Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 30th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887.
We, FREDERICK HORATIO STREET, Master Mariner, of St. George Road, Hull, and
CHARLES ELLIS, grocer, of Selby Street, Hull, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements upon or relating to the Invention
described in our Application for Letters Patent No. 9828, of 1886, Dated the
30th day of July, 1886, the special object of the present improvements being to
increase the rigidity of the collapsible berths or beds described in our said Specification
when in their opened or distended position, in such cases as may be required.
To this end, the Invention consists in applying to the underpart of the sides or
divisions between the beds or berths projecting buttons hooks or like devices, which
are intended to be turned under the lattice work forming the bottom of the bed or
berth, and to support the same, and so prevent it from sagging.
We apply similar devices to the ends or what may be termed the head and foot of
the beds or berths, and in some cases this enables us to dispense with the bars used at
the head and foot, and we also propose to hook the lattice work on to the stanchions
by rings hooks or similar means.
We also propose to support the lattice work with plain or angle iron bars when
more advantageous to do so instead of using such means as herein before described for
such purpose.
Such improvements can be applied to beds or berths of the collapsible nature
described in our said Specification, whether used on shore in barracks, hospitals,
dormitories or other places where space is required for other than sleeping purposes,
as well as for ships, and the beds or berths can be arranged in rows or in tiers or
singly as required.

page_text: The stanchions may be made of any required height so as to reach to the upper
deck (when applied between decks) or any shorter distance, and instead of being
suspended they may be made with squared sockets or bottoms and screwed to the
deck floor.
The lattice work may be applied in single removable sections when applying the
same to mid-ship or other places, and by applying a single section or sections with
such improvements as are herein described, we are enabled to fix one or more beds
singly or otherwise in any part of the ship or room as may be required.
Dated this 1st day of November 1886.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.
We, FREDERICK HORATIO STREET, Master Mariner of St. George Road, Hull, and
CHARLES ELLIS, Grocer, of Selby Street, Hull, do hereby declare the nature of our said
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 relates to certain improvements in beds or berths for use on board
ship and elsewhere, and comprises improvements upon or relating to the Invention
described in the Specification of former Letters Patent, No. 9828, granted to us on
the 30th day of July, 1886, the special object of the present improvements being to
increase the rigidity of the beds or berths to which our improvements appertain, when
in their opened or distended position.
The improvements constituting the present Invention, are illustrated on the
accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1. represents a sectional transverse elevation
of a bed or berth adapted with such improvements; Fig. 2. represents a sectional

page_text: plan view thereof; Figs. 3. represent plan views of a modification hereinafter
described; and Fig. 4. represents a sectional elevation of another modification.
In carrying out the present improvements, we construct the bottom, 5, of the bed
or berth of metal lattice-bars, 6, rivetted together at their intersections, 7, in such a
manner as that the said bottom is removable as a whole from its supporting parts,
and when removed is collapsible in the manner in which ordinary lattice-work is
collapsible, and we support the lattice bottom of the bed by parts, 8, which are applied
to the under part of the sides of or side divisions, 9, between the beds or berths, and
are intended to be turned about their centres under the inner joints of the lattice
bottom vide Fig. 4, and the dotted lines in Fig. 2, in such, a manner as to support the
same, and prevent the bottom from sagging. We apply similar devices to the end
supporting bars or what may be termed the head and foot ends, 10, of the beds or
berth which enables us to dispense with the bars at the head and foot as formerly
used by us, and to which the lattice bottom was connected by rings or sliding
connections.
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When supporting the lattice bottom, 5, by such or equivalent means, 8, the side and
end supporting frames, 9, 10, may be made as plain bars vide Fig. 4.
The lattice-bottom, may, however, be hooked on to the said side and end
frames, 9, 10, and if required on to appropriately shaped parts projecting from the
stanchions, 11, by which the side and end frames, 9, 10, are supported as hereinafter
described.
According to another modification, we support the lattice bottom, 5, upon the
table of or L-iron bars, 9, 10, preferably using L-iron bars (vide the left hand
side of Fig. 2.) when constructing single beds or berths, and using 1-iron bars
(vide the right hand side of Fig. 2.) when constructing adjacent series of beds or
berths. In such modification, the outer joints of the lattice bottom rest upon the
inner projecting table part of the supporting bars, 9, 10.
The supporting stanchions, 11, are preferably made of tubular iron with square
bottoms or feet, 12, which can be securely screwed to the deck or floor; they may
be made of any required height so as to reach the upper deck (when applied
between decks) or of any less height.
The top and bottom bars of the side and end frames, 9, 10, are supported by
the stanchions by top and bottom series of flanged collars, 13, which are shrunk or
pinned upon the stanchions, and the upper series of which are slotted or notched
at, 18, in such a manner as that the correspondingly notched or slotted ends of the
top bars of the side and end frames can be engaged therewith and thereby retained
in position, the flanged parts of the bottom of such frames being formed with holes
or recesses, 14, which engage with pins, 15, projecting from the bottom series of
collars, 13, and being retained in position thereby.
The top and bottom bars of the frames, 9, 10, are respectively connected by vertical
rails, 16, pivotted thereto at, 17, and when such frames are removed from the stanchions
they can be collapsed or closed together after the manner of a parallel ruler, so that
when the beds or berths are taken apart the said component parts thereof can be
readily packed into a comparatively small compass.
When setting up the beds in adjacent series the supporting stanchions, 11, need
only be used at intervals of say every three beds or berths, and in such event the head
and foot frames, 10, for such series of three beds or berths would extend between
the adjacent stanchions, the top bars of the side frames, 9, engaging with like
slotted or notched supports, 18, projecting from the top bars of the end frames, 10,
and the table parts of the bottom bars of the side frames being cut away so that the
root or web parts thereof can rest upon the flange or table parts of the end frames and
be supported thereby.
By means of such improvements, we are enabled to readily fix or set up our improved
beds or berths (which are especially applicable for use in ships, barracks, hospitals,
3 dormitories, or other places where the space occupied by the beds is occasionally
required for other than sleeping purposes) singly, or in series, or in vertical rows or
tiers, in any part of the ship or elsewhere as may be required.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
The herein before described improvements in or applicable to the construction of
collapsible beds or berths, the same consisting in :-
1. The use in combination, of the removable collapsible lattice-bottom, 5, with the
supporting parts, 8, and plain supporting side and end frames, 9, 10, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2. The use in combination of the removable collapsible bottom, 5, with the
supporting or 1-iron side and end frames, 9, 10, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
3. The stanchions, 11, adapted with the slotted or notched and studded or pinned
collars, 13, in combination with the collapsible side and end frames, 9, 10, substantially
as herein before described.
4. The use in combination, of the collapsible bottom, 5, collapsible side and end
frames, 9, 10, and supporting stanchions, 11, substantially as herein before described.
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DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.