Improvements in the Construction of Model Boats.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Model Boats.
ALFRED JAMES WAGGETT, 18, Bedford Place, Brighton, Musical Instrument
Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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A piece of wood is cut or bent to the sweep of the lowest line of the body of
the boat from stem head to end of counter. Another piece is cut to the deck line.
Two pieces of thin, flat wood or other substance are bent to the sides; the keel
is then fixed on; the deck is then fixed on completing the whole boat. Smaller
models may have a piece of wood the entire profile of the boat. The deck line
piece is fixed on the top at right angles and the thin sides complete the boat. A
piece of lead on the keel is necessary to all.
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Improvements in the construction of Model Doats.
ALFRED JAMES WAGGETT, 18, Bedford Place, Brighton, Musical Instrument
Dealer, 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 improvements in the construction of model boats, par-
ticularly for toys, and the invention has for its object to provide a quicker and
easier means of making such boats, and is applicable to model boats or yachts of
any length.
I will describe the invention as applied to toy yachts averaging twenty-four
inches in length for which it is more especially designed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification. Wherein;-
Fig. 1 is a fore-and-aft section or sheer plan, hereinafter called centre frame
Fig. 2 is a beam frame and plan, hereinafter called side frame.
Fig. 3 is a skin plan, hereinafter called side skin or skins.
Fig. 4 is a midship section.
Fig. 5 is a part section.
Fig. 6 is a side view of a side frame.
Fig. 7 is a modified form of centre frame.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all figures.
Referring to Figs. 1 to 3, the boat comprises three main parts, whereof one is
the centre frame A a a², Fig. 1, the same being the entire profile of a boat, the
second part is the side frame, Fig. 2, the third part is the side skin, Fig. 3. To
construct such a boat, it is preferable to make the centre frame, Fig. 1, of a

page_text: single piece of wood of about " in thickness, the top a³ forming a support for
the deck. For lightness this frame may be pierced, as indicated at the dotted
line a4444
The side frames Fig. 2, are preferably of wood, about 1" wide at BB, shaped at
the ends, as at 61, 62, and of about 3" in depth, Fig. 6, and securely fastened to the
corresponding ends of the centre frame at 61 and 62 respectively. If they are
fitted to rake slightly as at BB Fig. 5, they will produce the sheer deck line a',
Fig. 1. The lower edges of these frames are bevelled off at b, Fig. 5 to an angle,
as shewn by line 1-1; such that the converging lines made by the two opposite
frames will, if produced, meet always at the line a, a, a Figs. 1 and 4, or they
may be rabbeted to receive the side skins as at point b³, Figs. 4 and 5. In either
case the angles should be made to correspond.
The side skins, Fig. 3, are preferably of thin wood board about 3" thick and
of sufficient width to cover one side of the boat. Place one of these sides with
its edge c on to the bevelled edge or into the rabbet of the side frame, press the
ends and to meet the corresponding ends of the centre frame b', 62, and bevel
the edge to meet the line aaa Fig. 1, shewn in section at a Fig. 4. To
bend these sides more easily they may be steamed to render them more pliable.
The end will then be more easily twisted to fit up under the counter a6 Fig. 1.
When fitted, nail closely all round. It is obvious that the side frame b in
Figs. 4, 5, becomes part of the outer surface of the boat, and may now be shaped
to taste, and decked. Although preferable, it is not essential that the rudder a
Fig. 1 should be a fixture, it may be cut off and a rudder swung in the usual way.
Another way to join the edges of the side skins to the centre frame is as
follows. Cut the keel a¹ off along the line a, Fig. 1, and shape the whole length
of the centre frame to an angle, as shewn in section Fig. 5. This angle will
vary from midship to almost flat under the counter a Fig. I.
The side skin, Fig. 3, should now be cut wide enough to allow the edge to
overlap the whole length of the centre frame. Fix it on as before described, trim
off the superfluous edge, and fit and fix the second side skin, and trim off as for
the first side. The new edge c should now be cut off at the line a Fig. 5, and
the keel a (which may be of any shape desired) may now be replaced so as to
meet the centre frame at the point from which it was severed. The counter a
Fig. 1 may be cut off at any point, and a transom substituted.
The keel is pre-
ferably weighted with lead in the usual way. Referring to Fig. 7, d, d, d, is a
modified form of centre frame cut or bent to shape and may be substituted for
the frame A, Fig. 1, as shewn at lines d, d, d, Fig. 1; the ends 16 Fig. 7 corre-
sponding to the ends 6162 of the centre frame Fig. 1. The blocks Fig. 7
assist in holding the ends 6162 of the side frames Figs. 1, 2 & 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The herein described model boat, consisting of a central sheer frame com-
prising perpendiculars keel and rudder in one, a beam frame in combination, with
side skins forming the two sides of the boat, substantially as, specified.
2. The herein described model boat, consisting of a central sheer frame and keel,
and sides consisting of a beam frame and side skins, as specified.
3. The herein described model boat, consisting of a lower line sheer body frame,
a beam frame in combination with side skins forming the sides of the boat, as
specified.
Dated this Second day of July 1898