US26857A - Reefing eore-and-aft sails - Google Patents
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- the nature of the said invention consists in a mode of arranging and applying a single reef line and its leading carriers together and with respect to the reef band, the foot rope of the sail, and the boom; also, in combining therewith a straining rope, arranged and applied to the reef band and the boom so as to relieve the outer carriers or leaders and their reef lines from the strain and wear of the sail while the latter is reefed.
- A is the mast; B, the boom; C, the sail, and D the gaff of such sail, the whole being applied together in the ordinary manner.
- the foot rope of the sail is shown at a.
- a reef band, Z At a proper distance above the said foot rope, and parallel or about parallel thereto, I apply to the sail on either or both sides of it, a reef band, Z), and at suitable distances ⁇ apart on each side of the sail and along the reef band, I affix a set, or series of thimbles, leaders, or carriers, c, c, c, the same being disposed as shown in the drawings.
- Each of said leaders consists of a rouiid wooden or metallic block provided with an eye or hole for reception of the reefing line.
- each reefing line to the outer leech of the sail, I connect to the said leech, a stay or straining rope, L, and lead the same forward toward the nose of the boom and thence downward through the boom or against a sheave placed therein or thereon.
- ⁇ line after the sail may have been reefed should be drawn taut and belayed either to the boom or some other proper part of the vessel.
- the line, L acting or straining the reef band in a direction outwardly, prevents the sail while reefed from being drawn back and puckered by the reef line.
- both reef lines are to be pulled on in a manner to draw them through their carriers and cause the upper rows of carriers and that part of the sail above them to descend toward the foot rope of the sail.
- the sail will not only be reefed, but will be furled, which would not be the case were one reefing line only employed on one side of the sail, as in such case, the sail might be reefed but the reefed portion would not be furled or taken in.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WASHINGTON MORTON, OF FRIENDSHIP, MAINE.
REEFING FORE-AND-AFT SAILS.
Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,857, dated January 17, 1860.
To all whom 'it may concern:
Be it known that I, IVASHINGTON MoR- TON, of Friendship, in the county of Lincoln and State of Maine, have invented an Improvement in Reefing and F urling F oreand-Aft Sails; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, denotes a side view of a mast, sail and boom with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2, is a view of the opposite side thereof.
The nature of the said invention consists in a mode of arranging and applying a single reef line and its leading carriers together and with respect to the reef band, the foot rope of the sail, and the boom; also, in combining therewith a straining rope, arranged and applied to the reef band and the boom so as to relieve the outer carriers or leaders and their reef lines from the strain and wear of the sail while the latter is reefed.
In the drawings, A, is the mast; B, the boom; C, the sail, and D the gaff of such sail, the whole being applied together in the ordinary manner.
The foot rope of the sail is shown at a. At a proper distance above the said foot rope, and parallel or about parallel thereto, I apply to the sail on either or both sides of it, a reef band, Z), and at suitable distances `apart on each side of the sail and along the reef band, I affix a set, or series of thimbles, leaders, or carriers, c, c, c, the same being disposed as shown in the drawings. Each of said leaders consists of a rouiid wooden or metallic block provided with an eye or hole for reception of the reefing line. Furthermore, I arrange on each side of the sail and affix to the foot rope, a, another series, d, d, d, of such leaders or carriers each of which may be disposed between two of the leaders, c, c, as shown in the drawings. Furthermore I attach to the outer edge of the sail or leech thereof, and at the reef band, two reeing lines e, f; these lines I extend downward on opposite sides of the sail and respectively through the two outermost leaders, c, c, as shown in the drawings. From each of the said leaders each line is t-o be laced or carried to and through the other leaders on one side of the sail in manner as shown in Figs. l and 9.; and, finally, cach line is to be carried downward through the boom,
near its heeland against a sheave, placed therein, as shown at Furthermore, above the point of attachment of each reefing line to the outer leech of the sail, I connect to the said leech, a stay or straining rope, L, and lead the same forward toward the nose of the boom and thence downward through the boom or against a sheave placed therein or thereon. Such `line, after the sail may have been reefed should be drawn taut and belayed either to the boom or some other proper part of the vessel. The line, L, acting or straining the reef band in a direction outwardly, prevents the sail while reefed from being drawn back and puckered by the reef line.
In order to reef and furl the sail, both reef lines are to be pulled on in a manner to draw them through their carriers and cause the upper rows of carriers and that part of the sail above them to descend toward the foot rope of the sail.
By means of the two reef lines applied and operating as described, the sail will not only be reefed, but will be furled, which would not be the case were one reefing line only employed on one side of the sail, as in such case, the sail might be reefed but the reefed portion would not be furled or taken in.
By my mode of lacing reef lines on opposite sides of the sail, the operations of reefing and furling can be effected by two lines only, and can be done very effectively and with great despatch.
I am aware, that for confining in the wake of the reef bands and quarters, the slack of a top-sail when reefed, by a series of vertical reefing lines, a series of small ropes or gaskets have been used, such being rove occasionally, in separate pieces through eyelet holes under the reef band. Therefore, I do not claim such, for each of such ropes or gaskets is carried through the sail (which is very objectionable) whereas, I do not carry any rope through the sail, and I accomplish the entire reeling and furling of the sail by two ropes only and not by a set of two or more reeng lines and a series of small ropes or gaskets. I am also aware, that for reeling a sail, several short lines have been aflixed at intervals along a sail and led downward through leading eyes at the bottom of the sail and thence along the bottom and finally united to a single line.
line, they being applied on one side of the Therefore I do not claim such, as I ernploy twoV sets of leaders or eyes for each reef sail and I use but one reeling line on either side of the Sail Whereas, only one set of leaders and several lines are used for such. reef in the other Inode of reeling.
What I claim is* 1. Combining substantially as describedV a single reeling line, and two sets of leading i eyes together with one side of the sail its p
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US4487147A (en) * | 1983-08-31 | 1984-12-11 | Hoyt John G | Continuous reefing system |
US4714047A (en) * | 1985-04-20 | 1987-12-22 | Nippon Soken, Inc. | Method and device for forming ultrafine particle film of compound |
US20050122568A1 (en) * | 2001-07-27 | 2005-06-09 | Riken | Three-dimensional photonic crystal and process for production thereof as well as probe used therefor |
DE19750388B4 (en) * | 1996-11-13 | 2006-03-30 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma | Prism for optical pickups |
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US4487147A (en) * | 1983-08-31 | 1984-12-11 | Hoyt John G | Continuous reefing system |
US4714047A (en) * | 1985-04-20 | 1987-12-22 | Nippon Soken, Inc. | Method and device for forming ultrafine particle film of compound |
DE19750388B4 (en) * | 1996-11-13 | 2006-03-30 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma | Prism for optical pickups |
US20050122568A1 (en) * | 2001-07-27 | 2005-06-09 | Riken | Three-dimensional photonic crystal and process for production thereof as well as probe used therefor |
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