Improvements in Brackets or Clips for Cattle Fittings and other Temporary Structures (on Board Ship or otherwise).
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets or Clips for Cattle Fittings and other
Temporary Structures (on Board Ship or otherwise).
We, GEORGE ROLLO and MALCOLM ROLLO, of Fulton Engine Works,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Marine Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the construction of fittings for cattle on board ship at present very heavy
castings are clamped to the stanchions containing sockets through which the bars.
are passed.
Now our invention is designed to form a very light and at the same time very
strong bracket. for this purpose. It is also adaptable for almost any place where
movable bars are required especially in temporary stalls for animals, temporary
bins etc.
The invention consists in taking two plates and stamping out from them three-
sides of a rectangle and bending back the tongue thus formed; two four or six.
of these tongues can be thus made and so placed as to surround and grasp the
stanchion. The plates can also be bent so as to fit the stanchion. A single
bolt through the plates and the stanchion or even no bolt at all through the
stanchion, but bolts through the corners of the two plates hold the plates tight.
in position on the stanchion, and the holes left by the tongues corresponding in the
two plates are used for passing the bars through. In this way a very light and
cheap bracket very easily taken off the stanchion is made instead of the heavy cast
iron bracket at present in use and this bracket being made entirely of wrought
metal is vastly stronger than the much heavier one.
Dated the 21st day of September 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicants..
Improvements in Brackets or Clips for Cattle Fittings and other
Temporary Structures (on Board Ship or otherwise).
We, GEORGE ROLLO and MALCOLM ROLLO of Fulton Engine Works,.
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Marine Engincers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
:-
In the construction of fittings for cattle on board ship at present very heavy
castings are clamped to the stanchions containing sockets through which the bars.
or planking are passed.
Now our invention is designed to form a very light aud at the same time very
strong bracket for this purpose. It is also adaptable to almost any place where
movable bars are required, especially in temporary stalls for animals, temporary.
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page_text: The invention is best described by the drawings appended hereto of a temporary
structure on cattle ships, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation, Figure 2 a side elevation and Figure 3 a sectional
plan of a vertical post and brackets for the longitudinal bars or planking.
Figure 4 side elevation and Figure 5 horizontal section of vertical post and
bracket for an angle in the planking.
We take two plates and stamp out from them three sides of a rectangle and
bend back the tongue thus formed; two, four or six of these tongues can be thus
made and so placed as to surround and grasp the stanchion. The plates can also
be bent so as to fit the stanchion, and bolts passed through the plates hold the
plates tight in position thereon.
In Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, A is the vertical stanchion, B B the two
plates, CC the tongues stamped out of them and bent inwards to grasp the
stanchion and D D screw bolts binding the plates firmly thereto. The plates at
one end are flanged or bent inwards at B' so that when the end of a piece of
planking is dropped in between the plates these flanges B₁ support the said ends.
EE are eye-bolts which are inserted when the planking is dropped into place to
prevent the planking being lifted.
Figures 4 and 5 show how the invention is applied where an angle in the
planking occurs, similar letters of reference referring to like parts in all the
figures. In this case the plates B are bent at an angle as shown and the tongues C
stamped out of one plate only and bent inwards to grasp the stanchion.
G is a
bolt passing through the stanchion and plates instead of on each side as at D D in
the other figures. One of the plates at one end is flanged and the lugs Fin
the flanges bolted to the other plate at G. These flanges B₁ form a support for the
ends of the planking when inserted in place between the plates. It will be seen
that the tongues C in the plate B may be dispensed with it desired in the case of
the angle bracket, these tongues being most useful in the case of the bracket
depicted in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The manufacture and use of brackets or clips for cattle fittings and other
temporary structures on board ship or otherwise of wrought iron, steel or the like,
cut or stamped out of and attached to the standards or stanchions substantially as
described.
Dated this 20th day of May 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents..