A Ships sidelight and for Saloons State rooms Deck
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan. 1897
Complete Specification Left, 15th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 31st July, 1897.
I, GAVIN SMITH, of East Side Tyne Dock South Shields Engineer and Ship
Repairer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
A Ships sidelight and for Saloons State rooms Deck houses &c in brass iron
Steel &c. with glass-circle-holder-frame, with axial or reciprocal concentric motion,
engaging with 4 angled brackets, formning screw or wedge fastening, hinged &
secured upon coned pivot for opening and closing.
Improved ring without screw, to secure glass and with equally distributed
pressure, forming joint between glass and main frame, upon rubber only, thus
dispensing with red lead or other jointings.
Glass circle acting direct upon rubber joint in main frame with equal pressure all
round thus preventing glasses being broken as before, and rendering leakage
impossible, glasses refitted by any unskilled labor in place & without tools.
A sliding arrangement to secure holder frame in closed position, requiring tool to
open when necessary.
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Improvements in Ships' Side Lights and the nxU,
I, GAVIN SMITH, of East Side, Tyne Dock, South Shields, Engineer and Ship
Repairer, 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 object, the construction of combined light and air port
frames for hulls, cabins, saloons, state rooms, déck houses, and other like bodies in
or on a vessel, also to a novel hinge joint and to means for opening and closing the
glazed frames thereof, the particulars or details of which will be clearly understood
by reference to the annexed drawings having regard to the following description.
Figure 1 inside face view of air port frame with the glass carrying frame partly in
section to show the novel joint upon which said frame is fitted for being opened and
closed.
Figure 2 section on the line a, a, Figure 1.
Figure 3 plan of air port frame and with sufficient of the glass carrier frame
thrown open.
Figure 4 sectional elevation or plan of air port frame to show annular recess for
reception of rubber cushion and taken through line b, b, of Figure 5 which is an

page_text: inside face view of the air port frame, as at Figure 1, but showing the hinge joint
disconnected and the side light frame or glass carrier turned axially for fixing it in
a closed condition by the lugs and inclined lips of air port frame brackets.
Figure 6 face elevation of one of the angle-edged brackets:
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A, air port frame with central cone shaped opening A¹ facing the water or outside
of cabin, saloon, state room, deck house, or other like forms of air port. B, lug
projecting from inner face of said 'frame A within or to which the conical shaped
pintle C can be secured, said pintle having a couple of annular grooves D, D, formed
in its cone for the reception of two engaging pins E which prevent any nefarious
removal. These pins are passed through the hinge gudgeon F of the side light
frame or glass carrier G when said carrier G has to be swung open as on a hinge
joint. H, H, are four brackets with inclined or angle-edged lips H₁ on the inside
face of the frame A, under and against which, lugs I, I, of the side light frame or
glass carrier can become engaged and be wedged into position when closed to and
secured by a radial turn to the position shown at Figure 1 from that shown at
Figure 5, the lugs I, I, being then disengaged from under the brackets H; and the
pins E, E, from the grooves D, D, of the pintle, where a portion of the circumference
is cut away and left flat in order that the pins E, E, may escape and travel as per the
dotted lines J, J; Figure 5.
The front face of the air port frame A has an annular groove for the reception of
rubber cushion K, the forward edge of which projects sufficiently for the glass L of
the side light frame G to hear against with equal pressure at all parts to resist the
passage of air or water, the hinge being so fitted that all parts of glass and rubber
edges are in contact before the axially or concentric reciprocal motion can take place,
this being actually effected simultaneously with the release of the gudgeon F from
the pintle C, the wedging up following by a continued travel of the lugs I, I, under
the brackets H, the inclined lips of which ensure the bite and the necessary
compression of the rubber K.
The glass L is held within the side light frame or carrier & by a back p'ate
fixable by bayonet joints, lug screws M. passed into the lugs I, I, or in other suitable
manner. The frame G can be readily moved round by hand pressure exerted on
and against the knobs N, N, thus rendering mechanical appliances unnecessary for
the purpose.
In practice, the wedging round will be sufficient to hold the frame G safe and
secure but if extra security be required the gudgeon F may have a forked prong P
projecting concentrically to engage over a screw stud standing up from the bracket,
as indicated, and the two. can be locked by a fly nut Q, or by other appliance, as
desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The construction of Ships' air ports and side lights for same, as and in the
manner described and substantially as represented on the annexed drawings for the
purposes explained.
2. In Ships' side lights of air ports whether of the hull of a Ship, of a cabin, a
saloon, a state room, a deck house, or the like on or of a Vessel, so making the
glass carrier that it may have an axial reciprocal concentric movement for the fixing
and unfixing of it by the means or appliances as set forth and shown on the annexed
drawings.
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The fath day of April 1897.
H. GARDNER,
166 Fleet Street, London, Patent Agent.
Agent for the said Gavin Smith.