IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF APPLYING AND SECURING THOWL PINS OR ROWLOCKS TO BOATS, BARGES, LIGHTERS, AND ALL CRAFT PROPELLED BY MEANS OF OARS OR SCULLS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Watson, of Jarrow; in the County of Durham,
Block Maker, and Thomas Benjamin Davison, of Munster Square,
Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanic, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF APPLYING AND SECURING THOWL PINS
OR ROWLOCKS TO BOATS, BARGES, LIGHTERS, AND ALL CRAFT PROPELLED BY
MEANS OF OARS OR SCULLS."
Sealed the 12th September 1861, and dated the 20th March '1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Watson and
Thomas Benjamin Davison at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,.
with their Petition, on the 20th March 1861.
We, JOSEPH WATSON, of Jarrow, in the County of Durham, Block Maker,
and THOMAS BENJAMIN DAVISON, of Munster Square, Regent's Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF APPLYING AND SECURING
THOWL PINS OR ROWLOCKS TO BOATS, BARGES, LIGHTERS, AND ALL CRAFT PRO-
PELLED BY MEANS OF OARS OR SCULLS," to be as follows:-
A box or case of suitable form and size to be affixed inside the boat under-
neath or level with the gunwale of the boat, barge, lighter, or other craft to
which this Invention may be applied; the box or case to contain two thowl pins,

page_text: such thowl pins to work in two grooves or guides each opposite the other, and
attached to or formed in the two inside ends of the box or case, the thowl pins
to be connected together at their bottom ends by a transverse piece; in or
about thec entre of the transverse piece a pin or plug to be affixed, such pin or
plug to project through a slot or longitudinal cut in the box or case, by means
whereof the thowl pins may be raised or projected through openings in the top
of the box or case, such openings to correspond in size and shape to the thowl
pins; the thowl pins when raised or projected to be held in their place by a slide,
bolt, or other suitable fastening, to be shot underneath or through the pin or
plug projecting through the slot or longitudinal cut aforesaid, the side of the box
or case containing the slot or cut to take off or open, to allow broken thowl pins
to be replaced or such other adjustments made as may be deemed necessary.
The thowl pins, box, or case, and internal and external fittings thereof, to
be made of wood, metal, or such other substance or material as may be
deemed most suitable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, tiled
by the said Joseph Watson and Thomas Benjamin Davison in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th September 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
WATSON, of Jarrow, in the County of Durham, Block Maker,. and THOMAS
BENJAMIN DAVISON, of Munster Square, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Mechanic, sends greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Joseph Watson and Thomas Benjamin Davison, Her special
licence that we, the said Joseph Watson and Thomas Benjamin Davison,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Joseph Watson and Thomas Benjamin Davison, our executors, administra-
tors, 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 THE MODE OF AP-"
PLYING, FIXING, AND SECURING THOWLE PINS OR ROWLOCKS TO BOATS, BARGES,

page_text: LIGHTERS, AND. OTHER CRAFT MOVED OR PROPELLED BY MEANS OF OARS OR SCULLS,""
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Watson, and
Thomas Benjamin Davison, our executors, or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our or one of our hands and seals, should particularly
describe and, ascertain the nature of, the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to 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 we, the said Joseph Watson and Thomas Benjamin
Davison, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement and the accompanying Drawing
(that is to say):
A box or case of suitable form and size to be affixed inside the boat or
other craft to which this Invention may be applied, underneath or level with
the gunwale of the boat, barge, lighter, or other craft; the said box or
case to contain one or more thowle pin or pins, such thowle pin or pins to be
made to work in one or more suitable grooves or guides, each opposite the
other, and attached to or formed in the centre (if but one) such thowle pin) or
at the two inside ends of the box or case (if more than one). The thowle pin
or pins to be connected at the bottom end or ends by a transverse piece, and in
or about the centre of such transverse piece shall be affixed a pin or plug to
project through a slot or longitudinal cut in such box or case, by means
whereof such thowle pin or pins may be raised or projected through openings
in the top of the box or case, such openings to correspond in size and shape
to the said thowle pin or pins; such thowle pin or pins when raised or
projected to be held in place by a slide, bolt, or other suitable fastening, to be
shot or slided underneath or through the pin or plug, projecting through the
slot or longitudinal cut aforesaid.
The side of such box or case containing such slot or cut to be made to take
off or open to allow of broken or damaged thowle pins being replaced, or such
other repairs or amendments as may be from time to time deemed necessary
or proper. The said thowle pin or pins, box, or case, and internal and external
fittings thereof, to be made of wood, metal, or such other material as may be
deemed most suitable and as occasion may require.
And we, the said Joseph Watson and Thomas Benjamin Davison, do hereby
claim the said Invention for improvements in the mode of applying, fixing,
and securing thowle pins or rowlocks to boats, barges, lighters, and other
craft propelled by means of oars or sculls, as herein-before specified and set

page_text: forth, and also as delineated in the Drawings or plans hereunto annexed or
referred to.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Watson and Thomas Benjamin
Davison, have hereunto set our 'hands and seals, this Nineteenth day
of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-one.
JOSEPH WATSON.
(L.S.)
THOMAS BENJAMIN DAVISON. (L.S.)