Improved Portable Iron, or a Combination of Iron and Wood, Houses or Huts for the Home and Export Markets, for Carriages, Horses, Tricycles, Poultry, Sheep, Dogs, and other Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1887.
Improved Portable Iron, or a Combination of Iron and Wood,
Houses or Huts for the Home and Export Markets, for
Carriages, Horses, Tricycles, Poultry, Sheep, Dogs, and other
Purposes.
I, JOHN ELWELL, Iron Merchant and Manufacturer, of Sheepcote Street, Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
To make Improved Portable Iron or a combination of Iron and Wood; Houses or
Huts by forming a frame of twelve or more pieces (regulated by the purposes for
which the House or Hut is required) of Angle or Tee Iron. Each corner to be
secured with Angle corner plates, the whole screwed together with Bolts and Nuts;
or 1 make the corner joint of a cast Iron dove tail similar to that of an ordinary Iron
Bedstead the dove tail to be either cast on the end of the Angle or Tee Iron
frame-pieces or the dove tails cast separate and rivetted on. The frame to be
strengthened where necessary with Iron Stay Rods secured by Bolts and Nuts. The
framework to be covered with Sheet Iron or Wood secured to the Frame with Bolts
and Nuts. The whole forming a water tight House or Hut which has the advantage
of being so constructed that it can be easily and readily taken to pieces for transit and
re-erected by any persons of ordinary capacity.

page_text: An Improved Portable Iron, or Combination of Iron and Wood,
Houses or Huts for the Home and Export Markets, for
Carriages, Horses, Tricycles, Poultry, Sheep, Dogs, and other
Purposes.
I, JOHN ELWELL, of Sheepcote Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Iron Merchant and Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention of an improved portable iron, or combination of iron and wood
houses or huts for the home and export markets, for carriages, horses, tricycles,
poultry, sheep, dogs and other purposes, has for its object to construct a water-tight
house or hut which can be easily and readily taken to pieces for transit and be erected
by any person of ordinary capacity.
In making according to my invention an improved portable iron, or a combination
of iron and wood, house or hut I form the frame of twelve or more pieces of angle or
tee iron the number being regulated by the purposes for which the house or hut is
required. Each corner of the frame is secured with an angle corner plate and the
whole screwed together with bolts and nuts; or 1 make the corner joints by means of
a cast iron dovetail similar to that of an ordinary iron bedstead, such dovetail being
either cast on the ends of the angle or tec-iron frame pieces or the dovetails cast
separately and rivetted on. The frame may be strengthened where necessary by iron
stay rods secured by bolts and nuts and it is covered with sheet iron or wood secured
to the frame by bolts and nuts.
On the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 represents a partly finished portable iron
house or hut constructed according to my invention and partly covered by corrugated
iron Fig. 2 represents on an enlarged scale one of the corners of the same the angle
irons forming the frame being secured together by an angle corner plate and Fig. 3
shews the parts forming the corner represented by Fig. 1. separately; Fig. 4
represents a corner joint made by a chilled cast iron dovetail cast on the ends of the
angle iron frame pieces; Fig. 5 represents a top and bottom corner of the frame
formed by dovetails cast separate from the angle irons and then rivetted thereto and
Fig. 6 shews the parts of one of the joints in Fig. 5. separately.
The frame of the house or hut represented by Fig. 1. consists of four bottom angle
irons a, a, a, a, four top angle irons b, b, b, band four upright angle irons c, c, c, c.
Each corner of the frame is secured by an angle corner plate preferably made of
wrought iron which may be said to consist of two right angle plates d', d², joined
together into which the angle irons fit and to which they are firmly bolted by bolts
at. By removing the bolts the framing is quickly taken to pieces and as readily
fixed together again when required.

page_text: In the alternative plan illustrated by Fig. 4 the corner joint of the frame is made of
a cast iron dovetail similar to that of an ordinary metallic bedstead; a piece e, having
two dovetail recesses; is cast on to the angle iron upright c, and each of the
bottom angle irons a, a, have a dovetailed projecting chill g. 9, cast on each end
which take into the recesses f, and from which they can speedily be withdrawn
when it is required to take the frame to pieces for packing or removal or quickly
inserted in putting the frame together.
Instead of the dovetail pieces being cast on to the angle irons they may be cast
separately and rivetted thereto as shewn for instance by Figs. 5 and 6 in which the
castings e, e, having the dovetailed recesses, each have a shank e', e', cast with
them which shank is made of such a shape as to fit on to the angle iron to which it is
firmly secured by rivets or bolts. The castings J, J, J: J, each having a dovetailed
projection for taking into the recesses, are each cast with a shank g', 9', 1', g',
which fits on to the angle iron and to which it is secured by rivets or bolts similarly
to the castings e, e.
The dovetailed recesses may if preferred be formed on or attached to the horizontal
angle bars and the dovetailed projections be formed on or attached to the vertical
bars instead of the arrangement above described and illustrated on the drawings on a
projecting dovetail and a recessed dovetail may be formed on the upright and the
the horizontal bars
corresponding recesses and projecting dovetails formed on
respectively.
I have illustrated the frame as being made of angle irons but it will be evident that
in those cases where tec irons are used they can be connected together or to angle
irons in a similar manner.
Although the house or hut illustrated by Fig. 1. is of a very simple form it will be
understood that houses or huts with lean-to roofs or having gables or divided into
various compartments can be framed together similarly as above described and
illustrated.
When the framework has been secured together it is covered by galvanized or other
sheet iron, or by wood or other substance fixed thereto by bolts and nuts in the
ordinary manner and if required ordinary stay on tie bolts are used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
Securing together the corners of the angle-iron or tec-iron frame work of portable
huts or houses substantially in the several ways hereinbefore described with reference
to and shewn respectively in Figs. 2 and 3; Fig. 4 and in Figs. 5 and 6 of the
accompanying drawings.