Specification of Isaac Ashe : preventing sea sickness.

  • Ashe, Isaac.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Specification of Isaac Ashe : preventing sea sickness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Ashes Improvements in Apparatus for Preventing Sea Sickness. support for the person of a ball-and-socket joint, or a ball and ring, or washer joint. But for convenience of use I prefer to employ portable vertical standards formed to fit into sockets in or secured to the deck or to the cabin floors. These standards have each a branch or several branches at or near the top thereof, which curve or bend outwards or laterally from the stem, and 5 from each branch is suspended a chair, couch, or other support for the person, the ball-and-socket joint, or ball and ring, or washer joint intervening between the point of attachment to the branch and the article or articles suspended. On the top of a pedestal or standard secured in a socket in or secured to the deck or cabin floors, as above mentioned, or fastened in any other way, I place 10 a ball-and-socket joint, or a ball and ring, or washer joint, and on the top of the joint I balance and secure a chair, couch, or other support from the person, say, by the bottom thereof, either with or without the intervention of springs. On the legs of the support for the person or on a platform formed thereon, I place washers or rings of metal of sufficient weight to keep the centre of 15 gravity of the support for the person below the point at or on which it is * balanced. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Isaac Ashe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th July 1863. 20 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Isaac Ashe, of Birkenhead, in the County of Chester, Bachelor of Medicine, 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 25 Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Isaac Ashe, Her special license that I, the said Isaac Ashe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Isaac Ashe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time SO 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 “ Improvements in Apparatus for Preventing Sea Sickness,” upon the condition (amongst others) 35 that I, the said Isaac Ashe, my executors or administrators, by an instru-