Accommodation of assengers.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1887
Complete Left, 27th June, 1888
Complete Accepted, 27th July, 1888
Accommodation of assengers.
We, WALTER HENRY WILSON and WILLIAM JAMES PIRRIE of Queens Island
Belfast Shipbuilders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object to render the rooms for the accommodation of
passengers on board ships more comfortable, and to provide an improved arrange-
ment of beds whereby the necessity for placing two beds, one above the other in the
same room is obviated without undue loss of deck space.
This invention is applicable to ships in which the rooms are arranged next each
other, and where two beds are placed one above the other against the bulkhead
dividing said rooms. Instead of making each such bulkhead to extend in one vertical
plane from the floor to the deck above as usual we place the lower part of the bulk-
head dividing the rooms at one side of the beds and extend it from the floor to the
underside of the upper bed, from thence in a horizontal plane to the opposite side of
the said upper bed, and from there up to the deck above, thereby dividing the rooms
so that the lower bed in one room is below the upper bed in the next room.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Accomodation of Passengers.
We, WALTER HENRY WILSON and WILLIAM JAMES PIRRIE of Queens Island,
Belfast, Shipbuilders, 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 :-
Our invention has for its object to render the rooms for the accomodation of
passengers on board ships more comfortable, and to provide an improved arrange-
iment of beds whereby the necessity for placing two beds, one above the other in the
same rooin is obviated without undue loss of deck space.
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This invention is applicable to ships in which the rooms are arranged next cach
other, and where two beds are placed one above the other against the bulkhead
dividing said rooms. Instead of making each such bulkhead to extend in one
vertical plane from the floor to the deck above as usual we place the lower part of
the bulkhead dividing the rooms at one side of the beds and extend it from the floor
to the underside of the upper bed, from thence in a horizontal plane to the opposite
side of the said upper bed, and from there up to the deck above, thereby dividing the
rooms so that the lower bed in one room is below the upper bed in the next room.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of part of a ship fitted according to our invention.
Figures 2 are horizontal sections of the same on the lines and y y, Figure 1.
In these figures a a is a partition or bulkhead dividing two adjacent rooms,
bbbb are the beds, c is the side of the ship and d d are passages.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is
Dividing two cabins or rooms by a bulkhead, which in place of being as is usual all
in one plane is bent so that parts of it are in two vertical planes and one horizontal
plane in such manner that a bed in one room is vertically over a bed in the other
substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of Tann 1000