Improvements in Joining a Rope or Ropes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Joining a Rope or Ropes.
I, GEORGE HUGHES, Temple Works, Temple Street Wolverhampton, in the
County of Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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1st. A clamp (in two parts) for joining a rope or ropes.
Each part has an eye
at each end' and a wormed bolt at each other end and made so that when each bolt
is in the eye of the other part the two together form a clamp which when nutted
will close together by worming the nuts down the bolts.
2nd. A stud with a channel on two sides, to receive the rope or ropes, and bed
between each clamp referred to above; or bed between every two clamps.
Dated this 25th day May 1891.
GEORGE HUGHES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Joining a Rope or Ropes.
I, GEORGE HUGHES, Temple Works, Temple Street, Wolverhampton, in the
County of Stafford, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The object of my said invention is to provide improved appliances to be used in
joining, fastening or connecting together a rope or ropes.
I place the rope or ropes together and fit thereon one or more clamps and
between the rope or ropes I fix a wedge to enlarge the circumference of the rope
or ropes, and thus each clamp to get a firmer grip.
In order that my said invention may be clearly understood I give the following
details and accompanying drawings. Letters of reference on the drawings indicate
the corresponding parts of all figures.
Fig. 1 shews the details of my clamp without nuts.
Fig. 2 shews the clamp complete.
Fig. 3 is a plan of my wedges and Figs. 4 and 5 their sections.
Fig. 6 shews a joined rope with clamps and wedges fixed.
Figs. 1 and
are made substantially as shewn, each part having a bolt end, A A'
and a stud with eye, B B'. The bolt ends, A. A' are passed into the eyes B B'
and when nutted form the clamp (as shewn by Fig. 2) complete.
Figs. 3. 4 and 5 shew the details of iny wedges. Fig. 3 shews the plan and
Figs. 5 the section of a double wedge with its thinnest part in the middle, C and
thickening to each end D D'. Fig. 3 shews the plan and Figs. 4 the section of a
double wedge, thickest in the middle E and tapering thinner to each end GG.
The wedge shewn by plan Fig. 3 and by sections Figs. 5 would (when used) require
the clamp to be bedded across its thinnest part, C. The wedges may be single
wedges tapering from end to end or double wedges as hereinbeiore described.
Fig. 6 shews a rope with two wedges fitted between it and joined with. three
clamps.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
claim is :-
1st. The use and manufacture of clamps for joining, fastening or connecting a
rope or ropes substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn on the drawings.
2nd. The use and manufacture of wedges to fix between a rope or ropes as
hereinbefore described and shewn on the drawings.
Dated this Twenty-third day of February 1892.
GEORGE HUGHES.