US242091A

US242091A - worm-ley

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Publication number: US242091A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1898-05-24

Description

2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

Inventor:

J. WORMLEY. Eife Saving Apparatus.

' Patented Ma (No Model.)

Witnesses: Ma a 6M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WORMLEY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION" forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,091, dated May 24, 1881,

- Application filed March 11, 1881. (N0 model.) i

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES WORMLEY, of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented an Improvement in Life-Saving Apparatus for Ships, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in a float or a number of floats attached to the free end of a rope, which at that end has one or more eyes and runs out as the ship moves through the water, in combination with a lock and cast-oft mechanism consisting, essentially, ofa sliding rod at the ships side, provided with projecting arms, which, in their normal position, are passed through each-an eye in the rope, but which disengage therefrom by a movement of the sliding rod which is controlled, through suitable intervening mechanism, by a hand-lever near the ships wheel.

For the greater efiiciency of the apparatus it is duplicated, that a string of floats-may be detached from vither or both sides of the vessel.

In the drawings, Figure l is an upperdeck plan of a propeller embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of such propeller. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line :10 .r of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on line cc cc of Fig. 3. Fig. 5is a cross-section on line 90 00 of Fig. 3.

A is the ships hull, B the bulwarks, O the upper deck, and I) the wheel. E E, two vertical drums.

F F, &c., are floats attached, as shown, to the ropes a a, spliced portions of which, i'ur- 'nished with eyes b, pass through holes cin the ships bulwarks.

R R are wire rods on the inner side of the hulwarks, al'ongeither side of the ship, and having a longitudinal sliding motion in eyebolts d. Near each hole 0 they are provided with heu't projecting arms or hooks l, of smaller wire, the free ends ofwhich pass through smaller eyebolts m, and also through the eyes b of the ropes a. The length of each hook lis such that when the arm, partaking of the motion of its rod R, is drawn back it slips from its eye I) in the rope.

S is a fixed shaft below the upper deck, near the stern of the vessel, as shown. At either end it has a sleeve, 8, an arm, 10, projecting from which, through the deck near the butwarks, is connected by a link, t, with one of the rods R, while a hand-lever, L, also rigidly connected with the sleeve, projects through the deck near the wheel, as shown, or-at some place where a watch is constantly required.

I claim In a life-saving apparatus, the combination, with the floats F, having their rope a twisted and passed into sleeves or tubes 0 in the sides or bnlwarks of t he vessel, of the sliding rods R, adapted to be connected to mechanism for giving them their slitting motion, and having elbow-arms l supportedin eyes or brackets m, and passed through the loops of the twisted and sleeved portions of the rope a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES WORMLEY.

Witnesses W. W. SWAN. D. REITENHOUSE.