Year: 1886

page_text: I LEON L'HOLLIER of Bath Passage Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Perambulator Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in perambulator bodies which
combine elegance in appearance and softness to the touch with considerable
strength in the whole when finished and these qualities are obtained with less
expense.
I construct perambulator bodies from combinations of cane, willow, rush, wood
and bamboo cane and a certain amount of wire so as to combine strength
durability and appearance together for instance: I make the staking or uprights
generally from willow or cane and where the diagonals require to be stiff also from
either willow or cane as also the "randing" "slucing" or "whaling" or longitu-
dinals which constitute the form of the body in plan-Of course the bottom may
be made in the same manner or of wood or partly of wood only. I use the rush
either in its natural state or plaited or twisted principally to entwine with the
cane or willow or other parts where stiffness is not the primary object and it may
be run either horizontally or diagonally or vertically so as to produce a soft easy
impression or appearance to the eye. The wire may be either used for binding
purpose and to take the extreme tension of the parts or it may be used in combi-
nation with the rush or the rush and willow or the cane and willow in fact so as
to tie or weave the whole together the willow or cane taking the compression and
the rush filling up the ornamentation or assisting in such. I may use painted
or other panels with a surrounding or trimming of rush either plain or plaited
so as to ornament the same the panels being either worked into the frame or fixed
thereon.
The whole may be finished with paint or varnish or some parts plain and some
parts in the natural state.
Dated this 21st dow of Ananat 1886
JOHN KENDRICK,
Agent for Applicant,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.

page_text: I LEON L'HOLLIER of Bath Passage Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Perambulator Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN PERAMBULATOR BODIES and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention bas for its object improvements in perambulator bodies which
combine elegance in appearance and softness to the touch with considerable strength
in the whole length when finished and the qualities are obtained with less
expense.
I construct perambulator bodies from combinations of cane, willow, rush, wood,
and bamboo cane and a certain amount of wire so as to combine strength
durability and appearance together instance. I make the stakings or uprights
generally from willow and cane and where the diagonals require to be stiff also
from either willow or cane as also the "randing" slucing or whaling or or longitu
dinals which constitute the form of the body in plan. Of course the bottom may
be made in the same manner or of wood or partly of wood only. I use the rush
either in its natural state or plaited or twisted principally to entwine with the
cane or willow or other parts where stiffness is not the primary object and it may
be run either horizontally or diagonally or vertically so as to produce a soft easy
impression or appearance to the eye. The wire may be either used for binding
purpose and to take the extreme tension of the parts or it may be used in combi-
nation with the rush or the rush and willow or the cane and willow in fact so as
to tie or weave the whole together the willow or cane taking the compression and
the rush filling up the ornamentation or assisting in such. I may use painted or
other panels with a surrounding or trimming of rush either plain or plaited so
as to ornament the same the panels being either worked into the frame or fixed
thereon.
The whole may be finished with paint or varnish or some parts plain and some
parts in the natural state.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood and carried into
practice without difficulty I have appended herunto two sheets of drawings which
are merely representative of one variation amongst the many which are possible
without in any way departing from the nature of my said invention.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a perambulator which has its body composed of a
combination of willow, cane, and rush in such a manner as to combine the qualities
herein before mentioned for instance the uprights or staking A would generally be
made of willow as they combine stiffness and lightness together and are therefore
highly suitable for that part but cane or bamboo may be used. Then the rings
B, C, D are made of cane twisted which ties and binds the uprights together the
top or rim E in this case being of tough wood with holes bored therein to receive
the uprights. Thus the frame work is made stiff after which the rush whether
plaited, twisted or plain is entwined as at F and H which when carried all around
completes the top and bottom parts but in this instance panels K and M of rush

page_text: are filled in which add greatly to the ornamental appearance of the body as a
whole. The staking at K and M is carried up vertically at those parts if necessary
to facilitate the forming of the pattern by the rush at these parts and it will be
evident that a great number and variety of patterns in panels may be obtained by
increasing the number, form and position of the staking and the rush work as well
as by filling in suitable wood or other painted or ornamental panels which may be
trimmed or interwoven at the edge or edges thereof with the rush work. Such
ornamentation of rush-work may also be interwoven with wire work or fixed with
wire or other nails to any part thereof.
Figure 2 illustrates a very light and simple perambulator with the N and O
made of cane and the bottom ring P of willow as well as the staking R which is
carried out in open diagonal work which gives great stiffness to the body. In this
case only the part S is filled in with rush which may be twisted plaited or plain.
I may of course treat the rush or other parts with either paint varnish stain or
in other ways according to the design thereof, and I may interchange the parts
thereof using more or less cane, or more or less willow, or more or less wood, or
more or less rush, wire or other material as will be readily understood by makers
of perambulators.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improvements in perambulator bodies which are composed of a combination
of rush whether twisted or plaited or plain with other materials substantially as
and for the purpose herein set forth.