Improvements in Mail Carts, Bassinette Carriages, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of App.ication, 6th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5tn Dec. 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mail Carts, Bassinette Carriages, and the like. :
We, ERNEST DAWSON CURRALL of 137 Conybere Street in the City of
Birmingham, Manager, and THOMAS HARRIS trading as Thomas Harris and
Company of 179 Bradford Street Birmingham; aforesaid, Perambulator Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
Our invention consists of adjusting to the shafts of an ordinary mail cart a seat
so as to obtain a mail cart which can be used to seat either one child or two
children or which may be converted into a bassinette for a child to lie down. We
construct an adjustable or shaft seat so that it can be placed in position for the
occupant to sit either facing or with back to the shafts. The bottom or bed of
this seat is made folding and hinged so that the upper part may fall over the well
or box for the feet and so form a bed for a child to lie down. To the bottom of
the adjustable seat we attach pins or pegs which fit or slide into sockets on the
shafts so that the seat may be easily reversed or taken away as required.
The other seat can also be made reversible and detachable in the same manner.
Dated this Third day of March 1894.
HENRY F. TALBOT,
7, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mail Carts, Bassinette Carriages, and the like.
We, ERNEST DAWSON CURRALL of 137 Conybere Street in the City of
Birmingham Manager and THOMAS HARRIS trading as Thomas Harris and
Company of 179 Bradford Street Birmingham, aforesaid, Perambulator Manu-
facturers 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, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which similar letters of reference refer to similar parts :-
Our invention consists of adjusting to the shafts of an ordinary mail cart a seat
so as to obtain a mail cart which can be used to seat either one child or two
children; or which may be converted into a bassinette for a child to lie down.
Referring to the drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a view of a mail cart shewing the seat in position for a child to lie
down.
Fig. 2 is a section of part of a mail cart with the seat in position for two children
to sit facing each other.
Fig. 3 is a similar section with the adjustable seat shewn in the reversed
position.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the pin or peg.
Fig. 5 is a similar view of the socket.
We construct an adjustable or shaft seat (a) so that it can be placed in position
for the occupant to sit either facing, or with back, to the shafts (b) as shewn in
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page_text: Figs. 1. 2. and 3. The bottom or bed (c) of the seat (a) is made folding with a
hinge (d) so that the upper part (c') may fall over the well or box (e) and so form
a bed for a child to lie down as shewn in Fig. 1. To the bottom of the adjustable
seat (a) we attach pins or pegs (f) which fit into sockets (g) on the shafts (6) so
that the seat (a) may be easily reversed or taken away as required.
The mail cart is provided with a foot rest (h) for use when the occupant of the
adjustable seat (a) is facing the shafts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In conjunction with a mail cart or bassinette carriage, a reversible and
detachable seat, to be placed in position by means of pins or pegs fitting into
sockets substantially as hereinbefore described; and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2: Pins or pegs attached to the seat of mail carts and fitting into sockets on the
'shafts of the mail carts substantially as described and illustrated and for the
purposes herein named.
Dated this Fourth day of December 1894.