US2699918A - Portable anchoring and fishing windlass - Google Patents

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Jan. 18, 1955 R. BUSH PORTABLE ANCHORING AND FISHING WINDLASS Filed June 16, 1949 zz i ICIU 1 I v 9 /z 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

Jan. 18, 1955 BUSH 2,699,918

PORTABLE ANCHORING AND FISHING WINDLASS Filed June 16, 1949 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 v flay Bash I INVENTOR BY M ATTORNEYS United States Patent PORTABLE ANCHORING AND FISHING WINDLASS Ray Bush, Clarksburg, W. Va., assignor to Martin Saportas, Tampa, Fla.

Application June 16, 1949, Serial No. 99,501 1 Claim, (Cl. 254-186) This invention relates to a portable anchoring and fishing Windlass.

Byway of background, the inconveniences attendant upon the anchoring of such craft as small boats used with outboard motors, etc., are Well known. Generally, a boat of this type is simply equipped with a length of rope to which the anchor is tied, and when one proceeds to anchor the boat, as for fishing operations, he simply drops the anchor overboard and'allows the rope to pay itself out. Subsequently, when it is desired to up anchor, it is necessary to haul upwardly upon the rope until the anchor is within the boat, and it will be well appreciated that the wet rope brings considerable water into the boat, and additionally is slippery and wet in handling.

It is an important object of the present invention, accordingly, to provide a portable anchoring and fishing Windlass that is capable of being removably mounted upon small boats of any type, and which when mounted, is adapted to support the anchor in a manner whereby the anchor can be payed out simply upon release of a ratchet member, and whereby further, the anchor can be hauled in by simple crank rotation.

Another important object is to provide a device of the type stated which will overhang the sides of the boat, so that neither the user nor the inside of the boat will become wet during dropping or hauling up of the anchor.

Another important object is to provide a device of the type stated which will be readily adjustable to meet conditions imposed by varied boat construction.

Still another important object is to provide a device of the type stated which not only can be used as an anchoring Windlass, but also, can be used in deep sea fishing operations by supporting a fishing line instead of an anchor cable.

Another important object is to provide a device of the type stated which, although particularly well suited for use on small boats, can be used with equal efiiciency on boats of larger size simply by increase in the general size of the component parts of the device.

Another important object is to provide a device of the type stated which will permit the anchor to be hauled upwardly with considerable speed and which, additionally, is fully controllable during dropping of the anchor.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts, hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim, it being understood that changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

Referring to the drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a portable anchor and fishing Windlass constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the upper portion thereof, taken on line 33 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged front elevation of said upper portion, portions being broken away to show details of inner construction.

Fig. 5 is an exploded perspective view of a pawl for controlling the ratchet.

Referring to the drawings in detail, a U-clamp 5 is adapted to straddle any suitable portion of a boat, not shown, said U-clamp being provided with the spaced apart nuts 6 Welded thereon in which are threaded the Patented Jan. 18, 19,55

clamping screws 7 having the swivelled feet 8 for adjusting the clamps to irregular surfaces which may exist on the article to which the clamp is applied.

Welded or otherwise rigidly secured to the upper end of the clamp, and extended upwardly therefrom, is an open ended sleeve 9 in which is removably seated the pin 10 formed integral at its upper end with the enlarged head 11, so as to define an annular shoulder 12 adapted to seat against the upper end of the sleeve 9.

The upper end of the head 11 is formed with an angular cut away portion 13 one wall of which is provided with the radially disposed teeth 14. An upper arm 15 is formed at its upper end with a complementary cut away portion also formed with teeth adapted to engage be tween the teeth 14, so that said upper arm 15 can be swingably adjusted relative to the lower arm comprising the pin 10 and head 11, and after being swingably adjusted, can be fixedly secured in its adjusted position by interengagement of the teeth. For the purpose of securing the upper and lower arms against relative movement after said adjustment has been made, I provide the stud 16 that extends through both arms, with wing nut 17 being threaded upon said stud and against the upper arm 15.

The upper end of the upper arm 15 is extended up.- wardly between a pair of opposed supporting brackets 18, and is rigidly secured therebetween by means of bolt and nut means 19 or other suitable fasteners.

The upper ends of the brackets 18 support between them the circular cup-like casing 20 closed by the removable peripherally fianged cover 21, with a suitable number of transversely extended bolt and nut means 22 being used to secure the brackets to each other and to the cover and casing respectively.

Rotatably mounted within the casing is the reel or spool 23 peripherally grooved any desired depth for the purpose of permitting winding thereon of a selected length of anchor cable or fishing line.

The reel 23 is secured to a reel shaft 24 for rotation therewith, said shaft 24 extending through the wall of the casing and having its projecting portion equipped with the collar 25 having the set screw 26 threadable against the shaft 24 to prevent endwise movement of said shaft relative to the casing.

The other end of the shaft is journaled for rotation within the cover 21. Adjacent said cover 21, the shaft is equipped with another collar 2'7 also secured to the shaft by means of a set screw, and said collar 27 is formed with a wide peripheral flange 28 having openings receiving screws 29 or the like whereby said flange is secured to one side of the reel 23. Thus, the reel 23 and shaft 24 are mounted for rotation within the casing, and means are provided therefor that prevent any lateral deviation during rotative movement.

