Improved Means or Devices for Preventing Accidents to Mariners whilst Handling Sails.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
Improved Means or Devices for Preventing Accidents to Mariners
whilst Handling Sails.
A communication from abroad by J. B. REINERS, of Brake a/d Weser, Germany,
Rope Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
London, Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to means or devices designed to prevent accidents
to mariners whilst handling sails on the jib-boom, bowsprit, gaff, yards &c.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of means or devices for this purpose according to
this invention.
Figs. 2 and 3 show the application of such means or devices to a yard and to the
bowsprit and jib-boom of a ship respectively.
The device comprises a line A that may advantageously be of steel or hemp, but
may be a metal rod, along which an eye a, provided with a strap or sling b and
toggle c, is adapted to move. To the latter can be readily fastened the looped end
of a line the other end of which is also formed with a loop d' of sufficient size to
pass around the waist of a mariner.
In Fig. 3 the forward portion of a ship is shown, where the tightly stretched
line A runs along the bowsprit and the jib-boom and is fastened at one end to the
points of the latter, and at the other end to the bow of the ship at t. A U-shaped
nail or support can be driven into the cap at m, so as to support the line where it
would otherwise bend down. The eye a working along the line and provided with
the sling and toggle, is shown at o.
In a similar manner, lines of this kind are fastened to all the yards or sail spars
where the sails are handled.
As is well known the setting, taking-in and reefing of the sails, is effected by the
sailors standing on the foot-rope and bending over the yard or sail spar as shown
in Fig. 2.
In this operation however falls are of frequent occurrence, and in order to
prevent these, the loop d' at one end of the line is placed around the waist or
under the arm-pits of the sailor, whilst the top d at the other end of the line / is
placed over the toggle c as shown in Fig. 1 when commencing to set or otherwise
handle a sail.
As will be seen the device will not in the least hinder the operations to be
effected because the eye a can be readily moved along the line A according to
requirement.
Dated this 9th day of December 1892.
W. LLUID WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham., |

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means or Devices for Preventing Accidents to Mariners
whilst Handling Sails.
A communication from abroad by J. B. Reiners, of Brake a/d Weser, Germany,
Rope Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
London, Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has reference to means or devices designed to prevent accidents
to mariners whilst handling sails on the jib-boom, bowsprit, gaff, yards &c.
Referring to the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of means or devices for this purpose according to
this invention.
Figs. 2 and 3 show the application of such means or devices to a yard and to the
bowsprit and jib-boom respectively of a ship.
The device comprises a line A that may advantageously be of steel or hemp, but
may be a metal rod, along which an eye a, provided with a strap or sling band
toggle e, is adapted to move. To the latter can be readily fastened the looped
end d of a line the other end of which is also formed with a loop d¹ of sufficient
size to pass around the waist of a mariner.
In Fig. 3 the forward portion of a ship is shown, where the tightly stretched
line A runs along the bowsprit and the jib-boom and is fastened at one end to the point s
of the latter, and at the other end to the bow of the ship at t. A U-shaped nail
or support with shank can be driven into the cap at m, so as to support the line
where it would otherwise bend down. The eye a to work along the line A and
provided with the sling and toggle, is shown at o.
-
In a similar manner, lines of this kind are or may be fitted to all the yards or
sail spars where sails are to be handled.
As is well known the setting, taking-in and reefing of the sails, is effected by the
sailors standing on the foot-rope and bending over the yard or sail spar as shown in
Fig. 2. In this operation however falls are of frequent occurrence, and in order to
prevent these by the improved means herein before described, the loop d' at one end
of the line is placed around the waist or under the arm-pits of the sailor, whilst
the loop d at the other end of the line is placed over the toggle e as shown in
Fig. 1 before commencing to set or otherwise handle the sail.
As will be seen the device will not hinder the operations to be effected because
the eye a can be readily moved along the line A according to requirement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Means or devices for preventing accidents to mariners when handling sails, at
the jib-boom, bowsprit, yards and other parts of a ship consisting of a line or rod
of suitable material such as herein referred to arranged to extend along a sail spar
or yard and over which an eye with strap or sling and toggle is placed, the
arrangement being such that a sailor having a line or rope fastened round his
body, can readily fasten such line or rope to the toggle substantially as herein
described.
Dated thin 4th day of Wahuuou 100
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.