US780374A - Binnacle for submarine boats. - Google Patents

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No. 780,374. PATENTED JAN. 17, 1905 J. S. NEGUS & H.'BLOSSOM.

BINNAGLE FOR SUBMARINE BOATS.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 27. 1904.

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No. 780,374. PATENTED JAN. 1'7, 1905. I. S. NEGUS & H. BLOSSOM. BINNACLE FOR SUBMARINE BOATS.

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JOHN S. NEGUS AND HERBERT BLOSSOM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

BINNACLE FOR SUBMARINE BOATS,

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,374, dated January 17, 1905.

Application filed August 27, 1904. Serial No. 222,427.

To whom it y Gamer"! provided with a glass covering-plate 2. The Be it known that we, JOHN S. NEGUS and hood is shown as connected with the deck- HERBERT BLOSSOM, residing in the borough of plates 3 of the boat by a pedestal 4, Fig. 3, Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, in the city there being an aperture 5 in the deck of the 5 and State of New York, have jointly invented boat at the point where the hood is mounted. certain Improvements in Binnacles for Sub- Within the hood is mounted the binnacle, marineBoats, of which the followingisaspeci- (seen detached in Fig. 2,) the latter being sefication. cured to the pedestal by means of suitable This invention relates to the class of binnabrackets 6 on the latter. The binnacle as I cles employed on submergible and submarine herein shown comprises a casing 7, having a boats built almost wholly of magnetic metal, back and two upright sides, with ties 8 andv 9 such a binnacle having in some instances a across the front, and in this casing is mounttelltale-compass, a beefing-magnet, other lated a telltale-compass 10.- This is a doubleeral correcting-magnets, and means for quadcard transparent compass, and it is pivotally I I5 rantal correction. It is unavoidable in binmounted at the sides of the casing in bearings 5 nacles for use on this class of boats that the at 11. On the respective sides of the casing are space permitted is limited, and it is extremely mounted, above the compass, the magnet dedifiicult to so dispose the parts about the comvices M. These are alike, and the construction pass that they may be reached conveniently and accessories of one magnet device will be 20 for regulation and adjustment. described with especial reference to Figs. 4, 7 The object of the present invention is the 5, and 6. The magnets proper, 12, are inimprovement of the construction and mount' closed in a tubular casing 13, having a screwing of the parts, as will be hereinafter decap 14. On this casing 13 is securedanut 15, scribed, and in their relative arrangement with through which passes an upright screw 16, 5 a view to ease of access for adjustment. disposed at right angles, substantially, to the In the accompanying drawings, which serve magnets. This screw 16 has a step-bearing to illustrate an embodiment of the invention, at 17 in a'bracket on the casing, and above Figure 1 is a frontelevation of the binnacle, it has a neck 16, which has an open or slotted showing the hood and some other parts in secbearing, Fig. 5, in a bracket 18 011 the casing.

" 3 tion. Fig. 2isa perspective view of the binna- Thus the screw is rotatable in collared bear- 8o cle. Fig. 3isanelevation ofthehoodofthe binings, and when rotated by a key 19 (seen in nacle with its support and attaching parts in Fig. 2) the magnet device is caused to move section. Fig. 4: is a vertical mid-section of up or down, as the case may be, to set it nearer the binnacle on a larger scale than Fig. 1, the to or farther from the compass. To prevent 35 plane of the section being indicated by line m the nut 15 from turning with the screw and i in Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views, the to maintain the magnet device in its proper former being a section attc in Fig 4 and the position with respect to the casing some form latter a longitudinal section of one of the of guide will be employed for the tubular magnet-cases. casing 13, and, as herein shown, this is an up- 1 The drawings illustrate a suitable form of right guideway 20, secured to the main casing hood for inclosing the binnacle; but the pres- 7 and receivingthe end of the magnet-casing. ent invention is not restricted to this particu- To remove the magnet device, it is run up ular form of hood. The object is to inclose until the tube is free from the guideway 20, the parts in a water-tight compartment so when the screw 16 is tilted sidewise to disen- 45 constructed as to permit of inspecting the gage its neck 16 from the upper slotted bearcompass from the interior of the boat and ing in the bracket 18, when the screw and also from above and also to provide access to magnet-casing may be lifted out of the main the parts from above for adjustment. casing 7 The square on the upper end of the In the drawings, 1 designates the hood with screw enters a square socket in the key 19.

4 5 an aperture in its top closed water-tight and The key or keys are held by spring-clips 27, I00

it, this bore being in the main large enough (seen best in Fig.2,) and in Fig. i a key is seen I in place on the screw.

