AN IMPROVED MODE OF BRIDLING CABLES TO ANCHORS." MODE OF BRIDLING CABLES TOS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, of Brading,
in the Isle of Wight, Master of Arts, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF BRIDLING CABLES TO ANCHORS."
IMPROVED MODE OF BRIDLING CABLES TO ANCHORS."
Sealed the 18th December 1874, and dated the 24th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Robert
Augustus Glover at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents;
with his Petition, on the 24th June 1874.
I, FREDERICK ROBERT AUGUSTUS GLOVER, of Brading, in the Isle of
Wight, Master of Arts, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BRIDLING CABLES TO ANCHORS," to be
as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to provide a simple contrivance that
will ensure dropped anchors entering or taking hold of the ground with-
out offering any obstruction to the hauling in of the anchor. In carrying
out this object I bridle the cable to the shank of the anchor in such a
manner that when the pendent or lowermost fluke strikes the ground the

page_text: bridling connection between the cable and the shank will be broken and
the cable will be left free to drag on the anchor by the shackle as usual.
This shank I fit with a shank band, and holes are formed therein on
opposite sides of the shank to receive the tongue of a ring bolt which is
slidden over the cable and allowed to rest on the swivel pin, where it is
secured by lashing. The tongue of this ring bolt is inserted in one of
the holes of the shank band and secured therein by a pin (attached to a
bolt line) passing through a hole in the end of the tongue before the
anchor is lowered. As the lowering of the anchor is effected the pin
will be withdrawn by the tension of the bolt line, the strain of the cable
meanwhile ensuring the connection of the ring bolt with the shank
band. By this means the verticality of the anchor while in suspension
will be secured, and it will therefore when dropped strike without fail
into and take a firm hold of the ground.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 24th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
ROBERT AUGUSTUS GLOVER, of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, Master of
Arts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, Her special
licence that I, the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick
Robert Augustus 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 "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BRIDLING CABLES TO
ANCHORS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick
Robert Augustus Glover, my executors or administrators, by an instru-

page_text: ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 I, the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing
hercunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say) :-
The object of this Invention is to provide a simple contrivance that
will ensure anchors when dropped entering or taking hold of the ground
without offering any obstruction to the hauling up of the anchor. In
carrying out this object I secure the cable to the shank of the anchor
in such a manner that the bridling will be maintained until the pendent
or lowermost fluke strikes the ground, at which time the bridling con-
nection between the cable and the shank will be broken and the cable
will be left free to drag on the anchor by the shackle as usual.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 shows an anchor fitted with
my improved bridling connection and in the act of being lowered; Fig. 2
shows the anchor as having just struck the ground, and the parts which
form the bridling connection in the position they would take at the
moment of the anchor touching the ground; Figures 3 and 4 shew
details of parts of the bridling connection.
The anchor which may be of the ordinary or any approved construc-
tion is provided on its shank A with a suspension band B, which is
welded or otherwise secured to the shank; in this shank band holes b, b,
are formed (see Fig. 3) on opposite sides thereof to receive the tongue c
of a ring bolt C (shewn detached at Figs. 4), which is slidden over the
cable D and allowed to rest on the swivel pin of the cable, where it is
secured by lashing, as shewn at Fig. 1; the tongue of this ring bolt is
inserted in one or other of the holes 6 of the shank band B for the
purpose of maintaining the anchor when dropped in the proper position
for entering the ground; this tongue is secured in the suspension band B
by a pin e (attached to a bolt line E), which pin is passed through a
hole in the end of the tongue before the anchor is lowered; as the

page_text: lowering of the anchor by the cable D is effected the pin e will be with-
drawn by the tension thereby put on the bolt line, the strain of the
cable D meanwhile ensuring the connection of the ring bolt with the
shank band. By this means the verticality of the anchor while in
suspension will be secured, and it will therefore when dropped strike
without fail into and take a firm hold of the ground.
When the lowermost fluke of the anchor strikes the ground the strain
will for the moment be taken off the cable and the ring bolt will become
immediately detached from the band B, as shewn at Fig. 2. So soon as
the cable is again brought to tension by the progress of the vessel the 1
anchor will be drawn into the ground, as indicated by the dotted lines of
Fig. 2, and the vessel will thus be firmly secured at anchor.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An Improved
Mode of Bridling Cables to Anchors," and explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the 1
above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the means above described
whereby I am enabled to ensure the dropped anchor falling in the proper
position for entering the ground.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover,
have hereunto set my hand and scal, the Fourth day of December, 2
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
foun