Improvements in Portable Booths.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application. 10th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Mar., 1892-Accepted. 30th Apr., 1802
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Booths.
I, CHARLES FRED HODSDON, of 738 Water Street, in the City of New York,
State of New York, United States of America, Merchant and Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a portable booth for telephonic purposes
which shall be sound proof.
My improved booth is adapted to fold compactly and can be readily moved from
place to place, it can be readily set up or taken down, and can be more or less
ornamental in appearance so as to be acceptable for office and store use, and the
said booth is adapted to contain a telephone instrument, which can be used without
the liability or risk of conversation within being heard outside, and without outside
surrounding noises disturbing or interfering with the use of the telephone
instrument.
I employ two sets of hinged folding sections adapted to set one within the other
to form the inner and outer walls of the booth, with a space between the parts to
form a dead air space that will be a non-conductor of sound. These sections rest
upon a floor in which there are grooves to receive the lower edges of said sections
and removable roofs, or covers having grooved under surfaces are employed on top
of the sections, the outer cover being above the immer cover so that a dead air
space is formed between the said covers.
The respective ends of the sections are preferably each in two parts hinged
together to fold inwardly, and the respective fronts and backs of the sections are
Linged at their vertical edges to the end sections, and the front portions each have
a door, and the doors are adjacent to each other and can be opened successively.
My improved booth is preferably longer than wide, and the respective sections
are made as frames with panels, which may be of wood work or similar material
in whole or part, or in part of glass or other ornamental material.
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1001
ERNEST DE
PASS,
78, Fleet Street, London, E.C., and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Booths.
I, CHARLES FRED HODSDON, of 738 Water Street, in the City of New York
State of New York, United States of America, Merchant and Manufacturer, 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 object of my invention is to provide a portable booth for telephonic purposes
which shall be sound proof.
My improved booth is adapted to fold compactly and can be readily moved
from place to place, it can be readily set up or taken down, and can be more or less
ornamental in appearance so as as to be acceptable for office and store use, and the
said booth is adapted to contain a telephone instrument, which can be used without.
the liability or risk of conversation within being heard outside, and without

page_text: Having now 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:
First. A portable wooden booth composed of an outer and smaller inner wall
made up of hinged folding sections, a bottom or floor to receive and support the
same, and separate tops or covers to the respective walls, whereby a complete dead
air space is formed around and above the inner wall for the purposes and
substantially as set forth.
Second. The combination with the two sets of hinged folding sections forming
the outer and inner walls, of the bottom or floor having two parallel grooves to
receive said walls, and the covers or tops o, o', having grooved under surfaces to
set upon the said walls whereby a dead air space is formed all around, substantially
as set forth.
Third. The combination in a portable wooden booth of two complete enclosures
one within the other, each having sides, a swinging door, and a separable top, and
one separable bottom, having grooves to receive the lower edges of the sides of the
respective enclosures, substantially as specified.
Dated this 28th day of March 1892.
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.