IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SAVING LIFE IN THE WATER AND FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON BOARD SHIP
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Rose, of Leadenhall Street, London, for the
:
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SAVING LIFE IN THE WATER
AND FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON BOARD SHIP."
LETTERS PATENT to Richard Rose, of Leadenhall Street, London, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SAVING LIFE IN THE WATER
AND FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON BOARD SHIP."
Sealed the 25th March 1879, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and
dated the 10th Santambor 1978
Sealed the 25th March 1879, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and
dated the 10th Santambor 1978
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Rose at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1878.
RICHARD ROSE, of Leadenhall Street, London. " IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS'
FOR SAVING LIFE IN THE WATER AND FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON BOARD SHIP."
My Invention refers to the construction of seats for passengers on board ship, and
consists of the following arrangement:-I construct of metal in two parts or pieces.
a vessel capable of being used as a seat on the deck of a vessel and which, when
thrown overboard, from its buoyancy will support one, two, or more persons for a
considerable period in the water. The seat is made in shape to resemble a double
egg cup, and is capable of being unscrewed or detached in the middle, so that in the
event of a fire occurring in the ship the two vessels may be employed as buckets
for carrying water; ropes or handles are attached to the middle of the double
vessel, so that when thrown overboard persons may readily cling to them. The seat
has a cushion made of leather cloth and stuffed with ground or pulverised cork or
with horsehair, so that the seat also (which has an opening in the middle resembling
an air cushion) may be used as a means of saving life.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Rose in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th March
1879.
RICHARD ROSE, of Leadenhall Street, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR SAVING LIFE IN THE WATER AND FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON BOARD SHIP."
My Invention has reference to the construction and arrangement of seats for
passengers on board steamships and other vessels, and which also serve as efficient
life buoys in case of accident or wreck. In the Drawing accompanying this Speci-
fication Figure 1 shows an elevation of one of these seats and Figure 2 is a vertical
section of the same. The body of the seat consists of two metallic cones A and B
united together at the central band C. The union of the two parts may be effected
either by means of a screw or bayonet joint, or by any other suitable equivalent
therefor. Each cone is made with a water-tight bottom D inside the line of junc-
tion. The outer end of each cone is closed with a lid or cap E, which is either
screwed into the body of the seat or is secured by a spring catch or other suitable
fastening. Each lid is furnished with a metal rail F, the object of which is that the
buoy may be readily grasped by a person or persons in the water. Further pro-
vision for this purpose is made by attaching double looped lines G to the waist of
the buoy, and by furnishing the upper part with a cushion H filled with pulverised
cork or other suitable material. The cushion is also surrounded with loops I by
which it may be readily grasped, and two of such cushions lashed together form an
efficient life belt for a person submerged. By the arrangement of the cones with
the lids it is intended that they should form receptacles for food, water, papers, &c.,
When the
in case of wreck, with the view of preserving the same from water.
lids are removed each part forms a fire bucket, as shown in Figure 3, a cross
lanyard K serving as a handle is fitted inside each cone. Where required only as
an ordinary life buoy the two cones are entirely sealed up and furnished only with
end rails and central lines. Under one form I construct a compound life buoy seat,
as shown in Figure 4, in which there are three or other suitable number of sealed
cones L enclosed within an open metal or wooden frame M on which cushions are
placed, also forming life belts or mattresses; four or other convenient number of
such seats lashed together constitute an excellent basis for a raft, possessing a very
large amount of buoyancy and capable of preserving many lives in case of wreck,
collision, or fire.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same may be carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that
I do not confine myself to the precise details I have herein described, as the same
may be varied without departing from the essential features of my Invention, but
what I do claim and believe to be novel is,―
First. The general arrangement and combination of parts forming a life buoy
seat and fire bucket, substantially as herein-before described and shown.
Second. The general arrangement and construction of the compound life seat,
substantially as herein-before described and shown.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Rose, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.