Improvements in Anchors.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Anchors.
I, JAMES RILEY, General Manager, to The Steel Company of Scotland,
Limited, of 23 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows,
that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction of
anchors so as to allow of their being satisfactorily made of cast steel or other
suitable metal or alloy.
My improved anchor consists of a shank to which there is jointed a fluke piece
the flukes of which are on each side of and in the plane of the sbank and of
the axis of the joint when the fluke piece is in a middle position. The fluke
piece can turn in either direction to an extent limited by stops. The shank is
inade of an I-section at its middle part, and it is tapered from the joint eye to
the other end. The eye is a cylindrical hole without inner recesses or projections.
The fluke piece is made in two parts, one of which is formed with a spindle to
pass through and turn in the eye of the shank, and also extending through the
other part of the fluke piece, the end of the spindle being squared to fit a square
hole in the part of the fluke piece in which it is secured by a cutter.
fluke piece is made with flanges or palms which extend out at right angles to
the fluke arms and are at the back or outer parts of the fluke piece. The stops
consist of segmental projections formed on both sides of the shank round the
inner side of the eye; and these stops are encountered by suitable projections
formed on the fluke piece in the angles at the inner parts of the back flanges or
palms.
Dated this Nineteenth day of December 1892.
The
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Anchors.
I, JAMES RILEY, General Manager to The Steel Company of Scotland,
Limited, of 23 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction
of anchors so as to allow of their being satisfactorily made of cast steel or other
Buitable metal or alloy.
My improved anchor consists of a shank to which there is jointed a fluke piece
the flukes of which are on each side of and in the plane of the shank and of the
axis of the joint when the fluke piece is in a middle position. The fluke piece can
turn in either direction to an extent limited by stops. The shank is made of an
I-section at its middle part, and it is tapered from the joint eye to the other end.
The eye is a cylindrical hole without inner recesses or projections. The fluke piece
is made in two parts, one of which is formed with a spindle to pass through and
D

page_text: Figure, 1, of the drawings is an end view.
Figure, 2, is a plan, with the flukes in a middle position.
Figure, 3, is a side view.
Figure, 4, is a cross section of the shank of the anchor.
Figures, 5, and, 6, are plans of parts of the fluke piece showing two methods of
fixing the parts together.
Figure, 7, is a plan, and Figure, 8, an end view of a part of one form of the
spindle of a fluke piece.
Figure, 9, is a plan of a fluke piece with another form of the spindle part.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
My improved anchor consists of a shank, A, to which there is jointed a fluke
piece, B, the flukes, C, of which are on each side of and in the plane of the shank,
and of the axis of the joint when the fluke piece is in a middle position. The fluke
piece, B, can turn in either direction to an extent limited by stops, D, formed on
the shank. The shank, A, is shown as made of a I-section (or it might be any
other cross section such as, round, oval or square) at its middle part, and it is
tapered from the joint eye. E, to the other end. The eye, E, is a cylindrical hole
without inner recesses or projections. The fluke piece, B, is made in two parts, one
of which is formed with a spindle, F, to pass through and turn in the eye, E, of the
shank, A, and also extending through the other part of the fluke piece, the end of
the spindle, F, being squared to fit a square hole or socket in the other part of the
fluke piece which is fixed on it by a cutter, G. Instead of being fixed by the
cutter, G, the spindle, F, may be rivetted over at the end as shown in Figure, 5,
the hole in the Huke piece, B, being slightly countersunk for the purpose, and a
screw pin, H, being put, half in the spindle, and half in the fluke piece, in the joint
of the two. The spindle, F, may as shown in Figures, 7, and, 8, have a part, J,
recessed in each side of the square, so as to present bearing surfaces, K, only at the
corners. The fluke piece, B, is made with flanges, or palms, L, which extend out
at right angles to the fluke arms, and are at the back or outer parts of the fluke
piece. The stops, D, consist of segmental projections formed on both sides of the
shank, A, round the inner side of the eye, E; and these stops, D, are encountered
by suitable projections, M, formed on the fluke piece, B, in the angles of the inner
parts of the back flanges or palms, L.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved anchor consisting of a shank having jointed to it a fluke piece
formed with a spindle having a cylindrical part which fits and can turn in the eye
of the shank the said cye having no projections or indentations and the said fluke
piece being made in two parts, fixed together and with palms or equivalent parts
projecting at right angles from the fluke arms, and with projections to meet stops
on the shank, all substantially as hereinbefore described.
1

page_text: 2. The improved mode of forming the joint parts of the two parts of the fluke
piece and of fixing them together and fitting them to the shank, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1893
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.