Improvements in or connected with "Deck Seats" for Containing or Storing Life Saving Apparatus
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31s: Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1396
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with "Deck Seats" for Containing or
Storing Life Saving Apparatus.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE CHARLES WEIR of 104 Coronation Road, in the City
and County of Bristol, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My present invention refers to the construction and arrangement of deck seats
for ships and other vessels, suitable for containing or storing life saving apparatus
or devices that should be available at any moment in case of need, or extreme
emergency, without the necessity of any skilled labour being required to get at the
safety appliances, in fact these deck seats are so constructed that they are
practically self acting and discharge their contents of life-saving apparatus when
they are required for use as it were automatically. In a word the life saving
appliances are so packed and arranged in these deck seats that they are without
manual aid at the disposal of passengers and others when they are required for use
as life saving apparatus. All that a person has to do is to lift the seat, pick one
up and to put it on.
According to my invention I provide a casing or frame of generally rectangular
formation, and of a length, width, and depth, such as is adapted both for the
required size of seat or seats, and to contain the desired number of floats or safeties,
such as the so-called seamens safety life saving apparatus, as patented to myself the
8th August 1887 No. 10863.
The lower or base edges of the frame are provided or formed with feet or
projecting parts, or the edges are cut away at parts, in order that air may freely
pass under same and I provide a bottom within the frame composed say of wire-
work, netting, perforated metal, wood laths, or the like, upon which the life saving
appliances are supported within the frame. The frame is provided with a solid lid
or top calculated to prevent the entrance of rain, and such lid is attached to the
frame so that an upward thrust from within the frame, will entirely remove such
lid and free the appliances contained therein. Such a lid attachment may consist
of vertically dependent pins or staples on the lid, taking into horizontal loops on
the frame.
In the ends
Upon the lid is fitted the seat, generally composed for deck seats, of laths raised
upon frames or battens, or of other seating adapted not to hold water.
of the frame ventilating apertures are provided.
Deck seats constructed as before described may be arranged back to back with
supporting staunchions between same to carry a dividing back rest.
By the above construction of deck seats air is free to pass beneath the frame, and
through the lattice bottom thereof, to the life saving appliances therein contained,
and proper circulation is maintained to keep the articles in a good state of
preservation, while at the same time, should the frames of the deck seats become
even partially submerged in water, the latter would rise within the frames,
through the perforated bottom, and the buoyancy of the life saving appliances will
immediately cause the seat lid to be lifted off and the contents are free for use, or
the cover may of course be lifted by manual aid when required, or as requirements
may demand."
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page_text: Improvements in or connected with "Deck Seats" for Containing or
Storing Life Saving Apparatus.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE CHARLES WEIR of 104 Coronation Road, in the City
and County of Bristol, Gentleman, 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 present invention refers to the construction and arrangement of deck seats
for ships and other vessels, suitable for containing or storing life saving apparatus
or devices that should be available at any moment in case of need, or extreme
emergency, without the necessity of any skilled labour being required to get at the
safety appliances, in fact these deck seats are so constructed that they are
practically self acting and discharge their contents of life saving apparatus when
they are required for use as it were automatically. In a word the life saving
appliances are so packed and arranged in these deck seats that they are, without
manual aid, at the disposal of passengers, and others when they are required for use
as life saving apparatus. All that a person has to do is to lift the seat, pick one up
and to put it on.
In order that my invention may be readily understood I will describe the same
with reference to the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 being a perspective view of a deck seat according to my invention,
Figure 2 showing the seat with the top removed and
Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the body or casing of the seat detached.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of an arrangement of double seat.
Similar letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures of the
drawings.
According to my invention I provide a side and end casing or frame A of
generally rectangular formation, and of a length, width, and depth, such as is
adapted both for the required size of seat or seats, and to contain the desired
number of Hoats or life saving apparatus such for example as those approved by
the Board of Trade and patented to myself the 8th August 1887 No. 10863 and
such as are shown contained within the casing A and marked B at Figure 2 of the
drawings.
The lower or base edges of the frame or casing A are provided or formed with
feet or projecting parts A', or the edges are cut away at parts in order that air
may freely pass under same, and I provide a bottom within the frame A
composed say of wirework, netting, perforated metal, wood laths, or the like, upon
which the life saving appliances are supported within the frame A. The frame or
casing A is provided with a solid lid or top D calculated to prevent the entrance
of rain, and such lid D is attached to the frame A so that an upward thrust froin
within the frame, will entirely remove such lid D and free the appliances B
contained therein. Such a lid attachment may consist of vertically dependent
pins or staples E on the lid D, taking into horizontal loops E' on the frame A.
Upon the lid D is fitted the seat proper F generally composed for deck seats, of
laths raised upon frames or battens, or of other seating adapted not to hold water.
In the ends of the frame A ventilating apertures G are provided.
Deck scats constructed as before described may be arranged back to back as
shown at Figure 4 with supporting staunchions H between same to carry a dividing
back rest J.
By the above construction of deck seats air is free to pass beneath the frame A
and through the lattice C thereof, to the life saving appliances B therein contained
aud proper circulation is maintained to keep the articles in a good state of preserva-
tion, while at the same time should the frames A of the deck seats become even

page_text: partially submerged in water, the latter would rise within the frames, through the
perforated bottom C and the buoyancy of the life saving appliances B will
immediately cause the seat lid D to be lifted off and the contents are free for use,
or the cover D may of course be lifted by manual aid when required, or as
requirements may demand.
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:
1. The deck seats for containing or storing life saving apparatus composed of a
side and end frame or casing, having a wire, lattice or other perforated bottom to
support the life saving appliances within the casing, in combination with a top or
lid carrying or forming a seat and adapted to be lifted off vertically either by the
buoyancy of the safties or other life saving apparatus (such as the life safety
approved by the Board of Trade, and as patented to myself the 8th August 1887
and No. 10863) upon water entering the seat by the perforate bottom, or by the
top or lid being removed by hand and substantially as and for the purposes set
forth.
2. The general arrangement, construction and combination of parts composing
my improvements in or connected with deck seats for containing or storing life
saving apparatus including the vertical release fixture of the lid, and also the
construction of the double or back to back seats and the means for ventilation,
all substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of November 1895.
BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds, Agents for the Applicant.