Improvements in the Method of Attaching or Hanging the Rudders: of Boats, Canoes, and Small Craft generally.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
Improvements in the Method of Attaching or Hanging the Rudders:
of Boats, Canoes, and Small Craft generally.
I DICKSON JOHN CHARLES LAKER 42, Burlington Road Ipswich Bankers"
Clerk 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, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of
drawings
The improvement consists in substituting for the ordinary eyes & pintles, or any
similar device, or any other device used for attaching rudders to boats, canoes etc.
as above, the following arrangement, the parts composing such arrangement being
made of any suitable metal or material, and being plainly shewn in the drawing
herewith. A rod of any suitable material & parallel throughout its working length,
is attached to the stern part of the canoe, boat, or other craft to which it is to be
fitted, by means of two eyes, B and E, or straps with eyes, these eyes, or straps
being riveted, or otherwise secured to the stern of the craft, as above mentioned.
The hole in the upper strap or eye, B, may be of sufficient size to take the rod
without shake, & through this hole the rod is passed, and its lower end riveted
or screwed into the hole in lower strap or eye, E, the upper, end of rod, aforesaid,
projecting any suitable distance above upper strap or eye, B, before mentioned: or
To the
the rod may be attached to boat &c. in any other convenient manner.
rudder are riveted, or otherwise secured, an upper eye, or strap with eye, (A and
Plan 11) of suitable size to slide easily upon the rod aforesaid, and also two lower
straps or braces, one end of each of such straps or braces terminating in a hook
(see C & D). These lower straps or braces are fitted to opposite sides of the
rudder, (see Plan 1) and the hooks thereof, C and D, are placed so that their
hollows embrace the rod aforesaid, upon which they may turn or slide, being so
proportioned as to grasp the said rod without shake or play, and being so fixed
upon rudder as to secure its inner edge or edge nearest boat etc. from injury
(see view of one of the hooks in position and enlarged). These lower straps or
braces, with hooks, C and D, are not in the same horizontal plane, but are placed
one above another (as shewn in drawing) and on opposite sides of rudder, being
separated by any suitable vertical distance according to size of rudder used. To
ship" or put on the rudder, the lowest hook, D, is placed on rod aforesaid,
which it may embrace at any point below the upper eye or brace, B, on stern of
boat &c., the rudder being held, at an angle, sideways so as to allow upper
hook, C, to clear rod. The rudder is then inclined to the vertical, until the upper
hook, C, also engages rod, when the rudder may be lowered until the upper eye-
or strap on it, A, encircles the projecting upper part of rod, & also rests,
preferably, upon the upper eye, B, on stern of boat &c.; it is then " shipped," or
put on. To "unship," or take it off, the rudder is lifted until its upper eye, A,
clears top of rod; it is then inclined laterally, until the upper hook, C, is free, &
further in the same direction until the lower hook, D, is also clear; it is then off,
or "unshipped."
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Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The substitution (for any fittings now placed or used, or to be used, on
lower parts of rudders for their attachment to boats, canoes &c., as above, whether
such fittings consist of an eye or pintle, or of any other device whatsoever) of two

page_text: straps or braces, one end of each of such straps or braces terminating in a hook,
placed one above another and on opposite sides of rudder, to which they are
attached in the position & manner above described and
2nd. The substitution of the fittings herein described, and taken as a whole,
and in their entirety, for any existing arrangement or fittings in use, or to be
used, for any similar purpose or purposes.
Dated this 15th day of February 1894.
DICKSON JOHN CHAS. LAKER.