An Improvement in the Construction of Wheelbarrows.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Feb., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Construction of Wheelbarrows.
SIDNEY HAMPDEN LOCKE of Beech Cottage Burnage Lane Withington in the
County of Lancaster Export Buyer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable a wheelbarrow to be tilted so as to
discharge its load, without the liability of the wheel running backwards or the barrow
tilting too far forwards and falling over as frequently occurs.
This I propose to remedy by hinging the body or box of the barrow at the front
part to the shafts or under carriage so that the body or box alone is tilted when
discharging the load, without raising the handles or shafts, whilst the under carriage
rests upon the wheel and legs, and is thus perfectly steady.
The body or box may be tilted by means of levers, or it may be provided with fixed
handles for that purpose.
T1 love of Santambar 1888
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I SIDNEY HAMPDEN LOCKE of Beech Cottage Burnage Lane, Withington in the
County of Lancaster Export Buyer 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 :-
The object of this invention is to enable a wheelbarrow to be tilted so as to discharge
its load without the liability of the wheel running backwards or the barrow tilting too
far forwards and falling over as frequently occurs,
This I propose to remedy by hinging the body or box of the barrow at the front
part to the frame or under carriage, so that the body or box alone is tilted, when
discharging the load, without raising the handles or shafts, whilst the under carriage
resis upon the wheel and legs, and is thus perfectly steady.
The body or box may be tilted by means of levers or it may be provided with fixed
handles for that purpose.
On the annexed drawing Fig. 1. is a section and Fig. 2 a plan view of a wheel-
harrow, constructed according to my improvements, and Fig. 3 is a section of the
same with the box tilted.
Fig. 4 shows a modification of the same applied to what is known as a "navvy's"
wheel-barrow.
In Figs. 1. 2 and 3 a is the frame or under carriage of the wheel barrow fitted with
shafts legs c and wheel d. e is the box or body which I make separate from the
frame or undercarriage a, and I hinge it thereto at the point f
The box e is provided with lever handles g by means of which it can be tilted as
shown at Fig. 3. without raising the legs e from the ground. h (Fig. 3) is a strut by
which the box can be retained in the tilted position when required.
In the modification shown at Fig. 4. the shafts are attached to the box e instead
of to the frame a whereby the extra lever handles are dispensed with, the shafts
serving for both wheeling, and tilting. A wrought iron fixing i is attached to the
frame a to carry the wheel d. A hook or other similar fastening is provided in both
cases for attaching the box to the frame when wheeling.
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 I
claim is :-
The improvement in the construction of wheelbarrows consisting in hinging the
box or body of the barrow at the front part thereof to the frame, or under carriage
substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein before set forth and illustrated
by the drawings annexed.
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