Improvements in Military Camp and other Huts, and other Buildings.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Military Camp and other Huts, and other Buildings.
I, PETER JENSEN, of 77 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication from Ludvig Ottow,
Shoemaker, and Marius Sorensen, Commercial Agent, both of Slagelse, Denmark,
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide wooden structures suitable for military,
camp and other huts and other structures which shall possess the quality of
resisting the influences of heat in the summer and cold in the winter, while being
light cheap and portable.
The walls are made double of upright wooden boards, generally one inch match
boarding. The space between the boards varies within wide limits viz. if the
structure is intended for a very dry climate a space of a couple of inches will
suffice, but if intended for a damp climate like the English a space of 8 to 12
inches is suitable. The boards of each outer wall and each inner wall are united
at top and bottom by battens say one inch square nailed or screwed on on the
weather side and on the side towards the room or house formed thereby. The
bottom battens are nailed to the floor thus fixing the walls upright thereon.
The boards are made up to a width or piece of say ten feet by a height of ten
to twelve feet. In the centre of the width of each outer and inner wall piece is
nailed an upright batten on the sides that are turned to each other and in these
battens are fixed staples say every two feet in the height of the walls and hook
rods placed in the staples serve to unite the inner wall and the outer wall and
keep them at the desired distance apart.
The ceiling boards are nailed on the top of the double walls.
A roof of similar double wall construction may be used in connection with these
huts or other structures. Such a roof would be carried by the ceiling board viz.
staples and hook rods would be so placed that they can be reached by the hand.
The roof will thus rest on the lowest staples which must be fixed to the inner side
of the roof.
The doors are generally arranged at the end of the huts and a small anteroom or
hall is provided. The windows may be arranged to slide up and down between
the walls.
The structures should be painted or varnished inside and be coated outside
with some suitable paint or composition to resist the influences of the weather.
Dated this First day of December 1896
JENSEN & SON,
77. Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Military Camp and other Huts, and other Buildings.
I, PETER JENSEN, of 77 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad
by Ludvig Ottow, Shoemaker, and Marius Sorensen, Commercial Agent, both of
Slagelse Denmark, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to provide wooden structures suitable for military
camp and other huts and other structures which shall possess the quality of
resisting the influences of heat in the summer and cold in the winter, while being
light, cheap and portable.
In the accompanying drawings is shewn as an example a small wooden hut
suitable for military emigrants' miners' and explorers' use; no partitions are
shewn but it may of course be divided up into two or more rooms as desired.
Obviously the structure may also be made as a large building for sleeping
accommodation for instance for twenty soldiers or emigrant miners.
Fig. 1 is a plan section and Fig. 2 an end elevation partly in section. The
walls are made double of upright wooden boards generally one inch match boarding
or grooved and tongued or otherwise joined together, though not so shewn
because of the small scale. The space between the inner boards A and outer
Boards B varies within wide limits viz:-if the structure is intended for a very
dry climate a space of two or four inches will suffice but if intended for a damp
climate like the English a space of eight to twelve inches is suitable. The boards
of cach outer wall B and each corresponding inner wall A are united lengthways
at top and bottom by battens C say about one inch square screwed or nailed on on
the weather side and on the side towards the room or house formed thereby. The
bottom battens are screwed (or nailed) to the floor 1) which may also be made
double as shewn, for a cold climate; the walls are thus fixed upright thereon.
The boards say six or eight of them about nine inches wide are made up to a
width or piece as indicated by the letters a by a height of nine to twelve feet.
In about the centre of the width of each outer and inner wall piece d is nailed
an upright batten E on the sides that are turned to each other and in these battens
are fixed staples F say every three feet in the height of the walls, and hook rods G
placed in the staples serve to unite the inner wall piece and the outer wall pieces
and keep them at the desired distance apart. The corner pieces are united in
a simliar manner.
The ceiling boards H are screwed (or nailed) on the top of the battens C of the
double walls. A roof of ordinary or of similar double wall construction may
be used in connection with these huts or other structures. Such a roof would be
carried by the ceiling board viz. staples F and hooks G would be so placed that
they can be reached by the hand. The roof will thus rest on the lowest staples
which must be fixed to the inner side of the roof.
The doors are generally at the end of the house; one such is shewn here, a
double one II' in this case. The windows may be arranged to slide up and down
in a usual sash frame, or windows K hinged at one side as shewn here, and in
some cases an inner or double one may be provided.
The structure should be painted or or varnished, inside and be coated outside
with some suitable paint or composition to resist the influences of the weather.
A silicate paint that is both fireproof and weather proof may be used both for
the inside and the outside.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
A double walled wooden structure in which the inner and the outer walls made
of pieces of joined boards are united by staples and hooks and are held together
lengthways at top and bottom by battens which also serve to connect the walls to
the floor and ceiling substantially as set forth.
Dated this 1st day of September 1897
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.