Secured to the other face of the reel or spool 23 is the ratchet 30 having the peripheral series of teeth as shown in Fig. 4, said ratchet 30 being secured to the reel or spool by a plurality of circumferentially spaced screws or similar fastening means, thus to cause the ratchet to rotate with said reel or spool. A pawl 31 is employed for the purpose of controlling movement of the ratchet, said pawl 31 being pivotally mounted upon a screw 32 that threads into the wall of the casing, and the free end of said pawl having the laterally extended holding tooth 33 adapted to engage in any of the peripheral notches of the ratchet as shown in Fig. 4.

I provide means for releasably holding the pawl 31 in engagement with the ratchet 30, to prevent rotary movement of the ratchet and reel in one direction under normal conditions, and said means comprises the hold down spring 34 secured at one end to the casing wall as at 35 and having its other end formed with a loop that extends around male screw 36 extending through the pawl intermediate the ends thereof and threadable in female screw 38 that extends through the wall of the casing and provides an operating handle for the pawl.

As particularly seen in Fig. 4, the pawl handle 38 extends'through a short arcuate slot 37 formed in the wall of the casing, said slot 37 limiting movement in opposite directions of said pawl handle, and, as a result, also limiting movement of the pawl 31.

Referring now to the shaft 24 of the reel or spool 23, that portion of the shaft that extends through the casing cover 21 is secured to the small gear 39 meshing with the large gear 40, said large gear 40 being mounted upon a stub shaft that is journaled in the cover 21, there being secured to said stub shaft the operating crank 41.

The gears are mounted within the gear box or cover 42, that is secured to the outer surface of the cover 21 by screws or similar means.

At the upper end of the casing, I provide the converging pulley brackets 43, 44 secured to the casing and casing cover by the fastening means 22, said pulley brackets supporting for rotation the pulley 45 around which passes the anchor cable 46, which can also be a fishing line under certain conditions. Said line 46 is extended into a suitable opening 47 formed in the top of the casing, and thereafter the line is wound upon the reel or spool 23.

In use of the device, it will be seen that the device is readily clamped in any desired location by means of the clamp 5. After the clamp has been applied, the device can be supported by the clamp simply by dropping the pin into the sleeve 9. Thereafter, any angular adjustments are effected by means of the cooperating members 11, capable of being secured in pivotally adjusted relationship.

Assuming that the boat is moved to a location where it is desired to anchor the boat against further movement,

it is necessary only that the pawl handle 38 be elevated by movement thereof to the other end of the short slot 37. Referring to Fig. 4, this elevates the pawl 31 so that the tooth 33 thereof moves out of engagement with the ratchet 30. As a result, the anchor gravitates to the bottom, and when the anchor has fully engaged, the pawl handle 38 is released and is automatically returned into engagement with the ratchet by means of the hold down spring 34.

At such time as it is desired to up anchor, it is necessary only that the crank 41 be rotated, whereupon the pawl will slip over the ratchet teeth, and the anchor can be elevated to any desired extent. On release of the crank 41, the anchor will remain in the position to which it will have been hauled upwardly.

During the hauling up of the anchor, it is obvious that no water will get into the boat, nor will the operator become wet, this being due to the fact that the device as a Whole can be adjusted so as to be positioned over the side of the vessel, with the steel anchor cable 46 shedding water as it is wound upon the reel.

It will be seen from the above that the operation of dropping or hauling up the anchor is not attended by any inconvenience such as has heretofore existed, the device being capable of speedy and eflicient operation. In this connection, the gears 39, 40 comprise a stepped up gearing means that causes the anchor to be hauled up with considerable speed. Preferably, a three to one gear ratio is employed, but of course, this ratio can be varied as desired.

In this connection, the reel or spool 23 itself comprises a part of the gear train, in effect, said spool 23 being mounted on the same shaft as the small gear 39 but being of considerably increased diameter relative to said small gear 3 If the device is to be used in fishing operations, it will be understood that a suitable fishing line would be substituted for the anchor cable 46, whereupon the device is mounted upon the side of a vessel in the manner previously described, and is then capable of use in trolling operations or the like.

What is claimed is:

A fishing reel comprising a cylindrical housing, a reel journaled in said housing, a crank for rotating said reel, a ratchet rotatable with said reel within said housing, a pawl pivotally mounted within said housing and operable from the exterior of said housing and operable to hold said reel against reverse rotation, means carried by said housing at the lower end thereof for mounting said reel on a gunwale of a boat, said housing having an arcuate slot in its upper end, a pair of arms carried by the upper end of said housing also extending outwardly and upwardly therefrom on opposite sides of said slot, a pulley journaled in said pair of arms adjacent said slot for guiding a cable carried by said reel and extending through said slot and over said pulley upwardly and outwardly beyond the housing and the gunwale of the boat, gears carried by one wall of said housing and providing a driving connection between said crank and reel, and a cover detachably secured to said housing and extending over said gears to protect the same, said housing and cover completely enclosing the moving parts of said reel except said crank and one end of said pawl.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,059,998 Jacques Apr. 21, 1913 1,109,052 Edman et a1 Sept. 1, 1914 1,192,077 Kurth July 25, 1916 1,800,851 Wennerstrom Apr. 14, 1931 2,270,271 Coifing J an. 20, 1942

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