IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VecorId AD WAT
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Warner, of Threadneedle Street, in the City
of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF VecorId AD WAT
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Sealed the 10th October 1862, and dated the 22nd April 1862.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Warner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd+
April 1862. ..
'I, ARTHUR WARNER, of Threadneedle Street, in the City of London,..
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VESSELS OF WAR, AND IN FLOATING OR OTHER BATTERIES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of vessels
of war, and in floating or other batteries, whereby such structures are rendered
less liable to injury from the effects of shot or shell of an enemy. For this
purpose in constructing a vessel of war, or a floating or other battery, I prefer
to form the outer skin of plates of iron of sufficient thickness to resist the
action of ordinary shot or shell, and between this outer metal skin and the
planking or timbers of the ship or battery, I form chambers or cells by the
arrangement of the metal or timbers which support or form the outer skin,

page_text: these chambers or cells I afterwards fill up with molten metal or with other
materials cemented together so as to form a solid and compact mass; these
materials may consist of any of the various cements such as are well known,
or sand, or other earthy or hard granulated matters, between the interstices of
which any suitable cement or adhesive material may be introduced; or a
coarse description of paper. pulp or other suitable material capable of
solidifying or forming a compact mass may be employed for this purpose:
Land or other batteries may likewise be constructed in this manner,
but where floatation is not required, the width of the protecting chambers or
cells may be greatly increased if required...
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arthur Warner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE, PRESENTS, SHALL COME, I,, ARTHUR
WARNER, of Threadneedle, Street, in, the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and, successors, give and grant: unto me, the
said Arthur Warner, Her special licence, that I, the said Arthur Warner, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur
Warner, my executors, 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, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF VESSELS OF WAR, AND IN FLOATING OR OTHER BATTERIES,"
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Warner, 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..
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page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I; the said Arthur Warner, 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 has for its object improvements in the construction of vessels
of war
and in floating or other batteries, whereby such structures, are rendered
less liable to injury from the effects of shot or shell of an enemy. For this
purpose in constructing a vessel, of war, or a floating or other battery, I prefer
to form the outer skin of a plate or plates of iron of sufficient thickness to,
to
resist the action of ordinary shot or shell, and between this outer metal, skin,
and the planking or timbers of the ship or battery I form chambers or cells
by the arrangement of the metal or timbers which support or form the outer
skin, and these chambers or cells I afterwards fill up with molten metal, or
with other materials. cemented-together so as to form a solid: and-compact.
mass. These materials may consist of any of the various cements, such as
are well known, or sand or other earthy or hard granulated matters; between
the interstices of which any suitable cement or adhesive material may be
introduced, or a coarse description of paper pulp or other suitable material
capable of solidifying or forming a compact mass may be employed for this
purpose.
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Land or other batteries may likewise be constructed in this manner, but
where floatation is not required, the width between the interior and exterior
sides of the protecting chambers or cells may be greatly increased if required.
When molten metal is employed to fill up the cells or chambers, they must be
formed entirely of metal.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would remark that I
have not thought it necessary to illustrate the same by Drawings, as I make
no claim to any particular mode of constructing the hulls, shells, frames, or
other parts of vessels of war, or of floating or other batteries, nor to the
materials of which they may be formed, as the same may be greatly varied,
and at the same time be suitable for having my Invention applied thereto.
It should also be clearly understood that the construction of vessels of war
having chambers, cells, or compartments formed by the ribs, frames, or timbers
between the inner and outer skins of such vessels in itself forms no part of
my improvements (when such chambers or cells are not employed for the
purposes of my Invention), as the same is well known and practised in the
construction of war and other vessels for the purpose of adding strength thereto,
and for other purposes; but what I claim is the construction of vessel's of

page_text: war, and; floating or other batteries with suitable chambers or cells formed
between the outer skin or plating, and the timbers or inner shell of such
structures, such chambers or cells being afterwards filled up as herein³
described.
In witness whereof, I, 'the said Arthur Warner, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first' day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
J. WILLIAMS,
.34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.
ARTHUR WARNER. (L.s.)