IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP BUILDING
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Schollick, of Ulverston, Ship Builder,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP BUILDING."
Scaled the 26th July 1855, and dated the 20th May 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Schollick
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th May 1853.
I, SAMUEL SCHOLLICK, of Ulverston, Ship Builder, do hereby declare
that the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP
BUILDING" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of employing straight timber to construct
the timbers or framings of ships and vessels by causing the straight
timber to be cut with longitudinal saw cuts, so that by removing
portions the remaining straight timbers may be caused to bend with
facility, and assume the contour desired, the parts where portions are
cut away scarfing or coming together so as to form good joints.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Schollick in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 19th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
SAMUEL SCHOLLICK, of Ulverston, Ship Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Schollick, Her special
licence that I, the said Samuel Schollick, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Schollick,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and I. cand, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP BUILDING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Schollick, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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 Schollick, 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 consists of employing straight timber to construct
the timbers or framings of ships and vessels by causing the straight
timber to be cut with longitudinal saw cuts, so that by removing

page_text: portions the remaining straight timbers may be caused to.. bend with
facility, and assume the contour desired, the parts where portions.ȧré
cut away scarfing or coming together so as to form good joints,
The principle, of my Invention in ship building consists in using
straight timber for framing by splitting it with a saw when, a bend
is required, and scarfing it in such a manner as to do away with
futtocks, bending the timber without breaking the fibre of the wood.
It will be seen from the Drawing that two parts of the framing are
whole where a scarf is made, and the scarf being formed with a long
cut when the whole is well bolted together makes it nearly as strong
as one piece grown in tlic shape required.
In building a ship the timbers are all, sawn out first, similar to A 1,
and B 1, and put up to season till all is ready for putting the ship
together. They are then steamed and bent on the platform, as shown
in Drawing, and allowed to cool in that position. Tarred felt is then
put between the saw gaites, and the iron rods shown in E, are put on
to press them in the required shape, till the ribbands are put on, and
the framing ready for planking; the rods can then be cut up for
bolts, and the eyes, &c. found useful in different parts of the ship.
Framing thus formed is nearly as strong as in one piece from wale to
wale, which has led me to call it "whole framing."
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A 1, and B 1, show the timber cut for bending. A 2, and B 2, show
the timber after steaming, bent on the wooden platform, and screwed
and wedged tight together in the required form. A 3, and B 3, the
pieces of framing so constructed set up for planking. C, a piece of
stern framing set up, having been previously cut, steamed, and bent in
similar way. D, shows framing keyed together sideways to prevent
their lifting, and shows waterways behind. E, are iron rods keeping
the framing in proper form till the ribbands are put on, and the
framing ready for planking. F, a tenon in foot of stern framing to
fasten into deadwood. The timber A, will be continued and scarfed
on the other side of the shiu similar to that between

page_text: Inside planking can be put on first temporarily, and then the outside,
bolting framing and in and outside planking firmly together.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Schollick, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
SAMUEL SCHOLLICK. (L.S.)