A NEW OR IMPROVED WRAPPING BUG FOR USE IN TRAVELLING
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Barton Read, of No. 11, City Road, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
WRAPPING BUG FOR USE IN TRAVELLING."
Sealed the 11th March 1870, and dated the 18th January 1870.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henry Barton Read at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 18th January 1870, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BARTON READ, of No. 11, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED WRAPPING RUG FOR USE IN TRAVELLING," and have petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn De-
claration that I really believe myself to be the true and first Inventor
thereof.
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page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Barton Read, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to a new or improved construction of wrapping
rug for wrapping the feet, legs, and part of the bodies of persons
travelling in or on railway and tramway cars, common road carriages,
steam or sailing ships, and other similar means of transport, the object
of the Invention being to give and maintain a greater degree of warmth
to the wearer than is done by any kind of wrapping rug heretofore in
use.
In order that the nature of this Invention, and the manner by which
the same is effected, may be particularly described and ascertained, this
Specification is accompanied by a Sheet of Drawings, having figures and
letters of reference marked thereupon, the like letter being used to
denote a similar or corresponding part in each Figure.
In these Drawings Figure 1 is a view of the outer side of rug;
Figures 2 and 3 are views of the inner side of the same; Figure 4 is a
sectional view of part of rug shewing the manner in which the feet are 2
enclosed; and Figure 5 shews the rug folded and rolled up.
It will be seen that the rug consists of a square of warm material
such as blanketting, provided at one end or side with a pocket or shoe a
in which the feet of the wearer are to be placed. This pocket or shoe a
is provided with a thick sole 6 of felting or leather, or a combination of 2
both, or of any such like warm material or such like material impervious
to moisture. The shoe or pocket has also a flap piece c, which when the
feet are inserted into the shoe can be brought up to protect the shins
from cold, in the manner shewn in Figure 4, while the hinder part of
the sole is brought up to give additional warmth, as shewn in the same 3
Figure. The feet having been placed in the shoe a the flap piece c is
pulled up over the shins, the rug is pulled up at the back so as to
cover the lower part of the back of wearer and the back of his legs, the
part marked A, Figure 2, is then pulled over the front part of his body
and legs, and that part marked B is pulled over A. By thus disposing a
the parts marked A and B the feet, legs, and lower part of body of
wearer are completely encased. When thus encased the strap d is
passed round the body of wearer and secured by means of a buckle.

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When not in use the flap c is let down, as in Figure 2, and the shoe
turned over, as in Figure 3, the parts A and B are folded over the
centre part of rug, and the whole is then rolled up, when the strap with
buckle before mentioned being free to move or rotate upon a centre e, as
shown in Figures 1 and 3, is shifted round and is then available for
securing the whole in the manner shewn in Figure 5. The rug may
if desired be provided with exterior or interior pockets.
I do not confine myself to the exact shape of the rug as shewn in the
Drawings, but may vary the outline if found desirable, but what I claim
as my Invention is a rug for traveller's use, having a pocket or shoe for
the feet with a sole and flap and capable from its form and arrangement
of being adjusted by the wearer when in a sitting position so as to cover his
feet, legs, and loins, all as described in this Specification or illustrated in
the accompanying Drawings.
I claim also the mode of attaching strap to rug so as to be available
in the manner described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Barton Read, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
TEND V DADTON DEAD
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TENDY DADTON
BARTON READ. (L.S.)`