IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO OMNIBUSES AND OTHER CARRIAGES FOR RECEIVING WET UMBRELLAS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Frederick Tyerman, of Weymouth Street,
Portland Place, in the County of Middlesex, Architect and Surveyor, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO OMNIBUSES
AND OTHER CARRIAGES FOR RECEIVING WET UMBRELLAS."
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Sealed the 29th April 1856, and dated the 6th February 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Frederick
Tyerman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 6th February 1856.
I, THOMAS FREDERICK TYERMAN, of Weymouth Street, Portland Place, in
the County of Middlesex, Architect and Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO OMNIBUSES.
AND OTHER CARRIAGES FOR RECEIVING WET UMBRELLAS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the application of apparatus to omnibuses
and other carriages for receiving wet umbrellas; for which purpose on the
door or other part of an omnibus or other carriage is formed an enclosed
space, by preference of sheet metal, forming a trough for the reception of the
ends of umbrellas. The upper part of the enclosed space is made into a frame,
´in order to receive several umbrellas. The water flowing from the umbrellas
into the trough or lower part of the apparatus is conducted out of the carriage
by a suitable outlet.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Frederick Tyerman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FREDERICK TYERMAN, of Weymouth Street, Portland Place, in the County
of Middlesex, Architect and Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Frederick Tyerman, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Frederick Tyerman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Frederick Tyerman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all tinies 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 APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO OMNIBUSES AND OTHER CARRIAGEB
FOR RECEIVING WET UMBRELLAS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Thomas Frederick Tyerman, 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 Thomas Frederick Tyerman, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of improvements in apparatus to be applied to
omnibuses and other carriages for receiving wet umbrellas. The mode by
which this object is effected is by forming an enclosed space, the upper portion
, of which is made into a frame for the reception of several umbrellas; the
lower portion is formed into a trough for the reception of the ends of the
umbrellas, and for the purpose of collecting the water flowing from the same,
which water is conducted from the trough or lower portion by a suitable outlet.
There are several modes of effecting this object, but that which I prefer is
to form an enclosed space of sheet metal, about twenty-seven inches high,

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placing and removing of the umbrellas.
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COMYCHICTIO SITUATION 101 WHIC
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
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Figure 1, A, apparatus for receiving wet umbrellas affixed to B, carriage
door; C, moveable trough; a, a, thumb-screws for securing trough; 6 fastening.
Figure II., D, plan of apparatus affixed to E, carriage door; c, outlet for
waste water. Figure III., F, section of apparatus affixed to G, carriage door;
e, thumb-screw for securing trough; f, outlet for waste water.
Although the description and mode of forming apparatus to be applied to
omnibuses and other carriages for receiving wet umbrellas may be effected in
the method or methods above described, yet I do not confine myself to the
method or methods or to the materials I have enumerated, as other suitable
method or methods or materials may be adopted or made available, or will
answer the purpose; nor do I confine myself to the form of the apparatus, nor
to the height, width, or depth of the same, nor is it necessary that the trough.
or lower portion of the apparatus be made moveable or separate from the
apparatus generally, nor that the water should be carried away in any
particular manner, nor from any particular portion of trough. Neither do I
confine myself to the situation in which the apparatus is to be fixed or placed,
as shewn in the accompanying Drawing, as these may be varied according to
circumstances, so long as the particular character of my Invention be
retained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Frederick Tyerman, have
hercunto set my hand and scal, this First day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
T. FRED TYERMAN. (L.S.)