Improvements in and relating to Go-carts and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Go-carts and the like.
I KATE ELIZABETH CHANDLER of The Three Mills Distillery, Three Mills
Lane, Bromley-by-Bow London E. 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 improvements in children's "go-carts." Hitherto these
carts, though forming an excellent and healthful means of recreative enjoyment
for children, have in no way possessed the additional advantage of being of use in
the comfortable conveyance of infants.
The basinette perambulator is still a necessity in a household where there are
very young children or babies, and who from their infancy are incapable of
assuming the constrained and upright position necessitated in the "go-cart
present constructed.
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Now this invention has for its object so to construct the "go-cart" that it shall
be adaptable either as a means of carriage for children in the ordinary upright
sitting position, or at will, as a basinette or couch on which an infant may be
carried in a reclining position.
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To accomplish this I form an attachment to the ordinarily constructed "go-cart
which may be utilized as a bed or couch when so desired without at all interfering
with the original form and uses of the "go-cart," and for convenience fix suspend
or otherwise carry such attachment when desired to be utilized as a bed or couch
between the shafts of the "go-cart."
And in order that this my invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect reference is had to the accompanying drawing which represents two
styles of "go-cart" fitted with the attachment for use in conveying infants in a
reclining position, similar letters of reference refer to like parts in both figures.
a is the attachment formed of any suitable substance or material, such as canvas,
leather, wire or network, or of laths of wood or metal fixed or suspended to, or
carried by the shafts by means of hooks and eyes c and adjusting ropes cords or
chains d. When not required the attachment a may be disconnected and if formed
of canvas leather or other suitable folding material be conveniently packed beneath
the seat or elsewhere. Or as more particularly adapted for use in "go-carts" with
straight shafts as illustrated in Fig. 2, the attachment a may consist of a frame-
work of wood or metal carrying a canvas, cane or other suitable bottom or seating
and the whole may be made to slide when not in use, in grooves formed upon the
inside of the sides and shafts of the cart, and be stowed underneath the body of
the cart.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
In "go-carts" the attachment a for use as a bed or couch by which such vehicles
or conveyances are adapted when desired to the purpose of conveniently carrying
infants and others in a reclining position, substantially as herein before described
and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for Applicant.