US490375A - Seine hauling appabatus - Google Patents

Description

(N0 Model.)

H. THIEL.

SEINE HAULING APPARATUS.

N0. 490,375. Patented Jan. 24, 1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VENELLS,

OB PORT WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN.

SElNE-HAULING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 490,375, dated January 24, 1893.

Application filed October 24, 1892.

Serial N0. 449,805. (N0 model.)

T0 all wh0m may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY THIEL, cf Mil- Waukee, in the county cf Milwankee and Slate cf Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Elevaiing or Lif'ting Fish-Nets, 0f Which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specificaticn.

My invention has relation to an improved device for lifting nets.

The elevation cf fish nets fro'm the water on to the deck of a v'cssel, so far as 1 am aware, is now accornplished entirely by band, Which, as is obvious, is a tedious an expensive operation, requiring at least the labor 0E owo men.

It is the object cf nny invention to provide a device capable of efif'ecting the work in a simple, efficient and expeditions manner, rendering i possible for one man-a0 accomplish the en'oire work.

\/Vibh the above object in view the invent-ion consists in the improved construction and cornbination 0f parts as hereinaftermore fu1ly sei: f0113h.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l, is; an inner side elevation of a porbion cf a raiI of a vessel, showing my improved device secured thereto, the rotatable reel being shown in longitudinal section, and a portion of the hollow shaft-, standard and stuffing box being in section, and Fig. 2, is anend elevation cf the reel, the rail and a fragxnent cf the deck 0f the vessel being in transverse section.

Like letters 0f reference denote like arts in both figures of the drawings.

Referring so the drawings the letter A indicates the deck of a vessel, having the rail B projecting there-from, in the usual manner.

The lebten O indicates a hollow reel, which is ro1sated on a hollow shaft D,said shaft provided for a certain distance along its length with perforatiohs, The extremities of the shaft projeoting laterally beyond the end pieces of the reel pass inno aperbures in the upper ends of standards E E, the lower end ot said standards being hinged so the inner sides 0f the rail. These standards are curved considerably ab thei1 upper ends so as to project the reel a dezsired distance beyond the rail of the vessel, and are normally held rigidly to said rail by 1neans of bolts F, F, which ente1 the cap piece of the xail.

In will be noticed tha the standard E is considerably shorter than 1ts companion and thah also the hinge connection 0f the same With the rail is sonne distance higher than the hinge cf. standard E. This arrangemenh is made necessary, in order to bring the hollow reel to a true horizontal plane notwithstanding the inclination of the rail of the vessel, asfully shown in Fig. l. In is obvious that if the Lwo standards were of equal length, and the hinge connections made at corresponding points on the rail, not only would the reel be thrown at an incline corresponding to the inclination 0f the rail, bnc also it would be impossibleto throw the standards back 0n their hinges whenever such operation should be found necessary.

The right band end of shaft D, in Fig. l, is shown as provided with a sprocket wheel G, aroundwhic-h passes a sprocket chain H leading to a small engine, 01 other suitalole motor, not; shown, arranged in any convenien portion 0f the vessel. In this manner rotation is imparted to the shaft 'and the reel carried thereby. The opposite end of the shaft is open, and receives therein a pipe I, said pipe throughouo a eert-ain portion cf its length conforming to the contour of Standard E, and passing ehrough staples J, 01 equivalents, extending from the outer side of the The lower end of this pipe after passing through a staple K extending from the rail connects with a suitable source of steaxn supply. In order to provide a tight joint between pipe I and the end 0f shaft D a stuffing box L surrounds said pipe and extends over the open end of shaft D.

In operation', the neo ext-ends up from the water over the reel and is grasped by an operato1 standing on the deck ofi the vessel. The reel is rotated in the manner hereinbefore pointed 0ut, and this rotary motion neoessarily facilitates to a great extent the bauling in o1: the net f10m the water to the deck of the vessel, the labor of one man being all tha is requisite for this purpose. OE course, ib is a desideratum that the neh should pass freely over the reel without the slightest im- IOO thereof.

VVhen my improved device 1's not in active use, and in case of hesw storms accompanied by violent Winds, it is desirable that the position of th0 device should be changed so as 150 be less exposed to the violence of the Wind. In orde1 to aceornplish this the bolts F F are removed, after which the device may be read- 1'1y swung inward upon its hinges, the steam pipe I, as Will the reel.

I-Iaving thus described my iuvention What e1aim and des1're 150 secure by Letters Patent 0f the United Stabes is:

l. In a device for elevating 01 lifting through the apertures thereof inne the hollow reel, substantially as 2. In a dev1'ce for elevating or lifting fish the combination of a vessel, standards hinged thereto zu; their 1ower ends,- a hollow pipe may be thrown inward W1th the hinged Standards, substantially In testimony Whereof I affix my signabure in presenee of two wiiniesses.

HENRY THIEL. Witnesses:

ARTHUR L. MORSELL,

O. T. BENEDIOT.

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