IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR AND IN THE METHOD OF STOWING OR SEATING Suurs' ANCHORS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Baxter, of "The Homestead," Hornsey Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FITTINGS FOR AND IN THE METHOD OF STOWING OR SEATING Suurs'
ANCHORS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Baxter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd January 1882.
SAMUEL BAXTER of "The Homestead,” Hornsey Lane in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR AND IN THE METHOD OF STOWING
OR SEATING SHIPS' ANCHORS."
The Invention has for its object improvements in fittings for, and in the method
of, stowing or seating ships anchors of that class known as stockless anchors and
my Invention consists in making the hawse pipe of a size sufficient to take tho
anchor shank and with an internal flat surface so arranged as to causo the anchor
to cant into the required position when its shank is entering the pipe. The outer
mouth of the pipe must be kept a distance within the ship's outer skin and around
it a space or recess is formed for the arms and flukes to lie entirely within the
outside surface of the vessel, and by fitting the pipe at an angle of about thirty
degrees the anchor will, when let go, drop by gravitation. To avoid injury to the
cable when the ship is riding or when she is forging ahead of her anchor I fit a
bolster of iron around the recess which is tapered down to the plating or planking
of the ship upon which bolster the cable will bear as well as upon the rounded
mouth of the hawse pipe. By these means I am enabled to heave up and seat
ships' anchors within the ship without the intervention of any gear but the cable
attached to the anchor.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Samuel Baxter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd July 1882.
SAMUEL BAXTER of "The Homestead" Hornsey Lane in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR, AND IN THE METHOD OF STOWING
OR SEATING SHIPS' ANCHORS."
The Invention has for its object improvements in fittings for, and in the method
of stowing or seating ships' anchors of that class known as stockless anchors, and
my Invention consists in making the hawse pipe of a size sufficient to take the
anchor shank and with an internal flat surface so arranged as to cause the anchor
to cant into the required position when its shank is entering the pipe. The outer
mouth of the pipe must be kept a distance within the ship's outer skin and around
it a space or recess is formed for the arms and flukes to lie entirely within the
outside surface of the vessel, and by fitting the pipe at an angle of about thirty
degrees the anchor will, when let go, drop by gravitation. To avoid injury to the
cable when the ship is riding or when she is forging ahead of her anchor I fit a
bolster of iron or other material around the recess which is tapered down to the
plating or planking of the ship upon which bolster the cable will bear as well as
upon the rounded mouth of the hawse pipe-By these means I am enabled to
leave up and seat ships' anchors within the ship without the intervention of any
gear but the cable attached to the anchor, which cable is operated by a windlass or
capstan as usual.
.
And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed aided by the accompanying Drawings more
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the fore part of a ship with my Invention
applied thereto and showing the anchor stowed or seated in the recess provided
for it.
Figure 2 is a plan partly in section of the same and Figure 3 is a perspective
view similar to Figure 1, but showing the anchor suspended by its cable a short
distance below its recess.- represents the hawse pipe which according to my
Invention I make of a size sufficient to take the anchor shank ₺ but in place of
making it in the customary circular form I make the internal lower surface a¹
thereof somewhat flattened so as to cause the anchor shank b when it is entering
the pipe a to cant into the required position. The outer mouth of the hawse pipe a
is kept a suitable distance within the ship's outer skin and around it a space or
recess c is formed for the arms and flukes to lie entirely within the outside surface
of the vessel and by fitting the pipe a at an angle of about thirty degrees the
anchor will when let go drop by gravitation.
To avoid injury to the cable when the ship is riding or when she is forging
ahead of her anchor. I fit a bolster c¹ of iron or other material around the recess c
which bolster c¹ is tapered down to the plating or planking of the ship upon which
bolster the cable will bear as well as upon the rounded mouth of the hawse pipe.
By these means I am enabled to heave up and seat ships' anchors of the kind
known as trunnion anchors, within the ship without the intervention of any gear
but the cable attached to the anchor, and the windlass or capstan employed to
operate such cable.

page_text: If desired the space or recess c may be provided with a door or cover so as
completely to cover in the anchor.
I would here remark that I am aware that since my earlier experiments on the
subject of this Patent which commenced in 1870 elongated openings in ships have
been proposed for housing ships' anchors but in such case it is found necessary in
addition to the anchor cable and its operating capstan or windlass to employ guys
or other gear for conducting the anchors into such openings and it is also
necessary to use special constructions of anchors to facilitate their entering such
openings.
I therefore lay no claims to such means of housing swivelling fluked anchors.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode in which
I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is
Firstly. The improved fittings and method of stowing or seating ships' anchors
substantially as herein shown and described and
Secondly. I claim fitting hawse pipes with their external entrance a distanco
within the outer skin of the ship sufficient to permit of the arms and flukes
of the anchor being seated in a recess specially formed for the same and entirely
within the outer skin of the ship substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof I the said Samuel Baxter have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
SAML. BAXTER,
(L.S.)