Improvements in or pertaining to Perambulators and other like Carriages.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to Perambulators and other like
Carriages.
I WILLIAM JOSEPH HEAD trading as The East London Machine Company of
171 and 173 Mare Street Hackney in the County of Middlesex Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is so to construct perambulators of the ordinary
descriptions and other like carriages and so to fit the same and with such appliances
that each perambulator or carriage can conveniently carry two or three or four
children some of which children also can face either way and one or more of which
children further can be inclined or laid down while the other one or more of
these children can be in a sitting position.
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To carry out this object on an horizontal or other longitudinal bar or suitable
appliance on the inside of each side of the body of the perambulator or carriage
I hinge or otherwise secure one or two or more rigid stiff Haps or tables which are
capable of being turned down against the side of the body and also of being
turned up into an horizontal position or thereabouts in which position each flap
will meet the corresponding flap on the other side of the body and the adjacent
edges thereof can be secured together by sliding clamps or other ordinary devices
and in this position the two corresponding flaps will form a table at the proper
elevation in the body the desired distance above the seats. This pair of flaps can
be of any desired length and can slide or be moved along the length of the body
and when desired two or more similar pairs of flaps may be provided which may
extend the whole length of the body.
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Over each flap a corresponding cushion can be similarly fitted or secured to the
side of the body which can follow the motion of the flap and also be turned up and
secured to the upper edge of the body.
The central part of one or of each of the ends of the body above the seat is
made removable and is so fitted with any convenient and ordinary devices that it
can be secured in its normal position and is capable also of being inclined outwardly
at any desired angle and can also be supported in an horizontal position or there-
abouts it may be either entirely outside the body or entirely inside the same or
partly outside and partly inside as may be preferable and this can conveniently be
effected by the handles of the perambulator or carriage on the outside and by the
flaps on the inside or by other usual devices.
A sliding foot board is fitted under one or each of the ends of the body or of the
seats which can when desired be drawn out.
Instead of making the flaps stiff and rigid as aforesaid they may be made
somewhat flexible and it may be more like an hammock in which case each flap
might if desired be made broad enough to extend across the body.
Dated this 20th day of December 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to Perambulators and other like
Carriages.
I WILLIAM JOSEPH HEAD trading as The East London Machine Company of
171 and 173 Mare Street Hackney in the County of Middlesex 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 object of this my invention is so to construct perambulators of the ordinary
descriptions and other like carriages and so to fit and provide with and for the
same such appliances and devices that each perambulator or carriage can properly
and conveniently and comfortably carry two or three or four children some of
which children also can face either way and one or more of which children further
can be inclined or laid down while the other one or more of these children can be
in a sitting position. In and by this my invention therefore the convenience and
usefulness and the scope or extent of such convenience and utility of these my
perambulators and other like carriages will be greatly enhanced and enlarged.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing-wherein
Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of one of the ordinary kinds of
perambulators as constructed and fitted according to and provided with my
invention Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same taken at ab in
Figure 1 and Figure 3 is an end elevation of the same.
On the inner side of each side of the body A of the perambulator is fitted an
horizontal or nearly horizontal and longitudinal bar or rod B or other similar and
suitable appliance whereon is hinged or otherwise mounted a rigid stiff flap D
capable of being turned down against the side of the body A as is shewn in Figure 1
and also of being turned up into an horizontal position as is shewn in Figure 2 in
which position each flap D will preferably meet or at all events approach the
corresponding flap D on the other side of the body A and the two flaps D can be
secured together by clamps E sliding on the transverse edges thereof or by any
other ordinary and suitable devices and in this position these two corresponding
flaps D will constitute a table or platform as is shewu in Figure 2 and on an
enlarged scale in Figures 6 which table or platform is at the proper elevation
in the body A the desired distance above the ordinary seats therein and these
movable flaps D if desired can be padded or lined or otherwise treated as is the
body A or as may be preferred.