The heeling-magnet device M is mounted above the compass where it will be easy of access in a bracket-arm 8 on the tie 8. In this case (see Fig. 4) the tubular casing 13 is screw-threaded and screws through a fixed nut 15 on the arm 8 and is provided with a lock-nut 21. The cap 14: on the tubular casing 13 prevents access of moisture to the inclosed magnets 12.

The heeling-magnet device may be readily adjusted up-or down through the hand-hole in the top of the hood 1.

The quadrantal corrector of the binnacle is best illustrated in Fig. 1. On each side of the casing 7 is secured a threaded rod or screw 22, which projects out at right angles from the casing by preference and is provided with a nut 23. On the screw is slipped a ball 24, of iron, which has a bore extending through to slip freely over the screw, but having a short contracted portion of its length screwthreaded, as seen at 25 at the right in Fig. 1, where the ball 24: is shown in section to illustrate this feature.

As the screw and ball project considerably from the side of the casing 7, room is provided for them by a cup 26, screwed into the side of the hood. This cup, which forms in substance a part of the hood, is removable and affords access to the ball for adjustment along the screw.

It will be noted that all of the magnets are superposed or above the compass, so as to be readily and conveniently reached for adjustment, although the space in and about the binnacle is necessarily contracted by reason of the requirementfor economizing space. The magnets 12 and 12 are inclosed, so as to avoid wetting by condensed moisture, and the tubes containing the magnets are readily removable at will. One key 19 would of course serve for adjusting the lateral magnets; but it is preferred to have two, in case one should be lost, misplaced, or broken.

The binnacle described is especially designed for submarine boats; but obviously its use is not necessarily limited to this class of boats.

As the magnets proper, 12 and 12, are carried in tubes, the magnets, together with their inclosing casings or tubes and attached parts, have been referred to as magnet devices and designated by theletters M and M.

At the left in Fig. 1 is shown the means for securing the screw 22 firmly to the casing 7 in a readily-removable manner.

The screw has on it a polygonal part 27 to receive a wrench and an enlarged screwthreaded extremity 28, which screws into a socket in a metal block or thickening-piece 29 on the sideof the casing. This construction provides a firm and rigid fastening, and

yet permits of the ready removal of the screw 22. The part 27 may have any form adapted to receive an instrument for turning the screw.

It will be noted that in the present construction the magnets are not mounted on and carried by the compass, but on the casing 7, the compass being free to maintain its horizontal position, while the binnacle, which carries the magnets, may robk with the movements of the vessel.

Having thus claim- 1. A binnacle, having a compass pivotally mounted therein, magnets mounted on the binnacle above the level of the compass, and means for moving said magnets toward and from the compass.

2. A binnacle, having a compass pivotally mounted therein, upright collared screws 16 mounted rotatively in the binnacle-casing, horizontally-disposed magnets M, each provided with a nut which runs on one of said screws so as to be moved up or down by rotation of the screw, and upright guideways 20, one for each magnet, the ends of the magnets loosely engaging the respective guideways.

3. Abinnacle, provided with a heeling-magnet mounted directly over the center of the compass in a rigid bearing, and havingmeans for adjusting it up and down with respect to the compass.

i. A binnacle, having a casing, provided with a fixed nut, a compass mounted in said casing, and a heeling-magnet device mounted in the binnacle-casing directly over the compass, said heeling-magnet device comprising an upright, tubular, screw-threaded casing, magnets therein, and a cap closing the end of said magnet-casing, said magnet-casing screwing through said fixed nut for adjustment.

5. A binnacle, having a compass pivotally mounted therein, horizontally-disposed magnets mounted on the binnacle above the level of the compass, and means for moving said magnets toward and from the compass, said means and the magnets being mounted in a readily-removable manner and being accessible from above the binnacle.

6. A binnacle, having a casing and quadrantal correctors at respective opposite sides of same, said corrector comprising a screwthreaded rod projecting out laterally from the casing, a ball which is threaded on said rod, and means for securing said ball in place when set on the rod. 7

7. A binnacle, having a casing and quadrantal correctors, each of said correctors comprising a screw-threaded rod 22 which projects out laterally from the side of the casing, a ball 2 1 on said rod, said ball having a part only of its bore screw-threaded to engage the thread on the rod, and a nut 23 on said rod.

8. The combination with an inclosing hood having cups 26 screwing into it removably at described our invention, we

laterally from said casing into the respective In witness whereof We have hereunto signed cups on the hood, balls 24 on the respective our names, this 25th day of August, 1904, in

5 rods, and nuts on said rods. the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. I5

binnacle, having a casing and remov- JOHN S. NEGUS. L ablequadrantal correctors, the latter each HERBERT BLOSSOM. having a rod 22, provided with a part to re- Witnesses: ceive an instrument for turning the rod, and ADoLPH F. SCHMIDT, I0 a screw-threaded extremity, and the casing CHARLES BORGHERS.

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