Armstrong patent

Armstrong patent is a compound term from the nautical language that was used in the late 19th to early 20th centuries to describe large cargo sailors that had no auxiliary machinery to operate the rigging . The joking term alludes to the strong arms required to work on the ship and the lack of a work simplification (patent). The word equality with the shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Armstrong also reinforces the effect of the play on words.

A similarly constructed term is Hand-McGregor , or Mc-Stemm , which was mainly used in the 1950s to 1980s after the appearance of McGregor folding hatch covers for the considerably more labor-intensive wooden hatch covers .

literature

• Kemp, Peter K. (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea . 1st edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1976, ISBN 0-19-211553-7 .