IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF CONSTRUCTING AND DISPOSING SHIPS' CABINS TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS, THE SAID IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO GUN CARRIAGES ON BOARD SHIP
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Brown, of Saint Mary Street, in the
Borough of Portsmouth, in the County of Southampton, Wine
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF
CONSTRUCTING AND DISPOSING SHIPS' CABINS TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS, THE
SAID IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO GUN CARRIAGES ON BOARD
SHIP."
Sealed the 22nd February 1870, and dated the 25th August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Brown at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th August 1869.
I, WILLIAM BROWN, of Saint Mary Street, in the Borough of Ports-
mouth, in the County of Southampton, Wine Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE
OF CONSTRUCTING AND DISPOSING SHIPS' CABINS TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS, THE
SAID IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO GUN CARRIAGES ON BOARD SHIP,"
to be as follows:-
The first part of this Invention relates to ships propelled either by
steam, sails, or otherwise. I fix standards having bearings in which is

page_text: fitted two or more rings or supports of any suitable metal or other
material, and of any shape, to carry the cabin required, which is sus-
pended therein and therefrom. The said cabin I propose to hang on a
series of centres, two or four or more according to requirements. Cabins
in any number may thus be constructed either round, square, or any
other shape as preferred, to be suspended and sunk in the decks or
fixed on either deck. And in order to the further steadying the same
when at sea a series of india-rubber or other springs and buffers may
be used, as also washers to prevent useless or unpleasant vibration
and noise. The centres to work on friction rollers if required. An
extra floor to cabin may also be sunk and attached thereto, and used as
lockers for passengers' luggage and other purposes, and by such means
a greater certainty in the safe working of the suspended or compen-
sating cabin is obtained. The decks can be so arranged that ships
_having false decks may go to sea either with or without the aforesaid
cabins. The advantages to be derived by invalides or persons suffering
from sea sickness is that the dinner table being once laid no trouble
in taking meals will be experienced, nor are persons on board ship
likely at any moment to be hurled from their seats across the cabin.
The above principle may be applied to ships' hulls by suspending in like
manner one ship within the other.
In applying this Invention to guns used on board ships at sea the
same principle to that above described may be applied, by having the
rings with centres as before described so made and arranged as to support
the gun either with or without the gun carriage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BROWN, of Saint Mary Street, in the Borough of Portsmouth, in the 3
County of Southampton, Wine Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-

page_text: third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Brown, Her special licence that
I, the said William Brown, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William Brown, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 lawfully 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 THE MODE OF
CONSTRUCTING AND DISPOSING SHIPS' CABINS TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS, THE SAID
IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO GUN CARRIAGES ON BOARD SHIP," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Brown, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
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 I, the said William Brown, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say:-
The first part of this Invention relates to ships propelled either by
steam, sails, or otherwise. I fix standards having bearings in which
are fitted two or more rings or supports of any suitable metal or other
material, and of any shape, to carry the cabin required, which is sus-
pended therein and therefrom. The said cabin I propose to hang on a
series of centres, two or four or more according to requirements. Cabins
in any number may thus be constructed either round, square, or any
other shape as preferred, to be suspended and sunk in the decks or fixed
on either deck; and in order to the further steadying the same when at
sea a series of india-rubber or other springs and buffers may be used,
as also washers to prevent useless or unpleasant vibration and noise.
The centres to work on friction rollers if required. An extra floor to
cabin may also be sunk and attached thereto, and used as lockers for
passengers' luggage and other purposes, and by such means a greater,
certainty in the safe working of the suspended or compensating cabin.
is obtained.
The decks can be so arranged that ships having false

page_text: deck; G, in Figure 1, railing round the top of the cabin, so that it may
be used as a promenade.
As regards Figures 5, 6, 7, A marks the cabin; B, rings or frames;
D', D, D³, and D', oval centres for suspending cabins; H', H, H³, H',
H, H, and H', lockers for luggage, cargo, and other things; P, stan-
chions or supports for cabins; M, the door; R, the skylight; E, the
decks; N, companion ladder.
As regards Figures 8 and 9, A marks the revolving turret; B, swing-
ing platform; C' and C2, pivots on which platform swings; D, weight to
balance gun and platform; E, gun port; F1 and F, rollers on which
turret, rests; G, sliding weight to maintain the centre of gravity of gun
and platform when the gun is run in or out; H, slides in which weight
works; I, ring to attach tackle for running gun in or out when necessary;
K, K, blocks and tackle.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
this Invention for "Improvements in the Mode of Constructing and
Disposing Ships' Cabins to Prevent Sea Sickness, the said Improvements
being also applicable to Gun Carriages on Board Ship," I would remark
in conclusion, that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in and I
claim, constructing and disposing ships' cabins and gun carriages in the
manner above described, with reference to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings for compensating the motion of the ship as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Brown, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.