AN IMPROVED LANYARD FOR THE SHROUDS AND OTHER RIGGING OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS, AND AN APPARATUS FOR SETTING UP THE SAME
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
ROGERS, of New Hampshire, in the United States of America, but now of
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Master Mariner, and Ship Owner,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of August 1823, in the fourth
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Rogers, my
exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Robert Rogers, my exors, admors, and
assigns, 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, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED LANYARD FOR THE SHROUDS
AND OTHER RIGGING OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS, AND AN APPARATUS FOR SETTING
UP THE SAME;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Robert Rogers, shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing, under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and

page_text: become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Rogers, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed and the
following description description thereof (that is to say):-
My said Invention of an improved lanyard for the shrouds and other
rigging of ships and other vessels, consist in iron substitutes for the usual
blocks, lanyards, or dead eyes employed at present. They are composed of
an iron frame, having two parallel sides united at top, and joined below to
a socket with a hole, through which a bar or bolt passes, having holes or
perforations made along it to receive a forelock, by which it can be secured
in its place when the shrouds or other rigging are drawn tight.
I shall now give an example of a method of applying this part of my
Invention to the lanyards of the shrowds, by a reference to the Drawings
which, as aforesaid, accompany this Specification; not that I mean or intend
thereby to limit myself to this particular form or construction only, but to
avail myself of every mode by which my said Invention can be carried into
effect, without effecting the principle of the Invention.
In the Drawing, Fig. 1 is a front view of one of my improved iron
substitutes for the lanyards; and Figure 2 a side view thereof, in both of
which Figures the same letters of reference designate the same parts. A is
the frame, and B the bar or bolt, shewn as passed through the hole in the
socket; c, c, &c., are the holes or perforations in the bolt or bar B for the
forelock D to pass through, this is shewn seperately in Figure 3; E is a ring
with a hole in it, intended to be placed underneath the forelock D, in order
to effect a nicer adjustment when necessary, and for this purpose spare ones
are provided. One of these is shewn seperately in Figure 4. The upper
part of the frame A is shewn in the Figures as being affixed to a part of the
shroud F, which is turned through it and around the thimble G and seized
above, as shewn at H, H, &c. The lower end of the bar or bolt B has a hole
or perforation I made in it for the link J to pass through, and into which is
received the shackle and its bolt K, by which the substitute for the lanyard is
affixed to the loop or eye on the channel or side of the ship or other vessel.
L, Figure 5, shews one of the rings E lying between the parallel sides of the
frame A, A, (shewn in section).
The other part of my said Invention consists in a portable apparatus for
setting up the shrouds or other rigging, and is intended for drawing together
the parts of the substitutes for the lanyards, previous to their being secured

page_text: by the forelock, as before described; in Figure 2 one of these is shewn
in use, and Figures 6 and 7 shew them in front and sideways when taken
apart or not in use, the same letters of reference indicating the same
parts in all the Figures. M is a hook united by the swivel N with
pivots or gudgeons to the head of a screw O. This screw acts in a female
screw made in the piece P, which turns upon pivots or gudgeons in holes
made in the upper part of the forked hook Q. Through the screw O is
made a hole R for the lever S to enter, by which the screw can be turned
when necessary. T, T, are other holes made through the cheeks of the
hook M to pass a pin or bolt U through and inside of the frame A, to affix
it thereto, and as shewn in Figure 2. V, V, are other holes made through the
cheeks of the forked hook Q, to permit the pin or bolt W to pass through
and to lodge against any of the neighbouring parts, to prevent the forked part
from turning round whilst the screw is worked by the lever S. I do not,
however, mean or intend hereby to limit myself to this particular form of the
apparatus, but to avail myself of any other, by which the same effect of
drawing together the parts of my substitutes for the lanyards can be pro-
duced; nether do I mean or intend thereby to claim the Invention of any of
the different parts of which it may be composed, but only its application as
a portable apparatus, by which any of the shrouds or other rigging of ships
and other vessels can be set up in combination with my said substitutes for
the lanyards.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Rogers, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of
ROBERT (L.s.) ROGERS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1823, the aforesaid Robert Rogers came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.