Improvements in Handle Brackets or Back Irons for Perambulators, Bassinettes, and other like Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
TROVISIONAL: SPROTETATION.
Improvements in Handle Brackets or Back Irons for Perambulators,
Bassinettes, and other like Wheeled Vehicles.
I, EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER of Hospital Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention relates to handle brackets or back, or back and front, iron work of
perambulators and such like wheeled vehicles, such for example as bassinettes, bath
chairs and children's vehicles.
The said handle brackets or iron work, consists of rods or metallic fittings,
situated at the back, or at both front and back of a vehicle, directed parallel to
each other, and at distances apart, and with the upper extremities of them curved
backwardly, at the extreme ends of which, the cross handles for pushing the
vehicle are fitted.
The lower ends of the said bars are terminated by eyes, turned at right angles,
and affixed to the underside of the body of the said vehicle.
Heretofore, these said brackets or rods, in consequence of their curved or bent
figure, have been unable to be highly embellished by case ornaments, in consequence
of the said case ornaments having to be bent with the interior rods or lengths of
metal encased.
Thus, if an iron interior or core was encased with an highly embellished brass
casing, then the combined bending of them would spoil or distort the pattern or
configuration of the casing.
In carrying out my invention, I highly embellish or encase the said brackets or
rods, by bending the casings and rods separately, before the former are connected
to the latter.
Thus in the formation of an ornamented bracket, 1 take an iron rod, or a suitable
length of metal, and bend one end forward to form the front part, and which end
has an attachment eye or means of connection to the carriage body.
This said end constitutes the bottom of the said bracket, whilst the other end,
which is bent backwards into a semi circle or more, constitutes the upper end.
I now take a length of twisted or other highly ornamented tubing, and thread
the same upon the straight part of the said rod, which forms the leg, and which is
kept in a central position by collars on the said leg, taking into the ends of the
section casing.
Upon the top of the front casing, comes a junction piece, which is situated at the
junction of the top curved part with the straight leg, and over which said curved
top part, a curved section of the radius of the said curved part is slipped or
threaded, and with the ends of the said curved casing part, taking upon shoulders
of junction piece and end fittings as rests respectively.
Taking upon a screwed after part of the said top curved end, which bows arch-
wise from front to rear, is a fitting, with an eye through a flat end part of it,
wherethrough a spindle for the affixing of a handle passes, and is secured."
Thus, the curved casing part, which is a length of twisted or highly ornamented
tubing, is bent prior to its connection with the bent part of the rod, and is
preferably of an inside diameter greater than the rod, so as to admit of its easy
threading.
Instead of the ends of the said curved part taking upon shoulders or necks of the

page_text: fittings of the sections, they may be made of a like interior diameter as the exterior
diameter of the interior parts.
Dated this 17th dox of Navambor 1901
Improvements in Handle Brackets or Back Irons for Perambulators,
Bassinettes, and other like Wheeled Vehicles.
I, EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER of Hospital Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer 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 handle brackets, or handle ironwork fittings of
perambulators and like hand propelled wheeled vehicles; such for example, as
bassinettes and bath chairs.
The said handle brackets or handle fitting, technically known as back irons or
levers, consists essentially of ornamental encased metallic rods situated at the back
of, or at both back and front of, a vehicle.
The upper extremities of these rods are curved backwards, and carry the
propelling bandles, whilst the lower extremities are bent forwardly, and have eyes
at their ends, for the attachment of the rods to the body of a vehicle.
The curved parts of these said rods, were incapable heretofore of being
embellished with highly ornamental patterned encasings, in consequence of the
same having to be bent or curved, with interior iron rods or cores passing through
them.
Thus, if a highly patterned brass encased rod be bent or curved, 'the pattern of
the encasing becomes distorted in figure, or the encasing itself burst, thereby
spoiling the same.
In carrying out my invention, 1 bend the rods and the embellished encasing tubes
separately, and then afterwards thread the latter upon the former.
Thus, in the formation of an ornamental brass encased bracket, an iron rod of the
desired length is taken, then the ends are bent forwards and backwards respectively.
The backward bend is of the figure of a semi-circle, or of a curve struck from a
centre.
Upon the straight part of rod, a length of patterned cased tubing is threaded,
and upon the curved part, a curved piece of cased tubing is then threaded, withlan
interposed collar or mount coming between them.
It is understood that the straight length of encased tubing, is introduced upon the
straight part of the rod, prior to the bending of the upper and curved end.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents partly in side elevation, and
partly in vertical section, a perambulator bracket or back iron, brass encased and
fitted according to my invention.
The said brass encasing is made from highly ornamented or fancy. tubing;
fashioned and applied as hereinafter described.
The handle end is shown fitted with an eyed bracket, for the connection of the
handle.
Figure 2 shows the iron rod 'or base, upon which, the straight length casing
tubing is slipped, prior to the bending of the handle end.
Figure 3 represents the said bracket or back rod, after the same has been fitted
with a straight section length of 'encasing tubing, and also after the handle' end 'hás
been bent to the desired figure.
Figure 4 shows the bent section of the encasing tubing separately!'

page_text: Figure 5 is the eye bracket, for handle attachment, and Figure 6 the middle
mount or collar coming between the encasing sections.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a is an iron rod with a straight leg a', a curved fore end a², and a bent after
part a³.
The after part a³, has an eyed attachment end a', and is secured to the underside
of the body of a carriage, whilst the fore part end is of a quadrant figure, or a
segment of a circle.
The extreme end a°, of the curved part a², is tapped, and upon which the handle
bracket, is screwed.
c is a straight segment of ornamental encasing tubing, and d is a curved length of
like tubing, struck from the same radius or nearly the same radius as that of the
end a, of the rod a.
The said segment d as shown, is of a larger inside diameter than the curved end
of the rod on which it is fitted, and in order to centralize the said segment, relative
to the rod, its ends d, d³, fit and take upon collars e. of a middle mount e, and b² of
the eyed bracket b.
In building or fitting up a handle bracket or back iron, take the rod a Figure 2,
then thread or slip the segment c, onto the leg a¹ of it, then thread forward the
middle mount or collar e, and finally slip on the curved and highly ornamental
section and encasing tubing d, when by screwing on and then up the eyed bracket
end b, the article is complete.
The inside diameter of the encasing segments, may be of a like diameter as the
rod, and instead of the ends of the curved sections fitting upon collars of the fittings
or mounts, they may simply abut against the contiguous parts or sections.
It is understood that when the said brackets or back irons are used, they are
employed in pairs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
:
First In handle brackets, or back irons of perambulators and like handle
propelled vehicles, making up the same by bending the rod parts and the ornamented
encasing tubing parts separately, and then fitting the parts, and then subsequently
threading the encasing parts upon the rod parts, substantially as described and
set forth.
:—
Secondly In an ornamental or fancy tube encased handle bracket, or back
iron, as described and set forth.
Dated this 16th day of August 1892.
EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.