SOCKETS OR ATTACHMENTS FOR METAL ROPES
Year: 1886

page_text: I, WILLIAM CUTHBERT BLACKETT of Kimblesworth, near Chester-le-Street in
the County of Durham, Mining Engineer and Manager of Kimblesworth Colliery,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for SOCKETS OR ATTACHMENTS FOR
METAL ROPES, to be as follows:-
Having first placed around the Rope, the socket or cap, within the tapered inside
cone of which is a close fitting hollow conical sheeting, made of some metal softer
than iron or steel, such as copper, and the cap having been brought into proper
position at the end of the rope, the wire ends are forcibly driven out up against the
soft sheeting within the socket and held asunder by spikes or tapered plugs made
of a soft metal similar to the above mentioned sheeting-The operation being then
completed, the rope will not under ordinary pressures be drawn from out of the
small end of the socket or cap. By the use of the soft metal the greater the
amount of pressure brought upon the wires of the rope, the more such metal will
bed itself among the wires and thus tend to equalize the grip on each wire.
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page_text: I, WILLIAM CUTHBERT BLACKETT of Kimblesworth, near Chester-le-Street. in
the County of Durham, Mining Engineer and Manager of Kimblesworth Colliery
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SOCKETS OR
ATTACHMENTS TO METAL ROPES, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Whereas it has been customary, in order to join a load to the end of a metal rope
or the ends of two such ropes together, to use a conical shaped cap or socket, in
which the rope end has been conically increased & held by the turning back over
of its component wires, and other methods entailing a somewhat bulky shape of
socket; I dispense with any turning back of wires or bending of same and instead
thereof I substitute a strong and more compact arrangement, as follows:-
Having first placed around the rope a cap or socket A, made of iron or steel,.
within the tapered circular inside of which is fitted a lining (B) of some metal
softer than iron, such as copper, and the rope end (C) having been brought into
proper position, the wire ends are forcibly driven out against the lining (B) within
the socket and held asunder by 'a tapered plug or plugs (D) made of the soft metal
similar to the above mentioned lining. A bolt (E), with countersunk head passes
through the double-eye (F) which is made so that its exterior nowhere departs out
over from either the circular or conical shape continued from the body of the
socket, thus affording no sudden projection-To this bolt the load or another
socket may be attached, and the rope will not under ordinary pressure be drawn
from out of the small end of the socket.
By the use of the soft metal, both in the plug and lining, the greater the amount
of strain upon the rope, the more such metal will tend to bed itself among the wires,
thus equalizing the grip on each individual wire.
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
1. The use of the cold soft sheet metal lining.
2. The particular compact shape of the double-eye of the socket as shown in the
drawing.