US167093A - Improvement in anchor-trippers - Google Patents

Description

E. G. GAILLAC.

Anchor-Tripper.

N0. |67,093. Patented Aug. 24,1875.

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EUGENE G. GAILLAO, OF JQNESPORT, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANCHOR-TRIPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,093, dated August 24, 1875 application filed June 5, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE G. GAILLAG, of J onesport, in the county of Washington and State of Maine, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Devices for Letting Go Anchors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a sectional view of my device, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Figs. 3 are detail views.

This invention has relation to improvements in devices for tripping anchors when they are a-cock-bill-that is to say, when they are suspended perpendicularly from the cathead or haWse-hole, ready to let go; and the nature of the invention consists in a spurred rockingbar arranged in bearings above and parallel to awinding-drum, which bar is adapted to be locked, with its spurs upward, against rotation, in combination with a, capstan or Windlass, whereon the cable is wound, and a grappling-hook or claw for holding the chaincable with the anchor a-cock-bill, whereby a very effectual and ready means for letting go anchor is obtained, as will be hereinafter more fully explained and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a section of the bow of a vessel; B, a windingdrum of the usual well-known form and construction, and O is a chain-cable wound around the Windlass and sustaining an anchor, D

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E represents a strong metallic claw, having a loop, e, upon its hooked end,

and an eye, a, upon the end of its shank b. Claw E is connected by means of a strong chain, c, with the pawl-post d, the said chain being rigidly secured to loop 6; and a second chain, 0, having a ring upon its free end, is in like manner rigidly secured to eye a, for a purpose hereinafter explained. F designates a rocking bar, having a number of strong curved spurs, f, projecting therefrom at a suitable distance apart, which bar is mounted in suitable bearings above the winding-drum.

Bar F is of angular form, as shown in Fig. 3, the short arm 9 thereof being at right angles to its longer arm g, and terminating in a cylindrical projection, i. This bar is locked against rotation by means of a vibrating latch, H, which is of the general form of a hinge, and is rigidly secured to the Windlass-frame directly above arm g of the rocking or tripping bar. This latch has in one end an aperture, j, adapted to receive within it projection c of the said tripping-bar, which latter will then be held against rotation.

Having described my improved tripping device, I shall now proceed to describe its operation. The anchor being, as above described, a-cock-bill, the weight of the same will be sustained by the Windlass. I transfer it to the rocking bar by hooking claw E into the chaincable, and passing the ring on the end of chain 0 over a short spur, 1, near the angle of arms 9 g of the tripping-bar. The chain on the Windlass may now be slackened up without danger of letting the anchor go out by the run, and the slack arranged on spurs f of the rocking bar in loose coils or festoons. This having been done, the anchor may be let go in the following manner, to wit: The vibratin g arm of latch H is thrown up, thus releasing tripping-bar and allowing it to rotate in its bearings, causing ring 1' on the end of chain c to be drawn off of the spur. The chain will now run out rapidly through the hawse-hole, claw E having been drawn out from its attachinent thereto by means of chain c, which is rigidly secured to the pawl-post d and to the loop 6 on the claw.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an anchor-tripping device, the spurred rotating tripping-bar F, with a means for preventing its rotation, in combination with the claw E and chains 0 a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE G. GAILLAO.

Witnesses:

N. (J. DAVIS, LYsANDER 0. SMITH.

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