Improved Means and Apparatus for Guiding the Trawl. Rope from Capstan to Trawl Beam for Fishing Smacks.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 19th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 20th May, 1887.
Improved Means and Apparatus for Guiding the Trawl. Rope from
Capstan to Trawl Beam for Fishing Smacks.
I WILLIAM FOX CRABTREE of Southtown Iron Works, Great Yarmouth in the
County of Norfolk, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In the existing arrangement the trawl rope after leaving capstan as shewn at Fig. 2.
passes through loop hole in bulwarks or sides of vessel constantly adhering to timbers
and brackets for supporting the present horizontal rollers and thereby causing the
rope to be unsafe by cutting and tearing it away and not allowing the same to work
freely. By my improvements the rope is allowed to work freely and disponsing with
all friction on sides of bulwarks which is overcome by applying the vertical rollers and
which makes it more commendable than the present system of guiding rope.
On the accompanying drawings Figures 1 and 2 are half-elevation and plan of smack
shewing arrangement of rollers being fixed in sides of vessel at any position for
working.
Figs. 3. 4. and 5 are views giving details of brackets and rollers. In Figuro 2.
A indicates centre of capstan.
B is trawl_rope. C and D are brackets for supporting pins at each extremity of
rollers. E, F, G, H are four vertical rollers and is the horizontal roller..
Dated this 16th day of August 1886.
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Capstan to Trawl Beam for Fishing Smacks.
I WILLIAM Fox CRABTREE of Southtown Iron Works, Great Yarmouth in the
County of Norfolk, 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, reference being had to the explanatory sheets of
drawings filed with my provisional specification:-
In the existing arrangement the trawl rope after leaving capstan as shewn in
Fig. 2 passes through loop hole in bulwarks or sides of vessel constantly adhering to
timbers and brackets for supporting the present horizontal rollers and thereby causing
the rope to be unsafe by cutting and tearing it away and not allowing same to work
freely.
By my improvements the rope is allowed to work freely and dispensing with all
friction on sides of bulwarks which is overcome by applying the vertical rollers and
which makes it more commendable than the present system of guiding rope. On the
drawings (as filed with Provisional) Figures 1 and 2 are half-elevation and plan of
smack, shewing arrangement of rollers being fixed in sides of vessel at any position
for working.
Figures 3. 4 and 5 are views giving details of brackets and rollers..
In Figure 2-A indicates centre of capstan.
B is trawl rope.
brackets for supporting pins at each extremity of rollers.
E. F. G. H. are four vertical rollers and I is the horizontal roller.
C and D are
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
The improved means and apparatus for guiding the trawl rope from capstan to
trawl beam for fishing smacks substantially as herein shewn and described.
1
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.