AN IMPROVED MODE OF HANGING SHIP'S RUDDERS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 88, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire
of France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE
OF HANGING SHIP'S RUDDERS."-A communication from Henry Harris
Pember and Uriah Furman Rogers, residing at New York City, in the
Tnited States of America
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th March 1867.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
88, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, and 24,
Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
HANGING SHIP'S RUDDERS," a communication from Henry Harris Pember and
Uriah Furman Rogers, two persons resident at New York City, in the United
States of America, to be as follows:-
The present Invention consists in so constructing the stern of a vessel in
combination with the rudder, that the rudder can be shipped and unshipped

page_text: from and through the deck of a vessel, whereby in case of accident at sea to
the rudder of a vesssel, even in a heavy case, the rudder, if broken or at all
disabled, and thus rendered useless, can be detached, and a new one attached
or hung thereto with the utmost safety and despatch, as by the construction of
the stern of the vessel and the rudder together with the mode of hanging the
latter, it can be shipped and unshipped at pleasure from the deck of the
vessel.
In the accompanying Plate of Drawings, my improved mode of hanging a
ship's rudder is illustrated, Figure 1 being a plan or top view of the deck of
a vessel at its stern, showing it as open for receiving or detaching the rudder;
Figure 2, a longitudinal vertical section through the stern of a vessel with the
rudder detached; Figure 3, a view or elevation of the stern of the vessel with
the rudder detached; Figure 4, a side view of the rudder when detached;
Figure 5, a view of the back or in ner edge of the rudder blade and
other parts; and Figure 6, a transverse section in place of the line x, x,
Figure 3.
A, in the Drawings, represents the stern of a vessel or ship where the
rudder is to be hung to it. This stern A is cut out through its projecting or
overreaching portion B from the deck C down to the end of the keel D, and
in the same line therewith of a suitable size to allow the rudder blade E to be
passed from the deck down through the same, the opening in the vessel stern
upon the deck, and under its overreaching portion being closed by lids or
doors G, hinged to the sides or edges of the said opening in any proper
manner to close the same. H, the post to the rudder blade, and I, a plate or
holder to which such post as well as the rudder blade is hung by suitable
hinges J', this plate I terminating in extension arms or rods L that at each
end have an eye M. N, a plate secured to the upright portion O of the keel,
which plate along its edges is turned over so as to form a guide or way for
the holder or plate to which the rudder is hinged when placed down through
the opening in the stern of the vessel, the holder plate by the eyes of the
extension rods L hanging upon the hooks P secured and fixed in the opening
of the stern of the vessel in the proper position therefore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th September 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 38, Porchester
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont
Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF HANGING SHIP'S RUDDERS," a communication from Henry
Harris Pember and Uriah Furman Rogers, two persons resident at New
York City, in the United States of America, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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:-
The present Invention consists in so constructing the stern of a vessel in
combination with the rudder that the rudder can be shipped and unshipped
from and through the deck of a vessel, whereby in case of accident at sea to
the rudder of a vessel even in a heavy case, the rudder, if broken, or at all
disabled and thus rendered useless, can be detached and a new one attached or

page_text: hung thereto with the utmost safety and despatch, as by the construction of
the stern of the vessel and the rudder, together with the mode of hanging the
latter, it can be shipped and unshipped at pleasure from the deck of the
vessel.
In the accompanying Plate of Drawings my improved mode of hanging a
ship's rudder is illustrated, Figure 1 being a plan or top view of the deck of a
vessel at its stern, showing it as open for receiving or detaching the rudder;
Figure 2, a longitudinal vertical section through the stern of a vessel with the
rudder detached; Figure 3, a view or elevation of the stern of the vessel with
the rudder detached; Figure 4, a side view of the rudder when detached ;
Figure 5, a view of the back or inner edge of the rudder blade and
other parts; and Figure 6, a transverse section in place of the line x, x,
Figure 8.
A, in the Drawings, represents the stern of a vessel or ship where the
rudder is to be hung to it; this stern A is cut out through its projecting or
overreaching portion B from the deck C down to the end of the keel D, and
in the same line therewith of a suitable size to allow the rudder blade E to
be passed from the deck down through the same, the opening in the vessel
stern upon the deck and under its overreaching portion, being closed by lids
or doors G hinged to the sides or edges of the said opening in any proper
mauner to close the same; H, the post to the rudder blade, and I, a plate or
holder to which such post as well as the rudder blade is hung by suitable
hinges J, this plate I terminating in extension arms or rods L that at each
end have an eye M; N, a plate secured to the upright portion O of the keel,
which plate along its edges is turned over so as to form a guide or way for
the holder or plate to which the rudder is hinged when placed down through
the opening in the stern of the vessel, the holder plate by the eyes of the
extension rods L hanging upon the hooks P secured and fixed in the opening
of the stern of the vessel in the proper position therefore.
By the construction of the stern of the vessel and the mode of hanging the
rudder above described, it is plainly obvious that the rudder can be shipped
and unshipped and from the deck of the vessel, the advantages of which are
obvious.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be nove
and original, and therefore claim is, the construction of the stern of a vessel
in combination with the hanging of the rudder in such a manner that the

page_text: latter can be shipped and unshipped from and through the deck of the
vessel, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.B.)