Improvements in and relating to Means for Securing Cleats on Bulb Angles, Z-frames, Plain Angle-irons, and the like for Ships' Cargo Battens and similar Fittings.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Means for Securing Cleats on
Bulb Angles, Z-frames, Plain Angle-irons, and the like for
Ships' Cargo Battens and similar Fittings.
JAMES WILLIAM ROCKLIFFE 5 Davison Terrace, Southwick, Sunderland,
County of Durham, Mechanic, &c., do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Improvements in, and relating to securing cleats on to bulb angle frames,
Z-frames, and plain angles &c., and consists essentially in the cleats being a
combined clamp or clasp, which grips the aforesaid bulb angle frames, Z-frames,
and plain angles &c. by means of screwing the parts together, by thumb screw, or
screw bolts & nuts, through holes in the clamp on the inside of frames or angles, or
by thumb screw, or screw bolts and nuts through clasp on the outside of frames
or angles &c., or the clamp may also be secured by a wedge, the cleat clamp or
clasp to be made in one two or three distinct parts exclusive of the bolts & nuts
which will be used to screw the part or parts with the frame together thereby
securing the combined cleat to the aforesaid frames. This invention may be made
of wood, iron, steel, or any kind of metal.
Dated this 27th day of March 1894.
JAMES WILLIAM ROCKLIFFE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Means for Securing Cleats on
Bulb Angles, Z-frames, Plain Angle-irons, and the like for
Ships' Cargo Battens and similar Fittings.
JAMES WILLIAM ROCKLIFFE 5, Davison Terrace, Southwick, Sunderland,
County of Durham, Mechanic &c., do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Improvements in and relating to means for securing cleats on bulb angles,
Z-frames, plain angle-irons and the like; and consists essentially in the cleats
being a combined clamp or clasp, which grips the aforesaid bulb angle frames,
Z-frames, plain angle-irons and the like by means of screwing the parts together,
by thumb screw, or screw bolts and nuts through holes in the clamp or clasp on the
inside of frames or angles, or by thumb screw or screw bolts and nuts through
the clamp or clasp, on the outside of frames or angles &c., or the clamp or clasp
may also be secured by a wedge, the cleat clamp or clasp to be made in one two or
three distinct parts exclusive of the bolts and nuts which will be used, to screw the
part or parts with the frame together thereby securing the combined cleat to the
aforesaid frames. This invention may be made of wood, iron. steel or any kind
of metal.
It is also to be observed, this invention is adapted to be made of any kind
of metal, whichever may be thought best and secured in the manner herein and
before mentioned, to suit the various requirements of those who may adopt it, for
securing ships cargo battens; or similar fittings for which it may be found adaptable
and necessary in connection with ship's cargo linings: and it is to be observed the
various methods of securing the combined cleat clamp or clasp, are interchangeable

page_text: (viz.) the wedge may be used instead of the bolt and nut, stud bolt, or thumbscrew
on any of the herein and beforesaid frames or angle-irons, where the clamp or
clasp has to be secured on the inside of the bulb angle frames, and reverse bars of
the Z-frames &c.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The same letters of reference indicate, the same parts in all the figures and dotted
lines show the parts not visible.
Fig. 1. shows a side elevation of the cleat clamp or clasp; in one part secured on
a bulb angle frame.
Fig. 2. shows a front elevation of the same.
Fig. 3. shows a plan; A represents the bulb angle bar; G the bulb.
cleat clamp or clasp combined: D being the cleat. C the clamp or clasp.
D. C. the
In Figure 1. E is a stud bolt with an hexagon head, which stud bolt is screwed
in and through a tapped hole on the left hand side of the clamp or clasp C. on the
bulb angle A. inside of the bulb G. In Figure 2. E is also a stud bolt through an
untapped hole in the clamp or clasp: but with a nut screwed on between the bulb
angle frame and the inside of the clamp or clasp as shown at N in Figure 3.
where the same means is applied, but with different bolts; the bolt in Figure 3
being a round or cup headed bolt must be drawn in, and the nut screwed up on the
inside of the clamp or clasp: whereas the former being a bolt with an hexagon
head it may be screwed in and on the frame, on the outside of the clamp or clasp,
the nut then being tightened up firmly secures the combined cleat clamp or clasp,
on the aforesaid frame B is a cargo batten, which is then secured by the same.
And it is to be observed this cleat has two holes in the clamp or clasp, which
holes are required to change the bolt from one side of the clamp or clasp to the
other side because the frames of the ship are reversed at about the centre of
the ship, and the flanges and bulbs point in opposite directions a certain length,
each way until the Z-frames are reached or two plain angle-irons riveted together
which form a Z frame; the flanges of which also point in opposite directions :
those at the fore part of the ship point in an opposite direction, to those at the
stern, and for that reason the combined cleat clamp or clasp, shown in Figures 14.
