Improvements in Tent Fittings for Facilitating their Erection.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tent Fittings for Facilitating their Erection.
I, WILLIAM DAVISON, of Villiers Street South, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland,
in the County of Durham, Sail and Tent Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the use of a temporary centre pole as a temporary
support for the roof of tents while the permanent roof framework is being fixed;
the centre pole being immediately removed and leaving the tent standing inde-
pendent of it. The same process is reversed in removing the tent.
It also provides for fitting the lower extremities of the rods which form the
roof framework into holes provided in the frame surrounding the tent inside at
the eaves.
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Dated this Seventeenth day of January One thousand eight hundred and.
ninety-eight.
JOHN S. NICHOLSON,
Agent to the said William Davison.
Improvements in Tent Fittings for Facilitating their Erection.
I, WILLIAM DAVISON, of Villiers Street South, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland,
in the County of Durham, Sail and Tent Maker, 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:-
My invention consists of a temporary centre pole and the method of use thereof
to serve as a temporary support for the roof of a tent while the permanent roof
framework is being fixed, the centre pole being then immediately removed and
leaving the tent standing independently of it. The same process is reversed in
removing the tent.
The annexed drawing illustrates this invention and a tent framework with which
it may be used. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the roof frame of a tent having
a pyramidal roof and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the eave frame thereof. Fig. 3 is
a view partly in section showing the central pole and illustrating its method of
use.
In the tent frame here illustrated the lower extremities A¹ of the rods A which
form the roof framework of the tent are fitted into the holes provided at C or at C¹
in the frame B surrounding the tent inside the eaves. For the purposes of my

page_text: invention I suspend by working joints H from the central boss R or horizontal
ridge pole or beam answering to said boss at the peak or ridge of the tent,
straight iron ribs such as A in Fig. 1 which extend from said boss R or beam
to the eaves of the tent and I there provide a strong wooden or angle iron fram-
ing B as in Fig. 2 which surrounds the interior space of the tent inside at the
eaves, said frame being fitted with sockets C or C₁ to receive the extremities A¹
of the ribs A. The roof rests on said ribs, the respective lengths of the ribs and
of the roof (from ridge or peak to eaves) being the same, so that when all the
ribs are fixed into the eaves or into lips C (Fig. 2) extending from the eaves, the
roof is held rigid and taut.
Up into the lower or under side of the boss R or beam is or are drilled a hole
or holes P into which a spike Q or spikes on the end or ends of the temporary
centre pole S or poles may be thrust, and by this appliance, the canvas roof, the
boss R or beam, and the ribs A are first hoisted to the full height of the tent
making the roof taut. They are held in this position by the centre pole or
poles Still the lower ends of the ribs A have all been forced into their sockets C
or C¹ in the eaves or lips, whereupon the temporary centre pole or poles $ is
or are removed and the tent stands secure.
A horizontal beam or ridge pole is used where the length of the tent is notably
greater than the breadth, the central boss R when all the ribs A converge to one
centre as in a square or circular tent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1) The combination with a tent frame having ribs and a central device carrying
said ribs, of a temporary centre pole for use in erecting or striking such tent
frame substantially as described.
2) The combination with a tent having a tent frame composed of an eave
frame B and boss or peak R or beam having loosely attached thereto ribs A;
of a central detachable temporary supporting pole or poles adapted to support
said boss, peak or beam while the ribs A are fitted into or taken from the frame B
substantially as set forth.
Doted this 10th
Ostalo 1000
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London,
Agents to Applicant.