IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING CARRIAGE BODIES.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Deacon, of Hans Place, Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING
CARRIAGE BODIES.".
Sealed the 30th December 1856, and dated the 20th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Deacon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th October 1856.
I, HENRY DEACON, of Hans Place, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING
CARRIAGE BODIES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in suspending carriage
bodies. For these purposes, in place of using an ordinary perch, two side bars
or braces are employed, one on either side of the carriage, and such bars or
braces are curved or bent, so as to descend between the fore and hind wheels
sufficiently to have a step formed or affixed to each of them, and it is preferred
that the wings should also be fixed to such side bars or braces. The hinder
ends of these bars or braces are affixed directly to the hinder axle, or by
preference to a bar or frame which has springs between it and the binder axle.
The back of the body is suspended by means of two C springs affixed to the
hinder ends of the side bars or braces, or to the bar or frame which connects
them. The fore ends of the two bars or braces are each fixed to a horizontal

page_text: bar, by preference of wood, which is supported by two half elliptical springs,
placed back to back, and secured to a frame which turns on the pin of the
locking motion. The front of the body of the carriage is suspended to two
C springs, the lower ends of which are attached to the bars which are fixed to
the fore ends of the side bars or braces, and the C springs rest on the central
parts of the elliptical springs. The central parts of the elliptical springs and
the C spring (on each side) are retained in position by uprights fixed to the
frame carried by the locking motion. It may be remarked, that the mode of
arranging and combining the fore springs and frame on the locking motion
may be used with advantage without the C springs and without the side bars
or braces.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Deacon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
DEACON, of Hans Place, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
réign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Deacon, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Deacon, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Deacon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and. Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING
CARRIAGE BODIES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Deacon, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of, the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Deacon, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in suspending carriage
bodies. For these purposes, in place of using an ordinary perch, two side bars
or braces are employed, one on either side of the carriage, and such bars or
braces are curved or bent, so as to descend between the fore and hind wheels
sufficiently to have a step formed or affixed to each of them; and it is preferred
that the wings should also be fixed to such side bars or braces. The hinder
ends of these bars or braces are affixed directly to the hinder axle, or by
preference to a bar or frame which has springs between it and the hinder axle.
The back of the body is suspended by means of two C springs, affixed to the
hinder ends of the side bars or braces, or to the bar or frame which connects
them. The fore ends of the two bars or braces are each fixed to a horizontal
bar, by preference of wood, which is supported by two half elliptical springs,
placed back to back, and secured to a frame which turns on the pin of the
locking motion. The front of the body of the carriage is suspended to two
C springs, the lower ends of which are attached to the bars which are fixed
to the fore ends of the side bars or braces, and the C springs rest on the
central parts of the elliptical springs. The central parts of the elliptical springs
and the springs (on each side) are retained in position by uprights fixed to
the frame carried by the locking motion. It may be remarked, that the mode
of arranging and combining the fore springs and frame on the locking motion
may be used with advantage without the C springs and without the side bars
or braces.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a side elevation of a carriage suspended according to my
Invention; Figure 2 shews a side view of some of the parts separately; and
Figure 3 shews a perspective view of the arrangement or combination of springs
for the fore part of a carriage, under which the locking motion is applied.
a, a, is one of the two side bars or braces, used in place of the ordinary under
perch. These bars or braces a, a, are fixed at their back ends to the hinder
axle, and at their fore ends they are fixed at a¹ to the cover or upper part of
the spring box 6, which, though shewn open or in section at the sides in the
Drawing, is, when complete, closed in on all sides. The bars or braces a may
be each made in one piece, or they may, if preferred, be joined in the middle
of their length. The bars or braces a are bent or curved, in order that they

page_text: may come low enough to have a step c affixed thereto; and it is preferred that
the wings d, d, should be attached to the bars or braces a, a, at the hinder as
well as at the fore part of the carriage. The 'springs and parts are so arranged
and combined that the body of the carriage shall be hung on C springs, and
that such C springs shall be each combined with two elliptical springs è, e,
fixed back to back, and such elliptical springs and the lower ends of the
Ċ springs are in each case affixed at f to one end of the frames g, g, the ends
of the. lower of the elliptical springs e in each case being attached to the
frames g, g, whilst the ends of the upper elliptical springs e are attached to the
under side of the cover or upper part 6 of the spring box, there being an
opening through the upper part 6 of each spring box for the passage of each of
the C springs of such spring box. The two frames g, g, are similar to each
other, excepting that the fore frame g-is arranged suitably for receiving the
locking motion.
Figure 4 shews a side view of another construction of carriage, in order
that it may be seen that the combination of elliptical springs and spring box
may be employed in cases where C springs are not used.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood, that I do not claim any of
the parts separately, and the form of the body of the carriage and of the side
bars or braces a, a, may be greatly varied; what I claim is, the mode herein
described of combining the parts referred to in respect to Figures 1, 2, and 3.
And I also claim the application of the springs in combination with the
spring box shewn in Figure 4.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Deacon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
.AR. CARPMAEL.
H. DEACON. (L.S.).