A READY MEANS FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA IN CASES OF COLLISION OR WRECK
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic Pelham Warren, of Southsea, in the County of
Southampton, a Retired Captain from the Royal Navy, for the Invention of
"A READY MEANS FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA IN CASES OF COLLISION OR
WRECK."
Sealed the 25th February 1879, and dated the 30th August 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederic Pelham Warren at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th August 1878
FREDERIC PELHAM WARREN, of Southsea, in the County of Southampton, a
Retired Captain from the Royal Navy. A READY MEANS FOR SAVING LIFE AT
"
SEA IN CASES OF COLLISION OR WRECK."
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For this purpose I attach to the masts, bowsprit, funnels, turrets, or superstructure.
of the vessel layers of cork in suitable lengths, in some cases placed in air-tight
metal cases to obtain a greater buoyancy. These layers of cork are so fitted as 'to
be readily detached on the occasion of such disaster, and supply an immediate
means of saving life always at hand and available without interfering with the
working or fitting of the vessel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederic Pelham Warren in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th
February 1879.
FREDERIC PELHAM WARREN, of Southsea, in the County of Southampton, a
Retired Captain from the Royal Navy. "A READY MEANS FOR SAVING LIFE AT
SEA IN CASES OF COLLISION OR WRECK."
My Invention has for object a ready means for saving life at sea in cases of
collision or wreck. For this purpose I attach to the masts, bowsprit, funnels,
turrets, or superstructure of the vessel layers of cork in suitable lengths to form
buoys, in some cases placed in air-tight metal cases and made hollow to obtain
greater buoyancy. These layers of cork are so fitted as to be readily detached on
the occasion of a collision or wreck, and supply an immediate means of saving life,
always at hand and available without interfering with the working or fitting of
the vessel.
Referring to the accompanying Drawings,
Fig. 1 illustrates my Invention as applied to the funnel of a steam vessel.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view shewing the buoys only half way round the funnel.
Fig. 3 is an elevation to a larger scale of one of the buoys.
The buoys a are constructed of cork and made of any suitable size. They are
threaded on rods b suspended to the ring or rail c, fixed to the casing d of the funnel,
and are normally kept in position against the funnel casing, as shewn to the left in
Fig. 1, by a band e of canvas, or other material easily cut or severed, which embraces
their lower ends.
When required for use the band e is severed or unfastened, loosening the buoys a
and rods from the casing d, and as the vessel sinks the rods b become inverted,
allowing the buoys to slide off the rods and to float on the water in readiness
'for use.
4.
The lower tiers of buoys and gare kept in position by means of the canvas or
other band h, which being cut allows the buoys to be disengaged with great rapidity
and to be thrown overboard to persons struggling in the water, as for instance when
the vessel carrying the buoys has run into and sunk another vessel.
Fig. 4 is an elevation, and Fig. 5, a cross section, shewing my Invention as
applied to a bowsprit, and will be readily understood from the explanation already
given.
.
Figs. 6 and 7 shew the buoys made with holes or recesses closed at the ends by
plugs m to afford greater buoyancy, and enclosed in a metal case k. n is the hole
for the sustaining rod b to pass through.
The mode of applying my Invention to the masts, turrets, and superstructure of
a vessel is the same as to the other parts above described, and will be readily under-
stood without further explanation.
Having described the nature of my said Invention, and explained the manner in
which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would
have it understood that I claim as the Invention secured to me under the Letters
Patent herein-before in part recited, the improved means, substantially as herein;
before described with reference to the accompanying Drawings, for saving life at sea
in cases of collision or wreck, and particularly the mode of attaching the layers of
cork or buoys to the masts, bowsprit, funnels, turrets, or superstructure of the vessel.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederic Pelham Warren, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
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