Inflated (Ship's) Bunk Bed or Mattress and Pillow and Life Saving Apparatus Combined.
Year: 1896

page_text: [ate of Application, 12th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Inflated (Ship's) Bunk Bed or Mattress and Pillow and Life Saving
Apparatus Combined.
FREDERICK JOHN TINKER, Engineers Pattern Maker, and ARTHUR FREDERICK
TINKER, Book-keeper, both of 47 Burghley Road Turnpike Lane Hornsey N. do.
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An inflated mattrass or air bed & pillow for use in a ship's bunk.
It is constructed of india rubber or waterproof material containing four air-
chambers which when inflated will enable it to float on the water, and bear the weight
of one or more passengers.
The sides of which are fitted with life lines to enable a drowning person to cling to.
It can be also held in front of the passenger when leaping into the water, to break-
the impact.
The bed or mattrass is constructed with four air chambers A B C & D.
C & B to be blown out taut so as to be able to support the head & shoulders of
the sleeper.
A & D chambers can be inflated in such a manner as to suit the comfort of the
sleeper.
Dated this Twelfth day of December 1896.
FREDERICK JOHN TINKER.
ARTHUR FREDERICK TINKER.
Inflated (Ship's) Bunk Bed or Mattress and Pillow and Life Saving
Apparatus Combined.
FREDERICK JOHN TINKER, Engineers Pattern Maker, and ARTHUR FREDERICK
TINKER Book-keeper both of 47 Burghley Road Turnpike Lane Hornsey N. 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 consists of a mattress or air bed and pillow constructed of india
rubber or stout waterproof material containing 4 perfectly air tight and water tight
chambers which when inflated will enable it to float on the water and bear the weight
of one or more persons. The sides of which are also fitted with life lines to enable
drowning persons to cling to. It can also be held in front of a passenger when leaping
into the water and thus breaking the impact. The bed is constructed with four air
chambers, viz. a, b, c and d, inflated by means of an air pump through screw nozzles
in the ordinary manner.
The small chamber on the outer edge extends all round the four sides of the
mattress and tends to support strengthen and keep in shape the whole when inflated.

page_text: Chambers c and b should be blown out taut so as to be able to support the head and
shoulders of the sleeper, and a aud d can also be inflated in such a manner as to suit
the comfort of the sleeper, as shewn in the drawings left with the Provisional
Specification.
The advantages are
First-Cleanliness and a saving of labor, such as picking to pieces and washing the
ticks of the ordinary bedding now in vogue on shipboard which duty has now to be
performed at the termination of each voyage of any duration.
Second. Cheapness and utility, as the first cost of manufacture would be the
greatest outlay and the mattress would not require to be replaced at such frequent
intervals as hitherto.
Utility and convenience, because when not in use it can be easily packed away in a
very small space when not inflated, thus enabling a larger stock to be carried.
Third. A life saving apparatus which each passenger has immediately at hand &
on account of its size and buoyancy and lightness of construction forms a most reliable
support in the water.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
Firstly. We claim for this our invention the use of inflated air chambers in the
construction of mattresses for ship's berths or bunks.
Secondly. The method of construction of the bunk bed or mattress in four
separate and independent air chambers, inflated by means of an air pump through
screw nozzles, the combined whole forming the mattress itself.
Thirdly. We also claim that our apparatus in its entirety when so inflated as before
described, is a life saving apparatus.
Fourthly. The general construction, arrangement and combination of parts of the
inflated (ship's) bunk bed or mattress and pillow and life saving apparatus combined,
substantially described and illustrated in our drawings furnished with our Provisional
Specification.
Dated this Eighth day of March 1897
ARTHUR FREDERICK TINKER.