Improvements in Convertible or Open or Close Carriages for Common Roads.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Convertible or Open or Close Carriages for
Common Roads.
1, DAVID GEORGE HOEY, of 196 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Chartered Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of
this Invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to construct or fit a carriage for common
roads in an improved manner, and so that whilst it can be used as an open or
close carriage, being provided with a movable or adjustable hood of any suitable
existing kind, it can be driven from a
seat in front, or from a seat or board
behind, or from a seat within the carriage.
In carrying out the Invention the improved carriage is constructed more or less
like a phaeton or landau or any other style of carriage capable of being arranged
as an open carriage or as a close carriage. The front driver's seat is arranged so
that it can be closed up into small compass, or so that it can be easily removed;
and provision is made for fixing at the back either a board for a footman or page
or a driver's seat. Within the carriage the seats are constructed so as ordinarily
to be like the usual seats in the interior of a landau or other carriage; but
provision is made for raising one of the back seats, to a convenient height for use
by a gentleman or lady when driving. The raised seat is arranged so as to have any
desired inclination suitable for driving; and instead of being the ordinary seat raised
it may consist of a scat placed above the ordinary seat when required, provision being
made for securing it in position. In connection with the movable driving seat in
the interior there is also by preference provided a foot board which can be placed
in a suitable position for the feet of a person using the raised seat, such foot board
being capable of being lowered or moved aside or removed when not required.
Dated this Twelfth day of March 1888.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent...

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Convertible or Open or Close Carriages for
Common Roads.
I, DAVID GEORGE HOEY formerly of 196, St. Vincent Street, but now of Commercial
Bank Buildings, 8 Gordon Street Glasgow in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Chartered Accountant, 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 :-
My said invention has for its object to construct or fit a carriage for common roads
in an improved manner, and so that whilst it can be used alternatively as an open or
close carriage, being provided with a movable or adjustable hood of any suitable
existing kind, it can be driven from a seat in front or from a seat or board behind or
from a seat within the carriage so that it may be driven in the same manner as an
open park Phacton.
In carrying out the invention the improved carriage is constructed more or less
like a phaeton or landau or any other style of carriage capable of being arranged
alternatively as an open carriage or as a close carriage. The front driver's seat is
arranged so that it can either be used for that purpose, when the carriage is driven,
open or close, by a servant, or be closed up into small compass, or so that it can be
easily removed when not required for that purpose, and provision is made for fixing
at the back either a board for a footman or page or a driver's seat. Within the carriage
the seats are constructed so as ordinarily, when used either as an open or close carriage,
driven by a servant from the driving seat in front or from a seat behind, to be like the
usual seats in the interior of a landau or other carriage, but provision is made for
raising one of the back seats to a convenient height for use by a gentleman or lady
when driving it as an open carriage like a park Phaeton. The raised seat is arranged
so as to have any desired inclination suitable for driving. Instead of being the ordinary
seat, raised, it may consist of a scat placed above the ordinary seat when required,
provision being made for securing it in position. In connection with the movable
driving seat in the interior there is also by preference provided a foot board which
can be placed in a suitable position for the feet of a person using the raised seat, such
foot board being capable of being conveniently lowered or moved aside or removed
when not required.
The precise forms and proportions of the several structural details employed in
practically carrying out my improvements in convertible or open or close carriages
may be modified to suit varied tastes, conditions and requirements.
In order that my invention and the manner of performing the same may be properly,
understood I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings on which the
same letters indicate like parts, to bo hereinafter referred to, and representing by way
of example, one convenient arrangement thereof.
Fig. 1 of the drawings is a side elevation of a square shaped landau with my
improvements applied thereto and showing the carriage open and being driven
from the inside back seat.
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page_text: Fig. 2, is a side elevation of a canoe shaped landau with my improvements applied
thereto and showing the carriage as being driven from the box seat.
Fig. 3, is a longitudinal section of the interior of the carriage and showing the
movable back seat and foot board.
Fig. 4, is a plan view of interior of carriage.
Fig. 5, is a detail view showing in section one arrangement of driving box seat,
and with the box closed.
Fig. 6, shows in section another arrangement of box driving seat, with the seat in
its closed position whilst the foot board is down.
Fig. 7, is a plan view of the box seat figs. 2, 5 & 6.
Fig. 8, is a perspective view of the inside back seat showing the seat in its raised
position.
A, is the body of the carriage showing the folding cover or hood B, in its lowered
or open position. The dotted lines at fig. 2, indicate the hood in its raised or closed
position. C is the drivers box which may only be a small box seat in the centre of
the breadth of the carriage as shown at fig. 7, where the dotted lines represent the full
breadth of the carriage. Under one arrangement (see fig. 5) the box (, has a recess
cut or formed in it into which recess the seat D is capable of being folded or turned
over, a hinge E, being provided for this purpose.
The foot board F, is or may also be
hinged at G so as to be capable of being folded up against the box (', a chain H. or
equivalent device is provided on each side to keep the foot board in position. Under
another arrangement, see fig. 6, the seat D may be made to fold into a "quadrantal
shaped recess and so as to be under the upper part of the box. A double hinge I,
being provided for this purpose and to keep the seat in its folded up position a small
pin J, or other suitable catching device may be provided. The foot board F, folds up
against the box so as to enclose the seat.
Instead of having folding seats as described the seats may be movable and capable
of being placed on top of the box when desired for driving and when not in use can
be stowed away into a suitable recess made in the box.
K is the inside back seat which is capable of being raised when required for use as
a driving seat, hinges L being provided at the front for that purpose. The seat is
supported in its raised position by means of small supports M, or their equivalent, the
supports are shown with hinges N, so as to be capable of being folded into a groove
or recess O, when the seat is lowered. The small foot board P is also capable of
being raised and lowered, hinges Q and supports R being provided for the purpose.
S, is the back-seat for the servant or footman which may be constructed in the same
manner as the ordinary Phaeton or Victoria seat, the seat may be made to fold
up if desired.
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A fork or guide T for the reins may also be provided. This guide T may be made
to fold on top of the box when not in use.
Instead of making the front driving seat or box C, solid as shown, it may be a light
metal or wood framework so that the lady or gentleman driving the carriage from the
inside back seat could see through it, in which case the seat or cushion D may be
removable and could be placed underneath the framework, and so that the foot-
board F. could then be folded over on top of it.
The inside back seat instead of being hinged as shown, may be a separate movab.e
seat which when not required for use would be put under the ordinary seat and
when required for driving would be placed on top of the seat.
The footboard P. instead of being hinged may be made capable of being move
aside when not required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what
1 claim is
1. The improvements in convertible or open or close carriages, for common roads,
substantially as hereinbefore described.

page_text: 2. The general arrangement and combination of parts forming my improvements in
convertible or open or close carriages, for common roads, substantially as hereinbefore
_described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
3. In convertible or open or close carriages for common roads, providing means or
arrangements for raising one of the back seats within the carriage to a convenient
height and to any desired inclination substantially as hereinbefore described and
shown on the annexed drawings and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
4. In convertible or open or close carriages for common roads providing, in
combination with a back seat within the carriage capable of being raised and
lowered at will, a suitable footboard for the feet of the person using said seat,
said footboard being capable of being conveniently lowered or moved aside when
not required, substantially as shown on the accompanying drawings and as hereinbefore
described.
5. In convertible or open or close carriages for common roads, providing a front
driver's seat so arranged that it can either be used for that purpose when the carriage
is driven, open or close, by a servant or closed up into small compass when not
required, substantially as herein before described and shown on the accompanying
drawings.