Improvements in Children's Convertible Carriages.
Year: 1895

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands
after Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883), as
required by the decision of the Comptroller General of the 3rd day of
December 1896.
Date of Application, 17th Sep!., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th May, 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Convertible Carriages.
We, RICHARD WILLIAM ALLEN Managing Director of the Halesowen
Perambulator and Carriage Company, Limited, and WALTER JAMES WOODHALL,
Cashier of the Halesowen Perambulator and Carriage Company Limited aforesaid,
both of Halesowen in the County of Worcester, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to convertible wheeled carriages for children, principally
to those of that type in which a single mail cart admits of being converted into a
double perambulator or bassinette, or vice versa, to carry either one or two children
as required.
The object of our invention is to so construct the said body, which is made up of
movable sections, that the carriage can be converted from one form to the other in
a simple and expeditious manner.
In carrying out our improvements, the body of the carriage is made up of two
open-inner-ended hopper-shaped sections, with the opposed edges of each side
respectively inclined to an angle of about 45 degrees, so that when the said sections
are brought together, with their top edges meeting, the said inclined edges
comprehend an equilateral-triangular space, with the base running in the same
plane as the bottoms of the presented sections, whilst the edges of the bottoms of
the sections comprehend a rectangular opening, under which a movable and sliding
well, as hereinafter described, comes. These hopper shaped bodies are hinged or
jointed to one another at the meeting points, viz., at the apex of the triangular
space on each side.
By thus jointing the said half bodies together, the movable back half admits of
dropping down into an inclined position, when the edges forming the sides to the
triangular spaces abutting one upon another, with the end part of the said
drop-down back half forming a foot-rest to a single mail-cart.
Hinged to the inner edge of each side of the movable or drop-down body half is
a triangular flap, which, when the two half body parts are brought lignable, fill up
the triangular gaps or spaces coming between the opposed inner ends of the sides,
whereby the said sides of the body are made continuous and to enclose an elongated
rectangular space forming a double perambulator or bassinette body.
Located underneath the bottom or floor of the body is a sliding well, having
trunnions or eyes sliding upon opposite rails or rods located upon the inner ends of
the shafts or handles, which come upon the two opposite sides of the said body.

page_text: Fitted to the underside of the body and shafts is supporting iron work in form of
springs, rests legs and an axle tree, upon the axle arm ends of which the
wheels run.
Both the flaps and the well are secured in their positions of use by fasteners or
catches.
Assuming that the carriage is in the form of a double perambulator or bassinette;
then in order to convert the same into a single mail cart, release the catches of the
flaps and then slightly elevate or raise the removable rear part and then turn the
said flaps inwards and flat against the inside of the sides of the said rear part. Then
release and slide forward the well, so as to make it come under the fixed or
stationary body part, and next allow the drop-down part of the body to swing upon
its joint and fall to an inclined position by gravity, with the mitred or inclined
edges of the sides of the said movable half body abutting against the like inclined
edges of the sides of the fixed part, when the said perambulator is transformed into
a mail cart.
To now convert this mail cart again into a bassinette, it is only necessary to lift
the movable half body part, turn back the triangular flaps lignable with the sides
and then fix the same and draw back the well under the opening in the middle of
the bottom.
The hood framing is jointed to slightly elevated brackets carried by the fixed
part preferably at a part near to the joint of the fixed and drop down part. The
said framing consists of two bower-shaped frames, united together at their ends
and disposed with respect to each other at an angle of about 45 degrees and
connected together by knee-jointed stays for retaining the said frames, which
have intermediate and like shaped frames coming between them, in open and closed
positions.
When used as a bassinette this hood is made so as to be used at either end.
Dated this 16th day of September 1895.
עעעגטש
Improvements in Children's Convertible Carriages.
We, RICHARD WILLIAM ALLEN Managing Director of the Halesowen
Perambulator and Carriage Company, Limited, and WALTER JAMES WOODHALL,
Cashier of the Halesowen Perambulator and Carriage Company, Limited afore-
said, both of Halesowen in the County of Worcester, 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 :-
This invention relates to convertible wheeled carriages for children, principally
to those of that type in which a single mail cart admits of being converted into a
double perambulator or bassinette, or vice versa, to carry either one or two children
as required.
The object of our invention is to so construct the said body, which is made up
of movable sections, that the carriage can be converted from one form to the other
in a simple and expeditious manner.
In carrying out our improvements, the body of the carriage is made up of two
open-inner-ended hopper-shaped sections, with the opposed edges of each side
respectively inclined to an angle of about 30 degrees, so that when the said sections
are, brought together, with their top edges meeting, the said inclined edges

