Improvements in and relating to Brackets or Cleats for Holding Ships' Battens and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov., 1898—Accepted, 7th Jan., 1899
Improvements in and relating to Brackets or Cleats for Holding
Ships' Battens and the like.
We, HENRY TREVISA CLARKE, Shipbuilder, and ROBSON BROWN, Engineer, both
of Deptford Yard, Sunderland, in the County of Durham, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to brackets or cleats that are employed for attaching rods,
bars, boards, battens and so forth to walls, plates, bars, frames and other supports
and though we have specially devised it for adoption with ships' cargo battens in
reference to which we will describe it, we wish it to be understood that the same
can also be readily applied to analogous uses.
Our object is to so provide and arrange a cleat that it can be expeditiously
displaced from and replaced on its support and which, in addition, can be pro-
duced, as compared with the existing forms, more cheaply and with a saving in
weight of material.
The invention consists in the combination of a bracket or cleat and a slotted
pin or holder detachably connecting with the support, the former being con-
stituted by a vertical part uniting with a horizontal part from or in connection
with which a tongue or extension projects to enter a slot in the pin or holder
in such manner that when the parts are assembled the tongue is wedged between
the walls of the slot and the support whereby the cleat and also the holder are
firmly fixed on the latter but from which they may be easily detached at will.
As will be obvious, in practice, the disposition of the said cleat and holder may
be variously modified to adapt them to different circumstances. Thus, according
to one form of our improvements as applied to a flat support, such as a face of an
angle bar or plate, we make the tongue of the cleat after the manner of a wedge
centrally with and depending from the horizontal member at the extreme end
thereof.
For the holder we employ a headed pin, of circular cross section, to fit into a
corresponding hole in the support and project beyond sume, the hole being parallel
or about parallel with, but below, the horizontal part of the cleat when in position.
In the projecting portion of the pin we cut a slot or orifice to suit the cleat tongue
entering and acting therein as aforementioned.
By another practical application of our invention, in arranging our improved
cleat on a bar or plate edge, whether plain, or enlarged as in a bulb angle, we
locate the cleat on the edge and bifurcate or shape the extreme end of its horizontal
member so as to constitute claws or arms to fit or embrace the conformation of the
edge, rigidity in use thereby ensuing. On one of the arms or claws, preferably
that fitting the plain side of the web or flange, we form the depending cuneiform
tongue to co-act with the pin or holder furnished as before, but now fitted in a
hole made in the web transversely to the cleat on which we may provide an abut-
ment bearing against the edge of the support to co-operate with the claws to
maintain stability.

page_text: Similarly we may evolve other forms to meet specific cases without departing
from the nature of our invention.
We have said that the cleat tongue is wedge-shaped, and though we prefer
such, still it may be otherwise fashioned, while again, in place of using a circular
pin or holder, this too may be of any other appropriate contour.
Further, to obviate any tendency to displacement or collapse in uso due to
vibration or the like, convenient means, for example, feathers and grooves or keys
or polygonal parts about the seatings of the pins or holders or serrations about the
bearings of the cleats or brackets on the supports, or similar known devices, are
or may be applied as deemed necessary.
From the foregoing it will be seen that, by the use of cleats arranged as herein
described, practical benefits hitherto unattainable will accrue.
Dated this 28th day of January 1898
Improvements in and relating to Brackets or Cleats for Holding
Ships' Battens and the like.
We, HENRY TREVISA CLARKE, Shipbuilder, and ROBSON BROWN, Engineer, both
of Deptford Yard, Sunderland, in the County of Durham, 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;: —
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Our invention relates to brackets or cleats that are employed for attaching rods,
bars, boards, battens and so forth to walls, plates, bars, frames and other supports
and though we have specially devised it for adoption with ships' cargo battens, in
reference to which we will describe it, we wish it to be understood that the same
can also be readily applied to analogous uses.
Our object is to so provide and arrange a cleat that it can be expeditiously
displaced from and replaced on its support and which, in addition, can be pro-
duced, as compared with the existing forms, more cheaply and with a saving in
weight of material.
We will fully explain our invention with the aid of the accompanying drawings
which represent two of its forms wherefrom others will be readily apparent. In
the drawings, Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are respectively a side elevation, a front elevation
and a plan of one form and Figs. 4, 5 and 6 similar views of the other while
Fig. 7 is a side elevation and Fig. 8 a plan of a modification of the latter form. In
all these figures the same reference letters and numerals designate corresponding
parts.
The invention consists in the combination of a bracket or cleat A and a slotted
pin or holder B detachably connecting with the support C, the former being con-
stituted by a vertical part a uniting with a horizontal part a¹ from or in connection
with which a tongue or extension a projects to enter a slot 6 in the pin or holder B
in such manner that when the parts are assembled for use, as illustrated, the
tongue a is wedged between the walls of the slot 6 and the support C whereby the
cleat A and also the holder B are firmly fixed on the latter, but from which they
may be easily detached at will on simply withdrawing the tongue a² from the
slot 6. The projection as shown at the extremity of the tongue a³ is to prevent the
cleat A from falling out of the holder B and thereby becoming damaged or broken
should a slackening occur and the holder turn round in its seating.

