Improvements in Greenhouses and like Buildings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Greenhouses and like Buildings.
I, JAMES KENNEDY of Jacobin Lea, Dumfries in the County of Dumfries,
Nurseryman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention which relates to improvements in greenhouses and like buildings
has for its object to enable any given area of ground to be completely utilized or
covered with greenhouses or similar structures which shall each be capable of being
opened up or partially opened up to the atmosphere so that the crop grown under
glass and beat may be hardened off, or the crop grown in the open may be brought
under glass and heat to be ripened and that without the use of ordinary flower
pots, tubs or similar vessels.
To this end each house in the series is provided with a movable roof built up of
sections which are furnished with rollers or wheels running upon rails or ball
bearings running in grooves on the top of the vertical part of the structure, each
section being connected to its neighbour by bolts or similar means and having
between the abutting ends india-rubber or other strips to render the roof
watertight.
The individual houses may be divided into any desired number of compartments
according to the length, the section or sections under glass being shut off from
the other or others by partitions or doors. The sections of each house have the
crops under cultivation planted in beds made in the floor of the house and each
section of the house is provided with louvres which are capable of being tilted in
grooves so that heat from the water pipes shall be diverted from one house into
the next thus shutting off from the section or sections of the house open to the
atmosphere the heat radiated from the pipes and diverting it into the adjoining
bouse covered with glass.
Dated this 25th day of October 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Greenhouses and like Buildings.
I, JAMES KENNEDY, of Jacobin Lea, Dumfries, in the County of Dumfries,
Nurseryman, do bereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This invention which relates to improvements in greenhouses and like buildings
has for its object to enable any given area of ground to be completely utilized or
covered with greenhouses or similar structures which shall each be capable of

page_text: being opened up or partially opened up to the atmosphere so that the crop grown
under glass and heat may be hardened off, or the crop grown in the open may be
brought under glass and heat to be ripened and that without the use of ordinary
flower pots, tubs or similar vessels.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1,
is a cross section of a series of greenhouses, Figures 2 and 3, a longitudinal section
and plan respectively of same, and Figure 4 a detail to a larger scale.
Referring particularly to Figs. 1 to 4, each house in the series is provided with
a movable roof A, which may be integral or as shown be built up of sections a, the
roof in either case being furnished with rollers or ball bearings running in grooves,
or as is shown with wheels B running upon rails C on the top of the vertical
part D of the structure so that by shifting any section of the roof any desired
portion of the ground may be covered or any portion opened to the atmosphere.
Each section a is connected to its neighbour by bolts or similar means and between
the abutting ends are or may be fitted india rubber or other strips-to render the
roof watertight.
The wheels B are so countersunk that the underside of the roof A. comes close
down upon the rails C but when the arrangement of the wheels is such that spaces
are left these may be covered by stationary or movable boards on the side walls
which may be used for ventilating purposes when desired.
The individual houses may be divided into any desired number of compartments
according to the length, the section or sections under glass being shut off from the
other or others by partitions E and doors F. The sections of each house have the
crops under cultivation planted in beds made in the floor of the house and each
section of the house is provided with louvres G, shown particularly at Figure 4,
which are capable of being tilted in grooves H so that heat from the water pipes I,
can be conveniently diverted from one house into the next when desired, thus
shutting off from the section or sections of the house open to the atmosphere the
heat radiated from the pipes and diverting it into the adjoining house covered with
glass. The louvres G may also be used as ventilators in which case they are
opened to the desired extent by any suitable gearing and the roof of the structure
is ventilated in the ordinary way.
The boiler and hot water pipes are as shown entirely distinct from the movable
part and the pipes may be furnished at the necessary points with cocks for shutting
off the water supply from any uncovered portion. For this purpose separate boilers
may be provided at each end.
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 I am aware of
the Patent No. 19,511 of 1891 granted to Thomas Main, and I wish it to be
understood that I do not claim anything described therein but what I do claim is :-
1. The arrangement of a series of greenhouses or like structures in rows with
their roofs each covering only part of the ground enclosed by their walls the said
roofs being adapted to be moved end wise, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
2. A greenhouse or like structure composed of stationary side walls and a
movable roof carried by wheels or rollers on said walls and made preferably in
sections so as to be readily moved endwise substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
3. In combination with the side walls or supports of a greenhouse or like
structures the louvres (G) fitted so as to be capable of being tilted in grooves (H)
in said supports, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 24th day of July 1894.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.