Convertible Bassinette, Perambulator, Mail Cart, and Luggage Carrier.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
Convertible Bassinette, Perambulator, Mail Cart, and Luggage
Carrier.
HENRY WILLIAM BEAN Book-keeper 65 Baggrave Street New Evington,
Leicester, in the County of Leicestershire, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows: :-
My invention relates to the combining of the requirements of a bassinette, mail
cart and luggage carrier in one vehicle.
The bassinette body is carried on springs mounted on sockets made to slide on
bars or rails of either wood, brass or other suitable material and of suitable section
mounted on the shafts such sockets being held in position by a thumbscrew, spring-
bolt or other suitable fastening, the mail cart seat being built on or between the
shafts at one end of the bassinette body, the back and side rests are made
detachable and are connected to the shafts by thumbscrews, springbolts or other
suitable fastening, and will make in its respective positions a vehicle to seat
one child to face its nurse and form a couch or bed for one child to recline in, or
form a bassinette and platform at one end to carry luggage, or form an ordinary
bassinette, or form a bassinette and receptacle at end to carry small articles.
The mail cart seat being hinged and having attached thereto a foot board and
windguard which latter forins a hottom when the said seat is raised in the necessary
position to form a front to the said receptacle being held in such position by a
springbolt or other suitable contrivance.
Dated this 25th day of February 1895.
Convertible Bassinette, Perambulator, Mail Cart, and Luggage
Carrier.
HENRY WILLIAM BEAN Book-keeper 65 Baggrave Street New Evington,
Leicester in the County of Leicestershire do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the combining of the requirements of a bassinette,
perambulator, mail cart and luggage carrier in one vehicle.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to
the sheets of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. on the drawings represents a side view of the body of a bassinette and
mail cart made according to my invention and arranged to carry one child seated
on the front seat to face its nurse and another lying extended its full length in
bassinette body or two children seated face to face.
Fig. 2 represents a similar view with the front or mail cart seat, side and back
rests removed and the body moved forward forming a bassinette or perambulator
o carry two children seated face to face or one child reclining.

page_text: Fig. 3 represents a similar view arranged as a bassinette or perambulator
arranged to carry two children seated face to face and also to carry a box or other
luggage.
Fig. 4 shows the same arranged as a bassinette or perambulator, to carry two
children seated face to face with the front or mail cart seat raised to form a
recepticle to carry small parcels.
Fig. 5 shows a side view of the sliding socket and Fig. 6 a section of same.
Fig. 7 is an end view of the front or mail cart seat with hinge, foot rest & wind
guard attached.
Fig. 8 is an inside view of shaft showing rest to carry seat and pin for seat to
rotate upon.
The bassinette or perambulator body a, is carried on springs b, mounted on
sockets c, to slide on bars or rails d, mounted upon the shafts, such sockets being
held in position by means of the reversible slide E, and wing nut f, the mail cart
or front seat G with the foot rest & windguard G'attached being carried on rests
between the shafts and made detachable to rotate upon the pin, H' the side
and back rests also being made detachable being held in position by the thumb-
screw I.
When arranged as a bassinette or perambulator and luggage carrier as shown at
Fig. 3, the side and back rests will drop forward by removing the front thumb-
screw and are held in position by replacing the said thumbscrew.
When arranged as a bassinette or perambulator to carry two children seated
face to face and with recepticle at end to carry small parcels, the foot rest and
windguard G being attached to the seat G will on raising the said seat to form
a front for the said recepticle rise up to between the shafts and thus form a bottom
to the aforesaid recepticle being held in such position by means of a springbolt or
other suitable fastening attached to the shaft.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
The combination with the body of a bassinette or perambulator with a children's
mail cart seat, back and side rests, capable of being detached, or lowered to form
a platform or raised to form a receptícle and to form four distinct vehicles viz. :-
(1.) A bassinette and mail cart combined,
(2.) A bassinette or perambulator to carry two children seated face to face,
(3.) A bassinette or perambulator and luggage carrier to carry two children
seated face to face in the body and a box or other luggage upon the
platform.
(4.) A bassinette or perambulator to carry two children seated face to face in
the body and a recepticle at end to carry small parcels.
Secondly. I claim the combination of a detachable seat, back and side rests
with a movable bassinette or perambulator body, capable of serving as a bassinette
or perambulator, or a bassinette and mail cart combined substantially as herein-
before described.
Thirdly. I claim the combination of a rail mounted upon shafts with sliding
sockets and springs carrying a bassinette or perambulator body capable of being
moved lackwards or forwards and held in position substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by drawings annexed.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of November 1895.
HENRY WILLIAM BEAN,
Applicant.