US11645A

US11645A - Machinery foe

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Publication number: US11645A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1854-09-05
Anticipated expiration: 1871-09-05

Description

J. G. GINN. MACHINE FOR WORMING RIGGING.

No. 11,645. Patented Sept. 5, 1 8541 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN O. GINN, OF SOUTH THOMASTON, MAINE.

MACHINERY FOR WORMING RIGGING.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all wit-0m, itmag concern.

Be it known that I, JONATHAN O. GINN, of South Tho-maston, in the county of Lincoln and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Machine for Worming Rigging; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accom panying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1, denotes a side elevation of my said invention. Fig. 2, is an end view of it. Fig. 3, is a longitudinal and central section of it.

On each of the four sides of a box or frame A, there is arranged a reel or bobbin, B, which is so supported by arms O, C, pro jecting from the box as to be capable of freely revolving on its axis. The said box A, is made with a bore or passage, D, extending through it, such passage being provided at one end with what I term the traveler, which consists of a series of helical threads that are the counterparts of the spaces between the strands of a rope. If we suppose a rope to represent a four threaded male screw, the traveler would be a four threaded female screw made to correspond with and turn on it. From the traveler to the rear end of the box, the passage through the box is made a cylindrical bore, equal in diameter to the external diameter of the rope to be wormed. From each of the reels, when they are provided with the worming, a strand is run through a guide staple, a, there being such a staple to each reel. From thence the strand is carried to and under a friction band or spring, 6, and is passed through one of four inclined passages or holes 0, c, 0, 0, made in the front end of the box, A. The

friction spring, has a screw, cl, passing through it and screwed into the box, the same being to enable a person to regulate the friction in the strands, so as to insure an 11,645, dated September 5, 1854.

even draft of them and a close laying of them between the strands of the rope.

In order to use my machine, one end of the rope or rigging to be wormed is introduced into the box, A, at the end opposite to that at which the traveler is placed. The box is next revolved so as to screw up on the rope and cause its end to protrude from the box and beyond the traveler. This done, the four strands of the reels are to have their ends laid respectively between the strands of the rope and fastened to the rope by a seizing or otherwise; if now the box, A, is put in rotation so as to screw on the rope, the strands or wormings will be gradually drawn from the reels and laid between the strands of the rope as fast as the box progresses on the rope. This forms a very convenient and portable apparatus to be used on board of a ship or on land for performing the operation, or what is termed worming rigging.

In Fig. A, I have represented the application of the machine to a rope. In using the machine it may be revolved on the rope by means of a crank, G, ailixed to the box A, or.

the box may be held stationary while the rope is rotated within it, but it is evident that the former mode of operating is the preferable one.

What I claim is- The combination and arrangement of the helical traveler, the box or tubular frame and the bobbins or reels, the whole being constructed substantially as described and composing a hand machine for the purpose as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this fifteenth day of May A D 1854 JONATHAN O. GINN.

Witnesses:

GEORGE TI-IORNDIKE, WILLIAM L. Porrs.