Improved Means for Communicating between a Ship and the Shore.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1892-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Communicating between a Ship and the Shore.
CHARLES HENRY CANTELOW Sail and Tent Maker 40 Hill Street, Ryde,
Isle of Wight, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An apparatus to take a line, dead to leeward from a stranded ship to shore.
This apparatus consists of a traveller and carrier. The traveller is a globe made
of oiled canvas with cane ribs, constructed to open & shut on a staff. Attached to
the globe are windsails, which catch the wind when above, and close when under
water. The carrier is a rectangular receptacle, constructed to take a large reel of
line, which it pays out as the apparatus moves from the ship. The receptacle is
made of stout canvass, lined with cork & roped. At the head of the carrier is a
double fluked oscillating anchor, which allows the apparatus to go up the beach,
but prevents it coming down. Attached to the globe staff is a triangular cork
float, covered with canvas & roped. This float prevents the head of the carrier
from sinking when in water.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Communicating between a Ship and the Shore.
CHARLES HENRY CANTELOW, 40 Hill Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, Sail
and Tent Maker, 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:-
An apparatus to take a line or rope, any distance dead to leeward, from a
stranded ship to the shore.
The apparatus consists of three parts, viz. :-the "traveller," the "carrier,"
and the anchor float.
The traveller" Fig. 1 is an oiled canvas globe with cane ribs, constructed to
open and shut on a stout ash staff, six feet long, by one and a half inches in
diameter. This staff C, has fixed at one end, an ornamental head A, with twelve
equal insertions. From the other end, towards the centre of the staff, slides a
hoop B, also with twelve equal insertions A¹, Fig. 2. The cane ribs e, twelve in
number, each five feet nine inches in length, have fixed at each end a copper screw-
eye. One of the eyes of each rib is placed in each insertion of the head of the
staff. A stout copper wire round the head, passes through the screw eyes. This
wire prevents them from leaving the insertions, but allows them to pivot on it.
The screw eyes at the other end of the ribs, are placed in each insertion of the
sliding hoop, (Fig. 2) and are beld and allowed to pivot by a stout wire, (B³, Fig. 2)
round the hoop, passing through them. Attached to the head is a small tackle,
through which a small swelling line, (D, Fig. 1), fastened to the hoop, passes. By
means of this line the globe is opened and shut. The ribs are kept an equal
distance apart, by means of small copper rings, (H), through which the ribs pass.
These rings are sewn on the seams inside the canvas globe. The globe is made of
oiled cotton canvas (F), sewn in twelve equal gores, which run parallel with the
ribs. At the bottom of the globe is a canvas tube (G) which the sliding hoop
passes through when the globe is being closed. When the globe is open, the tube
is tied tightly round the staff. This keeps the globe watertight. At the bottom
of the ash staff, a small iron loop is fixed, to connect with swivel of anchor float,
or swivel of the carrier.

page_text: The anchor-float (Fig. 3) is an oval cork belt, (I) two feet six inches in
length, eighteen inches across, and six inches in diameter, made on a light
iron frame (J), and covered with canvas. This float carries the flukes of an
anchor, (L) which oscillate on an iron bar (K), fixed across the centre. Another
short bar, (M) crosses the float near its back end. This bar forms a bearing for
the anchor flukes. On the foremost end of the float is fixed a clip hook and
swivel, which connect to the traveller. At the other end of the float is an eye to
connect with the swivel of the carrier.
The carrier, (Fig. 4) is an oval cork belt (N) four feet long, three feet wide, and
seven inches in diameter, adapted to carry a large reel (O) of line. It is made on
a light iron frame (P), and covered with canvas, with grasping lines attached to
the outside. On the inside of the belt are two iron sockets, (Q) with pins attached,
to receive and hold the gudgeons of the reel. The gudgeous are a continuation of
the iron axle of the reel. On the reel is wound one thousand yards of 1 inch
whale line, which pays off as the apparatus leaves the ship. One end of the line
is made fast to the axle of the reel, by a span. At one end of the belt, is a clip
hook and swivel, to connect with the anchor float or the traveller. At the other
end of the belt is a fairleader which guides the line clear of the apparatus as it
leaves the ship.
The apparatus can be enlarged or reduced in size, according to requirements.
The traveller, when disconnected and shut, is packed in a painted canvas cover,
six feet long, by six inches in diameter.
When the apparatus is required for use, the traveller is taken from the cover,
and placed perpendicularly, head downwards on the deck. To open the globe, a
half hitch is taken with the swelling line, round the staff, and the sliding hoop is
pressed downwards towards the centre of the staff with the left hand. The slack
of the swelling line is taken in with the right hand. When the hoop is down to a
mark on the staff, a second hitch is taken. As the hoop slides towards the centre
of the staff, the ribs bow out, and form the globe, four feet in diameter. The spare
swelling line is placed inside the canvas tube, and the tube tied tightly round the
staff, with a stop provided for that purpose. If required the anchor float is next
taken, and connected by its clip-hook to the loop at the end of the traveller staff.
The carrier is next taken, and connected to the anchor float or traveller by its
clip hook. The reel of line is then placed in the sockets of the carrier, and secured.
The end of the line is passed through the fairleader, and made fast to the ship. A
slip rope is then passed through the carrier, and the apparatus lowered into the sea.
The globe being very light is driven by the wind towards the shore, pulling after
it the anchor float and the carrier. The end of the line being made fast to the
ship, as the apparatus moves towards the shore the reel of the carrier revolves, and
pays off the line. When the.apparatus reaches the shore, the flukes of the anchor
permit the apparatus running up the beach. If there are no bystanders, the line
on the reel not expended is hauled back to the ship. When tlie reel is empty and
there is a strain on the line, the oscillating anchor fluke grips the ground, thus
preventing the apparatus from leaving the beach. Communication between the
ship and the shore is then complete. Fig. 5, shows the apparatus ready for use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A combination of apparatus consisting of
1. A canvas globe, with cane ribs constructed to open and shut on a staff.
2. A large cork belt constructed to carry a reel of line.
3. A small cork belt constructed to carry the flukes of an oscillating anchor.
CHARLES HENRY CANTELOW.