IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Greenway, of Cheltenham, in the
County of Gloucester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ANCHORS."
Sealed the 2nd February 1853, and dated the 9th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Greenway
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th December 1852.
I, CHARLES GREENWAY, of Cheltenham, in the County of Glou-
cester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of making the stem of plates of sheet
iron, and such plates are kept at a distance by wood or by angle or
other iron, and also in making the arms of plates of sheet iron;
such plates being kept apart by wood or by angle or other iron, are
rivetted to the plates of thein, the plates constituting the stem, and
the arms are combined by rivets, bolts, or hoops. By this con-

page_text: struction great strength will result, and a cheap means of construct-
ing anchors will be obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Greenway in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th June 1853.1
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
CHARLES GREENWAY, of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Greenway, Her
special licence that I, the said Charles Greenway, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Greenway, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
tine 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 ANCHORS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Greenway, by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
inanner 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Greenway, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):

page_text: This Invention consists of making the stem of plates of sheet
iron, and such plates are kept at a distance by wood or by angle
or by other iron, and the flukes are rivitted to the plates of the
arms. The plates constituting the arms are combined by rivits,
bolts, or hoops. By this construction great strength will result,
and a cheap means of constructing anchors will be obtained.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully under-
stood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the
means pursued by mc.
Figure 1, shows a side view of an anchor without a stock, con-
structed according to my Invention; Figure 2, is an edge view
thereof; Figure 3, is a section when wood is used for keeping the
plates separate; and Figure 4, another section when angle iron is
employed; but the keeping of the plates apart may be by cast iron.
The stem is made of two plates a, a, kept apart by wood b, or by
angle iron c, c, or it may be by other form of iron wrought or cast.
The arms 6, 6*, are also formed of two plates c*, c*, and they also
are to be kept apart in like manner to the plates forming the stem.
The flukes or palms are formed and fixed as is shewn, or in any
other convenient manner. In the construction shown there are
only two plates to form the stem, and such is the case in respect to
the arms; but more plates may be used and kept apart one from the
other in like manner to that above described. In the arrangement
shown the parts are all combined by rivits, but they may also have
hoops, and bolts and nuts may be employed.
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 form shown, as the shapes of the
plates may be varied, and such is, the case in respect to other de-
tails; but what I claim is, the mode herein described of constructing

page_text: anchors by employing plates of metal kept apart, and combined or
fixed together as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Greenway, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE.
CHARLES. GREENWAY.. (L.S.).