IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF PASSENGER SHIPS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Taylor, of Middlesborough-on-Tees, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON-
STRUCTION OF PASSENGER SHIPS."
Sealed the 2nd June 1874, and dated the 17th December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th December 1873.
I, JAMES TAYLOR, of Middlesborough-on-Tees, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF PASSENGER SHIPS," to be as follows:-
In passenger ships as at present constructed there is usually a con-
tinuous upper deck extending over the side state cabins, passages, and
central part of the ship, above which is constructed the saloon, and the
lighting of the passages and central part beneath the saloon is only
effected in a very imperfect manner by means of deck lights over the
passages, and by side lights beneath the side seats in the saloon. With
this arrangement the central part of the yessel beneath the saloon cannot

page_text: well be utilized for state cabins on account of the imperfect light supplied
thereto.
Now according to my Invention I construct that part of the deck
extending over the side passages and central part of the ship considerably
higher than the parts of the deck situated over the side cabins, and in 5
the sides or risers of such raised portion of the deck I provide lights and
ventilating apertures, whereby the said passages and the central portion
of the ship beneath the saloon will be effectually lighted and ventilated,
and I am thus enabled to use such central portion as state cabins.
The width of the saloon is by preference made to correspond with the 1
width of the cabins beneath it, so that the portions of the raised deck on
either side of the saloon may be used as a promenade for the passengers,
and deck lights may be inserted in these portions of the deck so as to
afford additional light to the passages and cabins beneath.
Although I have described the space under the raised part of the deck 1
as being devoted to state cabins and passages it is obvious that such
the
space may be utilized for accomodation in any desired manner,
object of my Invention being to afford light and ventilation to such
space by means of the risers of the raised deck.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said James Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TAYLOR, of Middlesborough-on-Tees, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Taylor, Her special
license that I, the said James Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Taylor, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

page_text: others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the termi
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE-
CONSTRUCTION OF PASSENGER SHIPS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said James Taylor, 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 James Taylor, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
5 following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that.
is to say:-
In passenger ships as at present constructed there is usually a con-
tinuous upper deck extending over the side state cabins, passages, and
6 central part of the ship, above which is constructed the saloon, and the
lighting of the passages and central part beneath the saloon is only "
effected in a very imperfect manner by means of deck lights over the
passages, and by side lights beneath the side seats in the saloon. With
this arrangement the central part of the vessel beneath the saloon cannot
5 well be utilized for state cabins on account of the imperfect light supplied
thereto.
Now according to my Invention I construct that part of the deck.
extending over the side passages and central part of the ship considerably
higher than the parts of the deck situated over the side cabins, and in
the sides or risers of such raised portion of the deck I provide lights and
ventilating apertures, whereby the said passages and the central portion
of the ship beneath the saloon will be effectually lighted and ventilated,
and I am thus enabled to use such central portion as state cabins.
The width of the saloon is by preference made to correspond with the
width of the cabins bencath it, so that the portions of the raised deck on
either side of the saloon may be used as a promenade for the passengers,
and deck lights may be inserted in these portions of the deck so as to
afford additional light to the passages and cabins beneath.

page_text: Although I have described the space under the raised part of the deck
as being devoted to state cabins and passengers it is obvious that such
space may be utilized for accommodation in any desired manner, the
object of my Invention being to afford light and ventilation to such
space by means of the risers of the raised deck.
The accompanying Drawing represents a perspective transverse section
of the upper part of the hull of a vessel with the cabins, passages, and
saloon arranged according to my Invention.
A, A, are side cabins having over them the deck B at the ordinary
height; C and D are middle cabins and a passage over which the deck E
is raised sufficiently to afford room for lights and ventilating apertures in
the risers F; G is the saloon with side promenades H, H, on the portion
of the deck, raised as above described.
It may be readily understood that the arrangement of the accom-
modation under the raised portion of the deck may be varied as desired.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim, the construction of the
deck of passenger vessels with a raised middle part in such manner as to
provide side lights and ventilating apertures in the sides or risers of the
said raised part, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof I, the said James Taylor, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.