USRE2873E - Improvement in the construction of boats - Google Patents

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ABRAM VAN ORDER, OE ITHAO, EETT YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOATS.

Specification forming fait of' Letters Patent No. 33,5272, dated Se February 18, 15J-5S.

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Be it known that I, ABRAM VAN ORDER, of Ithaca, Tompkins county, N ew York, have invented certain Improvements in Building Canal-Boats,- and I do hereby declare that the y following is a full and exact description therein mine. of, reference being had to the accompanying Eighth. In the is used. I use iron rods to brace and make rigid my boat, and to connect the bilge and gunwale timbers into one frame.

` no effective calking of the boats inner planks,

My object is to make a stronger, more durand if there is a stout inside planking then able canal-boat than is made by the usual l the giving of the planks or spikes easily dis lmode. This I accomplish by the use of sevplaces it; but my inside calking is between eral devices, which are solid tiinbering, and is subject to no such un- First. A novel and verystrong way of makcertainties.

ing the bottom of the boat. In the ordinary l Ninth. In my mode of spiking there are no mode there are no bilge-timbers that go about the circumference of the boat to receive the i they are concealed in the sides and ends within` the calked spaces, which is not the case in ordinary canal-boats.

of the boat, with its calked seams exposed to l These devices are seen in the drawings,

damage and leakage, alone sustains the force with which the boat strikes the bank at the which are: Figure l, a viewof my boat; Fig. 2. bilge, which is often very severe. To remedy a view of the, timbering of the bottom of 1n this I make a bilge-frame about the whole botboat,- Fig. 7,' in part, views of the dovetailtom of the boat ot' heavy timber, on which I ing of the bottom of my boat; Figs. 3 A m, a usually place no planking, so that my bilge- 1 View of the construction of the side or shell timbers and frame receive the force when the I of my boat in transverse section; Figs. 9 Ab, T boat strikes the canal-bank,- and within the a view of the spiking ofthe layers of the sides b'ilge-frame I protect the bottom planking. l and ends of my boat. Figs. 8 A a is a View Second. The ordinary floor timbers are of the layers of the en and of the stops in the butts ofthe same,- Fig. 5, a view of the frame of the gunwale of my Third. In building an ordinary canal-boat boat; and, lastly, Figs. 6 B is a view ofthe the skeleton of Hoor-timbers and studs is first l iron'rod of my gunwale and bilge frames. set up, and then the planking is nailed or In Fig. l the letter A shows the sides 'and spiked to these. In my boat I commence on ends of my boat laid up solid from the bilgethe bottom frame of my bilge-timbers, made frame, smooth on the outside, and, if I please, as described, and build upward by successive on the inside also, thus making the shell or layers placed on the bilge-timber frame. hull of my boat with no defacing of either the Fourth. In the ordinary boat no solid timoutside or of the inside by the spike-heads, or ber or timbering makes the shell of the boat. ofthe hammer or sledge in their driving,- and In mine it makes at least a part, and I prefer D shows the bilge-timbers as solid, and a part the whole, of the sides and ends. of the bottom, sides, and ends, where the boat Fifth. In the ordinary boat thereis no spikis most liable to wear, as it there strikes and ing-of the -planking or other parts of the shell grates most violently the banks of the canal; of the boat from above downward. In makand E is the gunwale, and B the iron rods that ing mine I 'use a peculiar method of spiking hold the bilge and gunwale timbers into one my solid timbers, so that I virtually make the frame, and thus brace the boat; and F F, the sides and, when I choose, the whole shell (si des deck-timbers dovetailed into the gunwaletimand ends) as if one timber by my spikes. bers.

Sixth. In the ordinary boat no iron bracing In Fig. 2 is seen the bottom of my boat,

ptcznbcr i0, l'il; Brissac No. 2.373, dated Seventh. In the ordinary boat thereare no" stops used in the butts of the boat. I use them I ordinary boat there can be the bolts x x, Ste., as is apparent in the gure.

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made by the pieces D D, (any convenient number,) in part or wholly extended about or around the outside of the boat, and C G (any convenient number) are the hoor-timbers, by th'eDdovetailing secured to the bilge-timbers D In Fig. 7 are views of how this dovetailing is done, which I make either by a beveled or a notched tongue extending under the side layers. At I is the section of a bilge-timber with a notched mortise or gain cut in it.

K is the end of a floor-timber, -with a notched tongue fitting the mortise in the bilge-timber. At J is the top view ofthe same floor-timber. Thus the bilge-timbers are held fast to the floor-timbers and make a very stout frame, capable of resist-ing pressure upward or downward, and the strain produced when, for any cause, the water is out of the canal. In Fig. 8 A w is a transverse section of the sides of my boat, showing how I lay up my boat from the bottom with solid timbers. In it D is the section of the bilge-frame, made and completed usually before any other part oi' the boat is put together or upon it, and J is one of the door-timbers dovetailed into D, with the bottom planking under it. Then, on D, I lay the lower solid timber, a, and spike it to the tim,

ber D; and on a, I lay and spike b, and on that c d and other timbers, until the place for the gunwale is reached, when E is in like manner laid and spiked, and the deck-timbers F driven and secured in their dovetailed niortises.

In Fig. 9 A b is seen how I spike or bolt the timbers a b c, &c., together. At the right hand the finished out or in side of the boat is seen to be smooth and not defaced or injured by the spikes or their driving; and at the left hand the side of the boat is represented as cut away to the middle of the boat side, so that the spikes or bolts are seen as they are driven at certain intervals and in such amanner as to bind two or more pieces or parts together. The spiking repeats itself over, beginning over In Fig. S A a the mode of making the ends of my boat is seen, with the lap of the butts of the timbers and the stops G in the butts.

In Fig. A z the butts of the sides and the stops G in them are seen.

In Fig. 5 the construction of the gunwale and deck'timber frame is seen to be similar to that of the floor and bilge.

In Fig. 6 B my iron bracing is seen, and D is the bilge-timber, and E the gunwale-timber, and the rods are seen holding in a bracA ing position these two timbers together.

The further construction and uses ofvmy several devices and of my boat are apparent to those skilled in the art to which it appertains.

I claim- 1. The construction of the described layers of wood placed one above the other, making the shell or sides and ends of the boat, the de scribed method of spiking or bolting the said layers together, and the cross-rod bracing connecting the bilge-timbers with the gunwaletimbers, when arranged in relation to each other, substantially as and for the purposes described. 2. Constructing Vthe sides and ends of boats wholly of horizontal layers of timbers bolted or spiked one upon the other, substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

3. The construction of a bilge or bottom frame of solid timber, in whole or in part, about the bottom of a boat, when the floortimbers are attached thereunto, as described, and for'the purposes specified.

4. The arrangement and construction of the bottom planking on the Hoor-timbers within and protected by the bilgeirame, as set forth.

5. The oortimbers dovetailed to the bilgetimbers on their inner side and top, and held in place by the horizontal layers on their ends, for strength and security against accident, as set forth.

6. Constructing the sides and ends of boats one upon the other and upon the bilge-frame and upward from it, substantially as and for the purposes described.

l A. VAN ORDER.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL J. PARKER, l T. J. MCELHENY.

of layers of horizontal timbers bolted or spiked`

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