AN IMPROVEMENT IN ANCHORS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Hunter, of 13, Ravensworth Terrace, Gates-
head, and Dock Anchor Works, Hartlepool, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN ANCHORS."
Sealed the 28th October 1856, and dated the 1st May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Hunter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st May 1856.
I, SAMUEL HUNTER, of 13, Ravensworth Terrace, Gateshead, and Dock
Anchor Works, Hartlepool, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN ANCHORS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in anchors," and is
applicable to that class of anchors where the arms move on pin joints at the
ends of the stems. Heretofore, in making such description of anchors, in
order to open out the arm of an anchor which comes to the ground, there
have been what are called toggles formed or fixed on the flukes or arms.
Now, my improvement consists in applying to the two sides of the shank
of an anchor a projection or palm, against which the palm with its arm which
takes the ground rests, and is thereby prevented coming to the stem. By
this arrangement, the palm and arm of the anchor is better ensured opening
out, and at the same time the projecting palm fixed to or formed with the stem
of the anchor itself acts as a palm to hold in the ground; the upper palm with
its arm is also prevented coming so near to the stem of the anchor as here-
tofore, which is an advantage, and the dispensing with the toggles renders
the anchor less liable to foul.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Hunter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HUNTER, of 13, Ravensworth Terrace, Gateshead, and Dock Anchor Works,
Hartlepool, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Hunter, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Hunter, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Hunter, my 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
ANCHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Hunter,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 I, the said Samuel Hunter, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in anchors, and is appli-
cable to that class of anchors where the arms move on pin joints at the ends
of the stems. Heretofore, in making such description of anchors, in order to
open out the arm of an anchor which comes to the ground, there have been
what are called 'toggles formed or fixed on the flukes or arms.
Now, my improvement consists in applying to the two sides of the shank
of an anchor a projection or palm, against which the palm with its arm which
takes the ground rests, and is thereby prevented coming to the stem. By
this arrangement, the palm and arm of the anchor is better ensured opening
put, and at the same time-the projecting -palm-fixed to or formed with the

page_text: stem of the anchor itself acts as a palm to hold in the ground; the upper
palm with its arm is also prevented coming so near to the stem of the anchor
as heretofore, which is an advantage, and the dispensing with the toggles
renders the anchor less liable to foul.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view of an anchor constructed according to my Inven-
tion; Figure 2 is a plan of the shank or stem thereof. The Drawing also
shows the forms and sections of palms, and parts which I prefer to use, but
these may bo varied if desired. a is the stem or shank; bare the arms and
flukes; c is the pin which connects these parts together, as heretofore. On
the shank or stem a of this anchor two projections with flukes or palms d, d,
are formed or affixed, and on the points of which projections & the palms or
flukes of the arms b come when the anchor takes the ground, as shewn in
Figure 1. The fluke or palm on the arm b, which is uppermost, comes on to
the uppermost palm & when the lower palms 6 and d are holding in the
ground.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
making the stems or shanks of this description of anchors with palms d.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Hunter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JOSEPH KELL,
Gateshead.
SAMUEL HUNTER. (L.S.)