Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Engaging and Disengaging Boats on Ships.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1896--Accepted, 3rd Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Engaging and
Disengaging Boats on Ships.
We, RICHARD ANDERSON, of 65, Carter Street, Engineer, and WILLIAM PRENTICE,
of 24, Spencer Street, Chief Mate, both in Goole, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
According to our invention we employ hooks centred on the same axis which is
carried in a boss connected to the lowering blocks from the davits. A weight is
automatically slidable on the said hooks as hereinafter explained. When the said
hooks are joined to the eyebolts of the boat the weight is at the top of the said hooks
next or near to the axis, while the boat is out of contact with the water. As soon
as the boat comes in contact with the water the reaction causes the weight to fall, so
disengaging the hooks from the eyebolts and automatically releasing the boat.
Dated this 11th dow of Anvil 1806
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicants.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Engaging and
Disengaging Boats on Ships.
We, RICHARD ANDERSON, of 65 Carter Street Engineer, and WILLIAM PRENTICE
of 24 Spencer Street, Chief Mate, both in Goole in the County of York, 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 :-
This invention relates to engaging and disengaging hooks for ships life boats, and
are arranged that they will disengage themselves equally as well in rough, as in
smooth water, as soon as the boat is afloat, leaving her free to leave the ship, and so
avoids the risk of being smashed by the sea agaiust the side.
It is also impossible to turn the boat over while hung on the davits by passengers
or crew getting into her, as she is fitted with two eyebolts at each end, standing
athwart to which the hooks are attached. The hooks are also so constructed as to
prevent them from fastening again, when once disengaged that is, to the boat gunwale,
by a hollow weight which drops down over the hooks.

page_text: Fig. 2, is an end elevation showing hooks detached and weight or guard slid
down over the hooks to prevent re-engaging.
Fig. 3, is an end view of hooks.
According to our invention we employ hooks A and B centred on the same axis C
which is carried in a boss D connected by links E and F and pin G to the lowering
blocks from the davits.
A weight H is placed upon the blocks and embraces them and automatically
slides on the said hooks as hereinafter explained. When the said hooks A and B
are engaged in the eyebolts of the boat, the weight H is at the top of the said hooks
next or near the axis while the boat is out of contact with the water.
As soon as the boat comes in contact with the water, the weight of the boat is
taken off the hooks, which causes the embracing weight H, to slide down and disengage
the hooks from the eyebolts so automatically releasing the boat, and forming a guard
over the hooks prevents them from again engaging with the eyebolts or other part
of the boat when not required. A pin I, attached to the weight H by a chain, is
sometimes provided to keep the hooks open when required, the pin passing through
holes J in the weight.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. For engaging and disengaging ship's boats the employment of safety hooks
and weight guard substantially as shown and for the purposes described.
2. For engaging and disengaging ship's boats the combination of the hooks A
and B on pivot C with the weight guard H and link E and F substantially as shown
and described.
Dated this 21st day of December 1896.