"UNDER HATCHES."

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 14

"UNDER HATCHES."

This familiar old nautical phrase will' convey unpleasant' memories' to passen-; 1 gers who arc^fimd of good" weather at' sea. To the>liip designer'-'fhey convey a' sense of-a mee&hidal problem not,; until, ■recently, satisfactorily solved. Strange as it may seengfctjjere has been an- un-; satisfactory need:<f<jr- a jejilly simple and. effective lnethod^cfe-lbcking the hatches] on a cargo'-ves'sefcy-'A^British-engineeri has •' lately introduced sa, device which' claims to meet eveCy-requirement and.to, be applicable to any: sizfe or form of^cargo' hatch.' Moreover,;it can be ■fittedvto' existing hatches witli'Very little trouble.. Across the centre of the' hatch is placed!, a: T-shaped „bar; .whicUi,holds down the.7 wood covers of the hatch, and is itselfj held by a self-acting slip bolt: '■• The' act| of dropping the bar in pla*e locks thei hatch; which; can be ieopenSd-pnly byj means of a special key. Further/Eafetyj can be ensured by the use of a'lever lock.\ All tliei vital, parts of Jthei equip-. ment_ are inaccessible,; : so; that they are not liable to damage. '•'•■