IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES, TUBULAR COLUMNS AND HOLLOW STRUCTURES FOR MASTS, OARS, SHEAR LEGS, LIFE BOATS, AND ORDINARY BOATS, FOR WATER, GAS, AND WASTE WATER PIPES, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR COVERDRATIONS WOODY ADAT STORY TO DEARIDE
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Deane, of Arthur Street, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES, TUBULAR COLUMNS
AND HOLLOW STRUCTURES FOR MASTS, OARS, SHEAR LEGS, LIFE BOATS, AND
ORDINARY BOATS, FOR WATER, GAS, AND WASTE WATER PIPES, AND FOR OTHER
SIMILAR COVERDRATIONS WOODY ADAT STORY TO DEARIDE"
Sealed the 19th June 1866, and dated the 22nd December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Deane at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd
December 1865.
I, EDWARD DEANE, of Arthur Street, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES, TUBULAR
COLUMNS, AND HOLLOW STRUCTURES FOR MASTS OARS, SHEAR LEGS, LIFE. BCATB,
ORDINARY BOATS, FOR WATER, GAS, AND WASTE WATER PIPES, AND FOR
OTHER SIMILAR CONSTRUCTIONS WHERE GREAT STRENGTH IS REQUIRED," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing pipes, tubular columns, and such
other hollow structures of sheet iron or steel or any other suitable metal in
such a manner as to add very greatly to their strength. Masts for ships
and vessels, lighthouses, towers of observation, oars for boats, shear legs for
hoists, life boats,áud ordinary boats,shafts for ventilation, passages for smoke
[Price 8d.]

page_text: and water, gas and waste water pipes may be constructed in the manner of
my Invention.
I construct a tube, which may be round, square, oval, or of any other
shape to suit the purpose for which it is intended, of sheet iron or steel or
any other suitable metal, as may be determined, having a web or webs
of similar material in its interior. These are bolted or rivetted in the
usual way to each other and to the external tube, either on the inside of the
tube or to flanges on the outside. There may be any number of webs, but
two, three, or four will be generally found to be sufficient. Instead of con-
structing webs in the interior of the tubular structures above referred to I
may have a tubular or solid core, which becomes the axis from which
radiating stays may proceed, the said stays being securely fastened to the
external tube. If found desirable I might have a number of such cores and
radiating stays. In the case of oars, masts, and boats, and in particular
constructions I would encase the steel or iron core, made as above, in wood.
This can very readily be done by known processes, and will add very greatly
to the lightness and strength of such constructions.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Deane in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
DEANE, of Arthur Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
ne, the said Edward Deane, Her special licence that I, the said Edward
Deane, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Edward Deane, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there.
after 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 "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN PIPES, TUBULAR COLUMNS, AND HOLLOW STRUCTURES FOR MASTS, OARS,
SHEAR LEGS, LIFE BOATS, AND ORDINARY BOATS, FOR WATER, GAS, AND WASTE
WATER PIPES, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR CONSTRUCTIONS WHERE GREAT STRENGTH IS

page_text: REQUIRED," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward
Deane, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Deane, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My Invention consists in constructing pipes, tubular columns, and such
other hollow structures of sheet iron or steel, or any other suitable metal in
such a manner as to add very greatly to their strength. Masts for ships and
vessels,lighthouses, towers of observation, oars for boats,shear legs for hoists,
life boats and ordinary boats, shafts for ventilation, passages for smoke and
water, gas and waste water pipes, may be constructed in the manner of my
Invention.
I construct a tube which may be round, square, oval, or of any other shape
to suit the purpose for which it is intended, of sheet iron or of any other
suitable metal as may be determined, having a web or webs of similar
material in its interior. These are bolted or rivetted in the usual way to each
other and to the external tube either on the inside of the tube or to
flanges on the outside. There may be any number of webs, but two, three,
or four will be generally found to be sufficient. Instead of constructing in
the interior of the tubular structures above referred to, I may have a tubular
or solid core which becomes the axis, from which radiating stays may proceed,
the said stays being securely fastened to the external tube. If found desirable
I might have a number of such cores and radiating stays. In the case of
oars, masts, and boats, and in particular constructions I would encase the
steel or iron core made as above in wood, This can very readily be done by
known processes, and will add very greatly to the lightness and strength of
such constructions.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I shall
now proceed to explain the same more particularly, and in order thereto I
shall refer to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, which show different
views and ways of applying my Invention to the construction of masts and
columns. The same general principles may readily be applied in the con-
struction of many other things as above mentioned.

page_text: Fig. 1 is an elevation of a mast showing method for ventilating the orlop
deck A, the lower deck B, and the upper deck C, by the box ways D, D;
Fig. 2, the web is shown with four angle irons, F, F, F, F, in the corners
where the plates meet in the centre. It is attached to the shell by the plates
forming the same being flanged, and the whole being rivetted together. Fig. 3
the web fastened in the centre in same manner as Fig. 2, the difference
being in the mode of attaching it to the shell where the two plaies are flanged
to meet the web, while the other part of the web is fastened to the shell by
T-irons, G, G. Fig. 4 shows a section of a rectangular column or girder,
the webs being fastened by angle irons at the centre; Fig. 5 is a section of
a yard, showing the interior stiffened by two T-irons, securing the web as
before mentioned and surrounded by the truss hoop E; Fig. 6 is an elevation
of a portion of the yard showing the edge of the shell and angle iron and the
truss hoop E; Fig. 8 is a sectional plan with the various parts marked thereon,
and Fig. 7 is an isometrical view of a portion of the mast. Inside the mast
a number of projections or steps H, Figs. 2 and 3, may be formed in order to
enable workmen to enter the mast to repair. A sheathing or filling of
wood may be employed, secured by iron rings or in other ways as seen in
Figs. 2 and 5.
Having now fully described my Invention, and the manner in which 1
carry the same into effect, I claim to have secured to me by Her Majesty's
Letters Patent, the particular improvements in columns, masts, and other
'similar constructions herein-before described or referred to.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Deane, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
CHARLES S. BAKER,
General Patent Co., Limited,
71, Fleet Street,
Agents.
EDWARD DEANE. (L.s.)