A New or Improved Portable Building, particularly applicable for use as a Military Hospital or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 2nd nec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Portable Building, particularly applicable for
use as a Military Hospital or the like.
We, JULIUS KUNZ, of 44, Nordbahnstrasse, Vienna II, Engineer and ARTHUR
HOFGRÄFF, of 21, Kärtnerstrasse, Vienna I, Physician, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved portable building particularly
applicable to be used as a military hospital or the like and its object is to
provide a simple arrangement adapted to be rapidly erected without the aid of
tools or rapidly dismantled and packed into a comparatively small compass to
facilitate transport.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part
of this Specification.
Figure 1, illustrates the construction of the main framework. The uprights b, b
are mounted on each end of the horizontal foundation piece a and are connected
thereto by a bolt and wing nut as shown on a larger scale Figure 2. The
uprights are connected above by the tie-rod c, and guy rods or stays d pass
from the top of the uprights and are connected to holdfasts driven into the
ground. These rods are each provided with a tension nut e.
A number of uprights erected in this or a similar manner are placed a suitable
distance apart and are connected to each other by means of stays or the like,
and to the framework thus formed the sides and roof are attached.
The sides and roof are preferably formed of light wooden frames of uniform
size covered on both sides with wood or canvas or the like so as to form a
double wall. The side and roof frames are connected together by hinges as
shown in Figure 3 and are connected to each other and to the uprights b by
tongue and groove or equivalent joints. The frames forming the roof are
connected together at the ridge by pairs of hinges one flap of one hinge being
rigidly secured to the edge of one frame and the other hinge similarly secured
to the other frame and the loose flaps are connected together by a bolt and
thumb screw as shown in Figures 4 and 5.
Suitable provision may be made for ingress and egress and the admission of
light and also for ventilation.
Dated this 6th day of May 1893.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Portable Building, particularly applicable for
use as a Military Hospital or the like.
We, JULIUS KUNZ, of 44, Nordbahnstrasse, Vienna II, Engineer, and ARTHUR
HOFGRÄFF, of 21, Närtnerstrasse, Vienna I, Physician, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
O particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved portable building particularly
applicable to be used as a military hospital or the like and its object is to
provide a simple arrangement adapted to be rapidly erected without the aid of
tools or rapidly dismantled and packed into a comparatively small compass to
facilitate transport.

page_text: Reference is to be had to the sheet of drawings left with our Provisional
Specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, illustrates the construction of the main framework. The uprights b, b
are mounted on each end of the horizontal foundation piece a and are connected
thereto by a bolt and wing nut as shown on a larger scale Figure 2. The
uprights are connected above by the tie-rod c and guy rods or stays d pass
from the top of the uprights and are connected to hold fasts driven into the
ground. These rods are each provided with a tension nut e.
A number of uprights erected in this or a similar manner are placed a suitable
distance apart and are connected to each other by means of stays or the like,
and to the framework thus formed the sides and roof are attached.
The sides and roof are preferably formed of light wooden frames of uniform
size covered on both sides with wood or canvas or the like so as to form a
double wall. The side and roof frames are connected together by hinges as
shown in Figure 3 and are connected to each other and to the uprights 6 by
tongue and groove or equivalent joints. The frames forming the roof are
connected together at the ridge by pairs of hinges one flap of one hinge being
rigidly secured to the edge of one frame and the other hinge similarly secured
to the other frame and the loose flaps are connected together by a bolt and
thumb screw as shown in Figures 4 and 5.
Suitable provision may be made for ingress and egress and the admission of
light and also for ventilation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. A portable building applicable for use as a military hospital or the like,
in which the sides and roof are formed of wooden frames covered on both sides
with canvas or wood or other suitable material so as to form a double wall,
which side and roof frames are of uniform size to provide an arrangement
adapted to be rapidly erected.
2. A portable building such as characterized in the first claim, in which the
side frames are connected to each other and to the foundation pieces by a groove
and tongue, for the purpose of providing an arrangement adapted to be erected
without the aid of tools.
3. A portable building such as characterized in the first claim, in which the
roof frames are connected to each other at the ridge and to the side frames by
pairs of hinges, one flap of one hinge being rigidly secured to the edge of one
frame and the other hinge similarly secured to the other frame, and the loose
flaps being connected together by a bolt and thumb-screw for the purpose of
providing an arrangement adapted to be rapidly erected without the aid of tools.
Dated this 26th day of October 1893.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.