IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR CARRYING ANCHORS IN BOARD AFTER BEING WEIGHED
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Samuel Griffiths, of Sheerness, in the
County of Kent, Writer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS
OR APPARATUS FOR CARRYING ANCHORS IN BOARD AFTER BEING WEIGHED."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Samuel
Griffiths at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 18th December 1868.
I, EDWARD SAMUEL GRIFFITHS, of Sheerness, in the County of Kent,
Writer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR CARRYING ANCHORS IN BOARD AFTER BEING WEIGHED,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention is carried into effect as follows:-I secure to a shackle
or ring on the anchor, preferably about the middle of the shank, or to a
span fitted on the shank or other part, one end of a pennant, the other
end of which is attached by a loose shackle to the cable. When the
anchor is weighed the pennant passes through the hawse pipe with the

page_text: cable, and I then detach the pennant from the cable and attach it to a
rope or chain passing over a block on a davit and then led through the
hawse pipe. I now haul on the rope or chain so as first to draw the
pennant back through the hawse pipe, and then to raise the anchor up to
the davit, when it can be stowed or secured in board, the cable being
slacked as required. The davit is free to turn on a vertical axis. The
pennant may have a long link about the middle thereof to facilitate the
lifting of the anchor if fouled. The anchor may be suspended by a slip
stopper ready for letting go when required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Samuel Griffiths in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
SAMUEL GRIFFITHS, of Sheerness, in the County of Kent, Writer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-cight, in the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Edward Samuel Griffiths, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Samuel Griffiths, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Samuel Griffiths, my
exceutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercisc,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS
OR APPARATUS FOR CARRYING ANCHORS. IN BOARD AFTER BEING WEIGHED,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Samuel
Griffiths, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Samuel Griffiths, do
hereby declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention is carried into effect as follows:-I secure to a shackle
or ring on the anchor, preferably about the middle of the shank, or to a
span fitted on the shank or other part, one end of a pennant, the other
end of which is attached by a loose shackle to the cable. When the
anchor is weighed the pennant passes through the hawse pipe with the
cable, and I then detach the pennant from the cable and attach it
to a rope or chain passing over a block on a davit and then led
through the hawse pipe. I now haul on the rope or chain so as
first to draw the pennant back through the hawse pipe and then to
raise the anchor up to the davit when it can be stowed or secured in
board, the cable being slacked as required. The davit is free to turn on
a vertical axis. The pennant may have a long link about the middle
thercof to facilitate the lifting of the anchor if fouled.
In the Drawings hereunto annexed I have shewn my improved
apparatus for carrying anchors in board ship after being weighed in
the several positions it occupies.
Figure 1 represents the bow of a vessel with the pennant secured to the
shank of an anchor of the ordinary construction; it is secured at about
the middle of the shank by means of a link or shackle. In this Figure
the anchor is shewn as lifted up to just below the top of the water, and
after the pennant has been roved through the eye or block of the davit,
the cable being allowed to run slack to take off the strain and un-
necossary pull when the pennant is lifting. Figure 2 shows the same
anchor lifted by the pennant over the gunwale and stowed in board. It
will be observed in Figure 3 that the pennant passes through the
"hawse" hole, and is in connection with the cable by means of a
loose shackle while the anchor is hanging from the bows and is
readly to be cast. In some cases the ring is fitted with a long link
for attaching the pennant to. In Figure 4 I have shown a short
length of chain connecting the lower end of the shank with a cable
ring; to this chain the pennant can be secured, as shewn, so that the
anchor can be lifted in a more suitable manner for stowing. In this
Figure the anchor is of the construction known as "Porter's Patent."

page_text: Figure 5 represents an anchor which has become fouled by the cable
being coiled round one of the fluke arms. In accidents of this kind
my pennant is particularly serviceable, as the anchor can be lifted by
the pennant level with the gunwale of the vessel and the fouling
removed by the scamen from the deck thereof in addition to prevent-
ing risk to the lives of the seamen engaged. The anchor can be held
by means of a bowling knot as is usual and suspended by the pennant
to be "let go" at any moment by means of a slip stopper.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim fitting
anchors with a pennant to the cable ring, or to the crown, or at about
the middle of the shank for the purpose of lifting, to facilitate stowing
the same in board a vessel, or for removing a fouled chain in the
manner herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
EDWARD SAMUEL GRIFFITHS. (L.S.)
EDWARD SAMUEL GRIFFITHS. (L.S.)