Improvements in Folding and Portable Velocipede Sheds, Tool or Out Houses, and similar Erections.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 19th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding and Portable Velocipede Sheds, Tool or
Out Houses, and similar Erections.
I, GEORGE YATE ASHWELL, of 23, Barrowgate Road, Chiswick, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is so to arrange and construct a wooden shed or house
capable of accommodating a velocipede or to act as a tool house or for any analogous
purpose that the same can be folded into smaller compass for transport or when
stocked say for sale in a shop or other premises where space is limited and
can be readily opened out and erected at its destination by unskilled labour.
In performing my invention I construct my improved shed with the sides of the
desired length and height and to the extremities of these sides or to rails running
along them the parts forming the ends are hinged so as to fold back against the sides.
These ends are divided vertically down the centre and are there hinged together so
that in folding the ends inwards the two sides are brought into close contact and so
Occupy little compass as aforesaid. The boards constituting the floor of the shed are
hinged half to the one side and half to the other side and thus are capable of being
folded back previous to the ends being folded inwards as aforesaid. To keep the ends
distended I employ a pair of stretchers one for stretching out the bottom and the
other the top parts of the hinged end pieces. The top or roof of this improved
structure may be hinged together longitudinally in two parts and opened to any
desired angle so as to form a gable roof or may be in one piece and sloped or arranged
horizontally upon the top of the folding shed. The roof may also be hinged to the
sides or be in a separate piece.
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JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding and Portable Velocipede Sheds, Tool or
Out Houses, and similar Erections.
I, GEORGE YATE ASHWELL, of 23, Barrowgate Road, Chiswick, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement: --
The object of this invention is so to arrange and construct a shed or house capable
of accommodating a velocipede or to act as a tool house or for any analogous purpose
that the same can be folded into smaller compass for transport or when stocked say for
sale in a shop or other premises where space is limited and can be readily opened out
and erected at its destination by unskilled labour.
And in order that my said invention may be more readily understood and carried
into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a drawing illustrative of my invention
and will now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the several Figures
and letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig: 1 represents a perspective view Fig. 2 a cross section and Fig. 3 a plan
view of a folding and portable house constructed in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the roof portion and Fig. 5 shews an end view and
Fig. 6 a longitudinal or side view of the same folded for transport. Fig. 7 represents a.
plan view of the house portion folded into its smallest compass.

page_text: In performing my invention I construct my improved house or shed of wood, canvas
(on frame) sheet metal or any other suitable material with the sides a a of the desired
length and height and to the extremities of these sides or to rails running along them-
the parts b forming the ends are hinged by hinges so as to fold back or inwards
against the said sides. These ends bb are divided vertically down the centre and are
there hinged together by hinges & so that in folding the ends inwards the two sides
are brought into close contact (as seen in Fig. 7) and so occupy little compass as
aforesaid. The boards constituting the floor of the shed are hinged by hinges e half
to one side and half to the other side and thus are also capable of being folded_back
previous to the ends being folded inwards. To keep the ends distended I employ a
pair of removable stretchers / / shewn separately in Fig. 8 one for stretching out
the bottom and supporting the floor and the other the top parts of the hinged end
pieces. The top or roof of this improved structure may be hinged together longi-
tudinally in two parts by hinges and opened to any desired angle so as to form a
gable roof or may be in one piece and sloped and arranged horizontally upon the top
of the folding shed. The roof may also be hinged to the sides or be in a separate
piece. The door i is shewn hinged in two halves to one of the ends but could be
equally well applied in either of the sides.
In this manner I construct a folding and portable house or structure suitable
for a bath chair, perambulator, bicycle or tricycle or as a summer or green-
house as a contractors hut, bathing cabin or for any analogous purpose.
Having thus 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:-
1st. The improved arrangement and construction of folding and portable structure
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.
2nd. In the construction of a folding and portable structure the employment of ends
formed in halves hinged together and to the extremities of the sides in combination
with a floor formed in halves and hinged to the sides substantially as and for the
purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
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JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.