page_text: As will be obvious, in practice, the disposition of the cleat A and holder B may
be variously modified to adapt them to different circumstances. Thus, according to
the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 which is applicable to a flat support, such as
a face of an angle or channel bar or plate, we make the tongue a³ of the cleat A
after the manner of a wedge centrally with and depending from the horizontal
member a at the extreme end thereof.
For the holder B we employ a headed pin of circular cross section to fit into a
corresponding hole in the support C and project a convenient distance beyond
same, the hole being parallel or about parallel with but below the horizontal part
a of the cleat A when in position for use. In the projecting portion of the pin
or holder B we cut the slot or orifice 6 to suit the cleat tongue a entering and
acting therein as before described.
According to the other form, suitable for application on the edge of a support,
such as a bar or plate edge, whether plain or, as delineated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6,
enlarged as in a bulb angle, we locate the cleat A on the edge of the support, and
bifurcate or shape the extreme end of its horizontal member a so as to constitute
claws or arms a, a to fit or embrace the conformation of the edge, rigidity in use
thereby ensuing. On one of the arms or claws a, a, preferably that, a², fitting
the plain side of the web or flange of the support C, we form the depending cunei-
form tongue a to co-act with the pin or holder B furnished as before but now
fitted in a hole made in the web transversely to the cleat A on which we may pro-
vide an abutment as to bear against the edge of the support C to co-operate with
the claws a, a³ to maintain stability.
A claw, such as a just described, may be adopted with the cleat shown in Figs.
1, 2 and 3 by forming same at one or both sides of its horizontal part a¹ to engage
and disengage the flange of the support C.
Generally the wedge-action of the tongue a is sufficient to obviate any tendency
to displacement or collapse of the cleat in use due to vibration or the like, hence
claws are not required on the cleat shown in Figs. 1, and 3, while the claw a³,
shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, can be dispensed with, as in Figs. 7 and 8, which, with
this exception, illustrate the same form as the last mentioned figures applied to a
plain and also an enlarged edge indicated respectively by full and dotted lines in
Fig. 8. To further ensure stability, however, convenient means, for example,
feathers and grooves, keys, or polygonal parts about the seatings of the pins or
holders B, or, as exemplified in Fig. 3, serrations a about the bearings of the
cleats or brackets A on the supports C, or similar known devices, are or may be
applied as deemed necessary.
In Figs. 1, 4 and 7, D denotes the batten held as usual between the spaced sup-
ports Cand the cleats A fixed thereon as described; the batten D is omitted from
the other figures for the sake of clearness.
We have described and shown the cleat tongue a as wedge-shaped, and though
we prefer it so, still it may be otherwise fashioned, while again, in place of using a
circular pin or holder B, it too may be of any other appropriate contour.
The cleat A and holder B may be made of any suitable material and produced
in any known manner.
In the foregoing description and accompanying drawings we have explained
certain forms of our invention for particular applications, but as before stated,
and as will be evident, other forms may be easily evolved to meet specific cases
without departing from its nature.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1-The combination of a bracket or cleat and a slotted pin or holder, arranged
and adapted for holding ships' battens and the like, substantially as berein set

page_text: 2-For holding ships' battens and the like, a bracket or cleat provided with
a tongue or extension for use with a slotted pin or holder, substantially as herein
described in reference to the accompanying drawings.
3--For holding ships' battens and the like, the use with a bracket or cleat pro-
vided with a tongue or extension, of a slotted pin or holder, substantially as
described.
4-For holding ships' battens and the like, a bracket or cleat provided with an
arm or claw or arms or claws and a tongue or extension for use with a slotted pin
or holder, substantially as herein described in reference to the accompanying
drawings.
5-The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the improvements in
and relating to brackets or cleats for holding ships' battens and the like, sub-
stantially as herein described by reference to and as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3,
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 and Figs. 7 and 8 of the accompanying drawings. `
Dated this 28th day of November 1898.
For the Applicants,
PRYOR & HARVEY,
Agents, 3, St. Nicholas' Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne,