A New or Improved Appliance for the Floors of Railway Carriages and other Vehicles or of Smoking Rooms.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance for the Floors of Railway Carriages
and other Vehicles or of Smoking Rooms.
We THOMAS PARKINSON WORTHINGTON Architect and Surveyor of
12 Waterloo Road South Shore Blackpool and TOM LOCKWOOD Innkeeper
of Ball Street Poulton-le-Fylde both in the County of Lancaster do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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To the floors of new or existing railway carriages or other vehicles and of
smoking rooms we apply metal troughs with perforated covers the tops of which
are intended to be on or about the level of floors to which they are applied.
The object intended to be attained is to provide a place to receive the discharges
from expectoration and a more sanitary conduit therefor, principally for the use
of smokers.
Our invention consists of a shallow trough and perforated cover of any required
size or form, hinged or not, and generally as indicated in drawings, where A is a
plan of perforated cover, B a plan of trough with trapped outlet funnels c,-one
or more of which may be fitted as required-C indicates a section through trough,
grating, and outlet funnel on line
C
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b.
A ferrule is provided for pipe connection where water is available for cleansing
the troughs.
The perspective sketch shews a form of application D. to a compartment of a
railway carriage.
Dated this 30th day of April 1891.
THOS. P. WORTHINGTON.
TOM LOCKWOOD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance for the Floors of Railway Carriages
and other Vehicles or of Smoking Rooms.
We, THOMAS PARKINSON WORTHINGTON, Architect and Surveyor of
12 Waterloo Road, South Shore Blackpool and TOM LOCKWOOD Innkeeper
of Ball Street Poulton-le-Fylde both in the County of Lancaster 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:-
To the floors of new or existing railway carriages or other vehicles and of
smoking rooms we apply metal troughs with perforated covers, the tops of which
are intended to be on or about the level of floors to which they are applied.
The object intended to be attained is to provide a place or places to receive the
discharges from expectoration and a more sanitary conduit therefor principally
for the use of smokers.
Our invention consists of a shallow trough or troughs and perforated covers of
any required size or form hinged or not and generally as indicated in drawings
submitted with Provisional Specification where A is a plan of perforated covers,
B a plan of trough with trapped outlet funnels c, one or more of which may
be fitted as required. C indicates a section through trough grating and outlet
funnel on line a b.
is provided for pipe connection for use where water is
A ferrule or nozzle
available for cleansing the troughs.

page_text: The perspective sketch shows a form of application D to a compartment of a
railway carriage.
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
First. Draught proof troughs with perforated covers for the floors of railway
carriages to receive sputum and to discharge the same beneath the carriages auto-
matically and substantially as described.
Second. The application of troughs with perforated covers to the floors of
smoke rooms to receive sputum, and with connections for cleansing by water,
either with or without moving the covers and discharging automatically and
substantially as described.
Third. Draught proof troughs with perforated covers for the floors of vehicles
drawn by animals with automatic discharges beneath and substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of January 1892.
THOS. P. WORTHINGTON.
TOM LOCKWOOD.