IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Glover, of South Shields, in the County of
Durham, Ship Chandler, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
Sealed the 2nd November 1868, and dated the 5th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Glover at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
May 1868.
I,. WILLIAM GLOVER, of South Shields, in the County of Durham, Ship
Chandler, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE STEERING OF SHIPS AND
OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
Upon the axis of the steering wheel I apply another wheel toothed or
otherwise formed to hold the parts of a chain or rope which is thence guided
by suitable pulleys, and has its opposite ends made fast to the circumference of a
wheel applied to the rudder head, or to the axis of motion of the rudder.
Thus by acting on the steering wheel motion is through the single rope or chain
communicated direct to the rudder. By these means a slack chain is avoided
and the power exerted is more immediately effective.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Glover in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th
November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GLOVER, of South Shields, in the County of Durham, Ship Chandler, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord Orie
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Glover, Her special licence that I, the said William Glover, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Glover, 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. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE STEERING OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Glover, 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 William Glover, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say :-
Upon the axis of the steering wheel I apply another wheel toothed or
otherwise formed to hold the parts of a chain or rope which is thence guided
by suitable pulleys, and has its opposite ends made fast to the circumference
of a wheel applied to the rudder head or to the axis of motion of the rudder.
Thus by acting on the steering wheel motion is through the single rope
or, chain communicated direct to the rudder. By these means a slack chain
is avoided and the power exerted is more immediately effective.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, by the
aid of the accompanying Drawings, proceed more fully to describe the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows an end view; Figure 2, a plan, and Figure 3, a side view
of parts arranged according to the improvements. In each of these views the
same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, a, is the steering wheel affixed to the axis a', which is supported by and is
capable of turning in the fixed bearings b, b. Opon the axis a' is also affixed
the grooved wheel cover which passes the chain d, which also passes partly
around the grooved guide pulleys e, e, and is at its ends affixed to the grooved
circumference of the wheel f which is applied to the rudder head or to the
axis of motion of the rudder in order that any partial rotary motion given to
the wheelf may impart a corresponding motion to the rudder. One end of
the chain d is affixed to the wheelf at f', by one of its links embracing the
projection f¹ affixed to the wheel f, whilst the other end of the chain is con-
nected to that projection by the adjustable screw connection d¹ by which means
facility is obtained for keeping the chain d tight.
When increased power is desired to be obtained I employ the arrangement
indicated by Figures 4 and 5 in which the wheel c in place of being applied
on the axis of the steering wheel is applied to a separate axis 9 upon which is
applied the wheel h to receive the chain i, which also passes over the pulley j
affixed on the axis of the steering wheel. The result is however the same in
both cases.
In place of chains ropes may be employed, and the wheels or pulleys over
which the chains or ropes pass may bé toothed or otherwise formed to increase
the holding power; a brake may also be applied when necessary.
Having thus explained the nature of my said Invention, and means which
I adopt in carrying the same into effect, I would have it. understood that I
do not confine myself to the precise details shown and described as these may
be-varied.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Glover, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
WILLIAM GLOVER. ¨ (L.S.)