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VJAMES R. TAYLOR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

l Letters _Patent-Na 60,963, dated January 1, 1867.

IMPROVED BOAT-DTAGHING TACKLE.

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>T0 XLII WHOM IT MAY GONCERN : Be it known that I, JAMES R. TAYLOR, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certa-in
new and useful improvements in Life-Boat Detaching Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, making a
part of this specification, in which
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Figure 1 represents a side sectional view of the apparatus, and its connection with the heat.
Figure 2 represents an edge view of the apparatus.

Figures 3, 4, and 5 represent a modication of the plan shown in figs. I and Z. i Similar letters of reference, where they occur in the separate gures, denote like parts in all the drawings. In all boat-detaching apparatus of which I have knowledge, a` block, hook, or other heavy weight is attached to the end of the rope, from which the boat is detached, and in letting the boat go, this block, hook, or other connecting device is apt to ily or swing around, with great danger to the operator or crew. The object of this invention is to detach from the end of a rope or ropes, without block, hook, or tackle, at the end of such rope or ropes, the rope being simply cat-tailed, plaited, or foxed, so as to clear nicely, and nor fray out. And my invention consists in giving the detaching rope or ropes abite or half'bitein the holding-head, and then clamping

the end (or al point'near the end) of the rope by an eccentric lever, to which the iletaching er working apparatus
is ixed. -Y

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same Vby
reference to the drawings. I _

A represents the holding-head, which is securely fastened to the keel B, or other part of' the boat. In the
top of the head are two cross-bars a a, which may be smooth and rigidly ined, or one or both may have a sleeve or pulley upon them, which may be smooth or ronghened, so that the rope may run more or less free through or between them, as may be desired. `Below these bars a ct there is arranged a swinging er pivoted eccentric

headedlcver B', which may be grooved or roughened so asyto hold hard against the rope, or the head of the lever may press against a roughened foot, B, which is separate from the lever, as shown in lig. I, both devices performing the same o?lce in the same ina-nner. The rope C, which is attached to the davit, is passed, first,
between the two bars or rollers ct a, thence between the under bar or roller and the roughenecl eccentric B' or

the foot-piece B, and when the free end of the lever is dropped, the eccentric portion gripes the end of the
rope iirmly. The two half turns of the rope at the upper andthe lower bar or roller and the bite of the rough -ened eccentric will rml'y hold the boat to the rope without any hook, link, block, o1' other tackle. To the free end or long arm of the lever B is attaehedia line, e, which extends upwards or to the seat'of the operator, and is secured to a draw key, d, so that the lever may be drawn up into the position shown in red lines in the
drawings, which releases the cam or e'ccentric from its hold on the rope, and'the latter is then free to run out

from between .the-bars, and disconnect itself from the >holding-head. To the long arm of the lever may also be connected a line, e, which may unite with a similar lever at the opposite end of the boat, that operates with a similar holding device at >that end, so that both ends may be detached simultaneously, or as nearly so as practi cable with safety.y Or the line e may -pass over a friction-pulley in the end of the key, and thence to the

lopposite lever, so that drawing on the key will first take up the slack and bring the strain upon both levers at
the same time and detach simultaneously.
or otherwise.

The rope, instead of being a round one, may be a flat rope, braided

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new and desireto secure by Letters
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Patent, is-s-

Connecting and detachin-g a bont from the end of a rope by the combined use oi' the bars and cam or

eccentric lever, and the end of the rope passed or rceved through or between'them, substantially as described.
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Witnesses:

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JAMES n. TAYLOR.
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A. B. SroUe-Hron,
EDM. F. BROWN.