IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS AND VESSELS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Alfred Novello, of Villa Novello, Crosa San
Giacomo, Genoa, in the Kingdom of Italy, at present residing at No. 1,
Bernors Street, in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS AND VESSELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Alfred Novello at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th April 1880.
JOSEPH ALFRED NOVELLO, of Villa Novello, Crosa San Giacomo, Genoa, in tho
Kingdom of Italy, at present residing at No. 1, Berners Street, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS AND VESSELS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of ships and
vessels, and consists in giving a novel form to the body of the ship or vessel. This
form, which is represented by the Drawing annexed, is devised with a view to
obtain greater steadiness at sea, and less resistance to propulsion than is met with
in vessels of the usual type.
It will be seen that (excepting at the ends of the ship or vessel) the bottom is
flat, and the transverse sectional form is every where the same; also that the ends
have several entering and exit points and bow and stern like projections, which are
united by inclines with the flat bottom. In the case of the centre stern like
projection the flat bottom is continued to the stern post upon which the rudder is
carried.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Alfred Novello in the Great Scal Patent Office on the
5th October 1880.
JOSEPH ALFRED NOVELLO, of Villa Novello, Crosa San Giacomo, Genoa, in the
Kingdom of Italy, at present residing at No. 1, Berners Street, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS AND VESSELS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of ships and
vessels, and consists in giving a novel form to the body of the ship or vessel. This
form, which is represented by the Drawing annexed, is devised with a view to
obtain greater steadiness at sea, and less resistance to propulsion-than-is.met. with
in vessels of the usual type.
It will be seen that (excepting at the ends of the ship or vessel) the bottom is
flat, and the transverse sectional form is every where the same; also that the ends
have several entering and exit points and bow and stern like projections, which are
united by inclines with the flat bottom. In the case of the centre stern liko
projection the flat bottom is continued to the stern post upon which the rudder is
carried.
In the annexed Drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a ship or vessel con-
structed according to my Invention, and the form is applicable either to a sailing
ship or vessel or to a ship or vessel to be propelled by steam power. This Figure is 2
for convenience shortened, say, by one half, a considerable length being broken out
from the midships of the vessel, or that part of the middle which continues of the
samme section throughout. This part of the vessel may however he longer or shorter
according to circumstances.
Figure 2 is a front elevation showing the vessel stem on. The same Figure S
shows dotted lines marked 1 and 2 respectively, and indicating the sectional form
of the vessel at the lines 1, 1, and 2, 2, in Figure 1.
The letter in this Figure marks the inclines which connect the curved bows
with the flat bottom of the vessel ainidships.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the stern of the vessel end on. The lines 3 and 4 on 3
this Figure indicate the sectional form of the vessel at the lines 3, 3, and 4, 4, on
Figuro 1.
The letter in this Figure marks the inclines serving to connect the curved
sterns with the flat bottom of the midship section.
The dotted line 5 in Figure 1 represents a section taken on the line 5, 5, in 3
Figures 2 and 3.
Having thus described the nature of iny said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim the construction of
ships and vessels with ends having several entering and exit points and bow and
stern like projections, substantially as described, to which new type of construction 4
I have given the name "poly-point."
I also claim the construction of ships and vessels, substantially as described and
represented in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Joseph Alfred Novello, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of October, in the year of our Lord One 4
thousand eight hundred and eighty.