An Improved Combination Article for Use as an Arm Rest or a Table in Railway Carriages, and as a Handle for Carrying Parcels.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th. Aug., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination Article for Use as an Arm Rest or a
Table in Railway Carriages, and as a Handle for Carrying
Parcels.
ARTHUR JOHNSON DANYELL late Captain H.M. 31st Regiment now residing
at 6 Vin Serragli, Florence, Italy do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
The traveller's rest consists of a kind of swinging tray which can be hooked to
the shelf for small parcels, above the heads of travellers in railway carriages, so
that when a corner place has not been secured, a traveller having hooked this
swinging tray to the shelf above, can, as a change of position, lean forward, resting
his elbows on the tray; and also, if he likes, open it as one does a book, thus
gaining more room to place either a travelling lamp, or lay out refreshments as
much needed as rest during a long journey.
Moreover the above serves as a handle for carrying a bundle of wraps, sticks &c.
as the two straps by which it is afterwards slung from the shelf, may be used to
strap together wraps, umbrella &c.
Dated this First day of December 1893.
ARTHUR JOHNSON DANYELL.
COME DETE
An Improved Combination Article for Use as an Arm Rest or a
Table in Railway Carriages, and as a Handle for Carrying
Parcels.
ARTHUR JOHNSON DANYELL late Captain H.M. 31st Regiment now residing
at No. 6 Via Serragli, Florence, Italy, 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 improved combination article consists of a swinging tray which can be
booked to the rod supporting netting or shelf for small parcels, above the heads of
travellers in railway carriages, so that when a corner place has not been secured
a traveller having hooked this swinging tray to the shelf above, can as a change of
position, lean forward, resting his elbows on the tray, and also if he likes have a
place whereon to put a travelling lamp, book, or refreshments.
Moreover the above serves as a handle for carrying a bundle of wraps, sticks &c.,
as the two straps by which it is afterwards slung from the netting, or shelf, may be
used to strap together wraps, umbrella, sticks &c. as shown in the sketches which
accompany this.
The shape of the arm rest may be either a simple round wooden stick, 24 inches
long and 14 inches in diameter, with two holes near either end through which the
straps to suspend it are passed; or it may be shaped like two rackets, that is to
say flat, and rounded at each end, and narrowing in the middle so as to form a
handle to carry wraps; in this shape it is 24 inches long, made of wood inch
thick, and 4 inches wide at the broad ends where 4 holes are cut to put the straps
through, and it is 14 inch wide at the center or the arm rest may be formed by
a long narrow box or basket of any dimensions such as 24 inches long, 3 inches

page_text: high and six inches broad, in which might be packed refreshments, bottle, glass,
knife & fork, or travelling lamp. It has a handle at the top to carry it when
it is strapped together with wraps, and when used as an elbow rest, the handle
is folded down when the box is suspended by the straps which pass through
loops in the sides, front and back, of the box, or basket. The straps which are
of strong leather, inch wide, when no longer used to carry wraps, sticks, &c.
which can be put in the netting, are passed first through the holes of the metal
hooks (each 3 inches high with hook of 1 inch diameter), and then through
one hole of the board, or loop of box, and passing under the same, and up
through the other hole it meets the buckle end and so can be adjusted to any
height at which it may thus form an elbow rest, or place whereon to put, and use,
a travelling lamp, book or refreshments.
The features of this novelty are, that it affords a rest and change of position for
a traveller, who has not secured a corner place in a railway carriage.
This invention can be applied and used in railway carriages as they are at
present made.
In the drawings I have sent of my invention-
Figure 1 shows my invention with a luncheon box attached to the straps, on
which refreshment is being taken.
Figure 2. The same idea is carried out with simply a wooden tray shaped like
a racket, suspended from the leather straps, on which it is possible to write with
ease in spite of the movement of the train.
Figure 3 gives an example of the simple form of my invention, as a round
stick alone is suspended from the leather straps, which is sufficient to rest a book
upon.
Figure 4 represents the luncheon box which in Fig. 1 is open and in use,
strapped up with rug and umbrellas.
Figure 5 represents the simpler form of my invention. The tray shaped like a
racket, strapped up with rug and umbrellas.
Figure 6 shows the simplest form of all, of my invention in which a round stick
alone is used-strapped up with rug and umbrellas.
Figure 7 and Figure 8 are drawings of the hooks used in suspending my invention
to the shelf of the railway carriage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is-
An improved combination article for use as an arm rest or table in railway
carriages and as a handle for carrying parcels as herewith described and
illustrated.
August 29th 1894.
C. J. DANYELL,
For Capt. A. J. Danyell.