Improvements in Metal Bars for the Construction of Ships' Bridges and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left. 14th July, 1897-Accepted, 14th Aug., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Bars for the Construction of Ships' Bridges
and the like.
I HAROLD EDWARD JOSCELYN CAMPS of 3 Cambridge Street Newcastle-on-Tyne in
the County of Northumberland, Naval Architect do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:---
This invention relates to an improved section of bar to be rolled or formed in iron,
steel, or other suitable metal and applicable for use in the construction of ships,
bridges and the like.
The improved section is of a cruciform shape,. the arms being preferably at right
angles. The arms may be plain and of equal or unequal length. The necks or parts
where the arms join may be rounded or square. Instead of all the arms being plain
one or more of them may have bulbous extremities, the bulb projecting all on one
side or on both sides, and in the former case the edge of the plain side of the ram
may be square or rounded.
Dated this 15th day of October 1896,
HERBERT HADDEN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Bars for the Construction of Ships' Bridges
and the like.
I, HAROLD EDWARD JOSCELYN CAMPS, of 3 Cambridge Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Naval Architect, 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:-
This invention relates to improved patterns or forms of cross sections of iron, steel
or other bars used in the construction of ships, bridges, roofs, etc.
This improved cross section is principally in the form of a cross the arms of which
are preferably at right angles and of equal or unequal lengths.
The necks or corners formed by the junction of the arms may be either rounded or
angular and the arms may be all plain throughout their length or one or more of
them may have at their extremities a bulb projecting on either or both sides or the
bulb may be as it were drawn out so as to form a flange on either or both sides of
the arm.
The accompanying drawing shows some of my improved patterns of cross section.
Fig. 1 shows a section of a bar with the arms at right angles with two necks A A
square and two B B rounded all the arins being plain.
Fig. 2 is similar to Fig. 1 with a bulb C at one side of the end of the arm D,

page_text: Fig. 3 shows the bulb C projecting on both sides of the end of the arm D.
Fig. 4 is similar to Fig. 3 but with the bulb projection C of somewhat thinner and
longer shape.
Fig. 5 has a thin bulb projection C on one side only of the end of the arm D and is
a variation of Fig. 2.
Fig. 6 shows two arms D and E with bulb projections CC on both sides of their
extremities.
It is evident that a great many variations can be made in the pattern of this
section by simply adding a bulb or bulbs to one or more arm ends or by leaving off
same and by having the bulbs projecting on one or both sides as may be preferred.
Bars with cross sections of my improved pattern may be manufactured in any of the
usual well known methods and of any suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An iron steel or other bar of the cross sectional form throughout as shown in
Fig. 1 and substantially as herein described and for the purposes set forth.
2. Iron steel or other bars of the cross sectional form of a four armed cross with
one or more of the arms bulbously thickened at the end on the one or both sides
substantially as described.
Dated this 14th day of July 1897.
HERBERT HADDEN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agents to Applicant.