IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR STEERING SHIPS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Allen Hickley, of the Temple, and
William Utting, of Palsgrave Place, Strand, both in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR STEERING
SHIPS." A communication from abroad by James Porter and
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Harbort Porking both of Sudnow New South Wales.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Allen Hickley
and William Utting at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 30th March 1870.
We, THOMAS ALLEN HICKLEY, of the Temple, and WILLIAM UTTING,
of Palsgrave Place, Strand, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
STEERING SHIPS," communicated to us from abroad by James Porter and
Herbert Perkins, both of Sydney, New South Wales, to be as follows:
This Invention consists in an improved apparatus for steering ships,
in which the action of the rudder is governed and controlled by one or
more tillers swung on a pivot or pivots on a fixed stanchion or fixed

page_text: stanchions, and having each by preference a pin fitted with a block or
friction roller working in a slot arranged in a yoke or crank fixed on or
around the rudder head, by which means a compound accumulative
power is acquired. The construction may however he reversed, that is
to say, the slot may be in the tiller and the pin in the yoke.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Allen Hickley and William Utting in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th September 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
ALLEN HICKLEY, of the Temple, and WILLIAM UTTING, of Palsgrave
Place, Strand, both in the County of Middlesex, 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 seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Thomas Allen Hickley, and William Utting,
Her special licence, that we, the said Thomas Allen Hickley and William
Utting, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Thomas Allen Hickley and William Utting, our 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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
STEERING SHIPS," (a communication to us from abroad by James Porter
and Herbert Perkins, both of Sydney, New South Wales), upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Allen Hickley
and William Utting, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or one of our or their bands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 we, the said Thomas Allen Hickley and
William ting, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the accompanying Drawings and to the letters of reference
marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in an improved apparatus for steering ships,
in which the action of the rudder is governed and controlled by one or
more tillers swung on a pivot or pivots on a fixed stanchion or fixed
stanchions, and having each a pin by preference fitted with a block or
friction roller working in a slot arranged in an iron yoke or crank fixed
on or around the rudder head, by which means a compound accumulative
power is acquired. The construction may, however, be reversed, that is
to say, the slot may be in the tiller and the pin in the yoke.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate the manner in which this
Invention may be carried into effect. Fig. 1. is a side view; and Fig. 2
a plan of one arrangement.
L, L, are lever arms or tillers of iron or other material hung on the
iron stanchions or bearing A, A, which are securely bolted to the deck;
B, B, are friction rollers fitted to the pins P in the lever arms L, L;
C, C, are slots in the yoke or crank to receive the friction wheels; D is
the yoke or crank of iron or other material fixed to the rudder head E,
either by means of bolts, keys, or other fastenings; F, F, shewn on
Figs. 4 and 6 are for the blocks to receive the tackles to be rove
according to this arrangement through sheaves or blocks attached to the
deck, or in a combing arranged to enclose the whole of the apparatus,
and from thence on to the barrel or barrels connected with the steering
wheel.
Figs. 3 and 4 show in side elevation and plan another arrangement of
working the apparatus with the lever arms in a different position to those
before shown. Similar letters of reference refer to like parts, as in the
previous Figures.
Figs. 5 and 6 shew in side elevation and in plan a single action tiller
also constructed according to this Invention, and with the tiller
connected with the crank.
By this Invention we obtain,-
1. An increase of power.
2. Increase of speed in communicating the action to the rudder.
3. Economy in manufacture.

page_text: Third. The application of the arrangements before described to levers
of different lengths, whereby increase of either power or speed can be
obtained.
Fourth. The application of the above described arrangement of levers
to the steering of ships with cither one or more levers, yokes, cranks,
or friction wheels or pins, fixed in the manner and position described, or
in any other manner or position as may best suit the condition of the
ship into which it is to be fixed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Utting, for myself and on
behalf of the said Thomas Allen Hickley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
PETER JENSEN,
Patent Agent,
89, Chancery Lane,
London.
WILLIAM UTTING. (L.S.)