Improvements in Hammocks, Lounges, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hammocks, Lounges, and the like.
1 NICHOLAS VOICE of Newbridge Wharf Billingshurst in the County of
Sussex Horticultural Builder do hereby declare the nature of my invention to he
as follows:-
My invention has reference more particularly to swing hammocks but is also
applicable to lounges, bed bottoms and other resting appliances. In constructing.a
hammock according to my invention I provide a number of laths or slats preferably
of wood of any desired thickness according to the weight the apparatus is intended
to carry and form in each end of each lath or slat a hole by means of which the
several laths or slats to form the hammock or the like may be connected together
by ropes or cords laced or passed through these holes in such a manner that when
the hammock or the like is extended the broad sides of the slats or laths will
assume the proper position for lying upon. The laths or slats are preferably made
of wood or other material which is sufficiently flexible to bend or yield to the
weight supported thereby or the said slats or laths may be made of rigid material
shaped to the desired curved form to present when the hammock is extended a
convenient surface on which to lie. By connecting the laths or slats together by
lacing as hereinbefore described the said laths or slats may be adjusted nearer to
or further from each other as required to suit persons of different lengths and the
laths or slats comprised in the hammock may be made of various widths to take
the bearing of different parts of the body. From the foregoing description with
reference to a hammock the application of my invention to lounges bed bottoms and
the like will be readily understood.
Dated this 27th day of July 1894.
Improvements in Hammocks, Lounges, and the like.
1, NICHOLAS VOICE of Newbridge Wharf Billingshurst in the County. of
Sussex Horticultural Builder do hereby 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:-
My invention has reference more particularly to swing hammocks, but is also
applicable to lounges, bed bottoms, and other resting appliances. In constructing
ahammock according. to. my invention, I provide a number of laths, or slats
preferably of wood, of any desired thickness according to the weight, the apparatus
is intended to carry, and form near, each. end of each lathor, slat a,hole or holes
by means of which. the several laths.or, slats, to form, the hammock.or the like
may be. connected together: by, wires, ropes, or cords, hoop, iron or, the like
laced or passed through these holes in such a manner that, when, the, hammock
or the like is extended the broad sides of the slats or laths will.
assume the
proper position for lying, upon. The laths or slats are preferably made of wood
or other material which is sufficiently flexible to bend or yield to the weight to

page_text: be supported thereby; or the said slats or laths may be made of rigid material
shaped to the desired curved form to present when the hammock is extended a
convenient surface on which to lie. By connecting the laths or slats together
by lacing as hereinbefore described the said laths or slats may be adjusted nearer
to or further from each other as required to suit persons of different lengths and
the laths or slats comprised in the hammock may be made of various widths to take
the bearing of different parts of the body.
Figure of the accompanying drawings represents in plan a hammock con-
structed according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of a portion of the same drawn to a larger
scale and
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of one of the laths or slats.
Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a front elevation and a side elevation of a chair
or seat constructed in accordance with my invention.
Referring to Figures 1, 2 and 3 A are laths or slats of wood having in or near
their opposite ends holes a through which holes at each end two cords B B³ are
laced, the said cords being respectively passed through each hole in opposite
directions the cords crossing each other between each two adjacent laths or slats so
that when the hammock is extended for lying upon the laths are held securely with
their broad sides uppermost. This mode of connecting the laths or slats together
admits of their adjustment nearer to or further from each other to shorten or
lengthen the hammock so as to accommodate persons of different lengths.
The cords or like lacings form at the ends of the hammock loops as shewn at C
by which the said hammock can be suspended. The laths or slats may be made of
flexible material so as to yield to the weight of the person using the hammock or if
desired they may be made of rigid or non-Hexible material in which case they are
preferably made of a curved form substantially as shewn in Figure 3.
In constructing a chair or seat according to my invention as shewn for example
in Figures 4 and 5 the lacing cords or the like are connected at their ends to the
upper part of the back of the chair and to the front rail c of the seat prop. The
laths or slats may be made of gradually reduced length from the lower part towards
the top of the back of the seat as shewn in Figure 4 and if desired the holes in the
laths or slats may be dispensed with and the said laths be held in position by the
cords B B2 or the like at each end of the laths being passed round the laths in
opposite directions and crossed between each two contiguous laths notches being
made in the edges of the laths if desired for the cords or the like to engage in.
From the foregoing description of the construction of hammocks and seats the
application of my invention to lounges and other resting appliances will be readily
understood without further description.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion what I claim is
1st. In hammocks, lounges, and like resting appliances laths or slats of wood or
other suitable material connected together by cords or the like so as to form a
flexible or yielding surface substantially as herein before described.
2nd. Hammocks, lounges, and the like having a yielding surface constructed of
flexible slats or laths of wood or other flexible material connected together by
cords or the like substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated
by Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
3rd. Hammocks lounges and the like having a yielding surface constructed of
rigid curved laths or slats of wood or other suitable material and connected together
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the
accompanying drawings.