Improvements in Hammocks.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hammocks.
GEORGE PERRY 50 Mount Grove Birkenhead Cheshire Mechanic do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Hammocks are woven of web material or in. broad, with metal spreaders
bent at a curve, rove through web diamonds at ends of body of hammock, eyes in.
each end of spreaders, a in. rope being rove through eye of spreader over same
and back through eye again, then through diamonds of web forming outside edge
of body of hammock then through eye of spreader at the other end of hammock,
back over spreader and through eye again, a loop of rope being left 18 in. long
double, to form clew, then to be rove through eye at opposite end of spreader over
same and back through eye, along through edge diamonds at side of hammock, to
eye of spreader at reverse end of hammock through same, over spreader and.
through eye again the two ends of rope being brought togather and leaving a bight
of double rope 18 in. long outside of spreader to form clew.
Three pieces of double string 18 in. long ends of which are fastened to spreader
the string and rope togather forming clew, in the bight of which a metal eye is
secured by a collar of 1 webbing being sewn around the rope and string at base
of eye.
Clews at each end being similar.
Length of body of hammock 6 feet 5 in.
Total length to extreme of clews 9 feet 5 in.
Improvements in ammooks.
GEORGE PERRY 50 Mount Grove Birkenhead Mechanic 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:-
Hammock is woven of narrow web, or tape, material, openwork, forming a
diamond pattern, five sections of same material, run the entire length of hammock,
one of which is woven in down the centre of hammock, two others are woven in, on
each side of centre length section, equal distances apart, and dividing hammock
into six sections lengthwise, from rope on one side, to rope on opposite side. Web
material is sewn togather, with thread, or twine, at intersections. Galvanized
wrought iron (or other metal) spreaders (two feet nine inches long, slightly bent at
a curve, with oval eyes in each end of same) are rove through diamonds of web at
ends of haminock.
A small sized rope, is rove through eye at one end of spreader, taken back over
spreader and through same eye again, then along through diamonds forming outside
edge of hammock, through eye at end of spreader, at reverse end of hammock,
back over spreader, and through same eye again, a loop of rope left, eighteen
inches long, double part, then through eye at reverse end of same spreader, back
over spreader and through same eye again, along through diamonds forming outside

page_text: edge of hammock, then through eye at reverse end of spreader, from whence the
rove rope first started, back over sprender, and through same eye again, the two
ends of the rope being brought togather, and spliced, leaving n loop, eighteen
inches long and double, three pieces of strong string, eighteen inches long double,
are gathered up at their centre, togather with the rope, a galvanized wrought iron
eye, is fixed in the bight of enme, to allow of haminock being suspended thereby.
A galvanized iron, or web collar, is secured around rope and string at base of eye.
to keep same in its posisition, ends of string are secured to spreader.
String and rope at ends of hammock forming clews of same. Clews at each end
of hammock being alike.
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GEORGE PERRY.