IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPS AND MOORING ANCHORS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM HENRY GALES of 56 High Street Poplar E. in the Parish of Poplar
and County of Middlesex, Engineers factor, do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPS AND MOORING ANCHORS" to be as
follows:-
By my Invention I propose as an Improvement upon all past well known
Patents as Porters,"
;," "Trotmans" and others to so provide and adjust that in the
first instance the shank as in common with those referred to is formed in a suitable
manner and so proportioned either solid or otherwise as to receive at its crown the
arms and flukes in the manner as hereafter described. .
In which I propose that either arm, fluke or attachment is so arranged as to
work from a central point or pivot on the crown or extremity of the shank, that
upon its being "canted" that either arm or fluke instead of taking its pressure or
bearing upon one or either of the palms or flukes onto the shank as heretofore,
although in a similar manner, that it is so disposed that either of the arms and
flukes when in position take their entire bearing upon and parallell with the shank,
thus giving a free distribution of strain throughout and enabling the arm and fluke
to concentrate itself for the purpose required and therefore securing additional
holding power, thus relieving the ordinary undue strain upon the fluke and bolt or
other connections.
I lay no particular claim to the method of attachment or fixing the arms to the.
shank, which may be done in any suitable mechanical manner, or of precise pro-
portions to the same or form of the flukes, but. what I desire and believe to be
novel is to so dispose and arrange the arms as to fall or lie when in position as
parallell and in a line with the shank as herein described.

page_text: WILLIAM HENRY GALES of 56 High Street Poplar, E. in the Parish of Poplar
and County of Middlesex, Engineers factor, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPS AND MOORING ANCHORS" and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
.
By my Invention I propose as an Improvement upon all past well known
Patents as Porters"." Trotmans" and others to so provide and adjust that in the
first instance, the shank as in common with those referred to is formed in a suitable
manner and so proportioned either solid or otherwise as to receive at its crown the
arms and flukes in the manner as hereafter described.
In which I propose that either arm, fluke or attachment is so arranged as to
work from a central point or pivot on the crown or extremity of the shank, that
upon its being "canted" that either arm or fluke instead of taking its pressure or
bearing upon one or either of the palms or flukes onto the shank as heretofore,
altho in a similar manner, that it is so disposed that either the arms and flukes
when in position take their entire. bearing upon and parallel with the shank, thus
giving a free distribution of strain throughout and enabling the arm and fluke to
concentrate itself for the purpose required and therefore securing additional
holding power, thus relieving the ordinary undue strain upon the fluke and bolt
or other connection.
I do not make any particular claim to the method of attachment or fixing the
arms to the shank which may be done in any suitable Mechanical manner, or of
precise proportions to the same or form of the flukes, but what I desire and believe
to be novel is to so dispose and arrange the arms as to fall or lie when in position
asiparallell and in a line with the shank as herein described.
- In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view and Figure 2 a front view
shewing an improved form of Anchor as herein described, in which A is the shank,
B; B are the arms or flukes working upon a central point or pivot upon the crown
or shank C, and pin connection or attachment D, wherein it will be seen that either
arm, fluke or attachment is, so arranged as to work from a central point or pivot
on the crown or crown pin attachment at the extremity of the shank, that upon its
being canted" either arm or fluke instead of taking its bearing or pressure upon
one or either of the palms or flukes as heretofore although in a somewhat similar
manner, that either of the arms or flukes when in action or position take their
entire bearing upon and parallell with the shank A, giving by my Invention a free
distribution of strain throughout and enabling the arm and fluke to concentrate
itself and giving additional bolding power and relieving the ordinary undue strain
upon the fluke and bolt connection.

page_text: 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 substantially as herein set forth; whereby, that either of the arms or
flukes take their entire bearing upon and parallell with the shank as shown and
described.