A New OR AN IMPROVED MODE OF ARRANGING SEATS IN SEA-GOING VESSELS TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Lloyd Wise, of Chandos Chambers,
Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A New
OR AN IMPROVED MODE OF ARRANGING SEATS IN SEA-GOING VESSELS TO
PREVENT SEA SICKNESS."-A communication from abroad by Alfred
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Lloyd Wise
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th October 1875.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of Chandos Chambers, Adelphi, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "A NEW OR AN IMPROVED MODE OF ARRANGING SEATS IN SEA-GOING
VESSELS TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS," (a communication to me from abroad
by Alfred Belvallette, of Paris, France, Coach Builder,) to be as
follows:-
This Invention is designed to enable persons subject to sea sickness
to travel on the sea without being affected by that malady.

page_text: system of cabin, wherein persons should be preserved from sea sickness,
but such a system involves such considerable complication as has
impeded its adoption.
The apparatus devised by my foreign correspondent on the contrary
is extremely simple, and is applicable to individual requirements.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate by way of example an arrange-
ment according to my correspondent's Invention.
Fig. 1 is a side view; and Fig. 2 is a front view.
An upright X of wood or metal is fixed to the flooring of the vessel
by cross pieces Y, if not fixed the cross pieces should extend a con-
siderable distance; but it is preferred to fix the upright to the vessel.
An eye or socket A is formed in the upright ✗, and receives the
axis a of a rod b of iron or steel, which carries the chair or seat Z. Thus
the primary essential feature of the Invention is that there should be
a single point of suspension. The rod 6 carries at its lower end a cross
piece c of wood or metal, from which rise a couple of uprights d, d³,
which in their turn serve to support at g, g', a couple of picces e, e¹,
which carry the part ƒ so arranged as to support the seat or chair and
pormit the occupant's feet to rest on the part f'. Thus the part ƒ (of
iron plate or wood) bears the scat and its back, and the footboard.
The seat and back may be furnished with cushions 2' or not, as may
be preferred.
It will be seen that the entire apparatus has three points of suspension
only, namely, one in the fixed or relatively fixed upright, permitting
the necessary movement of the seat or chair in a transverse sense, the
other two in the uprights carried by the already suspended rod, and
permitting of movements of the seat in a longitudinal or perpendicular
sense. It results from this arrangement that all the movements of the
vessel may be freely transmitted to the seat without the occupant
being thereby in any way disturbed, and consequently according to my
foreign correspondent sea sickness will be entirely prevented.
I have indicated in red an addition that may be made by way of
additional securety by arranging a small wheel below the cross piece c,
the said wheel being supported by the curve of the cross piece Y or on
the flooring of the vessel.

page_text: It will be obvious that the arrangement may be varied. Thus,
instead of suspending the seat to uprights resting on the cross piece
placed at the lower end of the rod the seat may be suspended to the
rod b itself, it being bent back so as to form a sort of fork, but the
arrangement shewn in the Drawing is preferred.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Lloyd Wise in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
LLOYD WISE, of Chandos Chambers, Adelphi, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Lloyd Wise, Her
special license that I, the said William Lloyd Wise, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Lloyd Wise, 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 "A NEW OR AN IMPROVED MODE OF ARRANGING SEATS IN SEA-
GOING VESSELS TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS," (a communication to me from
abroad by Alfred Belvallette, of Paris, France, Coach Builder,) upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Lloyd Wise, 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 William Lloyd Wise, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, and the Sheet of Drawings
therein referred to (that is to say) :—
This Invention is designed to enable persons subject to sea sickness
to travel on the sea without being affected by that malady.
It has long been proposed to provide sea-going vessels with a special
system of cabin, wherein persons should be preserved from sea sickness,
but such a system involves such considerable complication as has
impeded its adoption.
The apparatus devised by my foreign correspondent on the contrary 1
is extremely simple, and is applicable to individual requirements.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate by way of example arrange-
ments according to my correspondent's Invention.
Fig. 1 is a side view; and Fig. 2 is a front view.
An upright X of wood or metal is fixed to the flooring of the vessel 1
by cross pieces Y; if not fixed the cross pieces should extend a con-
siderable distance. But it is preferred to fix the upright to the vessel.
An eye or socket A is formed in the upright X and receives the
axis a of a rod b of iron or steel, which carries the chair or seat Z. Thus
the primary essential feature of the Invention is that there should be 2
a single point of suspension. The rod 6 carries at its lower end a cross
piece c of wood or metal, from which risc a couple of uprights d, d³,
which in their turn serve to support at g, g', a couple of pieces e, e¹,
which carry the part f, so arranged as to support the seat or chair and
permit the occupant's feet to rest on the part f¹. Thus the part ƒ (of 2
iron plate or wood) bears the seat and its back, and the footboard.
The seat and back may be furnished with cushions Z, z', or not, as
may be preferred.
It will be seen that the entire apparatus has three points of suspension
only, namely, one in the fixed or relatively fixed upright, permitting &
the necessary movement of the seat or chair in a transverse sense, the
other two in the uprights carried by the already suspended rod, and
permitting of movements of the seat in a longitudinal or perpendicular
sense.
It results from this arrangement that all the movements of the
vessel may be freely transmitted to the seat without the occupant being 3

page_text: thereby in any way disturbed, and consequently according to my foreign
correspondent sea sickness will be entirely prevented.
I have indicated in red an addition that may be made by way of
additional security by arranging a small wheel below the cross piece c,
the said wheel being supported by the curve
on the flooring of the vessel.
of the cross piece Y or
Figs. 3 and 4 shew an arrangement in which instead of suspending the
seat to uprights resting on the cross piece placed at the lower end of
the rod the seat is suspended to the rod b itself, which is made with
two arms or branches forming a sort of fork.
Having described the nature of the said Invention, and explained the
manner of carrying it into practical effect as communicated to me as
aforesaid, I claim,-
First. The herein described method of suspending the seat from a
single point by a rod or its equivalent, said rod or equivalent being free
to oscillate transversely and carrying the seat supported at two points
only, so as to be capable of perpendicular movement.
Secondly. The combinations of parts constituting the improved arrange-
ments of suspended seats constructed, arranged, and operating as shewn
in and described with reference respectively to Figs. 1 and 2, and to
Figs. 3 and 4, of the accompanying Drawings for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Lloyd Wisc, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.