IMPROVEMENTS DONARDO OD WATER CARES POR BOATS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Forbes Bowerbank Dignum, of No. 18, Austin
Friars, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
DONARDO OD WATER CARES POR BOATS
"
Sealed the 20th July 1875, and dated the 12th February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Forbes Bowerbank.
Dignum at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th February 1875.
I, FORBES BOWERBANK DIGNUM, of No. 18, Austin Friars, in the City
of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BREAKERS OR WATER CASKS FOR BOATS," to be as
follows:-
According to my Invention I construct boats' breakers of iron, similar
in shape to the wood breakers now in use, but with the one end made as
a cap to screw on and off, and in the other end surface I form the bung
hole, closed by a screw, bung, or cap, and provided with a leather tongue
to direct the water as it flows out. I furthermore provide both on the
fixed and on the removeable end an iron bar passing across the end and

page_text: serving as a handle in order that when the breaker is used as a life buoy
it may be readily laid hold of by the person in the water.
By making the breaker of iron the water is always kept in a pure
condition, and by making the one end removeable any sediment may be
readily cleared out from time to time.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Forbes Bowerbank Dignum in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FORBES
BOWERBANK DIGNUM, of No. 18, Austin Friars, in the City of London,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Forbes Bowerbank Dignum, Her special
license that I, the said Forbes Bowerbank Dignum, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Forbes Bowerbank
Dignum, 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 BREAKERS OR WATER CASKS FOR BOATS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Forbes Bowerbank Dignum,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Forbes Bowerbank Dignum, 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, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
According to my Invention I construct boats' breakers of iron, similar
in shape to the wood breakers now in use but with the one end made as
a cap to screw on and off, and in the other end surface I form the bung
hole, closed by a screw, bung, or cap, and provided with a leather tongue
to direct the water as it flows out. I furthermore provide both on the
fixed and on the removeable end an iron bar passing across the end and
serving as a handle in order that when the breaker is used as a life buoy
may be readily laid hold of by the person in the water.
it
By making the breaker of iron the water is always kept in a pure
condition, and by making the one end removeable any sediment may be
readily cleared out from time to time.
The breaker may be provided with the usual rope handle at the side,
secured by rope slings as in ordinary wood breakers.
The accompanying Drawing represents a longitudinal section of a
wrought-iron breaker according to my Invention with its bung hole and
screwed plug A. Bars B may be fixed across the ends, or may be jointed
thereto so as to serve for handles, also for parts to lay hold of when the
breaker is used as a life buoy.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim, constructing boats' breakers
of iron, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Forbes Bowerbank Dignum, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
FORBES BOWERBANK DIGNUM. (L.S.)