An Improvement in or Connected with Rustic or other Summer Houses or similar Shaped Shelters, Band Stands, and like Structures.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 14th June, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or Connected with Rustic or other Summer
Houses or similar Shaped Shelters, Band Stands, and like
Structures.
I. SIDNEY NASH CASTLE, of the firm Henry Castle and Sons, Baltic Wharf,
Vauxhall Bridge, Middlesex, Ship Breakers and Timber Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is usual, in building Rustic and other Summer Houses and like structures, with
a body on a bed chiefly composed of struts or piles let into the ground, so as to make
it immovable when once fixed, except by digging round the struts or supports and
lifting them out of the ground with the house or structure itself, such a house or
structure when once fixed in position, remains so, and cannot be moved to shield
the occupants from the rays of the sun or from the wind should it happen to be
blowing from the quarter facing the doorway or entry.
Now the object of my invention, is to obviate these inconveniences by making the
body as one structure and the footings or bed as another structure and providing
them with means by which the body proper may have a rotating motion, so that it
can be turned round upon its bed for the purpose of shielding the occupants from
the direct rays of the sun, also from the effects of cutting or high winds, whereby
I am enabled to afford shelter to the occupants from the inconveniences before
mentioned.
For the purpose of my invention, I set the footings or bed in the ground and
arrange thereon an egg shape, a seinispherical, a bolt, pin, or other device to act
as a centre and I also arrange a band or tram of wood or metal around the outer
portion of such a bed and I provide the flooring of the body or upper structure
with a suitable cup or socket piece at the centre of the under portion for taking
over the egg shaped piece, the semispherical or other appliance forming a centre
pivot, on which the house or structure may be turned and I provide near the outer
bottom edge of the structure, rollers or wheels, to run upon the circular bed or
tram to enable the structure to be readily turned to any desired portion of the circle.
I also provide locking bolts or other devices for enabling the structure to be
temporarily fixed at any position.
If the structure is very heavy, a kind of ratchet or other mechanical appliances may
be used in connection to enable the structure to be easily rotated for the purpose
described.
Dated this 7th day of Dosambo 1000
:
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said S. N. Castle.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or Connected with Rustic or other Summer
Houses or similar Shaped Shelters, Band Stands, and like
Structures.
1 SIDNEY NASH CASTLE of the firm Henry Castle and Sons, Baltic Wharf,
Vauxhall Bridge, Middlesex, Ship Breakers and Timber Merchants do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
It is usual in building Rustic or other Summer Houses and like structures with a
body on a bed, chiefly composed of struts, or piles, let into the ground, so as to make

page_text: it immovable when once fixed, except by digging round the struts, or supports, and
lifting them out of the ground, with the house or structure itself, such a house,
or structure, when once fixed in position remains so, and cannot be moved to shield
the occupants from the rays of the sun, or from the wind, or rain, should it happen
to be blowing from the quarter facing the doorway or entry.
Now the object of my invention is to obviate these inconveniences by making the
body as one structure, and the footings, or bed, as another structure, and to provide
them with means by which the body proper, may have a rotating motion, so that it
can be turned round upon its bed, for the purpose of shielding the occupants from the
direct rays of the sun, also from the effects of cutting or high winds, or rain, whereby,
I am enabled to afford shelter to the occupants from the inconveniences before
mentioned.
For the purpose of my invention I set the footings or bed in the ground, and
arrange thereon an egg shaped or semi-spherical device or bolt or pin, to act as a
centre, and I also arrange a band or tram rail of wood, or metal, around the outer
portion of such a bed, and I provide the flooring of the body, or upper structure with
a suitable cup or socket piece, at the centre of the under portion for taking over the
egg shaped piece, the semi-spherical or other appliance forming a centre pivot on
which the House, or structure, may be turned, and I provide near the outer bottom
edge of the structure, rollers, or wheels, to run upon the circular bed or tram to enable
the structure to be readily turned to any desired portion of the circle.
1 also provide locking bolts, or other devices, for enabling the structure to be.
temporarily fixed at any position.
If the structure is very heavy, a kind of ratchet, or other mechanical appliances,
may be used in connection, to enable the structure to be easily rotated for the purpose
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what'l
claim is:-
The construction of Rustic, or other Summer Houses, or similar shaped shelters,
Band Stands, and like structures, separately from the ground base, and providing
such structure and base, with apparatus to enable the upper structure to be turned,
to shield the occupants from the rays of the sun, or from rain, or wind, also the
means by which said structure can be temperarilly fixed in the required position as
described.
The 14th day of June 1889
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said S. N. Castle.