Improvements in and connected with Barges.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 30th Jan., 1893-Accepted. 18th Mar.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Barges.
I, GEORGE HENRY CULLING of 13 St. James' New Cross London S.E.,
Barge Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an attachment to barges combining several articles
which have heretofore been used separately.
In barges as at present constructed, the bollard generally consists of a stout
wooden post, near the end of the vessel and extending to the bottom, the pump
socket being placed a little behind and provided with a hinged cover. A short
distance behind the pump socket is situated a ventilator leading through the deck.
In place of these I use a bollard, formed of an iron box provided with flanges
and bolted to the deck of the barge. At the top is an opening suitably formed to
receive a pump, and which also serves as a ventilator.
Another opening may be
made if desired for ventilating purposes but one only is necessary. The bollard is
formed with slightly hollowed sides in order to receive the rope more securely, and
a pin is also provided for that purpose.
Dated this 31st day of May 1899
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Barges.
I, GEORGE HENRY CULLING, of 13 St. James New Cross London S.E.
Barge Builder, 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 :—
This invention relates to an attachment to barges, combining several articles
which have heretofore been used separately.
In barges as at present constructed, the bollard generally consists of a stout
wooden post, near the end of the vessel and extending to the bottom, the pump
socket being placed a little behind and provided with a hinged cover. A short
distance behind the pump socket is situated a ventilator leading through the deck.
In place of these I use a bollard formed of an iron box provided with flanges and
bolted to the deck of the barge. At the top is an opening suitably formed to
receive a pump, and which also serves as a ventilator. Another opening may be
made if desired for ventilating purposes, but one only is necessary. The bollard
is formed with slightly hollowed sides in order to receive the rope more securely,
and a pin is also provided for that purpose. The bollard will serve also as a towing
post or bitt head. The advantages of this arrangement are that one hole only is
required to be cut in the deck instead of two or more as with the ordinary wooden
bollard and pump socket, and only one projection being necessary clearer deck
space is obtained.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings in which Figs. 1 and 2 are vertical
sections at right angles to each other, and Fig. 2 is a plan, of the improved bollard
and pump socket.
The metal box or hollow casting of which the article is made, is formed with a
bed plate A for fixing on the deck and an upwardly projecting part B which forms
the bollard. A number of bolt holes A' are furnished by means of which the plate
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page_text: is bolted to the deck. The bollard is of square form but with rounded corners in
order to lessen the wear of the ropes used, and the sides are curved inwards or
hollowed slightly so that the rope may have a firmer grip. The pin C is furnished
at each side for securing the rope. Ď is the hole in the top of the box of a diameter
sufficient to receive the pump, serving also as a ventilating hole.
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) A device for use on barges, combining a bollard and pump socket, consisting
of a metal box fixed to the deck over a suitable hole, and having an aperture in
the top through which the pump can be inserted, substantially as described and
shown.
(2) The improved device for use on barges as a bollard, pump socket and
ventilator, constructed substantially in the manner described and shown.
Dated this 30th day of January 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.