Improvements in Safety Appliances or Devices for Station Platforms, Dock or Pier Walls, or other Places where Persons might Accidentally Fall Off in the Dark.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Appliances or Devices for Station Platforms,
Dock or Pier Walls, or other Places where Persons might
Accidentally Fall Off in the Dark.
I, ROBERT LAWSON, of 19, Rawcliffe Road, Walton, in the County of
Lancaster, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
At the present time it is not uncommon to whitewash the edges of piers, plat-
forms and the like so that they may be more conspicuous and people therefore
are less liable to walk over them. Whitewash however soon wears out and is
unsightly.
My invention consists in inlaying into or near the edge of the platform, a line of
white material. This material can be marble or other white stone, a white cement,
or a cement having luminous pigment mixed up with it.
Dated the 23rd day of July 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Appliances or Devices for Station Platforms,
Dock or Pier Walls, or other Places where Persons might
Accidentally Fall Off in the Dark.
I, ROBERT LAWSON of 19 Rawcliffe Road, Walton in the County of Lancaster,
Commercial Traveller, 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 :-
At the present time the edges of piers, railway platforms, dock walls and the
like are frequently chalked or whitewashed to render them conspicuous so as to
prevent people stepping over them as they are liable to do when it is dark or in
places such as the stations of underground railways. Chalk or whitewash however
soon wears off and is unsightly. Now my invention consists in inlaying into or
near the edge of platforms, dock walls, etcetera, a border of material preferably
white. This material can be marble or other white stone a white cement, or a
cement having luminous pigment mixed up with it.
On the accompanying drawings:
Figures 1 and 2 represent a plan and vertical section respectively of a platform
constructed according to my invention.
In these
A, is the ordinary stone coping and B a layer of one of the aforementioned
materials or their equivalent (preferably Sicilian marble) located at or near the
edge of the said platform as shown, the manner of securing it will of course depend
upon the kind of material used. It must however be understood that I do not
confine myself to any one material or colour, the principal object of this invention
being to provide a border or edging for structures such as herein before described
which shall be permanently conspicuous in the dark and having a surface sufficiently
durable

page_text: 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:
The improved safety appliance or device for station platforms, dock or pier walls,
or other places built of material inconspicuous in the dusk or dark, where persons
might accidentally fall off, which consists in an edging or border to the said
structure formed of white marble or other material which shall be permanently
conspicuous in the dusk or dark and having a surface sufficiently durable, sub-
stantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of January 1893
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.