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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    Ashes Improvements in Apparatus for Preventing Sea Sickness. such manner that those acquainted with nautical apparatus may be able to carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to all the details laid down, as many modifications may be made without departing from my improvements; but what I claim as of the Invention 5 secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,— Firstly, suspending a chair or other support for the person on board ship from one point, as herein described and for the purpose set forth. Secondly, between the point of suspension and the chair or other support for the person, or at the point of suspension, and attached to the same, the use 10 of a ball and socket, or of a ball and ring or washer joint, as herein described, and for the purpose set forth. Thirdly, the use or employment of portable stems or standards with branches or arms projecting outwards, or radiating therefrom, to fit into or otherwise attach to the decks or other parts of a ship to support a chair or other rest 15 for the purson on board ship, a convenient form being shewn on the accom¬ panying Sheet of Drawings, and its uses set forth in this Specification. Fourthly, balancing or supporting a chair or other rest for the person on board ship on one point, as herein described and for the purpose set forth. And, fifthly, the use or employment of counterbalancing rings or washers 20 of metal on the legs or lower parts of a chair or other support for the person, as herein set forth. In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Ashe, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. 25 (Signed) ISAAC ASHE, (l.s.) In the presence of (Signed) Francis J. Heath, S.I., Of Castleblayney, County of Monaghan, 30 Ireland. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1863.