A METHOD OF APPLYING A CERTAIN POWER TO THE WORKING OF SHIP AND OTHER WINDLASSES, SHIP AND OTHER WINCHES, CRANES, AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND TO WHICH THE SAME HATH NEVER BEFORE BEEN APPLIED
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
FRANCIS HAWKINS, of of Woolwich, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of April, in the
forty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Francis
Hawkins, His especial licence that I, the said Richard Francis Hawkins, during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exer-
cise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A METHOD OF APPLYING A CERTAIN POWER TO THE WORKING OF
SHIP AND OTHER WINDLASSES, SHIP AND OTHER WINCHES, CRANES, AND OTHER
PURPOSES, AND TO WHICH THE SAME HATH NEVER BEFORE BEEN APPLIED;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard
Francis Hawkins, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Francis Hawkins, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
by the Drawings and explanation thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Francis Hawkins,- have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of April, in the
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three.
year
R. F. HAWKINS. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of April, in
the forty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Richard Francis Hawkins came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the 5
Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty-third, and
thirty-seventh years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord One thou-]
sand eight hundred and three.

page_text: Figures 2.3.4.5 and 6 shew the different parts of the power to be applied to the several uses herein specified and which are hereinafter particularly described. Fig 1.shews the application of the power when applied to a the common ships or other Windlases bb the Bitte C. Bellfry Bitts d
Foremast e.e. cable f and g an endless or perpetual screws and a cogged wheel being the power ha Paul I an iron plate Iron stantion U Braces m knees to be ship'd on the end of stout pins driven up through the Deck and fore locked h a wheel either as a balance or a lever o a winch handle Fig 2 an endless
or pepetual screw to be made of wrought iron or any other metal cut to work on a cogged wheel with the edges of the worm of the screw square and from two inches and a half deep to one inch more or less according to the various purposes required (1) a pivot to be placed in the Bellfry Bilt to work in an iron or metal plate or on a stantion
if no Bitt (2) to be round with a shoulder on each side for working in an iron or wood stantion as at (11)-3) a square on which the wheel is fixed as at (n) (4) to be square for the handle to fix on as at (05) a nut to secure the handle or which may be pind or forelockd. Fig 3.a cogged wheel to be made of cast iron or any other metal
in two pieces as circumstances may require or it may be made in one The coggs to be square edged and diagonally cut to act properly in contact with the screw(9) catches for pauls where required (8)inside part of the wheel to be six eight or twelve square more or less as found necessary. This wheel must be well fitted bolted and screwed to the
windlass or to whatever else it may be applied, the bolts &e to be between the coggs. Fig 4.Iron or wood stantion to support that part of the endless screw as at (2) 10 a pin and forelock to secure the same when fixed-11 a gudgeon for the screw to work in-12 Knees or damps by which it is secured to the deck &c. 13 braces to stiffen
the stantion which are to be hooked into ege bolts in the decks &c. or upon staples and held there with a Toggle-14 The pin and forelock on which the knees of the stantion are to be shipped &c. Fig 5 Balance wheel which may have spoke handles and used as a lever the diameter should be from three to four feet more or less Fig6
Winch handle by which it is worked and may be varied as at p.gr.s.-rincreases the power very materially, but loses in time-sis also an increase of power and gains in time. It is to be observed that the cogged wheel and screw in this instance, act as a Paul, so that no labour or time is lost and if any thing should fail the windlass is still
in its original state and may be used at once as the whole of this new applied power is to be made so as to take away in a few minutes Fig 7. a Winch for shipping craft &c, the materials are nearly the same as those of the windlass, excepting that the cogged wheel may be either with or without catches for pauls and where it will an
swer may be made in one piece the rest shews itself a
fas per Figure Fig & Winch for heaving up ballast &c on board of Craft with the same power the iron work may be fitted as per figure or varied according to carcumstances the wheel for this may be made in one piece being at the end of the winch, it may or not have a balance wheel or all
the advantages of the different levers of working it as at p.g.rs. Fig 9. Grane the purchase is performed by a winch as at 16 Fig upon the same p
e principle but it may be worked as the rest by p.q.r.s.17 another way of applying the screw and wheel and a bar as 18 for a Man to walk round with The portable crane is intended to shut up
or take to pieces so that it may be shifted from one place to another with much case I some boards nailed together to put any weight upon that may more than counter balance the other end as at IV the screw purchase. Fig 10. Jack Screws either single or double worked by the same power the cogged wheel for the screw to be about two in-
chesmore in the diameter than the wheel on which the dagger is hove out as the eggs which act with the coggs of the Dagger must be square out but rounded edges it requires a smaller wheel for that purpose which if not made in encimay be rigetted or otherwise secured or fastened to the serw wheel as at 1.Fig 10.the figure however will be a suff
cent guide. Fig 1. a Winch or Windlass worked by a Capstan upon the same principle. Fig 12. Pumps also worked by the same principle which No 20, 21, 22 and 23 Fig 12 will sufficiently explain the iron work &c can be linked variously as circumstances may require-23 is intended to work by Horse and which will be power-
enought to work a pump or Engine of magnitude. Fig 13. Ships or other Crafts Rudders worked also by the same power and the Vessel effectually steered and that in various ways, two of which by way of example are here sherm rig: 24 and 25 Fig 13 the principle and materials being the same but to be fitted according to circumstances Fig
14. Amachine for large rope or cable lasing 26 the screw. 27 cogged wheel, 28 hook for taking three strands on 29 the cable 30 Iron frame, 3 cast iron balance wheels, 32 handles and worked in the usual way Fig.15, a machine for the same purpose taking the three strands seperately and to ect in contact with Fig 14,33 small wheels or pinions
y a hook for the strands as at 28-34 a large wheel by which they are twined, 35 a diagonal cut cogged wheel to work by the screw and securely rivetted or otherwise fastened to the large wheel N. 3hif not made together, 36 chescr av 37 iron frame which may be fixed to a Truck &c. Fig 16. A common triangle for lifting heavy weights such as Guns, Anchors
Stones &e, worked by application of the same power. Fig 17 an instrument for drawing bolts & out of Ships &c, by the same power applied. Fig 18 Corkscrews with the same power applied In making fitting &o of the above, Observe that the midship part of the Windlass be made to turn true on its own asxi's so as to prevent any variation in the cogged wheel as it
goes round care is also necessary to be taken that the windlass has no play the screw must be also turned so as to be perfectly true on its acis the stantion or stantions must be fitted so as to stand firm which rule mast be observed in all the obere applications The power can also be applied in almost all cases where the pinion is now used and the principle may be applied and
worked in various other forms and ways and also applied differently to the purpose herein described according to circumstances or the Ideas of of the workman but I conceive the above described will best answer the intended purpose and the same may be worked by any convenient power. Fig 19.Shews the addition of a pinion and whed which ficilitates gives ease and assists
the screw in working in all the above cases observe that if it takes fifteen turns of the screw handle to turn the wheel once round, then say a pinion of live cogs as (38) to turn a wheel of twenty five cogs as (39) that wheel turning a pinion of ten cogs as (40) acting in thirty cogs as (41), works in unison with the screw such as the guide in this case Nas
each turning a
43and in red shews other wave of working it No 12 is mothway 11