A NEW SYSTEM OF SHELTER FOR PRESERVING PEOPLE FROM THE SUN'S RAYS." OF SHELTER FOR PRESERVING PEOPLE FROM THE SUN'S RAYS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alphonse Inghels, of Termonde, in the Kingdom
of Belgium, Major of Artillery, for the Invention of "A NEW SYSTEM
OF SHELTER FOR PRESERVING PEOPLE FROM THE SUN'S RAYS."
OF SHELTER FOR PRESERVING PEOPLE FROM THE SUN'S RAYS.”
Scaled the 4th June 1875, and dated the 9th December 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alphonse Inghels at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th December 1874.
I, ALPHONSE INGHELS, of Termonde, in the Kingdom of Belgium,
Major of Artillery, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW SYSTEM OF SHELTER FOR PRESERVING PEOPLE FROM THE SUN'S RAYS,"
to be as follows:-
This system offers several advantages
1°. Shelter from the rays of the sun without suffocating the promenaders
as under marquees. With my system the air does not become suffocating
because there is a constant renewal of the layers of air which escape,
rise, and issue in entire layers near the top of the arrangement. Further,

page_text: against the main horizontal rod or against the lateral rods of marquees,
as at present constructed. In my arrangement, as shown on the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawing, each rectangle R throws shade on to the next,
and it will be readily seen that air may circulate freely between all the
rectangles. These rectangles R are made of iron wire covered with
canvas or cloth.
2°. Shelter from rain, because at the bottom of each rectangle R is a
small gutter g leading the water into the larger gutters G, which bring
it to a cornice placed above the ground floor or towards the drain by
small spouts placed on the side of the pavement or road.
3. The pavement in front of houses, shops, and cafés will be better
lit at night, because less of the rays of light being lost upward more will
be concentrated upon the pavement and the shop fronts.
The rectangles R may be covered by actual bags passed rapidly over
them and then secured by a few stitches. The bags should pass freely
over the rectangles.
Tension is needless, it is on the contrary hurtful, inasmuch as the
cloth or canvas will last longer if not stretched. I need scarcely observe
that the cloth should have been kept for a long time in water before 1
being made into bags.
The rectangles R are made to pivot upon their lower edge, firstly, in
order that they may offer no resistance to a gust of wind sweeping along
the ground and then rising in a whirl, and also in order that they may
be made to pivot successively in the other direction in case they should
become laden with snow so as to make it fall to the ground.
To guard from rain driven obliquely by the wind a piece of canvas or
cloth is provided to hang vertically from the entire length of the main
horizontal rod, which the rectangles R hold at the desired inclination.
Taking a pavement of an average breadth of 4 yards, and that between ;
the long gutters G fastenings d are placed from yard to yard, the
arrangement will appear as shown on the Drawing.
b, b, b, b, represent the four pieces of cloth of about a yard long by
about one foot deep, which simply hang between one fastening d and
another. These strips of cloth will further servo to ward off very

page_text: oblique rays of the sun. c, rods of rectangles R; M, bar or band
forming part of arcade and serving to support the gutters G; o, pivots
of the rectangles R.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alphonse Inghels in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALPHONSE
INGHELS, of Termonde, of Belgium, Major of Artillery, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alphonse Inghels, Her special license
that I, the said Alphonse Inghels, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alphonse Inghels, 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 SYSTEM OF SHELTER
FOR PRESERVING PEOPLE FROM THE SUN'S RAYS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alphonse Inghels, 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 Alphonse Inghels, 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
following statement:-

page_text: It is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a front
elevation; and Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of the same.
A, A, are zinc rectangular plates, which shade each other, and which
being provided at their lower part with ledges carry off the rain into the
spouts B placed about a yard apart parallel with the width of the cause-
way; C, C, are upright rods, the upper ends of which are provided with
rings, through which the long rods D pass, and which serve to keep the
rectangular plates at the angle wished for.