Improvements in Life-saving Appliances and the Fittings thereof.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 18 h Dec., 1890-Accepted, 28th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Life-saving Appliances and the Fittings thereof.
I, FREDERIC PELHAM WARREN, of East Court, Cosham, in the County of
Hants, Captain (retired) Royal Navy, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to the construction and fitting of certain portions of sea
going and other navigating vessels in such a manner that they may readily serve
the purpose of life saving appliances in case of the vessel sinking or capsizing.
For this purpose construct the gunwale mouldings, deck seats, paddle box
coverings and other ship fittings in portions fitted in framework in such a manner
that they may separately float off automatically from vessels plying in narrow
waters, on lakes, estuaries and rivers, or may readily be released for floating off
from sea going ships to which they are necessarily secured sufficiently to obviate
their accidental release by the action of rough seas washing on board.
Each separate portion forms in itself an independent life buoy being fitted with
rope loops by which it may be grasped by one or two persons according to the
buoyancy provided by suitably hollowing the portion in the course of construction
from any suitable materials preferably such as the paper pulp, papier maché, wood
fibre or wood pulp treated by the application of or by compounding with varnish or
other waterproofing material in the manner described in the Specification of Letters
Patent No. 8272 granted to me and dated the 9th day of June 1887.
Dated this 17th day of March 1800
FREDERIC DELHIM
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Life-saving Appliances and the Fittings thereof.
I, FREDERIC PELHAM WARREN, of East Court, Cosham, in the County of
Hants, Captain (retired) Royal Navy, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to he perforined, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the construction and fitting of certain portions of sea
going and other navigating vessels in such a manner that they may readily serve
the purpose of life saving appliances in case of the vessel sinking or capsizing.
For this purpose I construct the gunwale mouldings, deck seats and other ships
fittings in portions fitted in framework in such a manner that they may separately
float off automatically from vessels plying in narrow waters, on lakes, estuaries and
rivers or may readily be released for floating off from sea going ships to which they
are necessarily secured sufficiently to obviate their accidental release by the action
of rough seas washing on board.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a plan of a ship deck showing the position of the floatable portions to
be employed in cases of emergency as life saving appliances.
Figure 2 represents a portion of the floatable gunwale in position.
Figure 3 represents a portion of the floatable gunwale floating out from its
fittings.
Figure 4 represents separately one of the buoys a number of which are retained
in position to float from capsized deck seats.
Figure 5 represents a deck seat retaining in position a number of life buoys.
Figure 6 shows the seat represented in Figure 5 capsizing and releasing the life
buoys retained thereby when in an upright position.

page_text: Figure 7 represents a deck seat from which the seat itself will float away in case
of the ship sinking or capsizing the seat forming a raft supported by several buoys
secured in position.
Each separate portion of the gunwale A forms an independent life buoy being
fitted with rope loops B by which it may be grasped by one or two persons according
to the buoyary provided by suitably hollowing the portion in the course of
construction f any suitable materials preferably such as the paper pulp, papier
maché, wood fin. rwood pulp treated by the application of, or by compounding
with varnish or r waterproofing material in the manner described in the
Specification of Letters Patent numbered 8272 granted to me and dated the 9th day
of June 1887.
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The floatable gunwale A constructed in the manner described with reference to
Figures 2 and 3 is free to float away from the ship in case of sinking but for sea
going ships the separate portions of the gunwale should be secured to their fittings
by buttons o: books or other simple fastening which may readily be released in
case of emergicy.
The deckats marked C in the plan Figure 1 may be of the kind represented
in Figure 5 consisting of an ornamental deck seat beneath which are held in
position a number of the life buoys represented by Figure 4 so as to be free to float
out from underneath when the seat becomes capsized as represented in Figure 6 or
they may be made as represented in Figure 7 the seat proper D having several of
the life boys as represented by Figure 4 securely fastened thereunder causing the
seat D to fle out from the framework E and constitute a life raft.
Having no
tion, and in
claim is :-
particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
hat manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
The construction of detachable portions of ships fittings and seats to float away
from a ship when sinking, in the form of life buoys or life rafts substantially as
described.
Dated this 18th day of December 1890.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.