AN IMPROVEMENT IN FITTING SLIDING PARTITIONS IN STABLES AND OTHER BUILDINGS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Le Chevallier Cottam, of Winsley Street, in
the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN FITTING SLIDING PARTITIONS IN STABLES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS."
Sealed the 29th August 1865, and dated the 4th March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Le Chevallier
Cottam at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Peti-
tion, on the 4th March 1865.
I, LOUIS LE CHEVALLIER COTTAM, of Winsley Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FITTING SLIDING PARTITIONS IN STABLES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS," to be as follows:-
My Invention refers more particularly to partitions forming part of stalls
and loose boxes for horses, and consists in constructing the grooved sills in
which the bottom of the partition of wood or other work is received, and
slides with one or more dovetail wedges. When in place these wedges form
part of one side or wall of the groove of the sill, but they admit of being
removed to allow of any part of the partition that may have been injured by
kicks or otherwise being taken out and replaced by a fresh part when the

page_text: return of the wedge secures the parts in their position. Instead of the wedge
or wedges, I sometimes hinge one of the sides or walls, or part thereof, of the
sill to the other part, in order to allow of any portion of the partition being
removed as above described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Le Chevallier Cottam in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th September 1865. ..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Louis
LE CHEVALLIER COTTAM, of Winsley Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Louis Le Chevallier Cottam, Her special licence that I, the said
Louis Le Chevallier Cottam, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Louis Le Chevallier Cottam, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FITTING SLIDING
PARTITIONS IN STABLES AND OTHER BUILDINGS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Louis Le Chevallier Cottam, 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 Louis Le Chevallier Cottam, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto-annexed,
that is to say:
My Invention refers more particularly to partitions forming part of stalls

page_text: and loose boxes for horses, and consists in constructing the grooved sills in
which the bottom of the partition of wood or other work is received, and
slides with one or more dovetail wedges. When in place these wedges form
part of one side or wall of the groove of the sill, but they admit of being
removed to allow of any part of the partition that may have been injured by
kicks or otherwise being taken out and replaced by a fresh. part, when the
return of the wedge secures the parts in their position.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2
a plan of a sliding partition constructed according to my Invention; Figure 3
is a section through the line A, and Figure 4 a section through the line B,
of Figure 2. a, a, is the grooved sill in which the bottom of the partition of
wood b, b, is received and slides. A portion of one side or wall of the sill of
the groove is formed by a dovetail wedge c, which is capable of being removed
as before stated to allow of any part of the partition b, b, that may have been
injured being taken out and replaced by a fresh part; the wedge c being then
returned secures the parts of the partition in their position.
Instead of the wedge or wedges, I sometimes hinge one of the sides or
walls, or part thereof, of the sill to the other part, in order to allow of any
portion of the partition being removed as above described.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, constructing the grooved sill in which the bottom of partitions in
stables and other buildings is received and slides with one or more dovetail
wedges, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawings.
Second, hinging one of the sides or walls, or part thereof, of the sill to the
other part, as and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, .I, the said Louis Le Chevallier Cottam, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
L. L. C. COTTAM. (L.S.)