AN IMPROVED SAIL HANK
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Cutler Jones, of Liverpool, in the County
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of Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SAIL HANK."-
A communication from abroad by Charles William Clements, of
the Town of Yarmouth, Province of Nova Scotia, Dominion of
Canada
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Cutler Jones
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th July 1875.
I, THOMAS CUTLER JONES, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “An Improved
SAIL HANK," "a communication," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention consists in making a metal sail hank in two parts,
being sister hooks connected together by a tongue and slot so that 'they
fit one into the other, and are secured by a pin, making a hinge joint,
which allows the parts or sister books to swing open to receive the stay

page_text: and the bolt rope of the sail. The sister hooks lap over each other, and
make when they are shut together a duplicate or hinged clip hook.
This Invention is applicable to the bending of jibs, topsails, and other
sails, and the attachment of bonnets to jibs, and other like purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Cutler Jones in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th January 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
CUTLER JONES, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Cutler Jones, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Cutler Jones, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Cutler Jones,
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 SAIL HANK," a communication to me from abroad by Charles
William Clements, of the Town of Yarmouth, Province of Nova Scotia,
Dominion of Canada, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Thomas Cutler Jones, my executors or administrators, by an in-
strument 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.

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement.-
This Invention consists in making a metal sail hank in two parts,
being sister hooks connected together by a tongue and slot so that they
fit one into the other, and are secured by a pin, making a hinge joint,
which allows the parts or sister hooks to swing open to receive the
stay and the bolt rope of the sail. The sister hooks lap ovor cach
other, and make when they are shut together a duplicate or hinged clip
hook
In order that thus Invention may be more clearly seen and understood,
I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings illustrating the improved
sail hank. Like letters and figures denoto similar parts on the various
views, and correspond with those in the following explanation:-
Figure 1 represents the improved sail hank as closed and when in use;
Figure 2 represents it as open for the purpose of bending or unbending"
the sail, Figures 3 and 4 are end views, and Figure 5 is a plan of
Figure 1
Figure 6 is a modification of a sail hank according to this Invention.
Upon reference it will be seen that A and B represent the two main
picces of which the hank is formed, and C the pin which forms the
bingo, G is the stay, and II the bolt rope of a sail.
In applying my Invention the hank is opened, as shown at Figure 2,
and passed round the stay G. The point D of the piece A is then passed
through the ring in the sail back of the bolt rope II. The ring is then
passed along the piece A far enough to allow the piece B to be closed,
after which it is moved back until the bolt rope H is in the loop E and
the stay G is in the loop E, as shown in Figure 1.
The modification shown at Figure 6 consists in forming the pieces A
and B as sister hooks to lap over each other both at the stay loop F and
the bolt rope loop E.
By the beforegoing it will be seen how readily a sail may be bent or
unbent by the application of this Invention, which is applicable to the
bending of jibs, topsails, and other sails, and to the attachment of bonnets
to iibs.