US Patent: 5,514X
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Making Ropes and Cords From Raw Material
Improved Rope-Maker
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Patentee:
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| Stephen Hills, II (exact or similar names) - Glastonbury, Hartford County, CT |
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| 57/60 |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Jun. 11, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. Only the patent drawing is available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“Specification of a patent for an “Improved Rope-maker.” Granted to Stephen Hills, 2nd, Glastonbury, Connecticut, June 11, 1829. The size of the machine may be varied according to the bigness of the rope, rigging, or twine, to be made. That for common rope, or rigging, is about six feet square, on a frame. On one end are three spindles standing perpendicularly, with spools and flyers attached to them, and driven by a belt, or gear. On the opposite side is one spindle standing also upright, with spool and flyers driven by a belt or gear, cross banded, or contrariwise from the three first mentioned spindles; this takes up, with a heart motion, the rope, or twine, as fast as laid. All the spindles are moved by a horizontal wheel in the centre of the machine, and may be turned by hand, horse, or waterpower. Three threads pass between two rollers placed above the wheel, from the three first mentioned spindles, and pass from thence to the one spindle mentioned last as standing alone.
The great advantage of this machine, is, that any kind of rigging can be made in a room sixteen feet square; and this supersedes the necessity of rope-walks; it also makes the material better and faster than the common mode, and it consequently can be afforded at a cheaper rate.
What I claim as new, and as my own invention, and for which I demand an exclusive privilege, is the whole machine as applicable to the above purposes.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pgs. 200-201
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