Ax IMPROVED METAL LASHING FOR SHIPS' STAYS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
for the Invention of "Ax IMPROVED METAL LASHING FOR SHIPS' STAYS."
-A communication from Aimé Mehu, residing at St. Malo,
France.
Sealed the 18th March 1873, and dated the 3rd October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd October 1872.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
6 Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METAL LASHING FOR SHIPS' STAYS,"
communicated to me by Aimé Mehu, a person resident at St. Malo,
France, to be as follows:-
The Invention relates a new and improved means for lashing or
attaching by metal holders ships' stays, ropes, and shrouds, and which

page_text: may be advantageously substituted for the rope-yarn lashings hitherto
in general use, as the latter arrangement very often when strained by
violent tension becomes loose, loses its original shape, and eventually
gives way, causing the most serious accidents.
The Invention consists of two iron plates (galvanised if preferred) i
bent into such a manner that two of them may form a collar which
holds the two parts of the stay, shroud, or rope to be lashed together.
Said plates are provided with projecting hooks forming part of the plate
itself and bent outwards, which fit between the hooks of the corre-
sponding plate, and into which iron keys or wedges (which may also be 1
galvanised) are driven when the apparatus is applied to the stay or
shroud in order to hold the lashing firmly together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18,
Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her:
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special
licence that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
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 "Aw
IMPROVED METAL LASHING FOR SHIPS' STAYS," a communication from Aimé
Mehu, a person resident at St. Malo, France, upon the condition.
time

page_text: (amongst others) that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
5 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 Henri Adrien Bonnevillo, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
O is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, referénce being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say):-
The Invention relates to an improved means of lashing or seizing
5 ships' stays, ropes, and shrouds, which may be advantageously sub-
stituted for the rope yarn seizings hitherto in use, as the latter are
liable to become loose, and eventually give way under the strain to
which they are subjected in heavy weather.
This Invention consists of a metal lashing in the form of a collar to
hold the two parts of the stay, shroud, or rope to be fastened together.
This lashing or collar may be made of copper, or of wrought iron, which
may be galvanized to avoid rust. The collar is made in two parts or
balves, locked together by metal keys or wedges inserted between hooks
or lugs formed thereon. Each half consists of a metal plate bent into
5 the desired form, and provided with the said hooks or lugs which form
part of the plate itself, those of the one plate being made to fit between
those of the other. The interior surface of both parts of the collar may
be serrated or roughened to receive the temporary yarn seizing which is
first applied.
). The device is fixed in the following manner:-The parts of the stay,
shroud, or rope to be fastened are pressed closely together, and a yarn.
seizing is wound round them a few times to retain them in position
whilst the metal collar is being applied (this yarn seizing may however
be dispensed with). The two halves of the metal lashing or collar are
then fitted thercon and keyed together by the wedges, which are driven
in tightly to make all secure.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows the two halves or parts separated; Figure 2 is a top
view of same; and Figures 3 and 4 face views.
Figure 5 shows in front and edge view one of the wedges detached,
and Figure 6 shows the device applied to a ship's shroud.
5
a, a, are the two halves or parts of the lashing bent to the form shown
and formed with hook-shaped lugs b, those in the one half or part
interlocking with those in the other, and bent backwards in a hook
form at the extremities, as shown; c is one of the wedge-shaped keys.
It is formed with a shoulder c'at the upper part to form a stop to 1
prevent it slipping out of place. The two parts being fitted together
with the ropes between them are locked by inserting the keys c behind
the hooks b, as shown in Figure 6. One or more of these metal lashings
or collars may be applied near together to the same ropes, if required,
and the one which is nearest to the dead eye or block d around which 1
the bight of the rope passes may be flared or enlarged at the lower
edge a¹, Figure 1, to accomodate itself to the direction of the rope.
This Invention is applicable both to hemp and wire ropes.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim as the 2
Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the metal lashing or seizing constructed, applied, and secured
substantially as herein-before described and shown in the Drawings for
the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have 2
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
thrce.