A NEW KIND OF PORTABLE CAMPING TRUNK CONTAINING IN A SMALL BULK & LIGHT TENT WITH ALL THE REQUIRED FURNITURES AND IMPLE- PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Louis Victor Yon, of No. 60, Boulevart
de Strasbourg, Paris, in the Empire of France, Upholsterer, for the
Invention of "A NEW KIND OF PORTABLE CAMPING TRUNK CONTAINING IN A
SMALL BULK & LIGHT TENT WITH ALL THE REQUIRED FURNITURES AND IMPLE-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Louis Victor
Yon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 29th June 1869.
I, CHARLES LOUIS VICTOR YON, of No. 60, Boulevart de Strasbourg,
Paris, in the Empire of France, Upholsterer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW KIND OF PORTABLE CAMPING TRUNK
CONTAINING IN A SMALL BULK A LIGHT TENT WITH ALL THE REQUIRED FURNITURES
AND IMPLEMENTS NECESSARY FOR MILITARY, RAMBLING TRAVELLERS, AND
EMIGRANTS," to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in the arrangement of a stout travelling trunk
or chest of about two feet nine inches long, two feet three inches wide,

page_text: and eighteen inches high. Such trunk when furnished with all the
objects it is to contain will weigh from eighty-five to one hundred and
twenty pounds. It is divided into several compartments; one of them
contains a metallic case or canteen for kitchen requisites, bottles, and all
implements required for military, tourists, or pioneer emigrants. In the
lid there is a recess containing the bed which unfolds when opening
the chest and rectangular iron spring blades form the pillow; the bed
is covered either with a sheep skin or thick blanket. It contains also a
wooden or sheet iron table and stool with hinged legs, and all the
required implements for the toilet, such as a washing basin, looking
glass, brushes, and other toilet articles.
The most important part of the Invention is the tent, which adheres
to the trunk by means of a tube fixed to the latter, several tubes sliding
in one another when drawn out reach together two and a half yards
bigh and form tent when extended, the main post holding up the outer
cloth or covering.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Louis Victor Yon in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 28th December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
LOUIS VICTOR YON, of No. 60, Boulevart de Strasbourg, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Upholsterer, send greeting.
year
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Jetters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of June, in the of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Charles Louis Victor Yon, Her special
licence that I, the said Charles Louis Victor Yon, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Louis
Victor Yon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "A NEW KIND OF PORTABLE CAMPING TRUNK CONTAINING IN A SMALL BULK

page_text: A LIGHT TENT WITH ALL THE REQUIRED FURNITURES AND IMPLEMENTS NECESSARY
FOR MILITARY, RAMBLING TRAVELLERS, AND EMIGRANTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Louis Victor Yon, 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 Charles Louis Victor You, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention consists in the special and economical arrangement
of a stout and snug travelling trunk or chest containing in a compara-
tively small bulk a light tent, together with all the required furniture
and articles necessary either for military officers, rambling travellers,
or emigrants. The size is about 23 feet long, 24 wide, and 1 high.
Its principal advantage is to afford stowage for a great many useful
things in a small space, which things can by combining and modifying
their shape if required be all packed up in the trunk or chest and thus
carried about. Wandering travellers provided with my camping trunk
will possess comforts which they could not otherwise obtain without
encumbering themselves with luggage at least one-half more bulky.
The camping trunk of my Invention contains a bed, a tent with its
accessory pole, frame, and pegs, a table, one or two stools, a case for
kitchen utensils, such as porridge pot or saucepan, tea kettle, roasting
or frying pan, gridiron, dishes, plates, cups, knives, forks, spoons, a
lamp, a candlestick, salt and pepper boxes, a set of bottles or cruets for
oil, vinegar, and other condiments, a sufficient space for stowing tent
cloth and garments, a small writing desk with all requisite fittings,
another box or dressing case containing toilet requisites, a looking
glass, combs, brushes, razors, soap, pomade, and other articles of
perfumery. To complete the set of useful things there is also a case
containing the most useful pharmaceutical substances or surgical instru-
ments and appliances. The tent can be arranged in several ways to
suit the notions of different persons; it can be set up either with a single
or two poles or upright supports, the latter manuer affording most room.

page_text: The upright supports or poles can be made of wood strengthened with
sheet iron, but I prefer using tubular iron rods as more solid and handy
and permitting the three pieces completing the pole to be sheathed in
one another. The horizontal cross supports may also be composed either
of iron tubes or T-shaped iron rods; either of said rods may be used
according to the combination or shape of the tent which is composed at
pleasure either of one, two, or three compartments, as shewn on the
annexed Sheet of Drawing. A slender cane may also be used for the
same purpose. The camping trunk can be carried about when
travelling by mules provided with special pack saddles, or in any other
suitable manner. The bed is composed of a frame with a bottom of
cross bands rendered springy by means of india-rubber rings tying the
ends of the bands to the frame; the bottom of the bed is covered either
by a thick blanket, light mattress, or sheep skin. The trunk can be
made of any suitable material, but so as to combine strength and
lightness, and be painted or covered with leather or any other suitable
material.
On the annexed Drawing No. 1 shows a model of a tent for a single
person erected with two upright supports or poles; No. 2 is another
pattern also for one person supported by a single upright pole; the
circular shape is given to the top by means of a slender cane provided
with an iron hook at each end; No. 3 is the combination of two single
tents united by means of girdling grooves, within which a slender cauc
is introduced to facilitate the setting up; No. 4 is another model of two
coupled tents each with a single pole, and forming together three compart-
ments; No. 5 shews a double tent formed with two poles, and including
sleeping room on cach side and a dining or reception room in the
middle; No. 6 shews another arrangement of double tent; No. 7 is a
perspective view of the trunk opened, the bed being partly unfolded;
No. 8, a side view of the trunk with the bed completely unfolded
shewing at A the place occupied by the canteen, and at B the place for
the cloths, garments, and pole frame; No. 9, the canteen provided
with every useful utensil for kitchen and dining room; No. 10, trunk
completely closed; C, pole fitted in place, with its cross rod D and curved
canc E for spreading the cloth; No 10*, the trunk standing on its
bottom before the opening of the lid L to unfold the bed; No. 11,
tubular iron pole C composed of three tubes sliding in one another, the
outer ones being cut with a longitudinal groove and the inner ones
carrying a pin which runs in the groove, until finding a cross recess

page_text: it is turned to enter it, and falls into another recess where it is stopped,
forming a bayonet joint; No. 12, cross fitting for the stand or pole C;
No. 13, folding table fully extended, when it is folded the legs come
against each other so as to present but a single thickness; No. 14,
folding stool; its legs hinge on a single tubular iron rod, when folded
they come near each other like those of the table so as to give but a
single thickness. The folded table and stool together with the stand,
pole, and tent are stowed in omnartment M of the trunk.
My Invention being now plainly described and illustrated by the
annexed Sheet of Drawing, I declare that I claim, the construction of
a stout, light, and snug military, travellers', or emigrants' camping trunk
containing in a small compass every essential comfort when the traveller
must camp out.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Louis Victor Yon, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.
Signed and sealed in the
presence of,
L. D'AUBRÉVILLE.
YON. (L.S.)