IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO PERAMBULATORS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas George Wells at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd June 1881.
THOMAS GEORGE WELLS, of Birmingham, Perambulator
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO PERAMBULATORS."
Manufacturer.
This Invention relates to various improvements in the construction and arrange-
ment of the component parts of perambulators, the especial object of the Invention
being to so construct and combine the parts as that they may be expeditiously
taken apart, and be packed in a very small compass when required to be trans-
ported as merchandise from place to place, or stored or put away for a time until
they may be again required for use, and as that they may, when required for use,
be easily put together.
There are various advantages attendant upon this improved construction of
perambulators which are altogether absent in any perambulators hitherto con-
structed, the facility of taking the perambulator apart and putting it together
again, and of arranging and packing the parts together for transit or storage
without any waste of space being chief among these.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, which
represent detached views of those parts of the perambulators, to the construction
of which my improvements have reference.
In carrying my Invention into practice I make the various parts of the frame-
work by which the body, foot-board, hood, wheels, back, and seat are connected
together to form the perambulator in such a manner that they can be readily made
to connect all the parts together in their proper relative positions, and as readily
be removed so as to allow of the parts being disconnected and packed into a very
small compass when it is required to transport or store the perambulator. This is
a facility which is of great commercial importance in economizing the materials of
which the perambulator is made and in saving carriage, and is due to the altogether
new and improved construction and arrangement of the parts of the perambulator
themselves, and as above mentioned it is a facility and feature which is altogether
absent in perambulators as constructed according to any existing system.
Fig. 1 represents the improved construction of the body of the perambulator,
and shows the back 1, sides 2, and seat 3 as hinged together at 4, 5, and 6, instead

page_text: of being all fixed by gluo or otherwise as is usual. This Fig. also shows the
detachable foot-board 7.
Fig. 2 represents the improved construction of the hood 8, showing it as provided
with ears 9, which admit of its being readily connected with the body, and
removed therefrom for packing.
Fig. 3 represents the improved manner of connecting the various detachable
parts of the perambulator together by detachable parts of the framing. The parts
marked 10, of which there are two, are detachably connected to the lower part of
the body or foot-board, and serve to support the axle of the front wheel. The
parts marked 11, of which there are also two, are detachably connected to the
body and to the foot-board, and serve to connect these parts in such a manner as
that they can be readily put together and separated. The parts marked 12,
of which there are also two, are also detachably connected to the body and to
the foot-board, and serve as springs, which rest upon the axle of the side wheels.
The improved connecting parts 10, 11, and 12 are also shown detached in
Figs. 4, 5, and 6.
Thus the various parts, of which the improved perambulator is composed, are
shown separately in Figs. 1 to G.
As hitherto constructed the metal framing, by which the various parts of
perambulators are connected together, is continuous, and the parts are so connected
thereto as not to be removable therefrom; therefore my present Invention comprises
as a material feature the inanufacture of the metallic frame and springs in detach-
able parts, which affords the said facility which has not hitherto been attained in
perambulators, and thus the improved construction is both new and useful.
Fig. 7 illustrates the arrangement into which the detached parts all fold or are
placed when required to be stored or transported. The parts are then pressed close,
so that the interior parts come below the sides of the body, when the appearance
is that delineated in Fig. 8.
Fig. 9 represents the improved perambulator with all the detachable parts put
together and in a usable condition.