Improvement in the Construction of Single or Double Mail or Go Carts or other Road Vehicles for Children, Invalids, or other like purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Construction of Single or Double Mail or
Go Carts or other Road Vehicles for Children, Invalids, or other
like purposes.
JOHN THOMAS STYRING 72 Barber Road Crookesmoor Road Sheffield
Ironmonger's Assistant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention, is to build a mail or go cart or other road vehicle
that may be lengthened or closed up to enable the child or occupant to either sit
recline or lie at full length at will. To obtain this result I build a mail or go cart
much in the usual way but in addition to the ordinary seat I provide an extra
loose sliding or extending bottom which draws out on slides from under the
ordinary or fast bottom and is fitted with two sides and also with movable footrest
all working on hinges. To extend the cart I draw out the extra bottom lift up the
sides and footrest which are supported and held in position by suitable catches or
stays provided for that purpose and so lengthening the cart to enable the occupant
to lie at full length.
When not in use the folding sides lie flat on loose bottom the whole sliding under
the ordinary seat the footrest hanging down and held in position by stays provided
for purpose and still forming a footrest for use in sitting position.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1892
JOHN THOMAS STYRING.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Construction of Single or Double Mail or
Go Carts or other Road Vehicles for Children, Invalids, or other
like purposes.
I, JOHN THOMAS STYRING 72 Barber Road, Crookesmoor Road, Sheffield
Ironmonger's Assistant, 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 :—
"
My invention of improvements in "mail or go-carts or other like vehicles,
relates more particularly to the former, and has for its object to enable the
occupant to ride with comfort either in a sitting position or to recline at full length,
and this latter position is of much importance when children fall asleep in the
vehicle, both for their comfort and their health.
The annexed sheet of drawings illustrates my invention as carried out in its
application to an ordinary childs mail cart.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a mail cart fitted with my improvements.
Fig. 2, the improved attachment opened for reclining and shown separately.
Fig. 3, the same closed and the front part dropped to form a foot rest.
Fig. 4, front view of runners inside shafts which are shown in section.
In carrying out my invention I build the vehicle in the usual way so far as
regards the body B, wheel W, and shafts S, but instead of the usual foot rest, I
provide a special sliding arrangement of combined foot rest R, and extension
piece E, provided with two hinged side wings S W.
Underneath the body of the vehicle I fix upon each shaft a longitudinal support
made from a piece of angle iron I, or its equivalent, see Fig. 4, to support the

page_text: extension piece E, and permit it to be pushed back underneath the body when the
hinged side wings SW, are turned down as seen in Fig. 3.
The foot rest R, is hinged to the front of the extension piece E, so that it can be
turned up as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or hang down as in Fig. 3, it is provided with
side hooks or catches H.
Upon each shaft. S, I fix a knob K, and on each side of the foot rest R, I affix a
hooked catch C, so arranged that when the extension is required, it is drawn out
and the catches H, are hooked on to the knobs K, the opposite end being supported
by the iron slides I.
When the foot rest only is required, the side wings are turned down, the hooked
catches are raised from the knobs K, and the extension piece is pushed under the
body of the vehicle, the part R, being allowed to hang down against a retaining
stay A, as seen in Fig. 3, when the full length is required as seen in Figs. 1 and 2,
the part R, is turned up and the extension E, drawn out until the back points of
the wings SW, are clear of the body, they are then raised and the extension
pushed back until they abut against the body as in Fig. 1, the part R, is then
hooked upon the knobs K.
I wish it to be understood that I do not bind myself to some of the details
mentioned, such as the knobs and hooked catches, although I find them simple and
effective, yet it will be obvious that other equivalent devices may be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed and carried into practice,
I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination with a mail cart, or go-cart, or other like vehicle, for
children or invalids, of an extension piece, convertible at pleasure into either a
foot-rest only, or into a full-length-rest for reclining, constructed in the manner
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
2. In a mail cart or like vehicle for children or invalids, a sliding piece E, to fit
under the body of the vehicle having a foot rest R, hinged to the front edge, and
two side wings S W, hinged upon the part E, with suitable supports at each end,
as hereinbefore described and shown in the drawings.
Deted the 19th dow of June 1893
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.