Improvements in or Additions to Mail Carts and other like Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
Improvements in or Additions to Mail Carts and other like Wheeled
Vehicles.
I, WALTER POWELL, trading as James Lloyd and Company, of Hurst Street,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or additions to mail carts and other like
wheeled vehicles, and has reference to certain parts of mail carts such as the
shafts or handles, panels, of which the body part of the said vehicle may be
composed, and also the seats of the same.
Now the object of this invention is the encasing or covering of the said parts
with ivory or a composition ivory which enables the parts so encased or clothed
to be washed or cleaned when soiled, gives an enhanced appearance to the
vehicle, and in the case of shafts or handles, is found to be very cool to the
hands when propelling, and further any such encased parts will always retain
its surface.
In carrying out my invention in connection with shafts or handles for mail carts,
I take an ivory or composition ivory hollow sleeve or covering in a plaster
condition, and fit the same on to the wood of which the shafts or handles are
composed, the said sleeve or covering by its plastic condition, taking to the
figure of the wooden shafts or handles and when in its proper position, it is
shrunk thereon and afterwards trimmed. Thus by fitting thin composition sleeves
to common wooden shafts or handles, a solid ivory appearance is given to the
same at a very small cost, and is perfectly durable and capable of being kept
clean.
In the making of such sleeves or casings, I prefer to employ a composition known
commercially as "xylonite" although any other like substance may be used.
The application of my invention to panels, seats or the like, or to only parts of
the same, differs in no essential respect from its application to shafts or handles as
described.
Dated this 30th day of August 1895.
Improvements in or Additions to Mail Carts and other like Wheeled
Vehicles.
I, WALTER POWELL, trading as James Lloyd and Company, of Hurst 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 the facing or encasing of parts of childrens' mail carts
and similar vehicles, principally made of wood, and consists in the application
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page_text: to the surfaces of the said parts, of imitation ivory, known in commerce as
xylonite or celluloid.
By providing or coating such parts of the said vehicles as shafts, body panels,
seats and the like with a permanent facing or case of xylonite or some such
material (which may be of any color) the appearance of the vehicle is greatly
improved and the parts coated can be easily cleaned.
In carrying out one form of my improvements in connection with the coating or
facing of the shafts of a mail cart, a thin sleeve of xylouite, with a closed end and
suitable for taking upon a shaft, is taken, and, when in a soft state, is slipped onto
the said shaft, which may have been first cemented, and then shrunk onto or made
'to conform to or follow the shape of the same, thus entirely enveloping the parts
covered with a coating or casing of xylonite or celluloid.
Instead of taking a sleeve of material with a closed end, I may take an open-
ended sleeve when in a soft state, and enclose one end by applying a disc of the
facing material to the uncovered end of the part being coated, which is served with
cement and the adjacent edges of the parts to be connected are treated with a
solvent such as acetone or acetic ether, which will render them soft and allow them
to be united.
In facing a panel with imitation ivory, I take a sheet of the facing material,
which may be either in a hard or a soft state, and after the back has been served
with cement or the edges with a solvent, then the same is applied to the article to
be coated and adheres thereto.
The edges of the panels may be dressed so as to remove any burrs or rough parts
which have formed during the process of covering the part.
The softening of the xylonite may be effected by heat or immersing the same in
methylated spirit.
If necessary the panels or the like, prior to their application, may be embellished
by moulding the same to any desired pattern or shape.
The coatings or casings may be applied to the bodies of vehicles generally
and also to the wicker-work or interwoven canes of bodies made up of such
materials.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is:-
:-
First. Facing or encasing parts of vehicles with xylonite, celluloid or imitation
ivory, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. Facing or encasing parts of vehicles with xylonite, celluloid or
imitation ivory applied in the ways substantially as herein described and set
forth.
Dated this 10th day of December 1895.
WALTER POWELL,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.