IMPROVEMENTS IN LIFE BELTB
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Callistus Augustus Count de Goddes de Lian-
court, English Citizen, of No. 216, Queen's Road, Dalston, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LIFE
BELTB."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Callistus Augustus
Count de Goddes de Liancourt at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th July 1869.
I, CALLISTUS AUGUSTUS Count DE GODDES DE LIANCOURT, English
Citizen, of No. 216, Queen's Road, Dalston, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LIVE BELTS," to be as follows, reference being made on the accompanying
Drawings:-
Fig. I. is an empty box A, B, containing the belt; C is a hole to
admit Fig. II., and G shows a screw head resting on M, M, figuring
the top of the box A, B. .

page_text: Fig. II. is a head screw siphon; G represents the head; B, the screw;
C, C, the siphon; D, D, a spur.
Fig. III. is a section of a cap seen horizontally; C, the aperture
corresponding to G, Fig. I. & II.; B, B, is a groove round the cap.
Fig. IV. represents the whole surface of the cap, Fig. III., with C,
aperture to receive Fig. II.; B, B, the groove.
Fig. V. a cross bar; C, the aperture for head screw siphon, Fig. II.;
0, 0, cross bar, from end to end.
Ο,
Fig. VI. represents double expanding spirals EEEEEEEEE 0, 0,
Fig. V.; D, D, Fig. II., pressing on cross bar Fig. V., O, O.
Fig. VII. represents the hose B, made of cotton, cambric, silk, covered
with certain varnishes, skin, or india-rubber cloth, preferably to other
tissues, covering the expanding spirals, Fig. VI., attached to Figure III.;
B, B, the groove or corresponding, Figure IV., B, B; D, D, represents
Fig. II., pressing on O, O, cross bar, Fig. V.; G, dotted screw, Fig. II.;
M, M, the top of box, Fig. I.; F, F, shows the hose doubled or turned
over, after having been tied on the groove, Fig. III., B, B.
Fig. VIII. a section mounted showing G, head screw on M, M, the
top box, Fig. I.; C, C, the siphon of head screw passing through
Fig. III.; 0, 0, Fig. V., bringing the top spirals EA to caps, Fig. III.
& IV.
The loosening of Fig. II., screw head siphon, disentangles all the
component parts of the belt, excepting the hose B, Fig. VII., fixed in
the care of can Fio TIT
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 25
filed by the said Callistus Augustus Count de Goddes de Liancourt
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th January 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CALLISTUS
AUGUSTUS Count DE GODDES DE LIANCOURT, English Citizen, of
No. 216, Queen's Road, Dalston, in the County of Middlesex, send 30
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of

page_text: our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself; Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Callistus Augustus Count de Goddes
de Liancourt, Her special licence that I, the said Callistus Augustus
Count de Goddes de Liancourt, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Callistus Augustus Count de Goddes
de Liancourt, 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
make, 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 LIFE BELTS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Callistus Augustus Count de Goddes de Liancourt, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Callistus Augustus Count de
Goddes de Liancourt, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 to be called a "nautilus" or "swimming belt," and to.
be used by persons going to sea and to save life in case of shipwreck,
and is also applicable for assisting animals, such as horses, to swim and.
cross safely a river or an arm of the sea; and further to convert an
ordinary boat into a life boat by surrounding it inside or outside and
securing its permanent buoyancy, described as follows, reference being
made to the accompanying Drawings..
First. One, two, or more springing metallic coils, Fig. 1, A, A, each
from 20 to 40 in number, and from 8 to 20 inches circumference, to give.
a buoyancy from 15 to 30 lb., made chiefly of iron, tin, or steel,.
varnished to prevent rust, and united in one point of their circumference
Fig. 1B, A, and soldered to secure solidity, and in order to expand
regularly and not to be wrung.
Second. The said coils A, A, Fig. 1, inserted in a bag B, Fig. II.,
made either of a sheet of pure india-rubber vulcanized to preserve its

page_text: elasticity and free expansion, and not to be affected by known solvents.
nor by heat short of the vulcanizing, and capable of resisting a great
pressure in coming in contact with a rock which shatters a boat to atoms.
because it resists, and would spare a "nautilus" because it yields, or
with ordinary india-rubber cloth, skin, silk, cambric, or calico rendered.
impervious to water by application of varnish or oil..
Third. The bag B, Fig. II., being fixed by its extremities by strings
and solution of india-rubber on caps C, C, Fig. III., made either in iron,
wood, or papier mâché japanned and sinking in the groove G, Fig. IV.,.
where it is kept tight by the solution and strings.
Fourth. One of the caps C, C, Fig. III., having either a simple
hole D, Fig. V., from half an inch diameter with a cork..
Fifth. On the caps C, C, Fig. III., are inserted on each side a plain
screw head in metal Eb, E, Fig. VI. and Fig. X., the head of one E"
being a hook, the other E an eye, both screw heads passing through
the caps C; C; Fig. III., to catch the upper coils A, A, Fig. 1, of the
springs, and bringing them by the means of a cross bar F, Fig. VII.,
and under which cross bar it enters in a nut H, Fig. IX.
Sixth. One of the screw heads E, E, Fig. VI., may be used as a syphon,
being perforated through its length S, Fig. XI.,. and Eb; Fig. VI.,
serving as a stopper; in which case the hole D,. Fig. 3, is suppressed.
Seventh. The coils A, A, Fig. I., being double in size, and in a like
manner the bag B, B; Fig. II., and the caps C, C, Fig. III. The belt
may be applied for animals and boats.
Eighth. The whole machine being adjusted and elongated like an
accordian, and the cork in the hole D, Fig. V., or the hook of screw
head E, Fig. VI., screwed, the belt is self-inflated, and being placed
round the chest under the armpits the hooks Eb, E, Fig. VII., passed
in one another may be used.
Ninth. The bag B being distended by the coils C resists to compres-
sion, and the air has no tendency to escape. A hundred holes made in
the bag by the means of a pin of a good size would not allow the water
to enter in the bag, when the macintosh swimming belt is disabled by
the smallest puncture with the point of a needle. The nautilus may
remain months under the water after having been a hundred times
punctured without water entering.

page_text: Tenth. This nautilus is dismounted in one minute by cutting the
strings on the caps C, C, Fig. III., and the bags B, B, Fig. II., changed
or repaired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Callistus Augustus Count de Goddes
de Liancourt, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh
day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
DE G. LIANCOURT. (L.S..).