IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR OARS, SCULLS, AND ROWING IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I LAMBTON YOUNG of N° 16 Harcourt Terrace South Kensington in the County
of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN FITTINGS FOR OARS, SCULLS, AND ROWING IMPLEMENTS to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object, improvements in the formation, manufacture,
and attachments of guards and buttons, to oars, sculls, paddles, sweeps, or such
other rowing implements as are used in the propulsion of boats, barges, canoes or
other kind of vessel, whereby the same may be more readily applied and removed,
more firmly attached when in place, and less liable to derangement and breakage
and thereby form a more convenient durable and superior arrangement to that of
the leather and button as generally made and in ordinary use, and thereby greatly
reduce the risk of breakage of the oar scull sweep, from avoiding the use of nails
in fastening.
In carrying out my Invention, I cast, roll, rivet, or otherwise form the guard and
pins, or buttons, of metal, and in one piece, or the pins or buttons may be screwed.
or rivetted to the guard, so that they cannot become detached, and the guard can
be formed with a hinge or joint on one side, and a flange or lug or lugs, on each
half on the other side, so that when placed over the oar scull or sweep in the
position it is to occupy, it may by the aid of screws or screwel bolts have the two
Hanges or lugs, drawn tightly together so as to firmly grasp
scull or sweep,
and thus be secured in its position.
the
oar,
I may in some cases cast the guard without the button, or form it out of suitable
metal tubing or sheet metal, which may have grooves or corrugations formed in the
same, which may extend spirally round the interior, from the top to the bottom
longitudinally or else circunferentially, as desired or preferred, so as to obtain a
firm hold on the wood and if desired the button may be attached by a screw, or
tenon, or may be rivetted, or soldered, or fixed in any other suitable or convenient
manner, or it may be formed of metal tubing split or opened lengthwise, spirally or
in any other convenient manner, and be sprung on to the oar scull or sweep, taking
care to jag or roughen the interior surface so as to secure a firm hold on the wood,
and in some cases the ends or edges may be jagged and turned over, to secure the
same result the edges being if desired brought together by flanges or lugs and
screws as hereinbefore described.

page_text: I also arrange to protect the oar by forming a guard of brass or other suitable
metal to go round or partly round the loom of the oar scull paddle or sweep
roughened if necessary as described hereinbefore, with metal pins or studs projecting
from it in such places or positions as are required, to which the buttons or guards
of leather or other suitable material can be rivetted, screwed sewn, or otherwise
attached, the whole to be surrounded with leather or other suitable material sewn
on in the usual manner or it may be attached by any cement, glue, pitch or other
suitable adhesive material or pins, roughings corrugatings or other means to prevent
it shifting its position.
The projecting studs, bolts, pins, or other necessary appliances may be cast,
rolled, hammered, pressed, or be otherwise made a part of the metal guard plate, or
they may be screwed, rivetted, soldered, or otherwise attached to the plate, so as
most efficiently to resist the strain on the oar pins, bolts, or parts when in use or at
any other time.
As witness my hand this 28th day of Jan' One thousand eight hundred and

page_text: I LAMETON YOUNG Civil Engineer of N° 16 Harcourt Terrace in the Parish of
Saint Mary Abbotts- Kensington in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare
the nature of an Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR OARS, SCULLS,
AND ROWING IMPLEMENTS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This Invention has for its object, improvements in the formation, manufacture
and attachments of guards and buttons to oars, sculls, paddles, sweeps, or such
other rowing implements as are used in the propulsion of boats, barges, canoes, or
other kind of vessel whereby the same inay be more readily applied and removed,
more firmly attached when in place, the less liable to derangement and breakage,
and thereby form a more convenient durable, and superior arrangement to that of
the leather and button as generally made and in ordinary use, and thereby greatly
reduce the risk of breakage of the oar scull or sweep and from avoiding the use of
nails in fastening.
In carrying out my Invention, I cast, roll, rivet, or otherwise form the guard and
pins, or buttons, of metal, and in one piece, or the pins or buttons may be screwed,
or rivetted to the guard, so that they cannot become detached, and the guard can
be formed with a hinge or joint on one side, and a flange, or lug or lugs on each
half on the other side, so that when placed over the oar, scull or sweep in the
position it is to occupy, it may by the aid of screws or screwed bolts, leave the
two flanges or lugs drawn tightly together so as to firmly grasp the oar scull or
sweep and thus be secured in its position.
.
I may in some cases cast the guard without the button, or form it out of suitable
metal tubing or sheet metal, which may have grooves or corrugations formed in the.
same, which may extend spirally round the interior from the top to the bottom
longitudinally or else circumferentially, as desired or preferred, so as to obtain a
firm hold on the wood, and if desired the button may be attached by a screw or
tenon, or may be rivetted, or soldered, or fixed in any other suitable or convenient
manner; or it may be formed of metal tubing split or opened lengthwise, spirally,
or in any other convenient manner, and be sprung on to the oar scull or sweep,
taking care to jag or roughen the interior surface so as to secure a firm hold on the
wood, and in some cases the ends or edges may be jagged and turned over to secure
the same result the edges being if desired brought together by flanges or lugs, and
screws as hereinbefore described.
I also arrange to protect the oar by forming a guard of brass or other suitable
metal to go round or partly round the loom of the oar, scull, paddle or sweep
roughened if necessary as described herein before, with metal pins or studs
projecting from it in such places or positions as are required, to which the buttons
or guards of leather, or other suitable material, can be rivetted, screwed sewn or
otherwise attached, the whole to be surrounded with leather or other suitable
material sewn on in the usual manner or it may be attached by any cement, glue,
pitch or other suitable adhesive material, ór pins roughings, corrugatings, or other
means to prevent its shifting its position.
The projecting studs, bolts, pins or other necessary appliances may be cast,
rolled, hammered, pressed or be otherwise made a part of the metal guard plate, or
they may be screwed, rivetted, soldered, or otherwise attached to the plate, so as
most efficiently to resist the strain on the oar, pins, bolts, or parts when in use, or
at any other time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what

page_text: I claim is (1) The formation manufacture and attachments of guards and buttons
to oars, sculls, paddles sweeps or other similar rowing implements as hereinbefore
described whereby a more convenient durable and superior arrangement to that of
the leather and button as generally used is thereby obtained. (2) The formation
of the guard and pin or button of metal in one piece or screwed rivetted or soldered
together substantially as herein before described.
(3) The attachment of the guard to the oar by forming corrugations on, or
otherwise roughening the interior surface of the guard, or by forming it with a
hinge on one side, and lugs on the other, through which bolts or screws pass
clasping it to the oar the whole to be covered with leather sewn cemented or
otherwise secured, substantially in the manner herein before described.
As witness my hand this 4th day of March One thousand eight hundred and
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