IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED DENO OD περπα LAD CITING
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Hamilton, Junior, and Robert McIntyre, both of
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED
DENO OD περπα LAD
CITING "
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Hamilton, Junior,
and Robert M'Intyre at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
17th February 1883.
JAMES HAMILTON, Junior, and ROBERT MINTYRE, both of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North. Britain, "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH
BEDS OR BERTHS FOR SHIPS
"
This Invention has for its object to simplify and improve the framing or supports
and other parts of beds or berths of ships, especially where several of such beds or
berths are combined together for the use of emigrants, or troops, or others, and
where it is desirable for the parts to be easily separable so as to admit of being
stowed out of the way when the space occupied by them is required for cargo
instead of passengers, and vice versa.
In carrying out the Invention vertical supports or uprights of bar iron are
employed, their lower, ends fitting into footstep sockets, whilst their upper ends
are entered up into sockets, or through slots in knee pieces fixed to the ship's beams,
or through slots in enlarged parts of longitudinal rods or bars fixed to the beams.
If the longitudinal rods or bars are adopted they serve conveniently for carrying
the other parts when taken down and stowed away. Horizontal stretchers of
flanged or rolled plates, or angle iron, or plates or bars with lugs attached to thein
are fixed between the uprights. The stretchers are formed with holes in their ends
to slip upon eyes or projections fixed to the uprights; and horizontal rods or bars
forming the principal divisions between the beds are hooked at the ends and
entered into the eyes in the projections or into eyes in the uprights and keep the
uprights at their proper distances apart and prevent the stretchers from becoming
disengaged. The intermediate divisions between the beds are formed by rods or
bars made with hooked ends which engage upon tube or cope iron fastened along
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page_text: the top edges of the stretchers, or upon the top bulb when the stretchers are rolled
with a bulb or enlarged upper edge. The rods or bars extending between the
uprights and also the intermediate division rods carry hangers which give support
to the bed bottoms.
The bed bottoms are formed with frames of angle iron or of bars or rods, to
which is attached the usual lacing or bottom of hoop iron or of canvas; or the
bottom may be of stamped or perforated sheet iron or of any suitable known wire
or other spring construction. The ends of the bed bottoms rest on the bottom
Banges of the stretchers or on lugs formed or fixed on the stretchers; and between
the stretchers are supported by the divisional rods or bars.
The parts can all be fixed together for use as beds without riveting or bolting,
and they can be easily separated and stowed away when the space occupied by
them is required for other purposes. When the upper ends of the uprights are
supported by knee pieces, the uprights can be placed horizontally on the bottoms
of the knee pieces and then the other parts can be stowed up the uprights.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Hamilton, Junior, and Robert MoIntyre in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 16th August 1883.
JAMES HAMILTON, Junior, and ROBERT MCINTYRE, both of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH
BEDS OR BERTHS FOR SHIPS"
Our said Invention has for its object to simplify and improve the framing or
supports and other parts of beds or berths of ships, especially where several of
Buch beds or berths are combined together for the use of emigrants; or troops, or
others; and where it is desirable for the parts to be easily separable so as to
admit of being stowed out of the way when the space occupied by them is required
for cargo instead of passengers, and vice versa.
In carrying out our Invention vertical supports or uprights of bar iron which
have their bottom ends in footstep sockets and their upper ends in sockets in knee
pieces or horizontal bars fixed to the ship's beams, have combined with them
horizontal angle-iron stretchers and with division rods which are at right angles to
the stretchers. The bed bottoms are formed according to one modification with
frames of angle iron or of bars or rods and they rest with their ends on the
horizontal flanges. of the stretchers, being also partly supported by hangers from
the division rods. When the parts of the beds or berths are separated to make
room for cargo they can be stowed away between the beams upon the horizontal
bars fixed to the beams.
And in order that our said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood we hereunto append three sheets of explanatory
drawings to be hereinafter referred to and representing an example of our improved
arrangements.
:
Figures, 1, and 2, on sheets, 1, and 2, of the accompanying drawings are
longitudinal and transverse vertical sections. Figure, 3, on sheet, 3, is a sectional
plan, and figures, 4, and 5, are enlarged sections of details. In these drawings the
same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are
repeated.
