Year: 1888

page_text: We HENRY SEPTIMUS WHITEHOUSE of the Firm of John Whitehouse and Sons of
Green Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Brassfounders and ALFRED
CHARLES MARLOW of Sadler Street Sparkhill in the County of Worcester Commercial
Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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The hood joint of a perambulator or carriage consists of two arms or rods the inner
ends of which are jointed together by a knuckle joint the outer end of one of the sud
arms being jointed to the hood and the outer end of the other arm to the body of the
perambulator or carriage or the outer ends of both rods are jointed to the hood
Our invention consists in jointing together the two arms of the hood joint in the
manner herein after described in place of the ordinary knuckle joint
By our invention the manufacture of the hood joint is much economized as the parts
of the joint can be made from stamped work and consequently little finishing is
required Further a very strong joint is produced and the meeting parts of the joint
are not exposed as in the ordinary knuckle joint and hence the pinching of or injury
to the fingers which frequently occurs in the use of the ordinary hood joint is
avoided
In making a hood joint according to our invention we connect to each of the inner
ends of the arms or rods a cross head or pivot the said head or pivot consisting of a
short piece of cylindrical rod into which the end of the arm of the hood Joint is
screwed at right angles to the axis of the said rod
The cross heads or pivots of the two arms work in and are connected to a joint box
constructed in the following manner The said joint box is made of three parts
namely of a middle piece or body and two end caps riveted together The middle
piece or body of the box is fashioned from a flat perforated strip of brass or other
strong ductile sheet metal and has an oblong figure with semi-circular ends the said
body having such a size and shape that the two cylindrical cross heids or pivots on
the ends of the two arms of the hood joint can freely turn in it The perforations in
the strip when the latter is bent into the body of the joint box form slots or openings
in its inner side for the arms of the hood joint to work in the said slots or openings

page_text: having such a length and position that while they permt the irms to be brought
parallel to one another for closing the hood they also prevent the opening out of the
sud arms beyond the position in which they are brought into line for fully opening
the hood In jointing the two arms of the hood joint together the cylindrical pieces
to form the cross heads or pivots on the sad arms are passed into the middle piece or
body of the joint box through its open sides and the ends of the sud arms are
screwed into the said heads or pivots which nearly fill up the said middle piece or
hody
The two cups are next placed upon the open sides of the body and the three parts
are secured together by riveting the rivets being passed through the two caps and
through the unoccupied spaces between the two cross hends or pivots it the middle of
the joint box The jointing together of the two arms of the hood joint is now
complete
Dated th.. 5th of T 1004
WT WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant
Improvements in Hood Joints for Perambulators and Carriages
We HFNRY SEPTIMUS WHITE HOUSF of the firm of John Whitehouse and Sons of
Green Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwich, Brassfounders, and ALFRED
CHARLES MARLOW of Sadler Street, Spirkhill in the County of Worcester, Commercial
Clerk do hereby declare the nature of our Invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
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The hood joint of a perambulator or carriage consists of two arms or rods the inner
ends of which are jointed together by a knuckle joint, the outer end of one of the said
arms being jointed to the hood and the outer end of the other arm to the body of the
perambulitor or carriage, or the outer ends of both rods are jointed to the hood
Our invention consists in jointing together the two arms of the hood Joint in the
manner hereinafter described in place of the ordinary knuckle joint
By our invention the manufacture of the hood joint is much economized as the
parts of the joint can be made from stamped work and consequently little finishing is
required Further, a very strong joint is produced and the meeting parts of the joint
are not exposed is in the ordin uy knuckle joint and hence the pinching of or injury
to the fingers which frequently occurs in the use of the ordinary hood joint is
avoided

