AN IMPROVEMENT IN AMBULANCE CARRIAGES
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN FURLEY of Ashford in the County of Kent, Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN AMBULANCE
CARRIAGES to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a method for simplifying the placing of invalids on a
tier above the floor in Ambulance Carriages which would otherwise be beyond the
safe and convenient reach of the bearers thus economizing the space in such
vehicles and allowing four patients to be carried in a recumbent position as easily
as two,
Two rails parallel with the floor of the Carriage are attached to the latter by
four bars of iron with moveable pivots. When required for use this frame is laid
upon the floor the rails naturally projecting beyond the door of the Carriage: the
stretcher is then firmly secured upon the two rails and one bearer standing outside
gradually raises it into the position it is to occupy during a journey by pushing
against a horizontal barjust below the head of the patient until the bars connecting
the rails with the floor are in a perpendicular position when an attendant inside
the vehicle can fix the foot of the stretcher to the partition at the back of the
driver's seat.
Instead of the bars described I can use any system of "parallel motion "
linkwork by which the horizontal position of the frame will be constantly
maintained.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I JOHN FURLEY of Ashford, in the County of Kent, Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN AMBULANCE
CARRIAGES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of a method for simplifying the placing of invalids on a
tier above the floor in Ambulance Carriages which would otherwise be beyond the
safe and convenient reach of the bearers, thus economizing the space in such
vehicles and allowing four patients to be carried in a recumbent position as easily
as two.
Two rails parallel with the floor of the carriage are attached to the latter by
four bars of iron with moveable pivots. When required for use this frame is laid
upon the floor, the rail naturally projecting beyond the door of the carriage; the
stretcher is then firmly secured upon the two rails and one bearer standing outside
gradually raises it into the position it is to occupy during a journey by pushing
against a horizontal bar just below the head of the patient, until the bars con-
necting the rails with the floor are in a perpendicular position when an attendant
inside the vehicle can fix the foot of the stretcher to the partition at the back of
the driver's seat.
Instead of bars described I can use any system of "parallel motion" linkwork
by which the horizontal position of the frame will be constantly maintained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In an ambulance carriage a system of jointed link work for carrying the stretcher
and so constructed that as the stretcher is raised the linkwork will always maintain
it in a horizontal position.
Dated this twenty fourth day of March One thousand eight hundred and