Certain Improvements in and connected with Waterproof Covers for the Seats or Cushions of Traps and other Vehicles, Yachts, Pleasure Boats, and Ships.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1896
Certain Improvements in and connected with Waterproof Covers
for the Seats or Cushions of Traps and other Vehicles, Yachts,
Pleasure Boats, and Ships.
We, THE EADIE MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED, of Hunt End, Redditch, in
the County of Worcester, Cycle Manufacturers, and HARRY JAMES MILWARD, of
Astwood Bank, Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Store Keeper, do hereby
declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in the construction
and arrangement of mackintosh or other waterproof covers and parts connected
therewith for the seats or cushions of traps motor cars and other vehicles and the
seats or cushions of yachts, pleasure boats, steam ships and the like. By this
Invention the waterproof covering is so arranged that it can readily be brought into
use when required and as readily be rolled up out of use.
In carrying out this Invention we provide a mackintosh or other waterproof
cover fixed to a spring roller, like the spring roller of a spring roller blind. The
said roller may be arranged in a suitable tubular metal casing or shield made with
a slot through which the said cover can be withdrawn. The said spring roller is
so arranged that the spring rolls the mackintosh or other waterproof cover upon
the roller and maintains the cover in this position. The spring that operates the
spring roller may be a coiled spring or one or more flat steel springs fitted and
arranged at one or both ends of the roHer.
In applying this Invention to the seats or cushions of traps and other vehicles,
yachts, pleasure boats and ships, the casing of the spring roller is supported by
any convenient means as for instance by being fixed to the back board of the seat
or to the brackets which are screwed or otherwise fixed to the seat underneath tue
cushion. When the cover. is required for use the front end of the cover, which is
made with a tab and by preference strengthened by a rod being fixed thereto, is
gripped by the thumb and finger and pulled forward over the cushion or seat and
secured (as by a stud at the front of the seat) in position covering the seat or cushion
and thus protecting the seat from rain. When the cushion or seat is required to
be uncovered it is only necessary to release the front part of the mackintosh or other
like cover when the spring roller will cause the said cover to be rolled back upon
the roller at the back or at one side or underneath the seat or cushion ready for
use again when required.
Instead of employing a spring roller to wind the mackintosh or other waterproof
cover upon, we may dispense with the spring and make the roller to be turned by
the hand and maintain the cover rolled upon it by a spring catch or other means.
Dated this 25th day of July 1896.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COME LEIN DITUITICATION.
Certain Improvements in and connected with Waterproof Covers
for the Seats or Cushions of Traps and other Vehicles, Yachts,
Pleasure Boats, and Ships.
....
We, THE EADIE MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED, of Huit End, Redditch, in
the County of Worcester, Cycle Manufacturers, and HARRY JAMES MILWARD, of
Astwood Bank, Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Store Keeper, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in 'what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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This Invention consists of the herein described improvements in the construction
and arrangement of mackintosh or other waterproof covers and parts connected
therewith for the seats or cushions of traps motor cars and other road vehicles and
the seats or cushions of yachts pleasure boats steam ships and the like. "By this
Invention the waterproof cover is so arranged that it can readily be brought into
use when required and as readily rolled up out of use.
We will describe this Invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a trap or other vehicle seat with our
Invention applied thereto the waterproof cover being shewn extended in use over
the seat; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same shewing the waterproof cover rolled back
when not required for use; Fig. 3 is a back elevation of the said seat and Fig. 4
is a sectional elevation of a part of the same shewing the waterproof cover rolled
back out of use; Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the spring roller and casing part
of the said waterproof cover with the cover removed; and Fig. 6 is a cross section
of the same shewing the cover rolled up.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
Figures of the drawing.
In carrying out this Invention we provide a mackintosh or other waterproof
cover A. fixed to a spring roller B, like the spring roller of a spring roller blind.
This roller is arranged in a tubular metal casing or shield C made with a slot el
extending all along the same through whichr the cover A. can be withdrawn. This
tubular metal casing C is made with two end caps fixed thereto which carry
the spindle about which the roller B revolves and around which is coiled the
coiled spring E (one end of which is fixed to the spindle D and the other end to
the roller B) the recoil of the spring roller winding up the cover A on the roller B
within the casing C and maintaining the cover C in this position. The tubular
casing C is provided with brackets ecfixed thereto or other suitable means by
which the casing C can be fixed to the back or other part of the seat Funderneath
the cushion G as shewn for instance by Figs. 1, 3 and 4. The front edge a of
the cover A is, as is the edge of a roller blind, provided with a strengthening bar
or rod running all along the same.
When the cover A is required for use the tab a2 at the front end a of the
cover A is gripped by the thumb and finger and pulled forward over the cushion G
and there secured as by being hitched on to the stud which is fixed to the front
of the seat box F thus protecting the seat cushion G.from rain. When the seat
cushion is required to be uncovered it is only necessary to release the tab a
from the stud when the spring roller B will wind the cover A. back upon the
roller B within the casing C ready for use again when required.
Our Invention is applied to the seats or cushions of motor cars and other vehicles
yachts. pleasure boats and ships similarly as above described with reference to a
trap seat.

page_text: 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:
1. The improved combined waterproof cover and spring roller and casing for the
seats or cushions of traps motor cars and other road vehicles vachts pleasure boats
steam ships and the like, consisting of the waterproof cover A for covering the seat
or cushion, a spring roller fixed to the said cover to roll the cover upon, a tubular
metal casing containing said spring roller and adapted to contain the cover when
rolled thereon said casing having a longitudinal slit through which the cover
protrudes, means for fixing the said casing to the back or other part of the seat,
and a spring within the roller arranged by its recoil to rewind the cover upon the
roller within the casing all substantially as herein before described.
2. The combination with the seat or seat cushion of a trap motor car or other
road vehicle or of a yacht pleasure boat steam ship or the like, of a combined
waterproof cover and spring roller and casing arranged and applied to said seats
and adapted for use in the manner and substantially as hereinhefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
3. The combination of the waterproof cover A for covering a seat or seat cushion,
the spring roller B fixed to one edge of said cover, the tubular metal casing C
containing the spring roller B and adapted to contain the cover A. when rolled
upon the roller Band made with the longitudinal slit through which the cover
protrudes, means for fixing the casing to the back or other part of the seat, and a
spring within the roller arranged to rewind the cover thereon within the casing,
all substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by
the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1897.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.