IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Hingley, of Cradley, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, and Samuel Hingley, of Cradley aforesaid,
Manufacturer for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS."
Sealed the 6th October 1857, and dated the 8th April 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Hingley and
Samuel Hingley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 8th April 1857.
We, BENJAMIN HINGLEY, of Cradley, in the County of Worcester, Manu-
facturer, and SAMUEL HINGLEY, of Cradley aforesaid, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCHORS," to be
as follows:-
Our Invention consists, firstly, of the method herein-after described of con-
necting the toggles or horns of anchors with the arms of the said anchors.
And, secondly, of the method herein-after described of making the stocks of
anchors.
In connecting the toggle or horn with the arm of the anchor, according to
the first part of our Invention, we make a slot or mortice in the arın at that
part where the said toggle or horn is to be attached, the said slot or mortice
being made, by preference, square or angular. On the base of the toggle or
horn we forge a peg or tenon of a figure proper to fit the hole in the arm.

page_text: The said peg or tenon is inserted in the hole in the arm of the anchor, and a
pin being passed transversely through the said arm and tenon, the toggle or
horn is secured to the arm.
In carrying the second part of our Invention into effect, we bend the stock
of the anchor in the following manner :-We turn each of the ends of the stock
at right angles to the said stock, the said ends being so turned that they are
situated in the plane in which the shank of the anchor is situated. By thus
turning both ends of the stock the said ends are not liable to enter and engage
in the ground, and the anchor is more easily canted or turned on the point of
the fluke. By connecting the toggle or horn, according to the first part of our
Invention, the anchor may be made without welding any of its parts together,
and the injury to the iron and the weakness usually attendant on welding are
avoided.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin Hingley and Samuel Hingley in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 6th October 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, BENJAMIN
HINGLEY, of Cradley, in the County of Worcester, Manufacturer, and SAMUEL
HINGLEY, of Cradley aforesaid, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Benjamin Hingley and Samuel Hingley, Her special licence that
we, the said Benjamin Hingley and Samuel Hingley, our executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Benjamin Hingley and
Samuel Hingley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time 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 we, the said Benjamin
Hingley and Samuel Hingley, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
n writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us, or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause

page_text: 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 we, the said Benjamin Hingley and Samuel.
Hingley, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and aseer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists, firstly, of the method, herein-after described, and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, of connecting the toggles or horns of
anchors with the arms of the said anchors.
And, secondly, of the method, herein-after described, and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, of making the stocks of anchors.
Figure 1 represents, in elevation, parts of an anchor constructed according to
our Invention; Figure 2 represents, in side elevation, and Figure 3, in front
elevation, a finished anchor made according to our Invention, the stock being
represented in section in Figure 3. In connecting the toggles or horns with
the arms of the anchor, according to the first part of our Invention, we make a.
slot or mortice in the arm at that part where the said toggle or horn is to be
attached. The slots or mortices are indicated by dotted lines at a in Figure 1.
We prefer to make the said slots or mortices square or angular, but do not
limit ourselves thereto. On the base of each of the toggles or horns & we forge
a peg or tenon c, of a figure proper to fit the slots or mortices a in the arms.
The pegs or tenons c are inserted in the slots or mortices a in the arms of
the auchor, and a pin being passed transversely through the arm and tenon
and rivetted therein, the toggles or horns are secured to the arms. The holes
in the toggles and arms through which the pin is passed are marked respec-
tively d and e in Figure 1, and the rivetted pins are represented at fin
Figure 3.
In carrying the second part of our Invention into effect, we bend the stock of
the anchor in the manner illustrated in Figure 2. We turn each of the ends
of the stock g, g, at right angles to the said stock. The turned ends of the
stock are marked h in Figure 2. By thus turning both ends of the stock the
said ends are not liable to enter and engage in the ground, and the anchor is
more easily canted or turned on the point of the fluke. By connecting the
toggles or horns with the arms of the anchor, according to the first part of our
Invention, the anchor may be made without welding any of its parts together
and the injury to the iron and the weakness usually attendant on welding are
avoided.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not limit

page_text: ourselves to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of our Invention; but we
claim as our Invention,―
Firstly, connecting the toggles or horns of anchors with the arms of anchors
by inserting a peg or tenon on the toggle in a slot or mortice in the arm and
rivetting the same together, as herein-before described, and illustrated in
Figures 1 and 3 of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly, bending each end of the stocks of anchors at right angles to the
stock, as herein-before described, and illustrated in Figure 2 of the accom-
panying Drawing.
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Hingley and Samuel Hingley
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Third day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
BENJAMIN HINGLEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
WILL R. SMITH.
SAMUEL HINGLEY.
(L.S.)