Improvements in Camp Stools and Chairs for Use on Ship-board.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 26th Oct., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Camp Stools and Chairs for Use on Ship-board.
I, ARCHIBALD STEWART of 42 Union Street in the City of Glasgow Cabinet
maker and Upholsterer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide in conjunction with camp stools and
chairs for use on shipboard life saving appliances which will not interfere with the
free use of the stools or chairs and which will be at once available for the purpose of
preventing loss of life by drowning in the event of foundering or accident to the
vessel provided with them. To that end I secure upon the canvas or other fabric
composing the seats or the seats and backs of camp stools and chairs strips or pieces of
cork in a manner analogous to that in which life saving cork jackets are formed; or I
form the seats or seats and backs of the stools and chairs of bags of rubber or similar
material the bags being inflated with air or other gas to serve both as cushioning for
the stools and chairs and as means for ensuring flotation in water.
Dated this Twentysecond day of December 1887.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Camp Stools and Chairs for Use on Ship-board.
I ARCHIBALD STEWART of 42 Union Street in the City of Glasgow, Cabinet-
maker and Upholsterer 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 to provide in conjunction with camp stools and
chairs for use on ship-board life saving appliances which will not interfere with the
free use of the stools or chairs and which will be at once available for the purpose of
preventing loss of life by drowning in the event of foundering or accident to the
vessel provided with them. To that end I secure upon the canvas or other fabric
composing the seats or the seats and backs of camp stools and chairs strips or pieces
of cork in a manner analogous to that in which life saving cork jackets are formed, or
I form the seats or seats and backs of the stools and chairs of bags of rubber or similar
material the bags being inflated with air or other gas to serve both as cushioning for
the stools and chairs and as means for ensuring flotation in water.
As
In the accompanying drawings figure 1 is a perspective view of a camp stool and
figure 2 a similar view of a chair constructed in accordance with my invention whilst
figure 3 shows the chair as in the act of being used to assist flotation in water.
there represented the seat of the stool is composed of canvas enclosing pieces of cork
or similar light material and the chair seat or combined seat and back is formed in
like manner whilst the arm straps of the chair are also lined with cork to give extra
buoyancy.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is: