AN IMPROVED RUDDER, AND THE MEANS OF PRESERVING THE RUDDER
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BOLTON, Esquire, Captain in the Royal Navy, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of
June, in the forty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
William Bolton, His especial license that I, the said William Bolton, during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED RUDDER, AND THE MEANS OF PRESERVING
THE RUDDER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said William Bolton, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Bolton, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described by
the Drawings and explanations thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bolton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and one.
W BOLTON
D
WM BOLTON

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighteenth day of July,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Bolton came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inselled the come Eighteenth day of July in the year above written.

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to effect by hunging the Rudder on a Metal Bar Belt or Slide, which Bur Bolt or Slide pusses through the Braces
u solid frame fixed to the Stern plost and those Bruce on the aft side are made to correspond to the Bar
oll- or Slide in the annexxt Drawing Frig 1th _
Ruddur.
Bar Bolt or Slide to which the Rudder is hung. -
Braces corresponding to B. and which confines it to the Stern post..
Stern plost...
Screw Bott passes through the head of B. (which is tapped) by, turning the lever d. caises, the Rudder.
Iron Tiller which spans the Rudder head and through which the Rudder and B slides when lifting)
Pintles.
Googings
cust solid
with B.
may
be
necessary.
My improved Rudder consists of the means of enlarging its size whenever it
The Rudder is slit down or it may be made in two parts in which is inserted a piece of
Wood
& Metal plate similar to A Fig 2nd. the upper end of which is circular and furnished with Teeth and
wins on its center-, a Bolt B passes through or at the back of the Rudder and either throws out or
traws in A, by turning to the right or left, in order to shongthen the hudder either screw or Shouldered
Bolts as 7. b. may be fitted and grooves as a. will haverse over them.
a