IMPROVEMENTS IN LOGS AND SOUNDING APPARATUS
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
MASSEY, of Chadwell Street, Middleton Squaro, in the County of Middlesex,
Watch Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of
February (One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight), in the eleventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Edward Massey, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Edward Massey, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Edward Massey, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOGS AND SOUNDING APPARATUS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Edward Massey,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date'
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Massey, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by, the following statement thercof, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION.
Figure 1 shows a side view and Figure 2 a plan of an apparatus combined
with an ordinary log, so as to facilitate the use of a log at the side of a ship
or vessel. On to the side of the ship or vessel is fixed an open socket a below
the surface of the water, to receive the end of a bar b, such bar having a pro-
jection c, to which the log line d is affixed, by which means the log is held at
a distance from the side of the ship or vessel. e is a line fixed to the log
line d, and is for the object of raising the log on to the deck, and this line c
will be affixed to the line d at such a distance from the projection c as will
allow of bringing the log on to the deck. The barb slides into the open
socket, as is shown, and the upper end is to be fixed to the side of the ship or
vessel in any convenient manner. The novelty of this part of the Invention
consists of applying an apparatus to the side of a ship or vessel, so as to hold
off the log from the side.
Figure 3 shows the second part of my Invention, and is also for apparatus
for holding a log in such manner that it may be readily fixed to the side of the
vessel while afloat. f is a bar fixed to the side of a ship or vessel, having a
projecting staple g, as shown, and to the log line d is fixed a cross bar 7,
which passes through the staple g. A line i is fixed to retain it in position,.
and another line j is affixed to raise the log on to the deck, and this will be
accomplished by slacking off the line i and raising the line j. This part of
my Invention consists of the mode of arranging and applying the bar f,
with its staple, combined with the use of the cross bar and lines i, j, as
described.
Another part of my Invention is shown at Figures 4, 5, and 6. Figure 4
shows the section of apparatus passing through an opening at the side of the
keel of a ship or vessel. k is a tube fixed water-tight, and rising to such
a position in the ship or vessel as may be desired. 7 is an inner tube fixed.
within the tube k, and rising to a position sufficient for the piston to act:
therein. The log used in this case is a cone m, which has a weight m¹ which
keeps the cone from revolving by making that side heaviest. n is the log line,.
which, passing under the pulley o, and rises to the instrument p, which I call
a piston. It consists of two circular plates fixed together by a stem, as shown,
and the object of this instrument is to diminish any sudden movement of the

page_text: line, and consequently of the index hand g, with which the line is connected.
Hence, when the index plate r is graduated by trial, and the distance moved
through by the index hand, by. the ship or vessel moving at certain rates
through the water, it will afterwards readily be known at what speed the vessel
is going through the water by simply looking at the index hand and observing
its position on the index plate. The novelty of this part of the Invention
consists of the arrangement of apparatus p, and parts connected therewith,
combined with a suitable instrument acting as a log.
Another part of my Invention is shewn at Figures 7, 8, 9, and 10, and
consists of giving buoyancy to a log by employing a hollow vessel, as. shown.
Figure 7 shows a side view of this log; Figure 8, an end view; Figure 9, a
side view, with one of the side plates removed to show the counting wheelwork;
and Figure 10 shows how the log line is fixed to a bar so that the log may be
sunk to a desired depth, the ring r' embracing the rod, and the clips s being
fixed at any position of the rod, prevents the end of the log line rising or
falling. The lanyard t is fixed to the rotator in the manner hercin-after
explained as another part of my Invention. t is the hollow vessel which gives
buoyancy to the log, and in fact is so arranged as to make the whole log appa-
ratus about the weight of water. The Drawing shows the construction of
all the apparatus, and a workman will readily produce the same, the novelty
consisting, as before. stated, of giving buoyancy to the log apparatus by means
of a hollow vessel.
Another part of my Invention relates to fixing the lanyard to rotators used
in logs and sounding apparatus. Figure 11 shows a side view and Figure 12
an end view of this apparatus fixed to the lanyard according to my Invention.
vis the rotator formed on a tube v', the interior of which is conical, the largest
diameter being outwards, and the lanyard is fixed by binding the outer
end of the lanyard round with wax end, so as to enlarge it, and then drawing
the lanyard through, by which the lanyard will be held securely. This part of
my Invention consists of the mode of fixing the lanyard of a rotator of log and
sounding apparatus herein described.
Another part of my Invention is shown at Figure 13, which shows a
sounding machine such as heretofore made by me, but with a new mode of
fixing the lanyard of the rotator to the apparatus. This improvement consists
of fixing the end of the lanyard in like manner to that above described in a
tube, and then fixing the tube in a socket w, by screws a, a, as shown.
Another part of my Invention is shown at Figures 14, 15, 16, and 17, and
consists of giving play to the upper end of the axis of the rotator of a
sounding apparatus, and this may be done in different ways.

page_text: Figure 14 shews a sounding machine such as I have heretofore made; but
the axis y at its upper end plays to and fro freely in a slotted bearing y¹,
shown in plan at Figure 15. By this arrangement the axis y will at all
times be able to assume a vertical position when sinking, which is very
important.
Figures 16 and 17 show a plan and side view of another mode of giving
play to the axis y, and consists of making the bearing moveable by slots, as
shewn; and the mode of giving play to the axis y may be varied from what
is shewn in the Drawing, so long as the upper part of the axis y is capable
of play, so as to enable it to assume a vertical position in descending in the
water.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the details, so long as the peculiar character of either part of my Invention
be retained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Massey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
EDWARD (L.s.). MASSEY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid Edward Massey came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One