IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT BED FRAMES.OR CONSERVATORIES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Aaron Tyson, of Ulverston, in the County of Lancaster,
Builder, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT BED FRAMES.OR
CONSERVATORIES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Aaron Tyson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th April 1881.
AARON TYSON, of Ulverston, in the County of Lancaster, Builder.
MENTS IN HOT BED FRAMES OR CONSERVATORIES."
"IMPROVE
According to this Invention I construct jointed hot bed frames or conservatories
in such a manner that they be either with a flat top cover or a slanting or sliding
roof, and so as to afford facilities for ventilation and catching the rays of the sun
when required. For this purpose I form the roof or top cover glazed, and in two
parts jointed in the middle, so as to join closely and watertight when raised in the
form of a slanting roof. The gable ends I form as hinged frames, so as to fold
down out of the way when the top cover is to let down flat, and to stand up when
the top cover is to rest thereon as a slanting roof. I fix the roof in that position
by hooks, or bolts, or catches to the frame or walls. For ventilation, one side or
both sides of the top cover or roof are raised, and one side may be turned right
over and folded down on the top of the other, or the flap or flaps opened. The
angle of inclination between the two halves of the top cover or roof may be
about 130°.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Aaron Tyson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th October
1881.
AARON TYSON, of Ulverston, in the County of Lancaster, Builder. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HOT BED FRAMES OR CONSERVATORIES.'
According to this Invention I construct jointed hot bed frames or conservatories
in such a manner that they be either with a flat top cover or a slanting or sliding
roof, and so as to afford facilities for ventilation and catching the rays of the sun
when required.
For this purpose I form the roof or top cover glazed and in two
parts, jointed in the middle, so as to join closely and watertight when raised in the
form of a slanting roof. The gable ends I form as hinged frames, so as to fold
down out of the way when the top cover is to let down flat, and to stand up when
the top cover is to rest thereon as a slanting roof. I fix the roof in that position
by hooks, or bolts, or catches to the frame or walls. For ventilation, one side or
both sides of the top cover or roof are raised, and one side may be turned right
over and folded down on the top of the other, or the flap or flaps opened. The
angle of inclination between the two halves of the top cover or roof may be
about 130°
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Figure 1 is a side view, and Figure 2 end view of a hot bed frame of my
improved construction, shewn with the roof or top in a slanting position; Figure 3
is a perspective view, shewing the roof let down flat; and Figure 4 a similar view,
showing one part of the flat roof turned up and over the other.
The glazed frames A are hinged in the middle, so as to be watertight there; they
are fastened to the walls B by means of bolts C. The gable ends D are at their
lower side hinged to the walls Ẹ of the frame. In Figures 3 and 4 the gable ends D
are shown folded down out of the way, so as to permit the roof to be let down flat.
When the gable ends D are in their raised position, they are united to the roof
frames A by means of hooks F. When the roof frames A are in the raised position,
one or both the gable ends D may be partly or wholly let down, or one or both
sides of the roof A partly or wholly raised.
This construction of roof may also be applied on a large scale to conservatories,
affording facility for taking to pieces and being moved at pleasure. The ventilation
of the conservatory is effected by raising a portion of the roof by means of pulleys
and rod guards; also, if desired, at the gable ends, as described, or by casement
extenders,
I claim the jointed or hinged frames or roof flaps A, in combination with the
jointed or hinged gable ends D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Aaron Tyson, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Thirteenth day of October, in the year our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one.
Signed, scaled, and delivered by the
within named Aaron Tyson, in
the presence of
CHAS. B. DANIELL,
Solr.,
AARON TYSON. (L.S.)
Ulverston.