MENTS IN APPLYING LAMPS IN LIEU OF FLAGS FOR SIGNALLING SO AS TO BE APPLICABLE AT NIGHT, SUCH SIGNALS TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH COMMERCIAL CODE OF SIGNALS AT PRESENT IN USE AND APPLICABLE AS SIGNALS FOR ALL NATIONS.”
Year: 1876

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LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Winter, of No. 119, Bentham Road, South Hackney,
in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, and Robert Winter, of Sunderland, in
IMPROVE-
the County of Durham, Master Mariner, for the Invention of
MENTS IN APPLYING LAMPS IN LIEU OF FLAGS FOR SIGNALLING SO AS TO BE
APPLICABLE AT NIGHT, SUCH SIGNALS TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH
COMMERCIAL CODE OF SIGNALS AT PRESENT IN USE AND APPLICABLE AS SIGNALS
FOR ALL NATIONS.”
THE
Sealed the 21st July 1876, and dated the 22nd January 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Winter and Robert
Winter at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd January
1876.
THOMAS WINTER, of No. 119, Bentham Road, South Hackney, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, and ROBERT WINTER, of Sunderland, in the County of Durham,
Master Mariner. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING LAMPS IN LIEU OF FLAGS FOR
SIGNALLING SO AS TO BE APPLICABLE AT NIGHT, SUCH SIGNALS TO BE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE COMMERCIAL CODE OF SIGNALS AT PRESENT IN USE AND APPLICABLE AS
SIGNALS FOR ALL NATIONS."
Our improvements consist in an economical plan of applying lamps so as to
indicate signals to be applicable for night use, such signals to be in accordance with
the commercial code at present in use during daylight with flags; the lamps to be
substituted for such flags, and the lamps, as well as the flags, to be applicable for all
nations.
Our improvements are illustrated in the Drawings numbered 1. and II. accom-
panying this Provisional Specification, and consist in the employment of three
circular frames, each containing a central globe lamp with white glass, and above
the lamp say, for example, a red annular of glass above and a green annular of glass
below. These annulars of glass are so placed within the frame that they may be
slid up & down, so as to make the central lamp show green or red, as may be
desired, or as the three white lamps may be required together, they can so be used
without disturbing the coloured slides, or the coloured & white slides can be se
or signal that may be required.
operated as to indicate any letter
alternative the lamps may be arranged to work with coloured lenses.
As an

page_text: The operation, or changing of the colours by means of working the coloured
slides, is all effected from the deck, by connecting the sliding or working parts with
wire or other rope.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Winter and Robert Winter, in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st July 1870.
THOMAS WINTER, of No. 119, Bentham Road, South Hackney, in the County of
Middlesex, Engincer, and ROBERT WINTER, of Sunderland, in the County of Durham,
Master Mariner. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING LAMPS IN LIEU OF FLAGS FOR
SIGNALLING SO AS TO BE APPLICABLE AT NIGHT, SUCH SIGNALS TO BE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE COMMERCIAL CODE OF SIGNALS AT PRESENT IN USE."
Our improvements consist in an economical plan of applying lamps so as to
indicate signals to be applicable for night use, such signals to be in accordance with
the commercial code at present in use in daylight with flags; the lamps to be
substituted for such flags, and the lamps, as well as the flags, to be applicable for all
nations.
Our improvements are illustrated in the Drawing accompanying this Specification,
and consist in the employment of three circular frames, Figure 1, each containing a
central globe lanp with white glass, and above the lamp a red annular of glass
and a green annular of glass below. These annulars of glass are so placed within
the frame that they may be slid up or down so as to make the central lamp
shew green or red, as may be desired. Or as the three white lamps may be
required together, they can so be used without disturbing the coloured slides, or the
coloured and white slides may be operated so as to indicate any letter or signal that
may be required. As an alternative the lamps may be arranged to work with
coloured lenses.
The operation or changing the colours by means of working the coloured slides
is all effected from the deck, by connecting the sliding or working parts with wire
or other rope, or small chains.
What we claim, and desire to secure herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the arrangements or means for effecting and indicating signals, all as described
in this Specification and in the accompanying Drawings illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Winter and Robert Winter have
hereunto set our hands and seals this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
THOMAS WINTER. (LS.)
ROBERT WINTER. (L.S.)