Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 1st July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1887.
I WILLIAM PELHAM BULLIVANT of 72 Mark Lane in the City of London Wire
rope Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a convenient and simple attachment
suitable for connecting ropes together or for splicing or for analogous purposes.
According to my Invention I provide a pair of blocks with recesses between them
for the reception of the rope or ropes to be connected or spliced; through each side of
these two blocks screw bolts are passed and these are provided with nuts by screwing
up which the blocks can be brought together and caused to grip together the parts of
the rope or ropes passed between them and so securely connect or splice them."
Toth. of Antaho. 1906
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said W. P. Bullivant.

page_text: Pops and for ages,
I WILLIAM PELHAM BULLIVANT of 72 Mark Lane in the City of London, Wire
Rope 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 Invention is to provide a convenient and simple attachment
suitable for connecting ropes together or for splicing or for analogous purposes.
According to my Invention I provide a pair of blocks with recesses between them
for the reception of the rope or ropes to be connected or spliced. Through these two
blocks a screw bolt or screw bolts is or are passed and by screwing up these, the
blocks can be brought together and caused to grip the parts of the rope or ropes
passed between them and so securely connect or splice them.
The accompanying drawing represents arrangements according to my Invention.
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 an end elevation. It consists of two blocks A. B.
with recesses in them at a b to receive the rope or ropes or the like which are shewn
at c in Figure 2. At each side of the blocks and passing through both of them are
bolts d provided with heads d² and nuts e by tightening up which the rope is or ropes
are gripped firmly between the blocks A and B in the recesses at a b. Figures 3
and show elevations (Figure 3 being opened and Figure 4 closed and gripping the
ropes c c). The blocks A B are connected by a bolt d provided with a head d² and a
nute the said Bolt d having a hole d³ in it for the passage of the ropes which are
gripped by the blocks A. B when they are brought together by screwing down
the nut e.
Figures 5 and 6 shew an arrangement like Figures 1 and 2 but wherein a wedge f
is driven between the parts A and B this wedge taking the bearing on the rope or
ropes on one side and having the recess b formed in it for the purpose. The other
parts are marked with the same letters as those used for figures 1 and 2 and require
no further description.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is-
First An attachment or grip for ropes consisting of blocks and a bolt or bolts
by which the blocks can be brought together for gripping the rope or ropes and
moved apart for releasing it or them as described.
Second-The apparatus or appliance shewn in figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings and hereinbefore described and the modification thereof shewn in
Figures 5 and 6.
Third-The apparatus or appliance shewn in figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying
drawings and hereinbefore described.