IMPROVEMENTS IN WAGONETTES, PHAETONS, AND OTHER SIMILAR CARRIAGES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Braddick Pinnock, of Old King Street,
Broadmead, Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, Carriage Builder,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WAGONETTES, PHAETONS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR CARRIAGES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Braddick
Pinnock at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 7th April 1874.
I, JOHN BRADDICK PINNOCK, of Old King Street, Broadmead, Bristol,
in the County of Gloucester, Carriage Builder, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WAGONNETTES, PHAETONS,
AND OTHER SIMILAR CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in wagonnettes, phaetons,
and other similar carriages, whereby ladies, children, and other persons
can conveniently enter and leave the same without causing the coachman
or driver to leave his seat..

page_text: The Invention consists in mounting or supporting one of the front or
half seats upon a bracket or other appliance fitted at say the rear of the
front part so that the seat or half seat may be swung to one side, the seat
being guided by a pin or stud riding in a slotted curved bar arranged in
the box or front body, the slot limiting the distance to which the seat
can be swung, and forming a support to prevent the seat falling over or
becoming detached. I arrange a handle at the front of the swing seat
and another at the back of it to enable the seat to be moved from either
side. One or more springs and catches may be employed to fix the seat
in position.
The driver's seat is preferably a fixture, consequently he need not.
move while the occupants are leaving the vehicle, nor is it necessary for
him to let go the reins, an advantage of importance in the case of timid
ladies, young children, or invalids using the vehicle.
:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
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filed by the said John Braddick Pinnock in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BRADDICK PINNOCK, of Old King Street, Broadmead, Bristol, in the
County of Gloucester, Carriage Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of. Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Braddick Pinnock, Her
special licence that I, the said John Braddick Pinnock, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Braddick Pinnock, 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 WAGONNETTES, PHAETONS, AND OTHER SIMILAR CARRIAGES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Braddick

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Pinnock, 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 performed, 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 Braddick Pinnock, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention is intended chiefly to give easy access to or egress
from the front seat of a wagonette or à Stanhope phaeton to obviate
the difficulty and danger attending the hitherto only way of access and
egress to and from the front scat, namely, over the front wheels.
The Invention consists in cutting or forming the front seat into two
equal parts, and making either one or both of such parts to swing
outwards to form a passage between them. This is done by affixing one
or two joints to the seat and the body, the top half of the joint being
affixed to the seat and the bottom half to the body. The seat is guided
by a knob strut fastened to a sham door pillar and to the side of body
at the front edge of the seat. Underneath the seat is a segmental plate
with a groove in which the strut slides, this keeps the seat steady when
open, and prevents its opening too far. When the seat is pushed to it
fastens itself by a spring attached to the seat taking against a plate fixed
to the body. The spring is, worked (when the seat is to be opened) by.
two levers so placed that one handle is in front of this seat and the
other at the back edge of the seat to be acted upon from the back or the
front.
The accompanying Drawings represent, how I carry my Invention into
practice on or to a wagonnette.
Figure 1 shows the carriage in plan with the front half seat A, that is,
the one generally occupied by the person not driving the horse or horses.
This half seat is pinned to a bracket B of the fore carriage on the near
side and at the rear of the box, so that the half seat can be swung round
into the position shown by the dotted lines, the half seat being held in
the required position and prevented from falling by a pin or stud upon
its under face riding in a groove of the segmental bar C fitted in the

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upper surface of the box planking, this planking serving as a step for
persons on entering or leaving the after part of the carriage to step upon
in their passage, as will be clearly seen in the perspective view, Figure 2,
in which a lady is shown as stepping from the back to the front of the
vehicle.
I provide a spring locking bolt D to the under side of the seat A, and
carry a lever E to the front and to the rear by moving the handles E, F,
at either end the bolt can be withdrawn or released from its notch for
the half seat to be moved round the required distance, the bolt being
self-acting locks the seat in place when it is returned.
To reduce friction the guide pin may be roller shaped, and instead of
the segmental slotted bar being upon the box planking it may be upon
the under side of the seat.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim―
Firstly. The movement of the half seat of a wagonnette, a phaeton, or
other similar carriage by a side swing motion to give a clearance of
passage from the rear to the front of the vehicle, as set forth and sub-
stantially as shown in the annexed Drawings.
Secondly. I claim the appliances fitted to the front half seat or half
seats of a wagonnette, a phaeton, or similar vehicle, whereby a side
swinging action can be given to the said half seat or half seats, as and
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Braddick Pinnock, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JOHN BRADDICK PINNOCK. (L.s.)