An Improvement in Boat Suspending Hooks.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Apr., 1891-Accepted. 23rd May 1801
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Boat Suspending Hooks.
We WILLIAM COLLIER ANGOVE, of 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of
London, Marine Superintendent and WILLIAM WATKINS, of Orchard Yard,
Blackwall in the County of Middlesex, Boat Builder do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the sling or other suspension hooks by which ships'
boats are attached to the running blocks of the davit tackle; and it has for its
object to provide an improved form of "mousing" whereby all danger of the
accidental unhooking of the boat will be avoided, notwithstanding that the boat
may be struck and lifted by the waves, and which will yet admit of the immediate
unhooking when it is required to detach the boat.
This improved mousing consists of a narrow oblong link adapted to embrace the
shank and point of the hook and so lie across and close the mouth of the hook the
point of which is, for the purpose of this invention, provided with an upwardly
turned hooked extremity for the one end of the mousing link to rest in, the said
mousing link being downwardly bent near the other end so as to rest on the back
of the suspension hook and be thus supported in position to fulfil its purpose in
which position it remains merely by its own weight.
The said mousing link is adapted to be slid in the direction of its own length
upon the suspension hook, in order that the end of the mousing link, which is
cradled in the point of the suspension hook, may be lifted out and allowed to drop
below the mouth of the hook when it is required to detach the latter from the
ackle block.
To facilitate the engagement and disengagement of the hook, it is not hooked
lirectly into the swivel eye of the tackle block, but to an intermediate long looped
hackle or link permanently hung in the eye of the block.
Dated this 7th day of November 1890
W. C. ANGOVE.
W. WATKINS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Boat Suspending Hooks.
We, WILLIAM COLLIER ANGOVE of 122, Leadenhall Street, in the City of
London, Marine Superintendent, and WILLIAM WATKINS of Orchard Yard,
Blackwall, in the County of Middlesex, Boat Builder, 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 :-
This invention relates to the suspension hooks by which ships' boats are attached
to the running blocks of the davit tackles; and it has for its object to provide an
improved form of "mousing" which will prevent accidental unhooking of the boat
whilst it is so easily operated as to admit of the immediate unhooking of the boat
when required.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of
this Specification, and will be described with reference thereto.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 an end elevation, of the tacklo at one
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page_text: end of a boat, the suspension hook being, for the sake of illustration, attached to
the boat by sling chains.
Figure 3 is a side view of the hook unmoused and the hook being, in this case,
pivoted to a keel bolt.
Figure 4 shews the mousing link separately.
Figure 1 shews the block provided with a welded link instead of a shackle.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
This improved mousing consists of a narrow oblong link A. having parallel side
members and adapted to embrace the shank and point of the hook B which, for
the purpose of this invention, is provided with an upwardly-turned nose b to
support the front end of the mousing link A.
The said mousing link is downwardly-bent, at about a, and is supported in
position to fulfil the purpose of a mousing, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2, in which
position it remains merely by its own weight, the weight of the downwardly-bent
rear end of the mousing link tending to maintain it in its proper position, and to
prevent all liability of the other end of the link jumping out of its cradle.
The said mousing link is of such length as to admit of its being slid upon the
suspension hook in the direction of its own length a sufficient distance to enable the
front end of the mousing link to be lifted out of its cradle at the point of
the suspension hook and be dropped below the mouth of the said hook, as shewn
in Figures 2 and 3, when it is required to detach the latter from the tackle
block C.
To facilitate the engagement and disengagement of the hook B it is not hooked
directly into the swivel eye c of the tackle block but to an intermediate oblong
link D which may either be a shackle, as in Figures 1 and 2, or, preferably, a link
welded into the eye c of the block, as in Figure 14, the link or shackle D rendering
the attachment of the hook B to the tackle block easier than if it were hooked
directly into the swivel eye.
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The hook B may either be " "shut or welded into the end links of the sling
chains, as in Figures 1 and 2, or may be jointed to a keel bolt, as in Figure 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The combination, with a boat-suspension hook having a nose or hooked point, of
a mousing link adapted to embrace the shank and point of the hook and to rest
and slide thereon, substantially as, and for the purpose, specified.
W. C. ANGOVE.
W. WATKINS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.