Improved Hatch Cleat.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1897-Accepted, 11th Sept., 1897
Improved Hatch Cleat.
JOSEPH WATERS Roman Cottage, Roman Road South Shields County of Durham
Foreman Blacksmith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An improved hatch cleat for fastening hatch covers, consisting of a malleable iron
or steel sockot, thro which a middle jambing piece is fitted, with a shoulder on top
& bottom ends & slightly curved at bottom & a wedge with a lip on top & bottom &
slightly thinned from bottom to the depth of socket, the whole forming an apparatus,
in which it is impossible, while hatch bar is in position, for the wedge pieces or clips
to become detached.
In this invention the wedge piece is so arranged that it will remain up while hatch
bar & covers are being arranged, without pins or chains,
Improved Hatch Cleat.
I, JOSEPH WATERS, of Roman Cottage, Roman Road, South Shields, in the
County of Durham, Foremau, do hereby declare the nature of said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention relates to an improved hatch "cleat" for fastening hatch covers
consisting of a wedge shaped socket fixed to the hatch "coaming" through which,
before it is fixed, are inserted a middle "jambing" piece, having shoulders at top
and bottom, projecting from one or both sides, and slightly curved at bottom so as to
bear against the hatch " coaming" with a certain amount of elastic spring and u
wedge over the "jambing "piece with a projecting lip at top and bottom and reduced
in thickness from the bottom lip up to the corresponding wedge shape within the
socket. These parts form an apparatus in which it is impossible, whilst the binding
bar is wedged in position, for it to slacken back, or when it is released, by the wedge
being driven back, for the wedge or "jambing "piece to become detached from the
socket.
On the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 shews to full size, a side view in section with
the binding bar A. wedged firmly against the hatch "coaming" B, with the tarpaulin
cover C. between, by the wedge D. against the "jambing" piece E, and Fig. 2 shews
the binding bar A. released by the wedge D. being driven back upon the "jambing'
piece E. so that the tarpaulin cover can be drawn clear, but, as will be seen, neither
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page_text: the "jambing" piece E. nor the wedge D. can come out of the socket F. being locked
in by the projecting shoulders and lips formed upon them. As shewn the wedge is
prevented again falling into wedging position upon the "jambing" piece by a
bevilled edge G. resting upon a corresponding edge H. on the socket.
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Fig. 3 is a face view of the "cleat" as shewn by Fig. 1 looking on the batch
"coaming." Before the socket F. is fixed to the latch "coaming" the "jambing
piece E. and the wedge D. are inserted through its open side and are therein secured
when the socket is fixed to the "coaming." The socket, "jambing" piece, and
wedge, inay be made of cast malleable iron, cast steel, or any suitable metal cast,
stamped, or forged.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved hatch "cleat" comprising in combination a tapered socket in which,
before being fixed, are inserting a "jambing" piece curved so that its lower end bears
against the "coaming" and, working upon it, a wedge, the taper of which
corresponds with that of the socket, the "jambing" piece and the wedge being so
inserted in the socket that they cannot become detached, the shoulders and lips
formed upon each locking them in the socket, the whole constructed and operating
substantially as described and shewn.