AN IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS OF AND APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING SEATS FROM DAMP, DUST AND OTHER INJURIOUS DEPOSITS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Caleb Perry Sharpley, at Capt. J. Smith's, Brunswick
House, 22, Villa Road, Brixton Road, Surrey, London, S.W., for an invention
of AN IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS OF AND APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING
SEATS FROM DAMP, DUST AND OTHER INJURIOUS DEPOSITS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Caleb Perry Sharpley at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1882.
CALEB PERRY SHARPLEY, at Capt J Smith's Brunswick House 22 Villa Road
Brixton Road Surrey London SW AN IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS OF AND
APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING SEATS FROM DAMP DUST AND OTHER INJURIOUS
DEPOSITS
This Invention of Improvements has for its primary object the benefit of the
General Public and the protection of property It Relates to the Improvement of
the Application of a Protecing Cover to Seats and other, or like articls The appli-
cation of metallic Sheets, Plates or rigid matercals for that purpose as well as other
materials, The method of their application, And making them self acting and
otherwise for cheapness, And appling them in the nanner hereinafter contained and
specified, That is to say, I use and apply in some instances metallic sheets or plates
as suitable and durable, Vulcanized, Enameled, Galvanized, Japaned or Painted.
By a loop or loops on the metallic or other materials of the protecting cover through
which I place a bar or rod; on which one or any number of these protecting
covers, placed on one bar or rod, and work or act separate and independently of
each other, the end of the rod or pins inserted in the plates or bearers for that
purpose, by this method a great saving of time and labour is effected as the rod
can be instantly withdrawn to the one to be replaced, requiring no skill or labour,
and not liable to get out of order, When a single protecting cover is used, whether
to cover a single seat or any number by one protecting cover, a pin fixed in a plate
or plates, or on the protecting cover, those in the plates inserted in the loop or loops
of the protecting cover, those on the protecting cover inserted in the plates or
bearers to receive them. The protecting cover may be placed in any position or
place required, The metallic plates or any other suitable or desired material placed as
above described on a rod or pin or like appliance and may be made to turn upwards
as well as downwards by a weight attached to be beyond the loop or loops which
acts as a lever to turn it upwards, this method does away with the necessity of
springs for that purpose which are so liable to get out of order by having to lift
such a weight, by this method any one can be replaced by withdrawing the rod

page_text: instantly without stoping for repairs, a great saving of time labour and expence,
attached as prefered
I make the protecting cover selfacting, coming forward and covering over the seat
or seats et cetera on the person rising from the seat, by attaching a spring or springs
or by Elastic or Elastics as required.
I attach a spring or springs or by Elastic or Elastics or boath so placed as to
produce that action or effect, which presses or brings the protecting cover forward
over the seat, or the protecting cover just sufficiantly back at the bottom so that
the top part will lean or incline a little forward, and may be made heaver at the
top to accelerate its tendency downward, or a spring in the plate or to the pin or
rod to press the bottom part outwards towards the back and causing to top of the
protecting cover to come forward and cover over the scat, the may be made self-
acting or for cheapness non-selfacting
When a Flexible material is used for the protecting cover requiring a roller, I
place the roller in or about the center of the material, or two pieces on one roller
fastened to the roller if prefered; and I prefer it to be in a case which will screen
it from injury, with plates or bearers on which or in which to work, the case open
to allow both sides to be wound out or wound up by key handle or as prefered, by
this duble action or duble ends both sides are wound up or wound out at one and the
same time falling in opposite directions would cover two seats as in dog and shooting
carts, and case could form the back rest, and the end of each rod can be so, that a
key or handle would wind up either side when one side only is required, or two
rollers if prefered in the case or in separate cases the may be placed in the back or
back rest of the seat and can be without a case, For the seat of saddle (which is
a seat) I use a flexible material without the roller, A Vacuum may round the front
of the saddle by leaving out the padding just sufficient to receive the protecting
cover which requires but little space, or it can be attached to the saddle without a
vacuum, rolled or folded and straped or loose and attached if prefered at pleasure.
Cut 4 or 6 inches (or as required) wider on each side at the bottom in the front
and tapered up to nothing (that is the 4 or 6 inches) at the top or pommel of the
saddle and allowed a little longer at the flaps to be dubled down before folding
away, this will cover the Legs, Thighs and lower part of the Body of the Rider in
wet or stormy weather, a band on one side and a button or any other fasten on the
other of the seat part of the protecting cover at the back, could go round the waist
of the rider and screen the rider from rain and storm those parts as well as cover
the sent of the saddle when vacated by the Rider in wet and stormy weather.
Having discribed the nature of the said Invention of Improvements and the
manner of performing the same, I declare that what I clame as the Invention
of Improvements to be protected by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent is
1st. The application of Metallic Sheets, Plates or Rigid Materials as suitable and
durable for the protecting cover of seats 2nd. The adaptation of a duble acting
protecting cover by a center roller or rollers to a flexable material for seats and
other purposes to which it may be applied 3rdly Making them self-acting or non
self-acting (for cheapness.)
4ly The method of application of a flexable protecting cover to the seat of the
saddle (which is a seat included)
In witness whereof I the said Caleb Perry Sharpley have hereunto set my
hand and seal this
in the year of our Lord one
day of
thousand eight hundred and eighty two
CALEB PERRY SHARPLEY (L.S.)