A NEW MARINE STATE ROOM
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lorenzo Dow Newell, Merchant, of 514, Broad-
way, New York, in the United States of America, at prosent
residing at the Castle and Falcon, Aldersgate Street, in the City
of London. for the Invention of "A NEW MARINE STATE ROOM."
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lorenzo Dow Newell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th January 1872.
I, LORENZO Dow NEWELL, Merchant, of 514, Broadway, New York,
in the United States of America, at present residing at the Castle and
Falcon, Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW MARINE STATE ROOM,” to be as
follows:-
I make use of a cylindrical chamber or room suspended horizontally
on board a ship on proper points, and inside this drum I suspend equally
one or more berths or sofas with their axes of suspension at right angles
with that of the drum. In order to balance such berth I make use of

page_text: a sliding weight suspended to the same, and which can be moved easily
by the occupants.
I provide the drum with an appropriate door, windows, and curtains,
which prevents the unpleasant sight of the rolling of the ship. In order
to render the room stationary when desired, I make use of a bolt passing
through its bottom into the framing of the ship, where it is screwed; to
render it temporarily stationary whilst a passenger is entering or leaving
the same, I make use of a moveable footstep, which, actuated by
the party resting on the same, throws out laterally two rods that
press against the fixed partition of the ship, and act the part of a
brake.
For the purpose of ventilation I avail myself of the oscillation of the
drum to actuate a bellows or other appropriate blowing instrument,
which draws fresh air from without, and blows it into said drum or the
compartment within which it is suspended.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lorenzo Dow Newell in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LORENZO
DOW NEWELL, Merchant, of 514, Broadway, New York, in the United
States of America, at present residing at the Castle and Falcon, Alders-
gate Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Lorenzo Dow Newell, Her special licence
that I, the said Lorenzo Dow Newell, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Lorenzo Dow Newell, 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

page_text: MARINE STATE ROOM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Lorenzo Dow Newell, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 Lorenzo Dow Newell, do hereby:
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same.
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:
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This Invention relates to ships' state rooms and berths, and consists
cylindrical chamber or room suspended horizontally on proper
points, as shewn at Fig. 2, b, b. Inside this room I suspend.
one or more berths and sofas with their axes of suspension at
right angles, as shewn in Fig. 2 and 3, f, f. d, d, Fig. 2 and 3,
represents two berths resting on axles, as seen at f, f. In order to
balance such berths I make use of a sliding weight suspended at the
bottom of the same, as seen at h (Figure 3) on rod g, g, which can be
moved by the occupant. At each end there is a card attached, as scen
at i, i, passing over guides in opposite directions, which enables the
occupant of the berth to adjust the same, as may be found expedient.
I provide the chamber or room with appropriate door, windows, and
curtains, as shewn in Figure 4, which prevents the unpleasant sight of
the rolling of the ship.
In order to render the room stationary I make use of a bolt, as seen
at 7, passing through its bottom to the framing of the ship, where it is
screwed to render it stationary when deemed, as represented at B, in
Fig. 3.
While entering or leaving the said room I make use of a
movable footstep seen in Fig. 4, q and u, which is actuated by resting
on the same, throwing out latterly two rods v, v; which press against
the fixed partition of the ship, and so acts the part of a brake, and thus
preventing, entering or leaving the said room, any quick motion to
the said chamber.
For the purpose of additional ventilation I avail myself of an
appropriate blowing instrument attached to the side of the ship, as scen
in Fig. 3, m, which is operated by the rolling of the ship against proper
;

page_text: joints in said cylindrical chamber, as seen at P, P, P, for which draws
fresh air from without at n, and blows it into the compartment at O.
Fig. 1 is a plan with beds, sofas, and washstand; Fig. 2 is a
longitudinal section of the cylindrical chamber with its bearings
at b, b, with berths and sofas at right angles, their suspension, and
adjusting weight.
The modas ajerandi of additional ventilation, and the means of
making said room stationary when desired.-Fig. 4 represents windows,
curtains, door, and brake.
Having thus described my Invention, now what I claim as new and
desire to secure by Letters Patent is,―
First. The form of a cylindrical chamber adjusted on proper joints,
overcoming all rolling motions of the ship while the occupant is stand-
ing, sitting, or lying down; also both rolling or pitching of the ship
while the occupant is lying in said berths or on the sofa.
Second. The arrangement with windows, curtains and doors, prevent-
ing the unpleasant sight of the ship's rolling, as described.
Third. The fastening of the oscillating room to the bottom or flooring
of the ship; the movable brake, actuated by the footstep and the
additional ventilation, as in the manner described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lorenzo Dow Newell, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Ninth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.