page_text: comprehend a triangular space, with the base running in the same plane as the
bottoms of the presented sections, whilst the edges of the bottoms of the sections.
comprehend a rectangular opening, under which a movable and sliding well, as
hereinafter described comes. These body sections are hinged or jointed to one
another at the meeting points, viz., at the apex of the triangular space on each
side.
By thus jointing the said half bodies together, the movable back half admits of
dropping down into an inclined position, when the edges forming the sides to the
triangular spaces abut one upon another, with the end part of the said drop-down
back half forming a foot-rest to a single mail-cart.
Hinged to the inner edge of each side of the movable or drop-down body half is
a triangular flap, which, when the two half body parts are brought lignable, fill up
the triangular gaps or spaces coming between the opposed inner ends of the sides,
whereby the said sides of the body are made continuous and to enclose an
elongated rectangular space forming a double perambulator or bassinette body.
Located underneath the bottom or floor of the body is a sliding well, having
trunnions or eyes sliding upon opposite rails or rods located upon the inner ends of
the shafts or handles, which come upon the two opposite sides of the said body.
Fitted to the underside of the body and shafts is supporting iron work in form of
springs, rests legs and an axle tree, upon the axle arm ends of which the
wheels run.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a longitudinal vertical section
of the body part of a convertible childrens vehicle constructed according to our
invention. The full lines represent the vehicle in use as a double perambulator or
bassinette, whilst the dotted lines represent the position which the movable half
takes in being converted from a bassinette to a single mail cart, and just before the
opposed edges of the sections meet.
a is the body of the convertible carriage, made up of a fixed body section a¹ and
a movable hung section a², hinged to one another at aº, and with their opposed
edges a, a, inclined to an angle of about 30 degrees. When the sections are in
the positions shown by the full lines, the space enclosed between the opposed edges
of each side is closed by a triangular and hinged flap b, but when the carriage is in
use as a mail cart, then the said triangular flap is turned into the position represented
by the dotted line b', flat to the inside of the body of the carriage.
c is a sliding and hinged well, jointed at c', to the underside of the body section a',
and with the two opposite sides having pins or trunnions c³, running in slots d', of
frames d, secured to the fore ends e, of the shafts e.
Both the flaps and the well are secured in their positions of use by fasteners or
catches.
Assuming that the carriage is in the form of a double perambulator or bassinette ;
then in order to convert the same into a single mail cart, release the catches of the
flaps and slightly elevate or raise the removable rear part; then turn the said
flaps inwards, flat against the inside of the sides of the said rear part. Next
release and slide forward the well, so as to make it come under the fixed or stationary
body part and thus cause the drop-down part of the body to swing upon its joint'
and fall to an inclined position, with the mitred or inclined edges of the sides of the
Baid movable half body abutting against the like inclined edges of the sides of the
fixed part, when the said perambulator is transformed into a mail cart.
To now convert this mail cart again into a bassinette, it is only necessary to lift
the movable half body part, which draws back the well under the opening in the
middle of the bottom, and then turn back the triangular flaps lignable with the sides
and fix the same.
The hood framing may be jointed to slightly elevated brackets carried by the
fixed part preferably at a part near to the joint of the fixed and drop down part.
5 The said framing consists of two bow-shaped frames, united together at their ends
and disposed with respect to each other at an angle of about 45 degrees and
connected together by knee jointed stays for retaining the said frames, which have

page_text: intermediate and like shaped frames coming between them, in open and closed
positions.
When used as a bassinette this hood is made so as to be used at either end.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section of a modified form of convertible
childrens' vehicle constructed according to our invention. The said view shows
the body in use as a perambulator.
Figure 3 is a like sectional view of the body part as Figure 1, but with the
jointed drop-down part shown in the position which it assumes when being converted
into a mail cart.
Figure 4 is an underside plan of Figure 3.
In Figures 2, 3 and 4, a¹ is the fixed body part of the convertible carriage a,
and a is the hung and drop-down part, which, when lowered, forms the foot rest of a
single mail cart. The space between the opposed edges a³, at, of the sides when
the vehicle is in use as a double perambulator as shown in Figure 2, is closed by
inside and outside cover flaps b, fixed at their sides 61, whilst the sides 62, are open
to admit of the sides of the drop-down body part sliding between them, as represented
in section in Figure 5.
When the vehicle is in use as a double perambulator, the open rectangular space
between the bottoms of the body sections is closed by a hinged and sliding well. C,
aa before, with opposite pins ³, taking into slots d¹, in plates d, secured to the
fore ends e, of the shafts e.
The shafts carry stops f, adapted to be turned underneath the bottom of the
movable body section and retain the same in a horizontal position when the carriage
is in use as a perambulator.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we are aware of the
Specification of Letters Patent No. 7268 A.D. 1894 granted to Samuel Thomas
Fawcet, David Simpson and John James Simpson and we do not claim anything
described and claimed therein, but we declare that what we claim is :-
First. In convertible childrens' carriages or vehicles, in which the body parts
are hinged together at the sides, mitring or cutting away the opposed edges of
the body sections, thereby leaving triangular spaces between the said sections
which (when the carriage is in use as a perambulator or bassinette) are closed by
like-shaped removable closure flaps, but when employed as a mail cart, the closure
flaps are removed and the said opposed edges of the body sections abut, substantially
as described and set forth in Figure 1.
Secondly. In childrens' carriages or vehicles, in which the body parts are hinged
together at the sides, the combination with a convertible sectional body as referred
to in the preceding claim, of a shifting or movable well, substantially as described
and set forth in Figures 1 to 5.
Thirdly. In convertible childrens' carriages or vehicles, in which the body parts
are hinged together at the sides, covering or enclosing the space between the
opposed edges of each side of the body sections of the vehicle by a cover flap or
cover flaps, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 2 to 5.
Dated this 16th day of May 1896.
RICHARD WILLIAM ALLEN,
WALTER JAMES WOODHALL,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.