US121643A - Improvement in travelers for vessels - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63H—MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING
- B63H9/00—Marine propulsion provided directly by wind power
- B63H9/04—Marine propulsion provided directly by wind power using sails or like wind-catching surfaces
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- the traveler A in this case is a ring provided with a stirrup or yoke, a, to receive a slide-block, B, and turn in a notch, b, made therein.
- ring has an eye, c, by which it may be fastened to the corner of the jib.
- Figs. 3 and 4 are transverse sections of the traveler and slide-block.
- the rail on which the traveler runs is shown at C as a round bar supported above the deck E by standards F F, and provided with two elastic stops or projections, D D, of India rubber, which, arranged at the terminus ofthe range of motion of the traveler on the rail, serve to arrest the ring and prevent breakage of its eye and the seizings of the ring to the sail.
- I claim- The traveler as made with the stirrnp or yoke to receive and hold the slide-block and with the eye for connecting the traveler to a jlb, all as described, in combination with the said slideblock, arranged with and notched upon the yoke, as set forth.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELERS FOR VESSELS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,643, dated December 5, 1871.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, GEORGE MELVILLE Mc- CLAIN, of Rockport, in the county oi' Essex and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention having reference to the Jib- Rails and Travelers of N avigable Vessels; and do hereby declare the saine to be fullyY described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 is a top View; Fig. 2, a transverse section of a jib-rail and traveler as provided With my invention.
The traveler A in this case is a ring provided with a stirrup or yoke, a, to receive a slide-block, B, and turn in a notch, b, made therein. The
ring has an eye, c, by which it may be fastened to the corner of the jib.
Figs. 3 and 4 are transverse sections of the traveler and slide-block.
The rail on which the traveler runs is shown at C as a round bar supported above the deck E by standards F F, and provided with two elastic stops or projections, D D, of India rubber, which, arranged at the terminus ofthe range of motion of the traveler on the rail, serve to arrest the ring and prevent breakage of its eye and the seizings of the ring to the sail.
I make no claim to anything described or shown in either of the United States patents 43,150, 31,759, or in Haskins Si Mannings application for a patent allowed October 13, 1869.
I claim- The traveler as made with the stirrnp or yoke to receive and hold the slide-block and with the eye for connecting the traveler to a jlb, all as described, in combination with the said slideblock, arranged with and notched upon the yoke, as set forth.
GEORGE MELVILLE MCGLAIN.
Witnesses:
R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.
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