IMPROVE- MENTS IN SHIP BUILDING."
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Taylerson, of Three Indian Kings
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SHIP BUILDING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Taylerson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th December 1852.
I, ROBERT TAYLERSON, of Three Indian Kings Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP BUILDING" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object several improvements in building
ships of iron. In place of having the main irons or ribs vertical and
parallel as heretofore, some of the ribs are vertical and parallel, and
have combined therewith other ribs which are diagonal. The plates
used for plating such vessels are cut with diagonal ends in place of
right angle ends. In order that the doubling or connecting pieces-may
offer equal strength in all directions, the plates from which. they are

page_text: made are rolled in opposite directions. The keel and kelson are each
constructed of two trough irons, face to face, connected on the upper and
under sides by plates and rivets. The water-tight bulkheads, in place
of being fixed to the ribs as heretofore, are fixed to tec iron, such tec
iron having on either side strong timbers which are fixed to the tec
iron and plates by screw bolts (and nuts) passing through them, and the
leck beams, in place of crossing at right angles, cross diagonally,
they also cross each other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Taylerson in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 28th June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ROBERT TAYLERSON, of Three Indian Kings Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant nuto me, the said Robert Taylerson, Her special
licence that I, the said Robert Taylerson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Taylerson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP BUILDING," upon the condition (amongst others
that I, the said Robert Taylerson, by an instrument in writing unde
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Taylerson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention has for its object several improvements in building
ships of iron. In place of having the main irons or ribs vertical and
parallel as heretofore, some of the ribs are vertical and parallel, and
have combined therewith other ribs which are diagonal. The plates.
used for plating such vessels are cut with diagonal ends in place of
right angle ends. In order that the doubling or connecting pieces may
offer equal strength in all directions, the plates from which they are
made are rolled in opposite directions. The keel and kelson are each
constructed of two trough irons, face to face, connected on the upper
and under sides by plates and rivets. The water-tight bulkheads, in
place of being fixed to the ribs as heretofore, are fixed to tec iron, such
tee iron having on either side strong timbers which are fixed to the
tee iron and plates by screw bolts (and nuts) passing through them, and
the deck beams, in place of crossing at right angles, cross diagonally,
and they also cross each other. And in order that my said Invention
may be most fully understood, and readily carried into effect, I will
proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING N° 1.
Figure 1, shews a side view of the hull of a ship partly in section.
Figure 2, is a transverse or midship section on the same scale.
Figure 3, shews portions of an interior view of the sides of a ship on a
larger scale, shewing the manner in which the main irons or ribs are
combined, part being vertical and part being diagonal, and this Figure
also shews the angular ends of the plates, and the means of doubling
or covering the joints where the inclined ends of two plates come
together. Figures 4, and 5, shew sections of the construction of the
kelson and keel; and Figure 4, also shews the mode of constructing or
affixing water-tight bulkheads.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING N° 2.

page_text: trunk. Figure N° 3, shews an inside plan view of part of a ship's
bottom. Figure N° 4, shews another inside plan view of part of the
bottom of a ship, in which the ribs or main irons pass across the
kelson; and Figure 5, shews a plan of part of the deck framing of
a ship.
In each of these Figures the same letters are used to indicate similar
parts; a, a, are the main vertical ribs or angle irons which are parallel,
but further apart than when only vertical ribs have been used. b, b,
are diagonal ribs or main angle irons, which combined with the vertical
ribs or main irons, produce a very strong framing for a ship. In
Figures 1, and 8, and also in Figure N° 3, the diagonal ribs or main
irons fore and aft incline from the keel towards the middle or midships
of the vessel, hence they meet at the midships, as is shewn in Figures 1,
and 8; but this may be varied, and these diagonal ribs or main irons
may be carried across the kelson, as shewn at Figure N° 4. The
plates used for plating are cut with diagonal ends, in place of the ends
of these plates being inade with right angle ends as heretofore; c, c, are
the connecting or doubling pieces which connect the diagonal ends of
the plates used for plating the vessel; these doubling or connecting
pieces are cut from plates of iron which have been rolled in both
directions in order to obtain uniform strength. It will be seen that by
thus using plates with diagonal ends, together with diagonal ribs or
main angle irons b, b, there is no continuity of lines of rivets in a
vertical direction to join the plates to the angle irons or ribs, as here-
tofore, but the riveting is divided and varied in direction by reason of
the plates being rivetted both to vertical and diagonal ribs, and con-
nected together by doubling plates and diagonal rows of rivets, by
which very great strength will be obtained in constructing an iron ship;
d, is the keel, and e, the kelson, which are constructed in the manner
of strong hollow beam or girden of angle iron and plates in Figure 4 ;
the keel consists simply of two hollow trunks running fore and aft, and
such is the case with respect to the kelson, and these hollow trunks are
composed of angle iron and plates, connected together by means of
rivets. In Figure 5, and Figure N° 1, the keel, and such is also the
case with respect to the kelson, is divided longitudinally by plates and
angle irons rivetted together, as will readily be understood by reference

page_text: to these Figures. The water-tight bulkheads are fixed and constructed
in the following manner: 9, is strong tee angle iron, on either side of
which is placed strong timber h; and the angle iron and timber are
fixed to the side of the ship by means of screw bolts and nuts i, i,
aided by iron plates j.j; by this arrangement the timber will offer an
elastic medium between the parts, and at the same time will give
strength to the sides of the ship where the bulkhead comes. The
plates k, k, constituting the bulkhead are fixed by rivets to the tee angle
iron, as shewn; and in order to give strength and stiffness to a bulkhead
a trunk or tubular portion ', is applied, as shewn, which may be
either used to receive a mast, or it may be coals or other stores, in
which case a door or doors, as shewn in Figure N° 1. 1, 1, are the deck
beams, which are arranged diagonally, as shewn in Figure N° 5, and
they are composed of angle tee iron or any description of beam iron.
In the arrangement shewn there are longitudinal beams m, in com-
bination with the diagonal beams, but in place thereof the beams may
run diagonally in each direction and cross each other.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark that I
do not confine myself to the details herein described. But what I
claim is, the combined means of constructing iron ships herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Taylerson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
ROBT. TAYLERSON. (L.B.)