US1098977A - Sea-anchor. - Google Patents

Description

E. ROUSE.

SBA ANCHOR.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG. 21, 1913.

1,098,977, v Patented June 2, 1914.

1 I 'IHM l' l y I Il By M w ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH Co., WAsHlNaToN. D. c,

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

FREDERICK ROUSE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

.SEA-ANCHOR. A

To all whom t muy concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK Rouen, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Sea-Anchor, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a spreading frame for an anchor of the character mentioned adapted to maintain its operative position irrespective of added weight; to provide a buoy for said anchor arranged and constructed to maintain the equilibrium thereof; and to provide oil a ballasting compartment adapted to hold and distribute a liquidto affect the surface of the water in which the anchor is held when in service.

In the drawing z--Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of an anchor constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, a portion of the buoy being cut away to disclose the interior construction thereof; Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

As seen in the accompanying drawings, a canvas or sheet 9 is employed as a drag to hold a drifting vessel head up to the wind or sea. For this purpose the sheet 9 is provided with eyeleted edges 10 through the eyelets 11 whereof a continuous lacing 12 is woven, being passed over the side bars 13 and the belaying rod 141.

The side bars 13 are pivotally connected by means of pins 15 with the short arms 1G. The arms 16 are pivotally connected by means of bolts 17 with the lugs 18, eX- tended from the tapered heads 19 of the buoy provided to float the said anchor. The purpose in using the short arms 16 is to extend the pivoted joint of pins 15 below the straight side of the cylinder Q0. When the anchor is to be stowed, the bars 13 having been released from the sheet 9 by the lacings 12 Vbeing Withdrawn, the said bars are folded, as seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the pivotal joints 0f the said bars with the said short arms permitting this.

The bars 13 may be disposed in any desired shape, that shown in the drawings at Fig. 1 being a triangular shape. In this posit-ion the bars 13 are connected by an eyeleted pin 21, which is normally held in position by a screw nut 22. The pins 15 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 21, 1913.

Patented June 2, 1914. Serial No. 785,926.

as well as the pin 21 have each an eyelet to be engaged by the chain sections 23, which sections are drawn together and secured to a swivel 24, thus forming a three-extensioned bridle. The swivel 24 is extended -in front of the sheet 9 of the anchor when in service. It will be understood that if it be desired to form a square anchor this may be accomplished by introducing a third lrod to connect with the lower end of each of the side bars 13, and by the addition of another chain section 23 to connect the swivel with the additional corner of the sheet or anchor section.

The cylinder` 20 is constructed of sheet metal or other suitable material. Adjacent each end a partition 25 is provided to hermetically seal the end sections or heads of' the cylinder, and to thereby form air chambers 26. The air chambers 26 being thus disposed at the extreme ends of the cylinder 20, operate to maintain the buoyancy and the surface position of the said cylinder. Intermediate the partitions 25 is disposed a third partition 27, the purpose of the partition 27 being to divide the oil holding portion of the cylinder 20 to prevent the settling of the oil at either end of the cylinder or float, and also to prevent t ie swashing or swing of the oil in the said cylinder when the said cylinder is tossed by the seas into which the anchor is cast.

The partition 27 is preferably disposed in line with the filling aperture for the cylinder 20. This aperture is normally closed by a screw threaded plug 28. It is preferred to eliminate or restrict the communication between the oil chambers at the opposite sides of the partition 27, and for this purpose the plug 28 fits snugly the edge of the partition 27 to forml a gate or closure member for the opening in the said partition.

The oil contained in the compartments of the cylinder 20 is delivered to orifices `normally closed by the plugs 29. Prior to casting the anchor overboard, the plugs 29 vare removed so that when the cylinder 20 is riding the waves the oil contained in the said cylinder will be delivered upon the water, to be carried by the wind backward toward the boat to which the anchor is attached, opera-ting, as is well known, to quiet the waters, or the area of the sea in which the boat is floating while anchored.

The particular service for which these anchors are employed is in the life boat service7 or in service where relatively small boats are exposed to rough or tempestuous sea The object of the invention is twofold; first, to provide a drag or apparatus which will hold the boat to prevent the drifting thereof to which it is impe'lled by the force of the wind, and, second, to deliver a supply of oil to thewater to be spreadthereover by the wind to form a quiet area in which the boat iioats.

Claims.

l. An anchor such as described, comprising a buoy having floating compartments disposed at theV ends thereof, and an oil containing chamber intermediate said ends, said chamber having a receiving aperture; a partition dividing the said compartments transversely, said partition being alined withsaid aperture; a closure plug for said aperture adapted to rest upon said partition; means for maintaining the. buoy with the receiving aperture uppermost; and means or withdrawing the oil from said buoy at. the bottom thereof.

2. An anchor as characterized, having an' elongated cylindrical oilecontalning float,

said float having at the ends thereof airchambers; a plurality of solid partitions separating said chambers from a centrallydisposed body portion of the float; receiving means for admitting oil to said body portion; delivery means opening from the side of said body portion opposite that having the receiving means; removable closure members for said delivery means; a central partition transversely disposed in said body portion in line with the center of said receiving means, to distribute'the oil in said body portion, said central partition orming in part said receiving means; a screw plug for closing said receiving means and the portion thereof comprised in said central partition; and means suspended from said Hoat for maintaining the same in position to deliver the oil from said body portion by said delivery means.

En testimony whereot1 Vl have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK ROUSE.

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E. F. MURDooK, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Gommissiener of Patents, Washington, ID. C.

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