Hanging or Sliding Panels or Shutters for Dividing Ships' Holds or Warehouses.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Hanging or Sliding Panels or Shutters for Dividing Ships' Holds or
Warehouses.
1, CHARLES MOORE, of No. 38, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London,
Shipping Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
In consequence of loss of life and proporty at sea through the shifting of coal
grain or other homogeneous cargoes stowed in bulk, and so many vessels sailing and
never being heard of again, I have devised a system of movable metal partitions
for dividing the holds or cargo decks into compartments or bins. Spontaneous
combustion of coal is facilitated by the wooden planks which are now used for this
purpose, and this wood provides a kindling for assisting the conflagration. To over-
come the objection to permanent iron bulkheads, I apply metal in the following
manner :-
(1) In shallow holds the shutters may be made to slide in grooves, and run in
and out by a siding.
(2) Long shutters to hook into eye-bolts on the beams or bolted on to a girder
attached to the deck beams. When the shutters are bolted or hooked they may
be swung up and buttoned. Instead of making the long shutters in one length
I construct them in plates and bolt them together, or if preferred they can be
hooked to each other. The bottom panel is bolted to a girder or fastened with
screw bolts.
(3) The shifting plates for grain laden vessels may be manufactured of galvanised
steel, zinc, or enamelled metal, or the plates may be coated with bath enamel or
any other kind of non-corrosive substance.
(4) The girder intercepting the hatchway may be secured by sliding into
recesses at either end; and this girder, if fitted with ring-bolts, can be used for
fastening down the hatches.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is a general view of shutters running amidships of a ship's hold; or in
warehouses.
Fig. 2. The deck, the beam supporting the desk, and clamp with eyes.
Fig. 24 shewing shutter swung on clamp and bolted. Fig. 2 shews the shutter
end on with eye through which the bolt is run.
Fig. 3. Shews girder or angle iron fitted with lugs. Eyes are fixed lengthwise of
the shutters and bolted and nutted. Fig. 3 is an end view.
Fig. 4. Lower hold shewing one shutter bolted to another and hanging to deck
beams or girder or angle iron, Fig. 4^ shewing lower shutter bolted to a stop on the
floor, and Fig. 4B shewing method of bolting shutters by clamp, bolt, and nut.
Fig. 4, end view of Fig. 4. Fig. 4º end view of Fig. A.
Fig. 5. Grooved girder attached to beams of hold or warehouse.
Fig. 6. Grooved girder fitted on floor.
Fig. 7. Shewing attachment of shutter by rod and eyes; Fig. 7 end view of
Fig. 7.
Fig. 8. Bolted shutters and girder or angle iron attachment on beams of ships,
and warehouses and on floors.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
laim is :-
(1) The application of iron, steel, or any other metal or combination of matala ta

page_text: the fitting of partitions, in ships or warehouses, of a movable character in whole
lengths or in sections of shutters.
(2) The fixing of these shutters so that they can be slided into position or
screwed or bolted or hooked at the top or bottom of a ships hold or between decks
or in a warehouse.
In witness thereof, I, the said Charles Moore, have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty-seventh day of October in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and ninete
Witness,
THOMAS BROWN,
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East Anglian Daily Times," Ipswich.
CHARLES MOORE.