Improvements in the Holders or Cases of Rocket, Life Buoy, Drag, and analogous Lines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Holders or Cases of Rocket, Life Buoy, Drag,
and analogous Lines.
We, WILLIAM SCHERMULY, of No. 62, Stainsby Road, Poplar in the County
of Middlesex, Rope Splicer, and EDMUND BRANDRAM JONES of No. 134, Gower
Street in the same County, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in the holders or cases of rocket, life
buoy and drag lines as well as in the holders or cases of other lines which remain
coiled round a roller so long as they are not in use but must be paid out off that
roller before their use conimences.
The special object of the present invention is to make improved provision for the
roller to lock itself automatically against unrolling as well as for the rapid unlocking
of it when it is required to pay the line out.
In carrying the invention into effect, the line roller is provided with a disc at
each end of a suitable diameter. The cover is only as much larger than the discs
as suffices to allow them to turn freely within it. A notch is cut in the periphery
of each disc and the two are aligned with each other. A pair of slots of the same
radius are cut in the ends of the cover. A rod rather longer than the case is led
through both slots and notches, and to the projecting ends of this rod the loop by
which the coiled line is hung is made fast. When it is so hung, the top ends of the slots
in the case ends are held by the rod ends, so that the case and the roller with it are
locked together. The latter is unlocked by turning the case so as to bring the
opposite ends of the slots up to the rod ends, whereupon the latter enter
recesses prepared to receive them and hold the rod outside the peripheries of
the discs.
Dated this 24th day of October 1892.
PHILLIPS & LEIGEL,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Holders or Cases of Rocket, Life Buoy, Drag:
and analogous Lines.
We, WILLIAM SCHERMULY, of No. 62, Stainsby Road, Poplar, Rope Splicer,
and EDMUND BRANDRAM JONES, of No. 134, Gower Street, Solicitor, both in
the County of Middlesex, 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 improvements in the holders or cases of rocket, life
buoy and drag lines, but is applicable to the holders or cases of all lines which
remain wound round a roller so long as they are not being used, but must be paid
out off the roller before the use of them commences.
In order that our invention and the best means of carrying it into practical
effect, may be thoroughly understood, we will now describe it and them .in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part
of this Specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of the improved holder shewing the various parts of it
in the positions which they respectively occupy, when hung up out of use.

page_text: Fig. 2 is a front elevation corresponding therewith. Half of the cover has been
omitted from the figure.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the use of the improved holder.
a is the carrier and a the cord attached to both ends thereof by which the
holder and line are hung up when they are out of use, or carried by a man with the
cord a over his shoulder, when they are to be used. is the life line. It is shewn
as being used with a life buoy attached to the end of it. c is the 'roller (indicated
by dotted lines in Figures 1 and 2) to which the 'inner end of the line is made
fast. The pivots el turn in bearings 2 formed upon and in the inner faces. of the
cover ends described further on. The carrier, the cord a the line b, the
roller, its pivots c¹ and their bearings care of the same construction as
heretofore.
d, d are the roller ends. They are of the same diameter, viz., rather more than
that of the wound up line. Each end is circular and has one or more notches <¹
cut in its periphery. Both ends have the same number of notches, those in one end
being opposite those in the other. The use of four notches is illustrated, and this
is a convenient. number, but it may be varied. In direction, the notches are
parallel with the axes of their respective ends. Those in one end are, consequently,.
aligned with those in the other which are, respectively, opposite. The notches are
deep enough to receive the horizontal portion of the carrier a so far that when it
lies in a pair of them, it prevents the rotation of the roller.
e is the holder cover and e', e¹ are a pair of discs or cover ends, upon and to
which it is made fast in the usual way. The cover extends about half way around
the ends as heretofore. 2 is a longitudinal groove formed in it. This groove is
parallel with the axis of the roller and, preferably, near one edge. This is the
most convenient position for it, but it may be varied. ³ is an arcual recess cut in the
periphery of each cover end e¹ from one side of it to the other. The two recesses
are of the same length, opposite to each other, and in depth, not less than the
slots d'. The recesses start (referring more particularly to Figure 1) just outside
the groove e², so as to include the ends of it, and extend about the cover ends for a
suitable distance, terminating opposite the nearest pair of notches d'. The distance
illustrated 90°-is a suitable one, but it may be varied. Whatever it may be, the
length of a recess is always the same as the arcual distance 'which includes two
adjacent notches d', 'and the cover e must extend beyond the ends of a recess.
The cover (or its equivalent, which is described further on) holds the carrier to
the cover ends or discs e', e', and suspends the line-roller and the ends of the latter
as well as its own ends from the carrier.
When the wound up line and its case are hung up out of use, or when they are
being carried out for use, the line and roller hang from the carrier in the way
illustrated in Figures 1 and 2-that is to say, the carrier is in the top pair of
notches, the weight is distributed equally on both sides of the carrier so that there
is no tendency, on the part of the roller to revolve, and all the weight, is below 'the
carrier so that it hangs from the latter, thereby making it lock the roller in the
position illustrated.
When the line is wanted for use, a man will throw the line a¹ over his shoulder
or his head and hurry to the most advantageous spot from which to throw. As he
goes, the roll will be either in front of him or at his side, as he chooses to hang it.
Placing his hand upon the groove e² and the rolled up line, will prevent his running
unlocking the rolier.
When he reaches the spot, he throws the cover up and back
until the groove e is over the horizontal portion of the carrier, on to which
the weight of the roller and line pulls the said cover. This motion unlocks the
roller and the line is free to be paid out.
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It must be distinctly understood that the present invention does not confine us to
the precise mechanical details illustrated, but that any one of them may be replaced
by its mechanical equivalent. For instance, it is clear that as far as the present
invention is concerned, the cover may be replaced by a wire over a portion of the

page_text: periphery of each cover end, shaped as the cover end is shewn to be in Figure 1,
and tics to hold the ends e¹ together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The combination of carrier, circular roller ends having a notch or notches in
their peripheries aligned with each other, each pair adapted to receive the
horizontal portion of the carrier, two discs or cover-enris each having an arcual
recess in its periphery, the two recesses being opposite to each other and deep
enough to allow of the passage of the said horizontal portion of the carrier along
them, and a cover having a longitudinal groove therein, or a pair of notched wires
the equivalent of such grooved cover, and either adapted by being fixed upon the
said cover ends over the arcual recesses therein respectively, to hold the said
carrier to the said cover ends and to receive the horizontal portion of it, the former
in its groove and the latter in their equivalent notches, as set forth.
Dated this 24th day of July 1802
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.