& 15. will be made left and right: left and right; also will apply, to Figures 1. 2.
should the wedge, be used instead of the bolts and nuts: no holes will be required,
but the clamp or clasp, will be turned as shown at I. J. Fig. 13. This combined
cleat clamp or clasp is suitable to be cast in any kind of metal, as T bars: or
channel bars; shown in the Figures 1. 2: 9. 10.
Fig. 4. shows a side elevation of the cleat clamp or clasp in two parts, secured on
a bulb angle frame in the same manner as Figure 1.
Fig. 5. shows a front elevation of the same.
Fig. 6. shows a plan of the same secured in the same manner: This combination
is suitable to be made in flat bar iron.
Fig. 7. shows a plan of the clamp or clasp in two parts, secured on the outside of
a bulb angle. D being the cleat Figure 4. without the lip F. shown Figures 9. 10.
or with the lip F. as it may be required: and it is to be observed, one half of this
clamp or clasp, is to be made or cast, in the form of the cleat D. shown in
Figures and 14: where the hole for the bolt is to be seen; or instead of a
T-bar, it may be made or cast as an angle bar cleat, with a hole in it, corresponding
to the other half of the clamp or clasp, and the bolt, then being put through the
two parts, and placed on the frame, and the nut screwed tight up, the cleat clamp
or clasp is then firmly secured on the frame.
This combination is suitable, to be made, in wrought iron, or cast malleable iron,
or steel.
Fig. 8. shows a plan of the clamp or clasp, in two parts, on a round bulb, [the
previous angle-irons being half round bulbs] to be fitted up and secured in the same
manner as mentioned above in Figure 7. in two parts, or three parts and made of
the same materials.

page_text: Fig. 9. show a side elevation of the cleat with the end turned or lipped at F. to
secure the cleat within the clamp or clasp C. when placed over cargo battens or
similar fittings instead of under them.
Fig. 10. shows a front view of the same.
Fig. 11. shows a side elevation of the cleat clamp or clasp secured on a bulb
angle frame by means of a wedge.
Fig. 12. shows a front elevation of the same.
Fig. 13. shows a plan of the same. A is the bulb angle. G is the bulb. C is
the clamp or clasp. I is the clamp or clasp, turned as shown in the drawing.
W is the wedge, which being driven in between A. G. C. I. the cleat D: with the
clamp or clasp C; is firmly secured on a bulb angle frame, as shown in the
drawings: the dotted lines at J. showing the form of the clamp or clasp, for a
larger and different shaped wedge.
Fig. 14. shows a side elevation of the cleat clamp or clasp in one part secured
on a Z-frame.
Fig. 15. shows a plan of the same, secured by means of a stud bolt, the hole
being a tapped hole, a nut at N. is not required, but it is to be observed a stud bolt
and a nut shown by the dotted lines N. will principally be used, instead of the
former: a groove the diameter of the nut, indicated by the dotted lines at K:
being made within, and on that side of the clamp or clasp, on which the bolt is;
the depth of the groove, being the thickness of the nut; and the length of the
groove, to allow the nut to be free, for the bolt to be screwed into the same, and on
the frame, the cleat clamp or clasp is secured as beforesaid.
Fig. 16. shows a plan of the cleat clamp or clasp, in two parts and secured on a
Z-frame in the same manner as the last, but in this instance, the groove will be
vertically inclined for the nut, the said groove also answering for a wedge instead
of a thumbscrew H.
Fig. 17. shows a plan of the cleat clamp or clasp, in three parts secured, on the
inside flange, of a Z-frame; the clamp or clasp in this instance is shown in the
drawing to be over the cleat, therefore over the batten: D being the cleat,
B the batten, the cleat being the same as shown, Figures 9. 10. with a lip at F.
shown by the arrow in the drawing: this clamp or clasp to be made in the form
shown in the drawing as a casting or flat bar iron; and secured by means of a
bolt and nut outside of the flange of the reverse bar, of the Z-frame.
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:-
1st. The employment relating to means, for securing cleats on bulb angles,
Z-frames, plain angle-irons, and the like, in the manner herein described.
2nd. The combination of a cleat with a clamp or clasp constructed arranged and
applied substantially as, and for the purposes beforesaid, and herein described, and
shown in the drawings.
3rd. The combination of the thumbscrew, the bolt and nuts, and the wedge with
the cleat clamp or clasp, arranged and applied substantially as, described and shown
in the drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of May 1894.
JAMES WILLIAM ROCKLIFFE.