Improvements in Berths for Ships, Railway Carriages, and other Places.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Aug., 1890-Accepted, 27th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Berths for Ships, Railway Carriages, and
other Places.
I JOHN OAKES HOLT of Eve Hill Works Dudley in the County of Worcester
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
In berths used in ships railway carriages and other places where it is desirable to
economise room the frame of the sacking is constructed with a joint at a short
distance from its rear or back part on which joint the principal part of the sacking
when the berth is not occupied can be raised into a vertical or nearly vertical plane
so that the room occupied by the sacking when the berth is in use is unoccupied
when the sacking is raised into the vertical or nearly vertical position referred to.
It is necessary when tho sacking is turned down into a horizontal position for
use that means should be provided for firmly supporting it in that position and my
invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction and arrangement
of the parts the function of which is to support the sacking in its lowered or
horizontal position.
According to one of my improvements I construct and arrange the joint on which
the frame of the sacking turns and the parts connected therewith in the following
manner. In the bracket fixed to the vertical side of the ship or place where the
berth is fixed (and which bracket carries the berth) I make near its end a vertical
slot semi-circular at bottom. The pin or axis on which the sacking turns rests and
works in this slot. The end of the said pin or axis projects to the outside of the
bracket and terminates in an arm which arm when the sacking is lowered inclines
upwards. The said arm lies flat against and works upon the outer vertical face of
the bracket. On the said vertical face of the bracket is an inclined projecting rib
formed in one piece with or firmly attached to the bracket. This inclined rib is so
situated on the bracket that when the frame of the sacking is horizontal the arm on
the end of the pin or axis on which the sacking turns bears against its under edge and
the further descending motion of the sacking is prevented. Thus the sacking can
either be raised into a vertical or nearly vertical position or lowered into a horizontal
position but cannot descend below a horizontal position.
According to another of my improvements I employ the bracket and pin or axis
turning in a slot in the said bracket as described with respect to my first improvement
but I dispense with the arm on the end of the axis on which the sacking turns and
I also dispense with the inclined rib on the outer side of the bracket. In place of the
said parts I fix on the underside of the frame of the sacking or make in one piece
therowith a depending piece near the joint the acting face of the said depending
picco being at right angles to the plane of the sacking. The free end of the bracket
is vertical or carries a vertical piece and on the turning down of the sacking into a
horizontal plane the face of the depending piece on the underside of the frame of the
sacking comes in contact with the vertical end or piece on the bracket and the
descent of the sacking beyond a horizontal plane is prevented.
The parts described for arresting the motion of the frame of the sacking when it
has reached a horizontal position may be applied at one or both ends of the sacking
frame.
Dated this 12th day of November 1889.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Berths for Ships, Railway Carriages, and
other Places.
I JOHN OAKES HOLT of Eve Hill Works Dudley in the County of Worcester
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
In berths used in ships railway carriages and other places where it is desirable to
economise room the frame of the sacking is constructed with a joint at a short
distance from its rear or back part on which joint the principal part of the sacking
when the borth is not occupied can be raised into a vertical or nearly vertical plane
so that the room occupied by the sacking when the berth is in use is unoccupied
when the sacking is raised into the vertical or nearly vertical position referred to.
It is necessary whon the sacking is turned down into a horizontal position for use
that means should be provided for firmly supporting it in that position and my
invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction and arrangement
of the parts the function of which is to support the sacking in its lowered or horizontal
position.
According to one of my improvements I construct and arrange the joint on which
the frame of the sacking turns and the parts connected therewith in the following
manner. In the bracket fixed to the vertical side of the ship or place where the berth
is fixed (and which bracket carries the berth) I make near its end a vertical slot
semi-circular at bottom.
The pin or axis on which the sacking turns rests and works in this slot. The end
of the said pin or axis projects to the outside of the bracket and terminates in an arm
which arm when the sacking is lowered inclines upwards. The said arm lies flat
against and works upon the outer vertical face of the bracket. On the said vertical
face of the bracket is an inclined projecting rib formed in one piece with or firmly
attached to the bracket. This inclined rib is so situated on the bracket that when the
frame of the sacking is horizontal the arm on the end of the pin or axis on which the
sacking turns bears against its under edge and the further descending motion of
the sacking is prevented. Thus, the sacking can either be raised into a vertical or
nearly vertical position or lowered into a horizontal position but cannot desceud below
a horizontal position.
