Improvements in the Planning or Arrangement of Cottages and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Planning or Arrangement of Cottages and
the like.
FREDERICK CHARLES HODGKINSON Surveyor Local Board Offices Ashton in
Makerfield Lancashire. I the undersigned do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Bulkheads K. K. Fig. 4. are formed in the upper portion of the rooms E. F.
Fig. 4, and the space therein, together with the whole or part of the space within
the roof X. Y. Z. Fig. 4, is utilized as a room or rooms J. Fig. 4.
The accompanying drawings show the invention applied to a cottage.
Fig. 1 is the ground floor plan of a cottage, A being the kitchen, B the back
kitchen, C the pantry, D the stairs to the first floor.
Fig. 2. is the first floor plan, E & F being bed rooms, G passage, H stairs to the
second floor.
"
Fig. 3. is the second floor plan, J being a bed room, lighted by the window "a
where houses are built in rows or terraces, or by the window "6" where the house
is semi-detached, a fireplace " may or may not be provided.
"
Fig. 4 is a section, J being a room constructed partly within the roof X. Y. Z.
and partly by bulkheads K. K. out of the upper portion of the rooms below.
Dated this 25th day of May 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Planning or Arrangement of Cottages and
the like.
FREDERICK CHARLES HODGKINSON, Surveyor Local Board Offices Ashton
in Makerfield Lancashire. I the undersigned 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 :-
As shown by the drawings left with the Provisional Specification.-Bulk-
heads "K. K." Fig. 4 are formed in the upper portion of the rooms "E. F." Fig. 4
and the space therein together with the whole or part of the space within the
roof "X. Y. Z." Fig. 4 is utilized as a room or rooms.
The drawings referred to show the invention applied to an ordinary cottage.
Fig. 1 is the ground floor plan of a cottage, "A" being the kitchen "B" the
back kitchen, "C" the pantry, "D" the stairs to the first floor.
Fig. 2 is the first floor plan "E" and "F" being bed rooms, "G" passage
"H"stairs to the second floor.
Fig. 3 is the second floor plan, "J" being a bed room, lighted by the window "a"
where cottages are built in rows or terraces, or by the window "6" where the
cottage is semi-detached. A fire-place C may or may not be provided.
66
"
Fig. 4 is a section, showing the bed room "J" which is formed by combining
part of the space within the roof "X. Y. Z." with the space within the bulk-
heads "K. K." the said bulkheads being constructed out of the upper part of the
rooms below marked "E. F."

page_text: 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 I
claim is
That within the limits of the walls and roof of a cottage of ordinary dimensions
an additional room (or rooms) is constructed as shown by the drawings referred to
and this Specification.
Dated this Twenty-second day of February One thousand eight hundred and
F. C. HODGKINSON.