An Improved Appliance for Carrying and Letting Go a Ship's Anchor.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1899-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
An Improved Appliance for Carrying and Letting Go a Ship's
Anchor.
JAMES MEEK, 10 Carlton Mansions, Portsdown Road Maida Vale. London. W
Engineer and Shipbuilder 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 :-
My invention has for its object the-manufacture-6 an aucbor table, on which the
anchor can be stowed, and which when released on the inboard side, will cant on to
the gunwale and so launch the anchor clear of the side of the ship.
Anchors when fitted with my patent crosshead Patent (N° 22869/98) for shipping
the anchor stock into, or stockless anchors when stowed on the anchor table, will
be quite secure and at any minute can be let go without the labour and time taken
up by first having to put the anchor over the side of the ship before being able to let
it go.
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With the stock fitted in the ordinary way, it will only be necessary, first to shove
the shackle end of the shank outside of the top of the anchor table, and having
already had the anchor stock slung to a small crane or derrick, it can then be quickly
slipped into the shank, when the anchor will be all ready to let go.
The construction of the anchor table is as follows. On the upper edge of the a
vertical plate there is are rivetted or bolted intercostal angles, to which the a top
plate is bolted or rivetted. The top plate is supported and secured at its outer and
inner edges by the bracket angles and their knee plates, as shewn in Figures 3 and
4 and to which the top and vertical plates are rivetted or bolted.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the anchor table. Figure 2 is a plan of the anchor
table. Figure 3 is a section of the anchor table when it is secured in an upright
position. Figure 4 is a section of the anchor table when it is released and canted on
to the gunwale.
The links Links & Figures 3, 4, and 6, work automatically and allow the anchor
table to fall on the outside, but they prevent it from lifting above the level of its top.
These links are made from metal plates, bolted or hinged together, with their butt
ends bent as in Figures 5 and 6.
The A lever clutch & Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 is for securing and releasing the anchor
table on the inboard side, and is made from inetal plates, and the stand c Figures, 1,
2, 3 and 4 is made from metal plates and angles.
The A metal stud d Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 is bolted or rivetted on to the top of the
anchor table and on the pin of the stud da sinal! metal sheave is fitted for the
upper part of the lever clutch to run ou.
The-double Double slip links g and the screws 4 in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8, are
for securing the anchor on the anchor table. The screws screw through the nut /

page_text: Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8.
This nut is enclosed and fixed between the clamps
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8. The clamps are bolted together and clamped on to the
links g. By unscrewing the pins the hinged clamps m Figures 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and
10, which are fitted on pins p can be thrown flat on the top of the anchor table
leaving the anchor free. Then by lifting the lever clutch b, the anchor table will
cant on to the gunwale and so launch the anchor over the side of the ship.
The chairs Figure 3 for the vertical plate to rest on, are of metal and bolted
down to the deck or supporting platform.
The method of using the aucbor table is as follows. When the anchor is being fished.
the anchor table should-be is placed with its top in a horizontal position, and then
secured by the lever clutch b, when the anchor can be landed from the fishdavit on
to the top of the anchor table and secured in position by the slip links g and the
screws h.
To let go the anchor, unscrew the pins h and throw the hinged clamp on the
top of the anchor table, then lift the lever clutch b and the anchor table will caut on
to the gunwhale and so launch the auchor clear of the side of the ship.
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
An improved appliance for carrying and letting go a ship's anchor consisting
of an anchor table made, arranged, fitted and operating, all substantially as
hereinbefore described and shown.
1st The anchor-table
and The lever clutch for securing and-releasing-the-anchor-table-en-the-inboard
sile
ard-The automatic links for securing-and-releasing the anchor-table-on-the
outboard-side
4th The double clip links, screwe and-hinged-elamp-for-securing the oucher-en
the-anchor-table-and-for-releasing-it.
Dated this und day of 1000