The beds or berths are carried by vertical supports or uprights, 6, of bar iron,
which are placed at suitable distances apart, their lower ends being entered into
sockets in footstep plates, 7, fixed in the lower deck, 8, whilst their upper ends are
entered up through slots in horizontal bars, 9, fixed by means of kneed ends to the
ship's beams, 10. Horizontal stretchers, 11, of flanged or rolled plates, or angle
iron, or plates, or bars with lugs attached to them, are fixed between the uprights, 6,
in transverse positions or parallel to the ship's beams, 10. Two transverse rows, of
the beds or berths, these being placed longitudinally, are arranged end to end, with
passages or spaces at the fore and aft ends not in contact.. In figure, 4, the
stretcher, 11, is shown in vertical section as at the outer ends of the berths; and
in figure, 5, is shown the form of intermediate stretcher, 11, used where the ends
of the berths adjoin each other.. The intermediate stretcher, 11, is the same-as
that for the end, but has lugs, 12, riveted to that side of it which is without the
horizontal flange.. The stretchers, 11, are formed with slots or holes in their
vertical webs near their ends, and are secured to the uprights, 6, by being placed
upon projections, 13, which are riveted to the uprights and which have eyes or
holes formed through them. Horizontal rods or bars, 14, forming the principal
divisions between the beds are hooked at their ends and the hooked parts are
entered into the eyes of the projections, 13, these rods,. 14, thus serving as ties to.

page_text: keep the uprights, 6, at the proper distances apart, and also preventing the
stretchers, 11, from becoming disengaged. The intermediate divisions between the
beds are formed by rods, 15, made with hooked ends (as shown in figure, 4,) to
engage upon tube or cope iron, 16, fastened along the top edges of the stretchers, 11;
or it might be upon the top bulb when the stretchers are rolled with a bulb or
enlarged upper edge. The rods or bars, 14, extending between the uprights, 6,
and also the intermediate division rods, 15, carry hangers, 17, which give
intermediate support to the bed bottoms.
The bed bottoms are represented as formed with angle-iron frames, 18, to which
is attached the usual lacing, 19, of hoop iron; or the bottom may be of canvas or
of stamped or perforated sheet iron or of any suitable known wire or spring
construction. The ends of the bed bottoms, 18, rest on the bottom flanges of
the stretchers, 11, or in some cases, on lugs or knee pieces, 12, fixed to the
stretchers; and between the stretchers are supported by the hangers, 17, from the
rods, 14, 15.
When canvas is used to form the bed bottoms, the separate angle-iron frames (18)
may be dispensed with, the divisional rods, 14, and 15, being made strong enough
to support the canvas, which may be in a single piece extending over two or more
bed spaces, and which may be laid over or attached to the divisional rods in any
convenient way so as to be depressed between the rods.
The parts can all be fixed together for use as beds without riveting or bolting;
and they can be easily separated and stowed away when the space occupied by
them is required for other purposes. Where the upper ends of the uprights, 6, are
beld by horizontal bars, 9, as shown in the drawings, the separated parts may be
stowed upon such bars, 9, as indicated at, 20, in figure, 1. Where the upper ends
of the uprights, 6, are held by knee pieces fixed to the beams, 10, the uprights
when separated, can be placed on the bottoms of the knee pieces and then the
other parts can be stowed on the uprights.
Having thus particularly described our said Invention and the manner of
performing the same we have to state that we do not restrict ourselves to the
precise details herein described or delineated but that what we believe to be novel
and original and claim as the Invention secured to us by and in terms of the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is:
The constructing, arranging, and combining of ship's beds or berths and
parts connected therewith substantially in the improved manner hereinbefore
described.
In Witness whereof I, the said, James Hamilton, Junior, on behalf of myself
and of the said Robert McIntyre, have hereunto set my hand and seal this
fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and eighty-three.
Witness-
EDMUND HUNT—
Patent Agent.
Glasgow,
JAMES HAMILTON JUN". (L.)