IMPROVEMENTS IN BLANKETS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Pryce Jones, of Newtown, in the County of Montgomery,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BLANKETS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Pryce Jones at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1876.
PRYCE JONES, of Newtown, in the County of Montgomery.
BLANKETS."
IMPROVEMENTS IN
My Invention relates more particularly to blankets such as are used for military
camps and such like purposes, and consists in so constructing such blankets that
one end of the same may be readily formed into a pillow or raised head rest without
thereby rendering the blanket more cumbersome for transport than an ordinary one.
For this purpose I make the blanket double, or partly so at one end, forming a.
closed receptacle which is lined with any suitable air-tight material, so that when
inflated or filled with water it constitutes a pillow or head rest forming part of the
blanket. The said receptacle or bag is provided with an inlet opening and valve
or screw plug of any suitable known construction such as are used for air or water
cushions, by which it can be filled or emptied of air or water when required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Pryce Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th December
1876.
PRYCE JONES, of Newtown, in the County of Montgomery.
BLANKETS,"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My Invention relates more particularly to blankets such as are used for military
camps and such like purposes, and consists in so constructing such blankets that
one end of the same may be readily formed into a pillow or raised head rest without
thereby rendering the blanket more cumbersone for transport than an ordinary
one. For this purpose I make the blanket double, or partly so at one end, forming

page_text: a closed receptacle which is lined with any suitable air-tight material, so that when
inflated or filled with water it constitutes a pillow or head rest forming part of the
blanket. The said receptacle or bag is provided with an inlet opening and valve
or screw plug of any suitable known construction, such as are used for air or water
cushions, by which it can be filled or emptied of air or water when required.
Fig. 1 of the Drawing shews a perspective view of a blanket constructed according
to my Invention; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.
The part at A is made double by sewing a piece of blanket to the under side,
and between the two thicknesses is inserted an air or water cushion B having a
screw nozzle C for filling or emptying it, the said cushion being entirely enclosed
in the blanket, so that when not required for use the cushion being quite flat as at
Fig. 1, the blanket has the appearance of an ordinary blanket, but when the
cushion is inflated or filled with water a pillow or raised head rest is formed at one
end, as shewn at Fig. 2.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, I claim making blankets double at one end with a lining of air
or water-tight material which can be inflated so as to form a pillow or head rest,
substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Pryce Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.