US1116522A - Device for suspending trolley-wires, &c. - Google Patents

Description

W. H. WATTS.

DEVICE FOR SUSPBNDING TROLLEY WIRES, 6w. APPLIOATION rum) NOV. 1a, 1913.

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WILLIAM H. WATTS, OF HAMILTON, VIRGINIA.

DEVICE FOR SUSPENDING TRDLlLEY-WIREL, the.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

Application filed November 18, 1913. Serial No. 801,722.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, \VILLIAM H. lVA'lTS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, in the county of IJOlldUllll and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Devices for Suspending Trolley-Wires, the; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will onableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompany ing drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon which form a part of this specification.

Thisinvention relates to certain new and useful improvements in means for siilpport ing trolley wlres and other electric conduc tors and it has for its object the provision of a simple and practical hinged clamping device, the members of the clamp being hinged together at one edge and their opposite edges being bent inward to engage the trolley wire or other electric conductor, the hinged members being attached to the ends of the rods or wires and adapted to. be securely locked in position required in holding the jaws firmly in contact with the electrode carried by them.

The invention relates further to provision in connection with the support of means for quickly and readily locking the clamp to the wire carried thereby.

While the invention is more particularly intended as a support for trolley wires, it is also adapted for supporting cables and electric conductors of various kinds as will be readily understood.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain, the same consists in the novel construction and in the peculiar arrangement, combination and adaptation of parts, all as will. be more fully hereinafter described, shown in the acompanying drawings and then specifically defined. in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings which, with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention as it appears when about to be clamped to trolley wire. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the device securely clamped in po- I sition. Fig. 8 is a. top plan view of the in vention showing the movement or the tool used in the operation of attaching the wire supporting clamp to the wire, and Fig. 4 L

is a face view of the invention. a

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numeral, 1 represents a trolley wire provided upon its opposite sides with a groove 3 and t are clamping.membershinged together at one of their edges and at the opposite edges being bent inwardto engage the grooves 2 uponthe wire. y a

5 is a wire or rod secured at one of its ends to the outer face of the clampin member 3 and at its opposite end being bent to form a laterally disposed hook 6, said hook being designed to engage a. wire or rod 7, one end. of which wire is secured to the outer face of the member i of the clamping device, the free end 03!. the said wire being bent to form a loop 8.

From the foregoing descriptiomthe operation of the device will be at once understood. The loop 8 is designed to engage the trolley supporting wire 9 and, when attached to the wire, the free end 10 of the portion of the wire forming the loop is bent inward, thus preventing displacement from the wire support. In use, the hook 6 is disengaged :lrom the wire 7 when the hinged members of the trolley wire clamp carried. at the ends of the wires 5 and 'l' are separated or open to receive the trolley wire. The wires are then moved inwardly and the hook 6 brought into locking engagement with the Wire 7, the hinged members of the clamp being thus locked securely in position with the inwardly inclined edges of the members in engagement with the slots oi? the trolley wire, thus holding the same securely in position.

As a means for readily locking the wires in engagement, I employ a locking tool 11 which consists of a single bar or wire comprising a body portion bent at its end to form an oblique angle and, when it is designed to force the wires into contact and look the hook 6 in engagement with the opposite wire, it is simply necessary to engage the hooked end of the tool with the hooked end of the wire 5 and body portion of the wire 7 as indicated in the drawings, when, by imparting another motion to the free end of the tool 11, the hook carried by the wire 5 will be thrown into engagement with the wire 7 as will be readily understood.

While I have shown and described the invention as applied to trolley wires, it is at once evident that the device can be equally well adapted for supporting cables and other forms of electric conductors, it being only required that the free meeting edges of the clamping members should be so formed as to extend entirely around the cable or other device to be supported.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new and desire to secure by Letters Patentis a 1. A device for suspending trolley wires, comprising two jaws which are pivoted together, a suspending rod projecting from one of said aws and bent to form a hook with its end spaced apart from the shank ofthe suspending rod, a rod projecting from thehother jaw and having its end bent to form a hook in a plane at right angles to lts shank portion and 111 almement with the end of the hook upon the suspending rod, designed to spring over the shank portion of the latter, as set forth.

2. A device for suspending trolley wires, comprising two elongated jaws pivoted together the entire lengths of their inner longitudinal edges, the free longitudinal edge of each jaw inwardly bent, a rod projecting from one of the jaws bent to form a suspending hook with its end at right angles to and spaced apart from its shank portion, a rod projecting "from the other jaw and having its end bent to form a hook in a plane at right angles to its shank portion and designed to spring over the shank portion of the suspending hook intermediate the end of the latter and its shank portion, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VILLIAM H. \VATTS.

WVit-nesses:

WM. F. DOYLE, FRANKLIN H. HoUoH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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