IMPROVEMENTS IN HAND CARTS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Specht, of the Firm of Specht, Ziese, and
Company, of Hamburg, Civil Engineers and Patent Agents, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAND CARTS." A communication by Otto Schumann,
of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Specht at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th May 1881.
ALEXANDER SPECHT, of the Firm of Specht, Ziese, and Company, of Hainburg,
Civil Engineers and Patent Agents. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAND CARTS."
[A communication by Otto Schumann, of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony.]
The Invention relates to improvements in hand carts with two or more wheels,
and the objects of the improvements are, firstly, to facilitate the dismounting of the
cart; and secondly, to dismount the cart in pieces of a suitable size to be put away
without taking much room.
To this effect the box of the cart is composed so that the front and the back
board are hinged to the bottom and attached to transverse beams connecting the
main beams by metal angles or hooks. The side boards are simply thrust in and
kept in their proper position by the triangular axle supports. The transverse
beams also are jointed to the main beams by means of flat metal hooks.
To connect the box with the axle, slots are cut in the triangular supports, where
the axle with its square part rests in and kept there by means of bolts.
The wheels too may be taken in pieces because their rim is formed from bent
pieces of T iron, the ends of which are connected by screws. The spokes have a
screw thread cut on one end, whereby they are screwed into the nave, whilst the
other end forms a ring or loop fixed to the rim by bolts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alexander Specht in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th November 1881.
ALEXANDER SPECHT, of the Firm of Specht, Ziese, and Company, of Hamburg,
Civil Engineers and Patent' Agents. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAND CARTS."
A communication by Otto Schumann, of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony.
The Invention relates to improvements in hand carts with two or more wheels,
and the objects of these improvements are, first, to facilitate the dismounting of the
cart; and second, to dismount the cart in pieces of a suitable size to be put away
without taking much room.
To this effect the box of the cart is made so that the front and the back board
are hinged to the bottom and attached to the transverse beams connecting the
main beams by metal angles or hooks. The side boards are simply thrust in and
kept in their proper position by the triangular axle supports. The transverse
beams also are jointed to the main beams by means of flat metal hooks.
To connect the box with the axle, slots are cut in the triangular supports, wherein
the square parts of the axle rest and are kept by means of bolts.
The wheels too may be taken in pieces because their rim is formed from bent
pieces of iron, the ends of which are connected by screws. The spokes have a
screw thread cut on one end, whereby they are screwed into the nave, whilst the
other end forms a ring or loop fixed to the rim by bolts.
In the accompanying Drawings illustrating the Invention, Figure 1 is a
longitudinal section of a cart; Figure 2, a back view partly in section; and
Figure 3, a plan thereof.
a, a, are the two main beams connected by the transverse pieces f and f¹;
g is the bottom board where the front board and the backboard b are hinged on
by means of the hinges i, i; k, k, are flat iron hooks screwed to b and b', which
serve to suspend the cart box to the rectangular frame formed of the main
beams a, a, and the transverse pieces f. f'; d, d, are the side boards of the box, and
c, c, the triangular supports, each one provided with a vertical axle guard Z. The
lower ends of these guards are fork shaped and partially surround the square parts
of the axle h; the screw bolts e, e, prevent an accidental dismounting of the axle;
n is the rim of the wheel; m, m, are spokes screwed to the nave o and hinged to
the rim.
Having thus fully described the Invention, what I desire to claim and secure by
Letters Patent is,―
The above described construction of a hand cart, which allows the cart to be
dismounted in a short time.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Specht, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentysixth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
ALEXANDER SPECHT. (L.S.)