An Improved Hollow Buoyant Block or Case, Especially Applicable for Use in the Construction of Ships, Boats, and other Floating Structures.
Year: 1887

page_text: An Improved Hollow Buoyant Block or Case, Especially Applicable
for Use in the Construction of Ships, Boats, and other Floating
Structures.
I, ANNIE MATILDA WOOD of 13 Delahay Street in the City of Westminster County
of Middlesex and of Firs Cottage East Sheen in the County of Surrey Gentlewoman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to buoyant blocks or cases for use in the construction of ships
and other vessels, life boats and other floating structures and, generally, for all such
purposes as the said blocks may be applicable.
The improvement consists in forming such blocks or cases as or of a closed chamber
of convenient shape, the walls of which are formed of any suitable material such as
woven flax hemp asbestos etc., canvas or the like with a covering surface, on the
outside or inside, or on both sides, of rubber or compound thereof or of a similar gum
or compound thereof.
The said case may be hollow or may be filled with some light or other material, such
as cork, spongy rubber, whalebone shavings hair, feathers cocoafibre or other suitable
matter I may also combine the rubber or gum or compound thereof with the fibrous
material of the casing in any suitable manner.
Did thin and day of November 1887

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hollow Buoyant Block or Case, Especially Applicable
for Use in the Construction of Ships, Boats, and other Floating
Structures.
I ANNIE MATILDA WOOD of 13 Delahay Street, in the City of Westminster County
of Middlesex, and Firs Cottage East Sheen in the County of Surrey Gentlewoman 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 invention relates to buoyant blocks or cases for use in the construction of ships
and other vessels, life boats and other floating structures and generally for all such
purposes as the said blocks may be applicable.
The improvement consists in forming such blocks or cases as or of a closed chamber of
convenient shape the walls of which are formed of any suitable material such as woven
flax, hemp, asbestos etc., canvas or the like with a covering surface on the outside or
inside or on both sides of rubber or compound thereof or of a similar gum or
compound thereof.
The said case may be hollow or may be filled with some light or other material such
as cork, spongy rubber whalebone shavings, hair, feathers, cocoafibre or other suitable
matter. I may also combine the rubber or gum or compound thereof with the fibrous
material of the casing in any suitable manner. Or in some cases I may abandon
the outer covering or envelope when the inside material is of a non absorbent
nature.
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
A buoyant block constructed substantially as described and for the purposa eat
forth.
forth.
Dated this 20th day of August 1888.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.