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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JASPER S. HIGDON, OF QUINLAN, TEXAS.
WINDLASS ELEVATOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,443, dated March 5, 1901.
Application filed December 13, 1900. Serial No. 39,755. (o model.)To al Whom it imay concern:
Beit known that I,JASPER S. HIGDON,a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Quinlan,
in the county of Hunt and State of Texas,
5 have invented a new and useful Windlass
Elevator, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to windlasses, and
has for its object to provide an improved de-
to vice of this character which is especially de-
signed for use as a water-elevator for draw-
ing a bucket out of a well and arranged so
as to conveniently take up the slack cable
and coil it upon the windlass-drum as the
15 bucket is being drawn upwardly, and thereby
prevent the slack cable from returning into
the well or dropping to the ground and be-
coining muddy.
With this and other objects in view the
20 present invention consists in the combination
and arrangement of parts, as will be herein-
after more fully described, shown in the ac-
companying drawings, and particularly point-
ed out in the appended claims, it being un-
25 derstood that changes in the form, proportion,
size, and minor details may be made within
the scope of the claims without departing
from the spirit or sacrificing any of the ad-
vantages of the invention.
30 In the drawings, Figure 1is a perspective
view of a windlass water-elevator constructed
in accordance with the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a
transverse sectional view taken at right an-
35 gles to Fig. 2 and at the grooved end of the
druni.
Like characters of reference designate corre-
sponding parts in all the figures of the draw-
ings.
40 Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an
ordinary well-curb formed of wood or ma-
sonry, as may be desired, and having its up-
per open end closed by means of the opposite
hinged covers 2 and 3. At opposite sides of
45 the curb rise the opposite frame standards or
posts 4 and 5, which extend a suitable dis-
tance above the well-curb, and have their up-
per ends connected by means of a suitable
cross-bar 6. It will be observed that the up-
5o rights or posts are next to the hinged edges
of the respective covers, so that the latter
may rest against the posts when opened togive access to the bucket within the well.
These parts are common and well known and
therefore may have any preferred form, as 55
they have been shown in the drawings to
more adequately illustrate the mounting and
operation of the present windlass.
In carrying out the present invention there
is provided a drum-frame comprising a cross- 6o
bar 6, from the opposite ends of which de-
pend the duplicate hanger-straps 7, which
are provided with corresponding openings for
the pivotal reception of the opposite journals
8 of the drum 9, so that the latter may be 65
mounted beneath the cross-bar and between
the hangers. Suitable leaf-springs 10 are se-
cured to the outer sides of the hangers and
have their free ends bearing against the pro-
jecting ends of the respective journals, so as 70
to prevent endwise displacement of the shaft
of the drum.
As best indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings,
it will be seen that one end of the drum, which
is provided with a grooved flange 11, is located 75
above the center of the well-curb, so that the
portion of the cable which supports the well-
bucket will depend from the groove, while the
opposite end of the drum is provided with a
brake-flange 12. 80
A bowed guard 13 has its upper end secured
to the front side of the cross-bar 6, so that its
lower portion may cover the groove,and there-
by prevent accidental displacement of that
portion of the cable R hich is in the groove. At 85
the opposite end of the cross-bar there is se-
cured a brake-band 14, which frictionally en-
gages the brake-flange and has a pendent han-
dle 15 for manipulating the brake, soas to re-
tard the backward movement of the drum. 90
The cross-bar of the drum-frame is secured
to the under side of the upper cross-bar of the
supporting-frame by means of suitable de-
tachable tastenings 16.
One end of the bucket-supporting cable is 95
secured to the periphery of the drum, adja-
cent to the brake end thereof, from which it
is wrapped upon the drum, as indicated at
17. Then it depends to a block or pulley
18, which is secured to the outer side of the too
well-curb and in vertical alinement with the
grooved end of the drum. This pendent por-
tion 19 of the cable then extends upwardly,
as at 20, over the grooved flange, and thence
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Higson, Jasper S. Windlass Elevator, patent, March 5, 1901; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512124/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.