IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPS' PENS for CATTLE AND IN ATTACHMENTS THEREFOR."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of the Firm of Herbert and
Company, Solicitors of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster,
Civil Engineer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPS' PENS for
CATTLE AND IN ATTACHMENTS THEREFOR." A communication from abroad by
Sumner Shaw, of Massachusetts, United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1881.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SHIPS' PENS FOR CATTLE AND IN ATTACHMENTS THEREFOR.” [A com-
munication from abroad by Sumner Shaw, of Massachusetts, United States of
America.]
This Invention relates to improvements on ships' berths or live stock pens on
board of ships, and consists in suspending the berth or pen from a frame or parts
of the ship by inclined chains, ropes, or rods fastened to the sides or top of tho
berth or pen in such a manner that a space is left between it and the frame or
part of the ship from which it is suspended sufficiently to allow it to move enough
to overcome the fore and aft motion of the ship.
The berth or pen is further supported and stayed by a rope or chain passing
under it, and through two or more pulley blocks secured firmly to the bottom of
the berth or pen. The ends of said rope or chain are firmly secured to the same
framo or part of the ship, as also the inclined chains, ropes, or rods before
mentioned; and the Invention further consists in the construction of said pens
with attachments combined with chains made of an elastic link or links; also in
fitting the top, bottom, and sides of the pen with buffing contrivances, so that
in very violent weather the shock between the pen and the frame or deck may be
lessened.
The object of this Invention is to allow the berth or pen to remain nearer level
than those now in use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Herbert John Haddan in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th December 1881.
"
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SHIPS' PENS FOR CATTLE AND IN ATTACHMENTS THEREFOR." A com-
munication from abroad by Sumner Shaw, of Massachusetts, United States of
America.
This Invention relates to improvements on ships' berths or live stock pens on
board of ships, in which the berth or pen is suspended from a frame or parts of
the ship by inclined chains, ropes, or rods fastened to the sides or top of the berth
or peu in such a manner that a space is left between it and the frame or part of
the ship from which it is suspended sufficiently to allow it to move enough to
overcome the fore and aft motion of the ship.
The berth or pen is further supported and stayed by a rope or chain passing
under it and through two or more pulley blocks secured firmly to the bottom of
the berth or pen. The ends of said rope or chain are firmly secured to the same
frame or part of the ship as the inclined chains, ropes, or rods before mentioned.
The object of this Invention is to allow the berth or pen to remain noarer level
than those now in use, and it is carried out as follows:-Reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, on which Figure 1 represents a plan view; Figure 2
ropresents a contral longitudinal section; and Figuro 3 represents an end elevation
of this Invention, the several Figures of the Drawings representing a live stock-
pen, but the Invention is equally well adapted for ships' berths or other self
loveling ships' furniture.
A represents a berth or pen suspended from the frame 6 by means of the ropes,
chains, or rods c, c, c, c, fastened at their upper ends to eyebolts or rings b¹, b', b¹¹,6",
on the frame b, said bolts or rings being placed in a horizontal lino a little distance
apart. The lower ends of the chains, ropes, or rods c, c, c, c, are fastened to
eyebolts or rings a¹, a¹, a", a", on the berth or pen a placed about twice the
distance apart that the bolts or rings b¹, b², 6, 6, are, and in such a manner that
when the ship rolls, the pen or birth a remains level or nearly so.
The object of using two or more inclined chains, ropes, or rods c, c, c, c, on cach
end of the berth or pen a fastened at different places on the frame b or part of
ship is to prevent said berth or pen from canting or tipping, as it would if only
one chain or fastening place was used, provided it was loaded heavier on one sido
than on the other; also to prevent the berth or pen from being carried too far to
one side, which would be liable to freight the ship too heavily on one side in a
heavy sea. d represents a rope or chain extending from one side to the other of
the frame b under the berth or pen a, and through two or more pulley blocks e, e, e, e,
secured to the bottom of the berth or pen a. The ends of the chain or rope & are
fastened to the eyebolts or rings f, f, on the frame b, which bolts or rings aro
located about one half the distance below the line of the bolts b', b¹, b¹¹, 11.
The object of the rope or chain d is to prevent any sudden jerking of the berth
or pen, caused by the rolling of the ship, and also to help hold the berth or pen a
from moving far enough to one side to careen the ship, and to provide an easy
motion foro and aft by the pulleys e, e, c, e, moving on the chain or rope d.
9, g, represent rubber buffers attached to the frame b, or part of ship a little above
the line of the bottom of the berth or pen a to cushion the berth or pen a in a
very heavy sea.

page_text: CLAIMS.
1st. A ship's berth or live stock pen a on board of ships suspended from the
frame b or part of ship by means of the inclined chains, ropes, or rods c, c, c, c, as
and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. In a ship's berth or live stock pen the chains, ropes, or rods c, c, c, o,
attached in their lower and upper ends respectively to independent points of tho
berth and upper support, the pulleys e, e, e, e, and rope or chain & supported
at the ends and passing by said pulleys, as and for the purpose set forth and
described.
3rd. In combination with a ship's berth or live stock pen the supporting chains,
ropes, or rods c, c, c, c, the pulleys e, e, e, e, and rope or chain & supported at the
ends, and passing by said pulleys, as and for the purpose set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of December, A.D. 1881.
HT T HADDAN