Improved Sleeping or Supporting Appliance for use in Railway Carriages and similar Vehicles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Sleeping or Supporting Appliance for use in Railway
Carriages and similar Vehicles.
A communication by ADALBERT KWIATOWSKI and LEOPOLD GLASER, both of
Wilda, near Posen, in the Empire of Germany, Landscape Gardener and
Manufacturer, respectively.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a sleeping cloth or appliance to enable travellers
during long journeys in the lower classes of railway carriages or the like to
provide for themselves in the simplest manner the comforts of higher classes of
carriages, and more particularly of sleeping carriages, and in this way to make a
long journey not only less wearisome but even to form a relaxation, whilst the
sleeping cloth may also be used for packing up travelling requisites.
On the accompanying drawing-
Figure 1 shows an inside view of the sleeping cloth ;
Figure 2 the outside view of the same;
Figure 3, the mode of using it in a third class railway carriage.
The arrangement of the sleeping cloth is as follows-
A cloth a of suitable material and dimensions is provided at its upper end with
adjustable straps or bands 6 having hooks c which cloth when in use is hooked in
a suitable manner and at a suitable height to the luggage rack of a railway
carriage (see Figure 3), in such a way that the upper part of the cloth hangs
vertically downwards, whilst the lower part lies flat on the seat m.
In order to assume a position of repose, the traveller seats himself on the part
of the cloth lying on the seat, rests one side against the hanging part of the cloth
and places his head in the attached loop f which is suitably shaped and padded,
and which has hooks g¹ engaging in suitable eyelets g to allow of its being
lengthened or shortened. In order to cover these, a protecting flap e is placed
over them, whilst the head itself rests against another padded piece d of the cloth a.
A loop serves to give a firm support to the arm which rests against the cloth.
If desired, the traveller could employ two such cloths a, arranging in a similar
manner one on each side of him and thus provide a still more comfortable position
for the body.
h
If the traveller does not wish to sleep in a sitting posture, he can lie at full
ength on the cloth after suitably lowering the same and rest his head against the
part which hangs vertically.
Figure 2 shows the outer side of the cloth arranged as a "hold-all" or wrapper
and for this object provided with cross straps i and longitudinal straps k for
securely binding the bundle when packed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is-
1. An improved sleeping or supporting appliance or cloth for the use of
ravellers in railway carriages or the like provided with a suitable adjustable
levice for attaching the same to the luggage rack of a railway carriage in such
way that a portion of the cloth hangs vertically downwards and the remainder
[Price 8d.]

page_text: lies on the seat, enabling the traveller by sitting on the lower part of the cloth to
give the same by his own weight a suitable position for supporting him substantially
as described and shown.
2. A sleeping appliance or cloth such as described in Claim 1 formed on the
inner side of the cloth with an adjustable loop f for the insertion of the head and
beneath the same a loop h for supporting one arm and having a suitable arrange-
ment of straps and buckles on the outer side of the cloth allowing of the same
being utilised for wrapping up travelling requisites substantially as described and
shown.
Dated this 28th day of October 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.