Construction of Camp Furniture and Boardship Card and Tea Tables on the Umbrella Principle.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 5th Nov, 1892:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
The Construction of Camp Furniture and Boardship Card and Tea
Tables on the Umbrella Principle.
WILLIAM NEVINSON MACDONALD COOKE, Lieutenant of the Indian Staff
Corps of 8 St. Pauls Street, Tiverion, Devon do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The furniture consisting of table, chair, washstand & basin, & bed open and close
on the umbrella principle.
Sheet I shows the table the top ribs being thus constructed & the top itself is
of split bamboo or light wood. For boardship fiddles can be constructed for the
table by diagonals placed at irregular intervals, fastening on to the table by a spring
& catch at each corner.
Sheet II sufficiently describes the chair, the seat is of coarse canvas fitting on
to the points A, B, C & D.
Sheet III. The bed is jointed at the centre of each side. The hinge & ring
together with the method of the centre by being hinged on to the ring is specially
drawn to an enlarged scale. Each of the other four legs is opened or closed by
means of the ring & rib which passes up & down the side to which it is hinged &
in which it fits.
Sheet IV shows the bath the diagonals being of split wood or bamboo sewn into
the canvas. The bath closes in the same way as the basin underneath but without
the centre rod.
The basin, shelf & legs of the washstand all close on the umbrella principle; the
ribs & rings being of metal the rest of bamboo or light wood.
The drawings are at a scale of one foot to an inch & the dotted lines show the
various parts as closed.
Dated this 18th day of January 1892.
W. N. M. COOKE,
Lieut., Indian Staff Corps.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
The Construction of Camp Furniture and Boardship Card and Tea
Tables on the Umbrella Principle.
WILLIAM NEVINSON MACDONALD COOKE, 8 St. Pauls Street, Tiverton,
Devonshire Lieutenant of the Indian Staff Corps 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 :-
The furniture consisting of any description of article to open & close on the
umbrella principle.
Sheet I shows a table.
Figure is the top in plan, F B being the ribs, A. the centre of the upright;
the dotted lines show the divisions between the pieces of split bamboo, lathes of
wood, etc. which form the top and are joined together by a piece of canvas, cloth
or green baize, nailed or glued on one side. The top is reversible & is fastened
by pieces of leather at each of the four corners to a pin at the end of each rib.
The top is also separate from the stand of the table.
Figure II shows the side view of the table open, with the top in position. The
ring T is of any metal as also the supports TQ & H-G: these latter fall into
position through two slots; thro' the centre of the upright A C, at right-angles,
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page_text: one above the other, having a ring at the point G, the two opposite rings are
fastened by a pin of metal or a boxwood-screw passed through a small hole in
the upright AC also at right angles to the slots thro' which the supports fall.
Figure III shows a section of the framework of the table closed &
Figure IV the same with the top round it & a handle & straps to carry
it by.
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Figure V shows the lower end of the table when closed, ready for carrying.
FAF&ECE are metal cross bars let into each end of the upright to prevent
the frame work slipping out of the top when it is packed for carrying.
Figure VI is the bottom of the table showing two feet in position & two
unopened.
Figure VII shews an alternative method of fastening the legs. A second ring is
placed on the upright & four metal rods, one end of each of which is fastened to, this
ring & the other end of each rod passes up & down a groove in each leg. At
the same distance as E' from this ring on each leg when lying flat, is a knuckle
joint which bends when the leg bends and is straightened to keep the leg in
position. This ring must be fastened in the same way as the other & there
must also be a pin or screw at the lower end each rod to fasten it to the leg.
Sheet II illustrates the chair.
Figure I shows the position of the legs under the scat: B C & C D are metal
rods which are further shown in Figures II & III.
without the seat.
Figure 1 shows the front view of the chair, when open,
Figure III shows the side view the metal rods. D' S, & G S will here be seen
to be kept in place by a metal screw S.
Figure IV shews the section AC F H with the seat C¹A' in position when
closed &
Figure shows the general appearance of the chair when closed; in this figure
the position of the seat is shown in chain dotted lines; it is hinged on the centre
leg at C & fits tight on to the upper ring A when the chair is open & rests on the
two outer legs.
There are two rings on the back leg marked in each figure as A & M. The
former moves the top horizontals A B, A C & A D as also the legs BE, CF, & DG,
but before these can be brought into either position, i.e. opened or closed, the
ring M, which is attached to the two outer legs by two metal rods fastened to the
legs at E & G must be moved either up the back leg to close the chair as in
Figures IV & V or down to open it as in Figures II & III. H' is an immovable
ring or metal band screwed on the back leg: H'E, H¹F, & H¹G being horizontals
working therefrom.
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When closed as in Figure V the metal bars B¹S, D'S, E'S & G'S are released
& fastened to the legs BE & D G by small leather straps.
Sheet III illustrates the bath & washstand & basin combined.
Figure 1 shows the bath open in plan A is a square piece of wood & A B, BD
are pieces of bamboo or lathes of wood forming the ribs & and the rest is
canvas.
Figures I & III show the same partly closed: the ribs are covered inside with
canvas which is drawn behind the ribs to be fastened.
Figures IV & V show the washstand & basin open & closed respectively. The
basin is constructed in the same way as the bath and is kept from closing by
the ring & supports. It may also be constructed quite separate, as the bath &
fastened to the stand by means of screws passing through ribs attached to the
stand & partially through the ribs of the basin. The small shelf E is of stretched
canvas.
In Figures III & V the canvas has not been drawn so as to show the ribs
more clearly.
The rings in each piece of furniture are fixed in position by a metal pin or
boxwood screw.
Any of these articles may be male, in metal or wood or in both combined

page_text: & this mode of construction may be applied to a camp bed, ward robe meat.
safe etc.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-.
tion and in what manner the same is said to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
1st. The construction of any article of camp or board ship furniture to open.
& close by means of a ring or rings moving up & down on a single pole: vis. on.
an umbrella principle..
Dated this Nineteenth day of September Eighteen hundred & ninety-two.
W. N. M. COOKE,
Lieut., Indian Staff Corps.