Improvements in ships' berths, cattle pens, and other structures on board ship : specification of Reginald Harrison.
- Reginald Harrison
- Date:
- 1885
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Improvements in ships' berths, cattle pens, and other structures on board ship : specification of Reginald Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Ships’ Berths, Cattle Pens, and other Structures on Board Ship. I, Reginald Harrison, of 38 Rodney Street, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for “Improvements in ships’ berths, cattle pens, and OTHER structures ON BOARD SHIP ” to be as follows:— 6 This invention has for its object the increase of comfort or the lessening of the discorafort of passengers, horses, cattle, and the like at sea. In carrying out my invention I support the berths, horse-boxes, and pens for cattle, sheepj and other animals on trunnions or their equivalents at each end, at points somewhat above the centre of gravity of the combined structure and its 10 occupant. To effect this without the occupant receiving a pendulous motion, and to cause the suspension line and the centre line of the occupant or occupants to approximately coincide, I weight the lower side of the pen, berth or horse-box in any convenient manner. By this means, while the centre line of the. occupant is nearly on the suspension line, the centre of gravity of the entire mass is much 15 below ^ he said suspension line. The berth or other structure is always therefore strongly impelled to find its own level, and stand with its cross section in one constant position relative to the vertical, no matter at what angle the ship may roll. Dated this 17th day of February 1885. 20 W“ P. THOMPSON & Co., Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 323, High'Holborn, London, Patent Agents for the Applicant. [Price 8d.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22392658_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
