Improvements in or relating to Cradles, Cots, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug 1800 Accented 20th Sept
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cradles, Cots, and the like.
We HENRY COUPLAND, Builder No. 16 Gartree Street Leicester and Toм COOKE
Architect Broughton Astley in the County of Leicester do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of our invention is to provide in combination with a cradle, cot, or toy,
or any similar article, an apparatus, or contrivance, to work, swing, or rotate, we
purpose working and giving power to swing the same by the use of and winding up a
spring or spring wheel, connected with other wheels, and from the gearing of the said
wheels, we gain power to drive a crank, lever, piston, or cam, thereby gaining the
desired motion, and the same may be set swinging, when desired. The object of our
invention is to save time, labor, and dispense with the noise which is a frequent
attendant in the use of ordinary cradles. Thereby with this invention, we provide a
useful peice of furniture to household requisites. To construct a cradle to work with
our invention we provide a stand made of any suitable material, so that the cradle, may
work on pins, wheels, or pivots, as desired and the box with the wheel or wheels may
be fixed to the stand, any desired number of wheels may be used to drive and regulate
the cradle. The lever, or cam, may work on or round a pin fixed to the cradle. The
spring wheel may be checked with a pall, spring, or lever.
Dated this 18th day of October 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cradles, Cots, and the like.
We, HENRY COUPLAND, of Gartree Street, Leicester, Builder, and Tом COOKE, of
Broughton Astley, Architect, both in the County of Leicester, 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 :-
:-
Our invention relates to cradles, cots and the like, the object being to provide means
for imparting a swinging or oscillating motion thereto.
For this purpose we mount the cradle, cot or the like on pivots or wheels in a suitable
stand, and we give the required motion thereto by means of a spring adapted to drive
a train of gearing which operates a crank or cam connected with the cradle, cot or the
like as hereinafter more particularly described.
In order to enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe how it can
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of a cradle or cot provided with means for
imparting a swinging or oscillating motion thereto according to our invention; and
Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same with one end of the stand removed.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
a, a represent the stand, and 6 the cradle or cot which we mount therein upon
pivots c, c.
d is the spring adapted to drive the train of wheels e, f, g, h, i mounted in a suitable
case secured to the end a of the stand. The arbor j of the wheels h, i is extended to
a bracket c' on the opposite end a² of the frame, where it is fitted with the crank k
having jointed to it one end of a connecting rod 1, the other end of which is jointed
at m to the cradle.
n is the square for receiving a key for winding up the spring d; o is a fly operated

page_text: from the wheel i through the medium of a pinion p and serving to regulate the action
of the mechanism; q is a pin which can be moved in or out of engagement with the
fly o, for the purpose of stopping or starting 'the mechanism.
By this arrangement the spring d having been wound up, if it be required to rock or
oscillate the cradle, it is only necessary to withdraw the pin from contact with the fly o,
whereupon the spring and gearing will communicate a rotary motion to the crank k,
which, through the medium of the rod I, will cause the cradle b to swing or oscillate
on its pivots c, c without attendance.
Although we have shewn and described a crank for giving the required oscillating
motion to the cradle it will be obvious that this motion could be communicated by
means of a cam.
We wish it understood that our improvements are applicable both to cradles and
cots for practical use and to cradles and cots intended to be used as toys.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
The improvements in or relating to cradles, cots, and the like hereinbefore described
with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 19th day of August 1890
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.