This aforesaid elevation of the table or platform will sometimes even if not
generally be at such a distance above the seats in the perambulator as not to
allow sufficient room to turn down each flap D against the side of the body A
especially when as is preferable even if not absolutely necessary each flap D is
broad enough to meet and touch the corresponding flap D as they are turned up
into an horizontal position and in Figures 4 and 5 is shewn on an enlarged scale an
extremely convenient method of overcoming this difficulty. The rod B whereon
the flap D is hinged or mounted as is hereinbefore described is supported by and is
loosely held in two or more vertically elongated bearings or brackets F secured on
or to the side of the body A as is shewn in Figure 1 and when the flap D is to be
turned down against the side of the body A the rod B can be lifted up in the
elongated bearings or brackets F as is shewn in Figure 5 to allow of such
movement while when the flap D is to be turned up into an horizontal position the

page_text: rod B is allowed to fall to and rest on the bottoms of the elongated bearings or
brackets F as is shewn in Figure 4 to cause the table or platform constituted by
the two corresponding flaps D to be at the proper elevation in the body A.
The pair of movable flaps D can be of any desired length and can slide on the
rods B along the length of the perambulator in the body A and when it may be
desired so to do two or more similar pairs of movable flaps D may be provided
being similarly fitted and mounted on the same or other similar rods B which pairs
of movable flaps D may together extend the whole length of the body A or so far
along the same as may be desired in each particular case.
On and over each movable flap D may when desired be fitted in any usual and
convenient manner a corresponding cushion or other like appliance which cau follow
the movements of such flap D and may be attached thereto or may be separate and
removable therefrom.
Each movable flap D likewise instead of being rigid and stiff as is herein before
stated may be made somewhat flexible or may consist of a rigid frame whereon_a
suitable flexible material may be stretched and secured or may be otherwise made
as may be suitable and convenient in each particular case.
The central upper part H of one or as is perhaps preferable and as is shewn
in Figure 1 of each of the ends of the body A of the perambulator above the level
of the rods B hereinbefore described is cut out and made movable the lower edge
thereof being very conveniently hinged to the end of the body A and this movable
central upper part H is capable of being inclined outwardly at any desired angle
as is shewn in Figure 1 being supported in the desired inclined or horizontal
position by slotted stays K or by any other usual and suitable appliances and can
be retained in its normal position wherein it forms a part of the end of the body A
as is shewn in Figures 2 and 3 by catches L or other such like contrivances and
this movable central upper part H if desired can be padded or lined or otherwise
treated as is the body A or as may be preferred.
Instead of being hinged to the end of the body A of the perambulator as is
herein before described the movable central upper part H may also when desired be
entirely separate therefrom and may be supported in a similar or other convenient
manner and further when in an horizontal position or thereabouts it may be either
entirely outside the body A or entirely inside the same or partly outside and partly
inside as may be preferable or desirable in each particular case and in this case that
portion of this movable central upper part H that may be outside the body A can
be supported by the slotted stays K or by other appliances whether from the
body A or from the handles of the perambulator or elsewhere while that portion
of this movable central upper part H that may be inside the body A can be
supported on and by the table or platform constituted by the two corresponding
movable flaps D when they are turned up into and secured in an horizontal position
as is hereinbefore described.
A sliding footboard M can be provided and can be fitted under one or as is
perhaps preferable and as is shewn in Figure 1 under each of the ends of the
body A of the perambulator or of the seats therein in any usual and convenient
manner which footboard M can when it may be desired so to do be drawn out so far
as may be required or may be arranged for.
Therefore when and as these parts of this my perambulator hereinbefore
described that is to say the movable central upper part or parts H of the end or
ends of the body A the sliding footboard or footboards M if desirable and the pair
or pairs of movable flaps D inside this body A are arranged in such proper
positions as may be expedient or necessary to allow or cause the children in the
desired number to assume the desired positions it is indeed very evident that as is
hereinbefore stated two or three or four children can properly and conveniently and
comfortably be carried in and by this my perambulator.
In the same manner it is sufficiently obvious this my invention could be applied
to other kinds of perambulators and other like carriages and no further description
is or can be needed.

page_text: 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
1. In a perambulator or other like carriage the combination with the body A
thereof of the pair or pairs of movable flaps Ď inside such body A and the movable
central upper part or parts H of the end or ends of such body A substantially as
and for the purpose hereinbefore described and declared.
2. The improvements in or pertaining to perambulators and other like carriages
Bubstantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 14th day of Sentember 1894.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.