IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR LOWERING BUILDERS' MATERIALS OR OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: or other Articles.
We WILLIAM HEATLEY of 3 Clifton Square Albert Road Peckham in the County
of Surrey Builder and GEORGE HUTCHINS of 24 Paternoster Square in the City of
London Railway Agent do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR LOWERING BUILDERS' MATERIALS OR OTHER ARTICLES
to be as follows:-
The object of the invention is to provide a means of readily raising and lowering
builders' materials and other articles and for economising labour part of which
apparatus is also applicable for connecting one cord or rope to another rope..
In carrying out our invention we provide a suitable framework on a suitable
base or support carrying bearings in which rotates a spindle or axis on which is
secured a grooved wheel of larger diameter and also a toothed wheel of much
smaller diameter. Into the toothed wheel takes the worm of a. worm wheel
mounted in suitable bearings supported in suitable framing. The axis carrying
this worm wheel and the worm wheel it carries is set at an angle to the axis of
the wheel it engages with and this worm wheel axis is capable of being operated
for its revolution by a suitable winch or other handle. Partly around the larger
wheel lying within the groove therein passes a rope or cord which passes down to
and partly around a small pulley held in a suitable bearing so that it may be
readily engaged and disengaged therefrom. This framing and parts may be placed
at the upper part of a building or other place and the small pulley may be secured
at the lower part and the rope or cord stretched and caused to pass around from
one down to the other wheel and up again and any articles required to be raised
or lowered may be attached thereto by means of a peculiarly shaped yoke or
clutch piece which is formed with a recess at an angle about the middle of the
clutch piece having angular parts with slightly rounded edges and with two handles
or projections to one of which by means of a hole therein or otherwise may be
secured a basket or other article. This yoke or clutch piece is applied by passing
the rope within the groove thereof with the inner side of the incline parallel
to the rope, and with the end thereof on which load comes uppermost and then the
clutch piece bringing weight onto the rope a bend is formed which prevents its
slipping and a secure holding or connecting means is obtained, which can be dis-
connected immediately with great ease on the raised article being landed and
strain again taken off the clutch piece.

page_text: Improved Apparatus for Raising or Lowering Builders' Materials
or other Articles.
We WILLIAM HEATLEY of 3 Clifton Square Albert Road, Peckham in the County
of Surrey Builder and GEORGE HUTCHINS of 24 Paternoster Square in the City of
London Railway Agent, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR LOWERING BUILDERS' MATERIALS OR OTHER ARTICLES
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 the invention is to provide a means of readily raising and lowering
builders' materials and other articles and for economising labour part of which
apparatus is also applicable for connecting one cord or rope to another rope.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shews (about half the real size) by a cross
section taken on the line A A. of Fig. 2 apparatus adapted for carrying our
invention into effect. Fig. 2 shews the same by longitudinal sectional view taken
centrally of the machine at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shews parts of the same
by plan view.
Fig. 4 shews by front view and Fig. 5 by side view drawn to a much smaller
scale parts of the rope b (that also passes to and around the wheel e) and lower
guide wheel f
Figs. 6 and 7 shew details separately of the anti-friction rollers o and their
plates m.
Figs. 8 and 9 shew (full size) a portion of a rope b having clutches a respectively
in the position they are made to assume when being applied and when inaintaining
a hold on the rope b under the influence of a load at d.
In carrying out our invention we provide a suitable framework g on a suitable
base or support g¹ carrying bearings h in which rotates a spindle or axis i on which
is secured a grooved wheel e of larger diameter and also a toothed wheel of much
smaller diameter. Into the toothed wheel k takes the worms of a worm wheel j
.mounted in bearings supported in the framing g. The axis carrying this worm
wheel and the worm wheel j carried by it are set at an angle to the axis ¿ of the
wheel e it engages with and the worm wheel axis is operated for its revolution
by a winch handle applied at land secured by nut * or other equivalent means
of rotation may be applied.
Partly around the larger wheel e and lying within the groove e¹ therein passes a
rope or cord 6 which passes down to and partly around a small pulley f (see Figs.
5 and 6) held in a suitable bearing f¹ so that attached at f' it may be readily
engaged and disengaged therefrom. This framing g and parts carried thereby may
be placed at the upper part of a building or other place and the small pulley f may
be secured at the lower part and the rope or cord b stretched and caused to pass
around from one wheel e down to the other wheel fand up again and any articles
required to be raised or lowered may be attached thereto by means of a peculiarly
shaped yoke or clutch piece a shewn full size by Figs. 8 and 9 formed with a
recess a³ at an angle about the middle of the clutch piece having angular parts a¹ a²

page_text: with slightly rounded edges and with a handle or projection at or it may be one
handle at each side of the clutch part to one of which by means of a hole as therein
or otherwise may be secured a basket or other article by the hook c or its equivalent.
This yoke or clutch piece a is applied by passing the rope b within the groove
thereof with the inner side of the incline parallel to the rope (see Fig. 8) and with
the end thereof a on which load comes uppermost and then the clutch piece <
bringing weight onto the rope b a bend is formed which prevents its slipping and a
secure holding or connecting means is obtained (see Fig. 9), which can be dis-
connected immediately with great ease on the raised article being landed and strain
again taken off the clutch piece.
n is a ratchet wheel and n'a ratchet which serve to retain the axis & from
revolving in the reverse direction to that desired except when the ratchet n¹is
released whilst revolution in the one direction to which the ratchet is set for the
time being is unimpeded.
To facilitate ease in working and relieve friction we apply to the sides of the
worm wheel plates m m having horns or retaining parts m¹ which retain anti-
friction rollers oo which taking the pressure of the worm wheel against the
bearings jj avoid frictional resistance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1. The combination of parts forming apparatus for raising or lowering Builders'
materials or other articles as set forth.
2. The clutch piece a for use in effecting the raising or lowering of Builders"
materials or other articles as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 21st day of July 1885.
W
BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the said William Heatley
and George Hutchins.