US311964A

US311964A - Jib-furler

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Publication number: US311964A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-02-10
Anticipated expiration: 1902-02-10

Description

(No Model.)

W. P. 8: A. M. CUTLER.

JIB FURLER.

No. 311,964. Patented Feb. 10, 885

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XVILLIAM P. CUTLER AXD ALEXANDER M. CUTLER, OF BATH, MAINE.

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$PECI'PICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,964, dated February 10, 1885.

Application filed December 1, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM P. CUTLER and ALEXANDER M. CUTLER, citizens of the United States, residing at Bath, in the county of Sagadahoc and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jib-Furlers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to a jib-sail downhaul and furler; and it has for its object to provide means for the effective lowering and furlin g of the j ib-sail, which shall be simple in their construction, easily operated, and to provide devices for the above-mentioned purpose that may be applied at a slight cost.

with these and other objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of so much of a sailing-craft as is necessary to illustrate the application of our invention thereto. Fig. 2 is a view of parts in detail.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures, A represents the vessel; 13, the forcmast; O, the bowsprit; D, the jib, and E the flying jib, all being arranged and located in the usual wellknown manner.

Secured to the upper end of the flying jib is a rope, F, which passes through eyes a,securcd to the foreniast stay-repel), down to the lower end of said flying jib, at which point itpasses through a block or pulley, c, secured to the bowsprit.

Midway between the upper and lower ends of the flying jib E, and upon each side of the same, are secured re-enforcing strips d, A hole or opening is formed in the sail at about the middle of said reenforcing strips, in which hole or opening is secured a toggle consisting of two sections, f g, each section having an eye, 71, formed at its end. The section 7 is provided with a threaded opening, which is adapted to receive the eXteriorly-threaded portion of the section As the ends of the toggle-sections are larger than the shanks, it will be seen that if said toggle were made of one piece it would necessitate the use of a hole in the sail of a larger diameter than the shank of the toggle, in order to allow the toggle to be fitted in the opening. Hence it will be seen that by constructing the toggle as above described the same may be readily placed in position with but little trouble. By the employmentof the re-enforcing strips all possibility of the toggle tearing out is prevented. Near the upper end of the flying jib is provided a bulls-eye, G, which may, if desired, be provided with a sheave, though the same may be dispensed with, if desired, it having no other office than to assist the passage of the furling-line. Thejib D is provided with a similar arrangement of bullseye, toggle, and reenforcing strip. The rope 1* is passed through the eye in the toggle on one side of the sail, through the bulls-eye, and down through the eye in the toggle on the other side of the sail. The said rope is then passed through a pulley, 17, secured to the bowsprit. The said line F is then carried rearwardly and passed through a pulley, j, up through the eye in one end of the jib-toggle, through the bulls-cye down througlii the other eye of the toggle, through a pulley, 7r, thence toa cleat, Z, to which it may be made fast. W'Vherc only one jib is used, the rope or line would be carried directly therefrom through a pulley, as at c, thence direct to a cleat.

It will be seen that to lower and furl the flying jib andjib it is only necessary to release their respective sheets and then haul on the rope F, which will, through the agency of the means and arrangement of the same before described, cause the sails to be speedily lowered and furled.

\Ve claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- '1. The combination, with the jib-sail of a vessel, of a line connecting the upper end thereofwith the vessel, thence passing through .a pulley on the bowsprit, through guides on the sail to a point 'near the upper end of the sail and connecting such point of the sail with the bowsprit, substantially as set forth.

2. In a jib down-haul and furle-r, a toggle consisting of two sect-ions, each having an eye IOO at its end, one of said sections being interiorly scribed, and through a block or pulley, as set threaded, While the other is exteriorly to enforth. gage the same, substantially as set forth. 5. The combination, with a sail, and with 3. The combination, with the jib-sails, of the re-enforcing strips, of the toggle passing 5 toggles arranged near the middle of the same, through said strips and sail, and having an 2:)

bulls-eyes arranged near the upper end of the eye at each end, and consisting of two sections sails, and furling-ropes for lowering, furling, adapted to be secured together, substantially and securing sails, substantially as set forth. as set forth.

4. The combination, with the jib sails, of In testimony whereof we affix our signatures 1o toggles arranged near the middle of the same, in presence of two witnesses.

bulls-eyes arranged'near the upper ends of WILLIAM P. CUTLER. the sails, and a rope connected to the upper ALEXANDER M. CUTLER. end of the flying jib passing through a pulley \Vitnesses: secured to the bowsprit, thence through the ARIETTA M. CUTLER, i 5 toggles and bulls-eyes of both sails, as de- JOSEPH M. TROTT.