IMPROVEMENTS IN 30
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Timothy White, of Landport, Portsmouth, Lead,
Glass, Oil, and Color Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
30
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Timothy White at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th December 1854.
I, TIMOTHY WHITE, of Landport, Portsmouth, Lead, Glass, Oil, and Color
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CONSTRUCTING PORTABLE HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES " to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists of peculiar means of combining sheet iron with
bars of iron or frames of bar iron, by which great facilities will be offered
in putting up, taking down, and packing in comparatively small compass.
For this purpose, by preference, open frames of bar iron are made, which are
connected together by screw bolts and nuts. The sheets of iron of the sizes
of the frames have their edges turned up, so as to pass between the outer bars
of two neighbouring frames, and they are nipped and held between them,
there being a strip of vulcanized india-rubber, felt, or other packing introduced
to make the joint air and water tight; or, in place of the sheets of iron being

page_text: bent at the edges, they may be made to overlap one another, and be held in
each case between the bars of iron, fastened together by screw bolts and nuts,
the joints, as in the former case, being made weather-tight by introducing
packing, as above stated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Timothy White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th June 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, TIMOTHY
WHITE, of Landport, Portsmouth, Lead, Glass, Oil, and Color Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Timothy White, Her special licence that I, the said Timothy White,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Timothy White, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might nake, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CONSTRUCTING PORTABLE HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Timothy White, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and scal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Timothy White, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
This Invention consists of peculiar means of combining sheet iron with
bars of iron or frames of bar iron, by which great facilities will be offered in

page_text: this purpose, by preference; open frames of bar iron are made, which are
connected together by screw bolts and nuts. The sheets of iron of the sizes of
the frames have their edges turned up, so as to pass between the two outer bars
of two neighbouring frames, and they are nipped and held between them, there
being a strip of vulcanized india-rubber, felt, or other packing introduced to
make the joint air and water tight; or, in place of the sheets of iron being bent
at the edges, they may be made to overlap one another, and be held in each
case between the bars of iron, fastened together by screw bolts and nuts, the
joints, as in the former case, being made weather-tight by introducing packing,
as above stated.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a frame such as I employ, and I prefer to make such
frames, when for the front, back, or ends of a house or building, of a height
corresponding with the height of the building from the ground to the roof, and
I make similar rectangular frames for forming the roof, each such frame being
of a length suitable for part of the roof, as shown at Figure 2, where one
series of frames are shown put together, forming part of the front, back, and
roof of a building, and the several frames a, b, c, d, may be hinged together or
otherwise connected. When using plates or sheets of iron or of other material
with these frames, the plates or sheets are turned up at their edges, as shown at
Figure 3, where two such plates are shown as being held between the two side
rails of a frame, such as is shown at Figure 1, the frames and the sheets or
plates, whether of iron or other material, being held together by means of
screw bolts and nuts or hinges, as shown, the joint being made water and
air proof when desired by a strip of vulcanized india-rubber, felt, or other
substance placed between the turned-up edges of the plates or sheets. In
place of having the plates or sheets which cover the frames turned up at the
edges, they may be fixed to the frames, whether of iron or other material, so
as to overlap at one edge; hence, when the frames are brought and fixed
together by screw bolts and nuts or hinges, the edges of the plates or sheets
will overlap each other, and when desired, by placing a strip of vulcanized
india-rubber or other substance between each of the joints, the same will be
rendered water and air tight.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would have it

page_text: understood that what I claim is, the construction of portable houses and other
buildings and structures by combining frames and plates or sheets as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Timothy White, have hereunto. set my
hand and seal, this Second day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
RICHARD MASON WOOD.
TIMOTHY WHITE. (L.S.)