IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Bottomley, of Huddersfield, in the County
of York, Carriage Builder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 16th December 1864, and dated the 21st June 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Bottomley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st June 1864.
I, JOHN BOTTOMLEY, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Carriage
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
The object of the improvements is to give increased sitting room to
carriages having internal back and front seats and glass fronts. For this
purpose a portion of the carriage about the middle of the length of the interior
front seat is, with the glazing thereto, recessed outwards, and a portion of the
said seat is at that part set back into this recess between the side portions of
the said seat, so that the occupier of the central portion of such front seat
sits somewhat in the rear of those on either side of him, and the side seats are
arranged so that their occupiers may either sit parallel or inclined to each
other. By these means three persons are enabled to sit in a width of
carriage or length of seat room ordinarily occupied by two persons, and the
external appearance of the carriage is also improved.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Bottomley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st December 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BOTTOMLEY, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Carriage Builder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Bottomley, Her special licence that I, the said John Bottomley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Bottomley, 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 CARRIAGES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Bottomley, 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 per-
formed, 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 John Bottomley, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:―
The object of the improvements is to give increased sitting room to
carriages having internal back and front seats and glass fronts.
And that my Invention may be better understood, I will, by the aid of the
accompanying Drawing, proceed to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a sectional plan view, and Figure 2 a side view of the body
of a carriage constructed according to my improvements.
a, a, representing the position of the back seat; b, b, the position of the
front seat; c the front glazing behind the driver's box d; e, e, are the side

page_text: doors. The front interior seat behind the front window c, in carriages as
ordinarily constructed, forms but one straight or nearly straight line like the
back one a, to hold at most but two people. But in carrying out my improve-
ments a portion of the carriage about the middle of the length of the interior
front seat is, as shown at b¹ with the glazing thereto c¹ recessed outwards, and
a portion of the said seat b' is at that part set back into this recess between the
side portions b, b, of the said seat, so that the occupier of the central portion
of such front seat sits somewhat in the rear of those on either side, and the
side seats are arranged so that their occupiers may either sit parallel or
inclined to each other. By these means three persons are enabled to sit in a
width of carriage or length of seat room ordinarily occupied by two persons,
and the external appearance of the carriage is also improved.
Having thus described my improvements, I would have it understood that
although I prefer the parts constituting my improvements to be of the shapes
shown, I do not confine myself to those precise shapes; but what I claim is
the arranging the interior front seat and the front of carriages so as to obtain
increased seat room thereto, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bottomley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOHN BOTTOMLEY. (L.S.)