page_text: In making a hood joint according to our invention we connect to each of the inner
ends of the arms or rods, a cross head or pivot the said head or pivot consisting of a
short piece of cylindrical rod into which the end of the arm of the hood joint is
screwed it right angles to the axis of the said rod
The cross heids or pivots of the two arms work in and are connected to a joint box
constructed in the following manner The sud joint box is made of three parts
namely of middle piece or body and two end caps riveted together The middle
piece or body of the box is fashioned from a flat perforated strip of brass or other
strong ductile sheet metal and has an oblong figure with semi-circular ends, the sud
body having such a size and shape that the two cylindrical cross bends or pivots on the
ends of the two arms of the hood joint can freely turn in it The perforations in the
strip when the latter is bent into the body of the joint box form slots or openings in
the inner side for the arms of the hood joint to work in the said slots or openings
having such a length and position that while they permit the irms to be brought
parallel to one another for closing the hood they also prevent the opening out of the
sud arms beyond the position in which they are brought into line for fully opening
the hood
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent elevations taken in planes
at right angles to one another of a hood joint for perambulator or carriage
constructed according to our invention, the two arms or rods of the hood Joint being
opened out or brought into line for opening the hood, the dotted position of one of the
arms or rods in Figure 1 indicating the position which that arm takes when it is
folded upon or brought parallel to the other arm for closing the hood
Figures 3 and 4 represent sections of the joint taken in planes at right angles to
one another, Figure 5 represents one of the cross heads or pivots of the joint made
from a cylindrical rod having a screwed cross hole, Figure 6 represents the per-
forated blank or strip of sheet metal from which the middle part of the joint is made
and Figure 7 represents in edge view and side elevation the iniddle part of the joint
fashioned from the perforated blank or strip Figure 6, Figure 8 represents one of
the caps used to cover the open sides of the middle piece of the joint
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing
a, a are the two arms or rods of the hood joint to the inner end of each of which a
cross head or pivot b (shown separately in Figure 5) is connected by screwing the
screwed end of the said arm or rod into the cross screwed holo in the sud cross head
or pivot as seen in Figures 3 and 4 The cross heads or pivots b, b of the two ums
or rods a, a work in a joint box consisting of the middle piece or body c (shown
separately in Figure 7) and two cups d, d (one of which is shown separately in
Figure 8) by which the open sides of the body care closed the said caps being
rivetted together and to the body c by the rivets e, e passed through the unoccupied
spaces between the joint box and the cross heads or pivots bb is seen in Figure 4
The middle piece or body c of the joint has an oblong figure with circular ends and
is provided with the holes or perforations marked It will be seen by reference
to Figure 4 that the holes or perforations, in the middle p ece c of the joint box
have such a length and position that while they permit the rods or arms a, a to
become parallel for closing the hood (in which position the said arms bear against the
stop c³ between the holes) the said holes c, c² prevent the said rods or arms a, a from
opening out beyond the position in which they are brought into line for fully opening
the hood as shown in the Drawing
In Jointing the two arms or rods a a of the hood joint together the cylindrical
pieces to form the cross heads or pivots b, b on the said arms or rods are passed into
the middle piece or body c of the joint box through its open sides and the ends of
the said arms or rods a, a are pissed through the perforations or holes ², c² in the
said middle piece or body c and screwed into the said hunds or pivots bb, which nearly
fill up the said middle piece or body, is seen in Figures 3 and 4 The two caps d, d
are next placed upon the open sides of the body cand the three parts are secured
together by the rivets e, e which are passed through the two caps d à and through the

page_text: unoccupied spices between the two cross heads or pivots b, b at the middle of the
Joint box c as seen in Figure 4 The jointing together of the two arms or rods a a of
the hood joint is now complete
By constructing a hood joint in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated
the advantages hereinbefore pointed out are obtained
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as
our invention of "Improvements in hood joints for perambulators and carriages
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Constructing each of the said hood joints of cross heads or pivots to which the inner
end of the arms or rods of the joint are connected and a joint box in which the said
cross heads or pivots work the said Joint box being made of perforated middle piece
or open sided body and side closing caps rivetted together, the several parts of the
hood joint being constructed arranged and working substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing
Dated the Twentieth day of February 1889
HENRY SEPTIMUS WHITEHOUSE
ALFRED CHARLES MARLOW