Improvements in Sliding Back Rest Supports for eramu and other similar Vehicles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 16th Nov., 1888
Improvements in Sliding Back Rest Supports for eramu
and other similar Vehicles.
1, EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER of Hospital Street Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described, in the
adjustable and supporting fittings of back-rests, for perambulators, and other similar
vehicles; whereby the said supports, are simplified in their construction and
manufacture, and the length of sliding-rod work, greatly reduced.
Usually the upper terminal ends of the rest supporting rods, are surmounted by
knobs, or terminals, whilst the attachment brackets, which are secured to the back of
the rest, are carried below the said terminals.
By the first part of my invention, I dispense with the terminals as aforesaid, and
substitute therefor, the attachment brackets, consisting of plates, pierced and counter-
sunk with screw holes, and with each of them provided with outwardly raised middle
parts, which come upon the upper ends of the tubes or rods, constituting the sliding
supports.
The attachment plates are connected to the back of the rest, which is capable of
being adjusted, on the supporting rods being raised or lowered.
The said sliding supports or rods, which run parallel to each other, and at the back
of a perambulator or carriage, work within guide eyes or socket loops, disposed at
considerable distances apart, upon vertical attachment plates, connected together, by a
cross plate or plates, or webs.
The upper or lower socket eye of each rod, is provided with a clamping screw, the
stem of which passes inwardly, through an internally screwed neck, and with its end
abnting unon the rod or support:

page_text: The attachment plates may be made separately, from the cross plate or plates; so
that they are placed and secured in position, independent of each other.
The cross connections, are for the purpose of keeping the attachment plates carrying
the guides, at equal distances apart, whereby the supporting rods are directed and
guided in parallel directions.
711
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1000
improvements in Shaing Back Rest Supports for Perambulators
and other similar Vehicles.
I, EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER of Hospital Street, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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 said invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in sliding
back-rest supports, and their fittings for perambulators and other similar vehicles
whereby the said rests are greatly simplified in their construction and cost of
manufacture, while the length of sliding-rod work is greatly reduced.
Usually, the upper terminal ends of the rest supporting rods are surmounted by
knobs or terminals, whilst the attachment brackets which are secured to the back of
the rest, are carried below the said terminals.
By the first part of my invention, I dispense with the terminals as aforesaid, and
substitute therefor attachment brackets, consisting essentially of socketed attachment
plates, which come upon the upper ends of the tubes or rods constituting the sliding
supports.
The attachment plates are connected to the back of the rest, which is capable of
being adjusted by the supporting rods.
The said sliding supports or rods, which run parallel to each other, and at the back
of a perambulator or carriage, work within guide eyes or socket loops disposed at
considerable distances apart, upon vertical attachment plates, connected together by a
cross plate or plates, or webs.
The upper or lower socket eye of each rod is provided with a clamping screw, the
stem of which passes inwardly through an internally screwed neck, and with its inner
end abuting upon the rod or support.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation a sliding back rest
support, and its fittings, constructed and arranged according to my invention. It
will be seen that the said parts are secured to the back of a perambulator, and its
adjustable head rest.
Figure 2 represents partly in side elevation, and partly in vertical section, the said
sliding back rest support, and its fittings, and which said section is taken upon the
dotted lines A B of the said figure 1.
Figure 3 represents one of the rods of the sliding support and its attachment
bracket, separately.
Figure 4 shows a side elevation of a complete perambulator provided with my new
or improved back-rest support.
Figure 5 represents in elevation, a modification of the combined sockets and
attachment plates, which form the means whereby the rest supporting rods are
guided.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a. a are rest supporting rods, sliding within top socket loops b, b, and bottom guide
eyes c, c, directed from the face of, and fixedly carried by a single attachment plate d,
whose upwardly directed branched parts are with the bottom cross part d³,
connected by screws to the back e of a perambulator.
The bottoms of the rest supporting rods a a are plain, while the tops are provided
with fixed attachment plates a², which are secured to the back rest f, of a perambulator,
by screws or other means.
The rest admits of sliding in a vertical and parallel direction, by the rods sliding
within the socket loops and guide eyes and in order to affix the said rest in any
adjusted position, the rods admit of being clamped by screws g, whose screw stems g²
pass through internally screwed necks 63, of the socket loops b.
In figure 5, the branched parts of the attachment plate d, are made separate, and
attached by screws at top and bottom; so that by such independent attachment, the
plates admit of being placed at any distance apart.
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 :-
First A sliding back rest attachment plate, consisting of a single plate with
socket loops b, b, and guide eyes c, 6, or a branched plate d, d², d³, with socket
loops b, b, and guide eyes e, e, as described and set forth in figures 1 and 2.
Secondly -A sliding back rest support, consisting of an attachment plate with its
socket loops and guide eyes d, d², d³, b, c, and the adjustable supporting rods a with
their attachment brackets a and which said parts are constructed, arranged and
affixed in position, substantially in the manner, and for the purpose as set forth.
:-
Thirdly Providing or fitting the upper ends (or the lower ends) of rest supporting
rods, of the kind as herein described, with attachment brackets, plates or means a², as
set forth.
:-
Lastly Sliding back-rest attachment plates, consisting of independent plates with
socket loops and guide eyes, as set forth in figure 5.
EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.