According to another of my improvements I employ the bracket and pin or axis
turning in a slot in the said bracket as described with respect to my first improvement
but I dispense with the arm on the end of the axis on which the sacking turns and I
also dispense with the inclined rib on the outer side of the bracket. In place of the
said parts I fix on the underside of the frame of the sacking or make in one piece
there with a depending piece near the joint the acting face of the said depending
piece being at right angles to the plane of the sacking. The free end of the bracket
is vertical or carries a vertical piece and on the turning down of the sacking into a
horizontal plane the face of the depending piece on the underside of the frame of the
sacking comes in contact with the vertical end or piece on the bracket and the descent
of the sacking beyond a horizontal plane is prevented. The parts described for
arresting the motion of the frame of the sacking when it has reached a horizontal
position may be applied at one or both ends of the sacking frame.
Figures 1 and 2 represent end elevations of a ship's berth (or other like berth) the
joint of the sacking frame of the said berth being constructed and arranged according
to one part of my invention. In Figure 1 the berth is represented lowered into a
horizontal position and in Figure 2 raised into a vertical position: Figure 3 represents
in side elevation; Figure 4 in end elevation and Figure 5 in plan the joint end of the
berth and one of the supporting brackets of the same drawn to a large scale. The
same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

page_text: a is the sacking frame of the berth to each end of which a pin or axis of the kind
marked b is connected by the fixing plate 62. One only of the pins or axes is shown
in the drawing but both pins or axes are alike in construction and action.
The pin or axis b at each end of the sacking frame turns and works in a slot c
in the bracket & fixed to the side e of the ship or other support. The end of the
pin or axis b projects from the outside of the bracket d and terminates in an
arm which when the sacking frame a is lowered into the position represented
in Figure 1 inclines upwards. It will be seen by an examination of the enlarged
views Figures 3, 4, and 5 that the part of the bracket d about which the pin or
axis b turns is strengthened at back by the strengthening piece cast on or
attached to the bracket d. On the front vertical face of the bracket d is an
inclined projecting rib g formed in one piece with or attached to the bracket.
The said rib g inclines upwards as represented. When the sacking frame a of the
berth occupies the turned up or vertical position represented in Figure
the arm f
on the pin or axis & descends from the rib g on the bracket as represented in the
said Figure 2 and indicated in dotted lines in Figure 3, but when the sacking
frame is lowered and reaches the horizontal position represented in Figure 1 the
upper edge of the arm on the end of the pin or axis 6 bears against the under
inclined edge of the rib g on the bracket as represented in Figures 1, 3, and 4
and the further descending motion of the sacking frame is prevented and the said
sacking frame is supported in that position as seen in the drawing. In this way
the sacking frame of the berth can be raised into a nearly vertical position or
lowered into a horizontal position but cannot descend below a horizontal position.
The arrangement described and represented for preventing the sacking frame
desconding below a horizontal position may be applied to one end or to both ends
of the berth.
Figures 6 and 7 represent end elevations of a ship's berth (or other like berth)
provided with the second described arrangement of iny invention for preventing
the sacking frame descending beyond a horizontal position, the inside face of one
of the brackets of the berth being represented in the said Figures 6 and 7:
Figure 8 represents an inside elevation: Figure 9 an end elevation and Figure 10
a plan of one of the brackets and a portion of the berth drawn to a larger scale.
In this modification the stop and supporting arrangement consists of the depending
piece made on the fixing piece of the sacking frame a near to the pin or
axis on which the sacking frame turns and the vertical piece k on the inner face
of the bracket d the acting edge of the depending piece being vertical or at
right angles to the plane of the sacking. Whon the sacking frame a is in its
turned up or vertical position Figure 7 the depending piece i is horizontal as
represented in Figure 7 and when the sacking frame a is turned down into a
horizontal position the vertical face of the depending piece i on the said sacking
frame comes in contact with the vertical end of the piece k on the bracket d as
seen in Figure 6 and in the enlarged view Figure 8 and the descent of the sacking
frame beyond a horizontal plane is thereby prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention of "Improvements in berth for ships railway carriages and
other places"
:-
First: The stop and supporting arrangement of parts herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the accompanying drawings for preventing
the turned down sacking frame of the berth from descending below a horizontal
position and for supporting the sacking frame in that position the said stop and
supporting arrangement consisting essentially of the arm (on the end of the pin or
axis 6) projecting beyond the bracket d bearing against the inclined face of the rib g
on tho said bracket substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly-The modified arrangement of parts hereinbefore described and illustrated

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in Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the accompanying drawings for the same purposes,
said modified arrangement of parts consisting essentially of the depending piece i on
the sacking frame and near the pin or axis 6, bearing against the vertical face of a
piece on the inner face of the bracket substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the 31st day of July 1890.
JOHN OAKES HOLT.