Im- PROVEMENTS IN SPITTOONS FOR THE SEATS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES AND FOR OTHER SEATS
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Joshua Eustace and John
Bennett Spearing at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 15th September 1870.
We, JOHN JOSHUA EUSTACE, of the City of Cork, Ireland, Accountant,
and JOHN BENNETT SPEARING, of the City of Cork, aforesaid, Wine
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN SPITTOONS FOR THE SEATS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES AND FOR OTHER
SEATS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in constructing spittoons for the seats of
railway carriages and for other seats in the manner herein-after
described.
By the use of spittoons constructed according to our Invention the
accommodation and comfort of the passengers or persons using the seats
are increased without incommoding or interfering with the feet of the
said passengers or persons, and further the said spittoons are brought
into use and removed out of use at pleasure with ease and simplicity.
Our Invention consists principally in so constructing the said spittoons
that they are capable of a rotatory or oscillatory motion, for the purpose

page_text: of bringing them into a position for use or removing them from that
position.
We will describe our Invention as applied to the seat of the smoking
compartment of a railway carriage. We make the spittoon in two parts,
namely, of a supporting collar or ring and a bowl or vessel having
nearly the figure of the ordinary spittoon. The said supporting collar
or ring is provided with a vertical arm or axis, to the upper end of
which_a_handle is connected. The supporting collar or ring described
is fixed to the lower portion of the carriage seat by means of a socket
or bearing on the said seat, through which socket or bearing the vertical
When the spittoon
arm or axis of the supporting collar or ring passes.
has been fitted in the supporting collar or ring secured to the seat by
the socket or bearing described, the turning of the handle of the spittoon
in one or other direction causes the said spittoon to be rotated through
a portion of a circle so as to bring it either in front of or under the seat
of the carriage, that is to say, when the handle is turned to the right
the spittoon is brought in front of the seat and the said spittoon is
ready to be used, and when the handle is turned to the left the spittoon
is removed from the front to under the seat and out of the way of the
When the spittoon is in either of the
person occupying the seat.
positions described, the handle lies against the cushion of the carriage
scat. The front of the socket or bearing in which the spittoon revolves
We make
may be roughened for the purpose of striking matches on.
the supporting ring or collar and socket or bearing of metal, and we
make the separable bowl or vessel either of metal or some non-metallic
material. The separable bowl or vessel of the spittoon is removed from
the supporting collar or ring when it is required to be cleansed.
Revolving or oscillating spittoons constructed according to our
Invention, besides being applicable to the seats of railway carriages are
also applicable to the seats of smoking and billiard rooms and to other
seats.