US9065A - Samuel barker - Google Patents

Description

SAMUEL BAKKER, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

SAIL-HANK.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,065, dated J une 29, 1852.

o all 'whom tt may concerni Be it known that I, SAMUEL BARKER, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented and made a new and Improved Hank, said hanks being employed to secure the stay sails and jibs of ships and vessels each to their proper stay; and I do hereby declare t-hat the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the con# struction of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan or top view of my improved hank. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of ditto, the friction rollers being' removed, and the socket of the hank being in section for the purpose of showing the manner in which the eye is secured in the socket. Fig. 3, is a plan of the hoop and socket partly distended, showing the manner in which the hanks are placed around the stay. Fig. et, is a plan of the eye, showing the manner in which the eyes are placed in the eyelets of the sail. Fig. 5, is a plan of the ordinary wooden hanks in present use. Fig. 6, shows the application of the hank.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several tigures.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a metal hank of two parts, one of which is to embrace lthe stay rope and may be a continuous hoop, or one as delineated in the drawings, opening on a hinge the more readily to admit of its being applied torthe stay, and on which it is secured from being lost overboard by the use of a screw bolt, furnished with a ring handle through which may be passed the down haul. vThis part is formed so as to constitute a socket for the reception of the shank of the other part, viz., an eye, opening as a pair of shears, for the purpose of being passed through and secured in the eyelet of the sail. The shank on this eye, after closing on the eyelet, is entered into the socket of the hoop, where it is retained by a sliding bolt passing through it, and by which it is secured, in its place. The advantage this hank possesses over the wooden one (to which t-he eyelet is secured with spun yarn and which this invention is designed to substitute) is that it obviates the chatting to which the spun yarn seizing is subjected, which loosening t-he sail requires that it should be hauled down for new seizing and is thus frequently split, .rendering necessary the bending of a new sail, which even in port takes considerable time, but more so at sea, if not impossible in a high wind, while with the metal hank the mere slipping out the eye from one sail into another is the work of a second.

In applying these hanks the sailor having clasped the stay with the hoop portion, and secured it with the bolt, with the left hand lays hold on the sail, and drawing it to the eye held in the right hand, passes. the eye into the eyelet and closing it, it is then readily introduced into the socket on the hoop portion, the palm of the same hand being used to throw in the bolt, the left hand being now relieved, a turn or two of the screw on said bolt secures it in its place.

'Io enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed fully to describe its construction and operation.

A, represents the hoop which may be constructed of any suitable metal. Said hoop is divided into two equal parts (a) (a) and connected by a joint (c). See Figs. 2 and 3. The ends of the parts (a) (b) opposite to the joint have a socket B, upon them, the socket being composed of two parts (c), a part being attached to each ofthe ends of the parts (a) (b) of the hoop. See Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

(f) are friction rollers or rings placed on the hoop, as seen in Fig. 1, the rollers or rings being confined within a certain limit or space on the hoop by means of the stops (g) (g) which are permanently attached to the hoop after the rollers or rings are placed on it.

C, is a screw which passes through the socket, see Fig. 2, and by which the two parts (el) (e) are secured together.

D, is the eye and shank, Figs. 1, 2 and 4, composed of two parts (h) (i) connected by a pivot by which the eye may be opened, as seen in Fig. et, and placed in the eyelet of the sail. The shank fits in the socket B, as seen in Fig. 2, a screw rod E, passing through a hole in the shank which prevents the eye from being withdrawn from the socket. The eye or ring F, on the end of the screw C, is for the purpose of allowing the down-haul (7c) to pass through. See Fig. 6. Vhere my hanks are used the sail will descend in many cases without employing the down-haul.

The several parts composing the bank being noW described I Will proceed to show the manner in Which it is applied.

The eye D, is detached from the socket by withdrawing the screw rod E, and the eye is then opened, as seen in Fig. 4, and placed in the eyelet of the sail and then closed. The loop A, is then opened, see Fig. 3, and placed around the stay, the screW C, having been previously Withdrawn from the socket. The screw C, is then replaced and the parts of the socket screwed firmly together. The shank of the eye is then placed Within the socket and the screw rod E, passed through the hole in the shank, as seen in F ig. 2.

I have merely described one, it being understood that there are a series of hanks on a sail.

Having described the nature of my inveny sAML. BARKER. i

Witnesses O. D. MUNN, S. H. WALES.

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