Improvements in Life-saving Apparatus for use at Sea and Elsewhere.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1893-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Life-saving Apparatus for use at Sea and
Elsewhere.
I, JAMES MORTEN, of Victoria House, Bridge Road, Woolston, Wine and
Spirit Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a means and apparatus for throwing a buoy and line to
a person in the water and is specially applicable for use on board ship when a
person falls or is washed overboard, particularly if there be a high sea running at
the time, or otherwise, it is difficult to launch a boat, but it is also serviceable for
use in other places and for other circumstances.
When a person falls overboard the ship, if in motion, is speedily carried away
from him, so that he is often left behind, beyond reach of immediate help, before
a buoy can be thrown to, or assistance reach, him. Now my invention provides
means by which a buoy with a line attached may be thrown a considerable distance
from the ship in any desired direction.
My apparatus comprises a rocket surrounded by a buoy of preferably cylindrical
form which may conveniently be formed of cork or it may be a double cylinder of
metal, or the like, with an air space between, but I prefer to use cork, or some
light cork-like substance.
A buoy so constructed and with a line attached is capable of being projected to
a considerable distance, and falling into the water forms a sufficient support to
greatly facilitate the rescue of a person seizing it.
The apparatus is intended to be discharged, or fired, preferably from a rocket
tube, which may be permanently placed, either on the bridge, or elsewhere, within
easy reach of some officer of the ship so that, in case of accident, the tube may be
operated and the rocket fired without delay.
In some cases I may attach an air bag or bags to the rocket-buoy, and, at
intervals along the line, which air-bags may be arranged to become inflated during
their passage through the air or may be otherwise inflated.
Dated the Fifth day of Sentember 1892.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Life-saving Apparatus for use at Sea and
Elsewhere.
1, JAMES MORTEN, of Victoria House, Bridge Road, Woolston, Wine and
Spirit Merchant 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 :-
My invention relates to a means and apparatus for throwing a buoy and line to
a person in the water and is specially applicable for use on board ship when a
person falls, or is washed overboard, particularly if there be a high sea running
at the time, or otherwise, it is difficult to launch a boat, but it is also serviceable
for use in other places and for other circumstances.
When a person falls overboard the ship, if in motion, is speedily carried away.
from him, so that be is often left behind, beyond reach of imipediate help, before
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page_text: 2. An apparatus to be projected by the action of a rocket comprising a life-
buoy, or cylinder capable of floating and giving support, a case for the rocket and
line attached thereto.
3. An apparatus comprising a cylindrical buoy adapted to be projected by a
rocket, carrying a vane, or signal, swiveling on a pin in such wise as to lie parallel
to the body of the apparatus when it is at rest or travelling thro' the air and at
right angles to the apparatus when it falls into the water, together with or without
an attached line substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this Seventh day of July 1893.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant..