Improvements in Shades or Covers for Carts, Waggons, or other like Vehicles, and in Apparatus Employed in Connection therewith.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shades or Covers for Carts, Waggons, or other like
Vehicles, and in Apparatus Employed in Connection therewith.
I, GEORGE PICKUP of No. 163 Bolton Road, Blackburn in the County of Lancaster,
Fish and Fruit Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in covers or shades for protecting the con-
tents of trucks, carts, or wagons from the rain or sun and the object is to so con-
struct the cover or shade and appliances connected therewith that when the same is in
use it can be adjusted at any required position or extent of shade and when not in use
it can be rolled up and folded into small compass, or readily lowered and displaced
and refixed and the invention comprises a roller, and canvas screens and appliances
for operating the same
According to this my said invention fixed at each end of the wagon or cart is a
vertical rod of metal to the tops of which and extending across and above the length
of the truck or cart is a roller, around which the canvas cover is wrapped being
secured at one side of the roller so that both sides of the cover roll up together. At
the lower ends of the two vertical rods are hinged two metal supports the free ends of
which are held together by a wooden rod extending from end to end of the wagon or
cart, to this wooden rod is secured the free side of the canvas cover, the wooden rod
serving to stretch, and hold the same in correct position.
On one or both ends of the wooden roller first mentioned is a pinion, or a hand
wheel, which when turned, wraps the canvas cover round the roller, both sides at the
same time, the two metal supports turning on their hinges and folding close up to the
vertical rods.
The cover can be drawn down again by hand or by turning the wheel, and can be
fixed by a catch and held in any required position, so as to afford the requisite
amount or degree of shade or shelter.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax, 'Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shades or Covers for Carts, Waggons, or other like
Vehicles, and in Apparatus Employed in Connection therewith.
1, GEORGE PICKUP of No. 163 Bolton Road, Blackburn in the County of Lancaster,
Fish and Fruit Dealer, 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 improvements in covers or shades for protecting the con--
tents of trucks, carts or waggons from the rain or sun, and the object is to so construct
the cover or shade and appliances connected therewith, that when the same is in use
it can be adjusted at any required position or extent of shade and when not in use it
can be rolled up and folded into small compass or readily lowered and displaced and
refixed, and the invention comprises a roller, and canvas screens and appliances for
operating the same.
According to this my said invention fixed at each end of the waggon or cart is a
vertical rod of metal to the tops of which and extending across and above the length
of the truck or cart is a roller, around which the canvas cover is wrapped being
secured at one side of the roller so that both sides of the cover roll up together. At

page_text: the lower ends of the two vertical rods are hinged two metal supports the free ends
of which are held together by a wooden rod extending from end to end of the
waggon or carts to this wooden rod is secured the free side of the canvas cover, the
wooden rod serving to stretch and hold the same in correct position.
On one or both ends of the wooden roller first mentioned is a pinion, or a hand
wheel, which when turned, wraps the canvas cover round the roller, both sides at the
same time, the two metal supports turning on their hinges and folding close up to
their vertical rods.
The cover can be drawn down again by hand or by turning the wheel and can be
fixed by a catch and held in any required position, so as to afford the requisite
amount or degree of shade or shelter.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a complete
description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a
part of this specification in which :-
Fig. 1. is an end elevation of my improved shade or cover for carts, trucks, or
waggons.
Fig. 2. is a side elevation of a cart with my improved shade or cover fixed
thereto.
Fig. 3 is a detail of roller and the canvas sheets or covers which form the
shade.
Fig. 4 is a similar view shewing how the sheets are folded or rolled up.
According to this my said invention fixed at each end of the waggon cart or
truck 1 is a vertical rod of metal 2 the top of which carries a wood roller 3 extending
the length of the cart or truck 1 and to this roller 3 are secured two covers or sheets
of canvas 4. 5 (see Fig. 3) one on each side of the said roller 3, and it will be seen
(Fig. 4) that by fixing the sheets of canvas 4. 5 in the manner described both sides
or sheets are rolled up at one and the same time, the sheet 4 being rolled on the top
of the sheet 5 when the roller 3 is revolved in direction indicated by the arrow.
At the lower end of the two vertical rods 2 are hinged two metal rods 6. 7. which
acts as supports, their free ends 8 being fixed to and carrying the wooden cross bar 9
extending from rod 2 at each end of the cart or waggon 1, the free ends of the
canvas sheets 4. 5 are secured to these wooden cross bars 9 which serve to stretch and
hold the same in correct position.
On one or both ends of the wooden roller 3 is a pinion or ratchet wheel 10 and
handle 11 forming a hand wheel which when turned wraps the canvas cover round the
wood roller 3 as described, the two metal supports 6. 7. turning on their hinges and
folding (when the cover is rolled up) close up to the vertical rods 2.
The cover 4. 5 can be drawn down by hand, or by turning the hand wheel in the
opposite direction, after lifting the catch 12 out of the pinion or ratchet wheel 10 and
can be adjusted and fixed in any required position, by the rack 13 in which are the
holes 14 for receiving a holding pin and thus the inside of a cart or truck or the goods
therein from the sun or rain.
It will be obvious that the canvas shoots or covers 4. 5 can be manipulated in other
ways than that described, such as a chain wheel in lieu of the ratchet 10 driven by
chain from a second wheel at the bottom of the vertical rod 1.
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 the what I
claim is:-
The apparatus constructed substantially as herein described when applied to and
used in combination with a cart, waggon, or truck as herein fully described and
illustrated by drawings annexed.
Dated thin and da¢_T__1
1000
GEORGE PICKUP.
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Central Chambers, Halifax.