IM- PROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Betteley, of Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Anchor Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS"
Sealed the 15th July 185%, and dated the 21st May 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Betteley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st May 1853.
I, JOSEPH BETTELEY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Anchor Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of two improvements in the construction of
anchors. First, in the mode of forming and affixing the arms to the
shank of an anchor. The arms are each of a curved form, and the
ends (by which they are fixed to the shank and to each other)
cross each other, and incline and run into the shank, and in this state

page_text: the parts are welded together, by which mode of combination greater
strength will be obtained, and facility of manufacture. Secondly, in
applying a disc on the shank of an anchor, in which disc are formed
sockets to receive the stock, which is made in two parts; the shank of
the anchor passing through the disc.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Betteley in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 21st November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH BETTELEY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Anchor
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Betteley, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph Betteley, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Betteley, 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 Chan-
nel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ANCHORS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Joseph Betteley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
eal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
ause the ane to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
x calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Betteley, 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 consists of two improvements in the construction of
anchors. First, in the mode of forming and affixing the arms to the
shank of an anchor. The arms are each of a curved form, and the
ends (by which they are fixed to the shank and to each other) cross
each other, and incline and run into the shank, and in this state the
parts are welded together, by which mode of combination greater
strength will be obtained, and facility of manufacture. Secondly, in
applying a disc on the shank of an anchor, in which disc are formed
sockets to receive the stock, which is made in two parts; the shank of
the anchor passing through the disc.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a side view; Figure 2, an edge view; and Figures 3,
and 4, show the manner of forming and putting the parts together. a, is
the shank of the anchor; b, b, are the armis, which are of a bent or curved
form, and where they join with the end of the shank they cross each
other and the end of the shank, and by such means a very strong weld-
ing of the parts together may be accomplished. The flukes are made
each of two surfaces, mecting together at an angle near the middle,
at e, by which the penetrating and holding are benefitted. Near the
other end of the shank is fixed a disc d, and above the disc is applied
the iron stock, which is of two parts, and put together by hoops or
screw bolts or nuts, as shown; and the stock may be fixed by means
of sockets formed to receive the same on the disc, as shewn by
Figure 5, or by passing a bolt through, as shewn in Figures 1, and 2.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the details herein given. But what I claim is, the

page_text: mode of constructing and affixing the arms and palms to the shank. I
also claim the application of a disc, and the means of forming and fixing
the iron stock.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Betteley, have hereunto
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
my
Witness,
B. GOBEY,
4, Old Square,
Lincoln's Inn.
JOSEPH BETTELEY. (L.s.)