or rope at that end which faces the bow or stern roller, guiding it
by hatch rollers in cases where the distance from the winding drum
to the bow or stern roller is considerable. Otherwise in some cases the
winding apparatus may be placed upon the deck of the vessel, the
necessary bow or stern roller being suitably arranged for guiding the
warp or rope as already explained.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate several modifications of our
Invention, Fig. 1 being a longitudinal section, and Figure 2, a trans-
verse section of part of a vessel having our Invention applied to it.
Figs. 3 and 4, corresponding views of another modification; Figs. 5
and 6, like views of a third arrangement; and Fig. 7, a transverse
section of a fourth arrangement. These arrangements will be readily
understood from the Drawings in which the same letters of reference are
used to denote corresponding parts in all the Figures. A being the
bow roller; B, the wire warp or metal rope; C, the hatchway or opening
in the deck C¹; D, the hatchway or hatch rollers; E, the winding
drum; E', barrel for deck purposes; and F, the standards of the winding
apparatus which is actuated by turning the handle or handles G. The
brakes, whose construction is shewn in the Drawings, are in each case
actuated by a handle H.
This Invention may also be applied for drawing in wire warps and
metal ropes athwart ship or otherwise.