AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS ON ANCHORS
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CHRISTOPHERS, of New Broad Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain; bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the fourth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Christophers, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the, said John Christophers, my exors, adiiors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Christophers, my exors, adiiors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick;
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS ON ANCHORS;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John
Christophers, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed; to be inrolled in
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Christophers, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
My present Invention consists of an improvement or improvements on my
former Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to which Patent a Specification
was duly inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, and by such
Specification I did declare that my then improvement or improvements
consisted in forming the shanks of anchors with eyes or openings, the length
of which are more than twice their width, for the reception of wooden stocks,"
as is therein fully described and set forth, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
Now the object of my present Invention is to construct the shanks of
anchors with eyes or openings, the length of which are from one and a quarter
to twice the length of the width thereof, for the reception of wooden stocks,
and this is more particularly desirable for and applicable to large anchors.
Having in my said former Specification fully described the manner of con-
structing wooden stocks when they are intended to be fitted and affixed within
such eyes or openings in the shanks as afore, it will not be necessary in the present
Specification again to describe the same, for, with the exception of the relative
dimensions, such incans are not to be varied. It will however be desirable
here to remark, that in making the eyes or openings in the stock so much
wider in proportion to the length, I find it desirable to give to such eyes or
openings a figure approaching to an elipse, in place of a perfect quadrangular
figure. By this means the metal on the two sides of the stock will not be
forged or bent into sharp angles at the four corners of the eyes or openings
in such shanks, but will be forged or bent into a gentle curve. And in order
to accommodate a stock to such eye or opening, when it is not truly quad-
rangular, it will only be necessary to remove so much of the four angles
thereof as will enable it to fit the eye or opening for which it is intended; and
the various hoops described in my former Specification for affixing the stock to
the shank of the anchor, will have to be made to à corresponding figure with
the eye or opening in the shank."
:
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood, that I do not claim
generally the constructing eyes or openings in shanks of unchors for the recep
tion of the stocks, other than hereafter particularly defined, that is to say:-
I would have it understood that what I claim as an improvement or improve-

page_text: ments on my former Patent is, the forming of the shanks of anchors with
eyes or openings one and a quarter times the length of their width, for
eceiving wooden stocks, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Christophers, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.