An Improvement in the "Smallman" Haulage Clip.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the "Smallman" Haulage Clip.
I, JAMES WILLIAM SMALLMAN, of Nuneaton, in the County of Warwick,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to a safety catch for locking the lever in the "Smallman "
haulage clip.
nut.
That clip comprises two side-pieces loosely held together by a central bolt and
The bottoms of the side-pieces are grooved to receive the rope; the tops of
the side-pieces being acted upon by a lever mounted on a peg passing through holes
in the side-pieces.
In order to prevent the accidental raising of the lever and consequent release of
the clip, I employ a safety-catch pivoted on the lever The safety-catch consists
of two arms extending laterally from the top of a body formed to embrace the
lever. In its normal position, the safety-catch does not interfere with the working
of the clip, but, in its acting position, the arms lie below two spurs or stops
projecting from the front edges of the side-pieces. The safety-catch can be readily
turned by hand from one position to the other.
Dated the 6th day of April 1894.
I, JAMES WILLIAM SMALLMAN, of Nuneaton, in the County of Warwick,
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 :-
This invention relates to a safety-catch for locking the lever in the "Smallman
haulage clip.
"
That clip comprises two side-pieces loosely held together by a central bolt and
nut. The bottoms of the side-pieces are grooved to receive the rope; the tops of
the side-pieces being acted upon by a lever mounted on a peg passing through holes
in the side-pieces.
In order to prevent the accidental raising of the lever and consequent release of
the clip, I employ a safety-catch pivoted on the lever. The safety-catch consists
of two arms extending laterally from the top of a body formed to embrace the
lever. In its normal position, the safety-catch does not interfere with the working
of the clip, but, in its acting position, the arms lie below two spurs or stops
projecting from the front edges of the side-pieces. The safety-catch can be readily
turned by hand from one position to the other.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a clip made according to the present invention; the
safety-catch being shown in engagement with the side-pieces.
Fig. 2 is a corresponding plan.
Fig. 3 is a corresponding front view; the lever being in section on the line **.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the safety-catch.
Fig. 5 is a cross section on the line
Y Y.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the lever furnished with a modified form of safety-
catch.
A is the right-hand side-piece, A¹ the left-hand side-piece, B the central bolt,
B' the nut, C the rope, D the lever, D* the lever-peg, E E E the safety-catch
and F the safety-catch-pivot; G and G' being the two projecting parts on the front
edges of the side-pieces A and A'.
To detach the clip, the safety-catch E E' Ex is turned into the position represented
in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 6, and the lever D is then raised into the position
shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.
If the safety-catch does not drop against the tops of the side-pieces, as indicated
in Fig. 1, and, when the lever is depressed, slide down the projections G and G' and
fall automatically into its acting position, it must be moved into that position by
hand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim
:-
1. The improved haulage clip constructed substantially as described.
2. In a haulage clip, mounting on the attaching and detaching lever a safety-
catch which engages with the side-pieces, substantially as described.
3. For use on the attaching and detaching lever of a haulage clip, a safety-catch
having two arms extending laterally for engaging with projections on side-pieces
loosely held together, substantially as described.
4. For use in a haulage clip, a side-piece having a projection with which a
safety-catch on the attaching and detaching lever can engage, substantially as
described.
5. In a haulage clip, the combination, with two side-pieces formed with projections
and loosely held together by a central bolt and nut, of a lever mounted on a peg
passing through holes in the side-pieces, said lever carrying a pivoted body having
arms extending laterally for engaging with the projections, substantially as set
forth.
Dated the 5th day of January 1895.