New Putentt and Mechanical Inventions. 



1824.3 



TJtat (;aardian anijel's parc>— 



Those jewels bright, — 

 The open'd gate of lieavm, — 



To think of is (leliglit. 

 When high I trod my ark, — 

 An ark to me, 

 And temple, on tlie sea. 

 Vioiul as Minerva trod, 

 So spake I with my Guil ; 

 And all-altesting heaven. 

 That cannot he deceiv'd, 

 Did mark if I heliev'd. 



EnzA Cappe 



SONNET 



TO THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. 



527 



That deathless niee.d of heaven, the 

 bard's bri[;ht pen ; 

 Since then thy iyie divine has oft been 

 heard, 

 Breaihini; its master melodies anew. 

 O Moore 1 harmonious Moore, — thou 

 sweetest bird 

 From bright Apollo's iiand which ever 

 flew, 

 Hail! silver-tongued Persuasion's sove- 

 reijjn lord, 

 Interpreter of Cupid's witcliery! 

 For those choice strains that Ij re does slill 

 aflbrd, 

 For each pure draught of fresh'ning 

 '"xnry, 

 When first tliy young mind, crown'd with The Mnse declares,— oh sweet, unbought 

 flowers, appear'd, regard ! — 



I did salute thee scion of those men. When she goes back to Heaven she will 



On whom the Mnse bestows,— ah ! " blest take thee. Enokt. 



reward," — 



NEW PATENTS AND MECHANICAL INVENTIONS. 



To Mr. George Hawkes, of Lucas- 

 place, Commercial-road, for Improve- 

 ments ill Making Anchors. — Nov. 

 1, 1823. 



TO prevent the difEculty and danger 

 attending welding the shank and 

 the flukes of the anchor, and the hazard 

 of burning tliein a little distance from 

 the part so welded, and where anchors 

 most frequently break, it is proposed to 

 make half the shank and all the tluke in 

 one piece ; atid, if the bars of iron should 

 not be manufactured in Icngtiis sufficient 

 for large anchors, titose bars can be 

 ■welded, and the welds separated from 

 each other in making up the bars in suf- 

 ficient numbers to make the fluke and 

 half the shank. This being done, leav- 

 ing iron sufficiently large to make tJio 

 crown, it is turned with the greatest 

 possible case to the lorin of half the an- 

 chor. This process does notretjuire the 

 beat ap|>roaching to burning, and will 

 give the anchor such a trial as, in all 

 j)robal)ility, it will never receive after; 

 und the dilliculty iu making tliuso 

 pieces is no more than making iron 

 Knees, only that the iron must be I'ug- 

 {^ted, which will ensure its strength, 

 and will allow of an eye heing opened in 

 each half of the shank to admit the 

 uood'Stock passing through the anchor. 

 'I'wo pieces being made this way, they 

 are brought together and reconciled to 

 the size, and to suit each otiier : leaving 

 iron out at the crown to admit the oppo- 

 bUc ring of the palm, to clitich<ivcrcach 

 other, and bolt on to the fluke: tliiirt 

 (be palm gives collati ral support to each 

 balf uf the anchor ; and a snflicient nuiu- 

 MoNTHLV Mac. No. ."JO?. 



ber of hoops are welded on the sliank of 

 the anchor, and driven down each way 

 till it is sufficiently strong: this allows 

 the stock to be made much smaller ; 

 and, as the cutting one-third otit to let it 

 over the anchor is saved, it will be much 

 stronger, and will only require a thin 

 plate of iron with a shoulder screwed on 

 each half of the slock in wake of the an- 

 chor (which will prevent the anchor 

 cutting the wood) ; the shoulder is 

 placed contrariwise on the half stocks; 

 when hooped with one hoop and a tog- 

 gle through at each end, the stock can 

 only torn round, and cannot possibly 

 get out while tne hoops remain at the 

 ends ; the stock will thus be less liable 

 to break than by the old method of 

 hooping and bolting it over the anchor, 

 and will prevent the cutting away the 

 strongest part of (he wood to make the 

 stock scjuare. This method will mako 

 it unnecessary to take spare anciiors with 

 the stocks, which take up so much room, 

 besides adding so much weight to the 

 fore extreme of the ship, which is the 

 more detrimental as the ship becomes in 

 the greatest danger: those pieces can 

 be prepared to be put together in two 

 parts with an iron stock with hoops 

 prepared, and will only require warm- 

 ing and^riviiigdown, in much less time 

 than is required to stock the old anchor. 

 AntI, by putting three or four of these 

 pieces together, they will make (he 

 most efleclivc anchor without a stock; 

 and the chain can be passed through the 

 shank if required, or mako it fast to the 

 shank. 

 Mr. Hankci rcxts all his liopos on the 

 3 Y importance 



