IMPROVEMENTS IN DEFIANTS FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Woods, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Gentleman, and Thomas Townsend Stevens, of the same.
Place, Shore Steward, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DEFIANTS FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA
"
"ADDZIANOS FOR SAVING Life at Sea”
Sealed the 2nd March 1875, and dated the 4th September 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Woods and
Thomas Townsend Stevens at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 4th September 1874.
We, ARTHUR WOODS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Gentleman, and THOMAS TOWNSEND STEVENS, of the same Place,
Shore Steward, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to provide appliances for saving life at
sea, which shall be durable, inexpensive, simple, and convenient in
application, and occupy small stowage room on board ship.
Life-saving appliances constructed in accordance with our Invention,
consist in simplest form of two buoyant pieces filled with cork or other
suitable substance. The said buoyant pieces are connected together

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
. filed by the said Arthur Woods and Thomas Townsend Stevens
in the Great Seal Patcut Office on the 4th March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ARTHUR
WOODS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, and

page_text: THOMAS TOWNSEND STEVENS, of the same Place, Shore Steward, send
grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of September, in the
3 year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Arthur Woods and Thomas
Townsend Stevens, Her special licence that we, the said Arthur Woods
and Thomas Townsend Stevens, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Arthur Woods and Thomas
Townsend Stevens, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Arthur Woods
and Thomas Townsend Stevens, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said.
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Arthur Woods and Thomas.
Townsend Stevens, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the accompanying Sheet of illustrative Drawings, and to
the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to provide appliances for saving life at
sea, which shall be durable, inexpensive, simple, and convenient in
application, and occupy small stowage room on board ship.
Life-saving appliances constructed in accordance with our Invention:
consist in simplest form of two buoyant pieces filled with cork or
other suitable substance. The said buoyant pieces are connected
together preferably by two straps or bands, one piece, which we call the

page_text: passing under the armpits to secure the two pieces together and prevent
the said pieces from rising on the body; d, lower additional securing
connections.
In the above modification the bands or straps c, d, might be secured
otherwise than by tying.
Fig. 3 shows two buoyant mattress ends attached to the person, as
described under the above second head; e, back piece; e', front piece;
ff, loops; g, band or strap attached to the back piece passing
between the legs, and secured to the front piece by tying or buckling.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and par-
ticularized the same, we claim,―
First. The buoyont pieces a, a', with connections b and c arranged
and combined substantially in the manner and for the purposes set
forth.
Second. The buoyant pieces a, a¹, with connections b, c, and d,
arranged and combined substantially in the manner and for the purposes.
set forth.
Third. The buoyant picces e, e¹, with the connections f, f¹, and I'
arranged and combined, substantially in the manner and for the purposes
set forth.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Woods, for myself and the
said Thomas Townsend Stevens, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, the First day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
In the presence of
J. T. KING,
Patent Office,
4, Clayton Square,
Liverpool.
ARTHUR WOODS. (L.S.)