Improvements in Apparatus for Portable Awnings for Tram Cars, Omnibusses, and like Vehicles, Ships' Decks, Garden Seats, and other Places or Apparatus.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Mar., 1889
Improvements in Apparatus for Portable Awnings for Tram Cars,
Omnibusses, and like Vehicles, Ships' Decks, Garden Seats, and
other Places or Apparatus.
WILLIAM JONES 247 Boundary street North Liverpool Plumber, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
A horizontal shaft with two or more flanged pulleys on for cords or chains, at one
end a crank handle, ratchet wheel and pall hangers or bearers for shaft to work in,
tuberlar uprights screwed into bases to be fixed over each pulley, a cap at top with a
pully wheel on each side for the cords to pass over, the ends to fasten by regulating
screws to fall down arms the middle of cord will run through a pulley block attached
to main cord, working inside of upright the arms to be hinged to slideing sockets on
upright the end of arms to bo eyed for rod to run through to fasten awning, the
sliding sockets to be connected by rods between cach upright a hook on each side
of cap to fasten arms when up, a spring or buffer between sliding socket and cap.
Dated this Ninth day of March 1888.
WILLIAM JONES.

page_text: TP1 P DE POLTTOAITUN
Improvements in Apparatus for Portable Awnings for Tram Cars,
Omnibusses, and like Vehicles, Ships' Decks, Garden Seats, and
other Places or Apparatus.
WILLIAM JONES, 247, Boundary Street Liverpool Lancashire Plumber & Gas-
fitter, 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 :-
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of my apparatus as applied to Tram Cars or other
vehicles.
Fig. 2. a part side elevation with portion of seat back removed to show shaft
& drums.
Fig. 3. a sectional end elevation showing apparatus folded against seat back
when not in use.
I fix two or more tubular pillars as shown at A Figs. 1. 2 & 3. to seat back or
suitable base, sliding on the outside of each pillar is a socket B having lugs B¹,
between which are arms or ribs (pivoted, these arms have lugs D to which a
shackle E is attached by a rivit or pin as shown, these shackles are each provided
with an adjustable screw & nut as shown at F, on the ends of these screws an
attachment is provided for a chain, cord or preferably steel wire rope as shown
at G, these cords pass over grooved pulleys hung in a suitable cap I fixed to
the top of the pillars A, these cords or wire ropes are then brought down inside
the pillars A, round a pulley J Fig. 3, this pulley is hung in a shacklo K, and
to which a single wire rope L Fig. 2 & 3 is attached.
Underneath each pillar is provided a drum M fixed to a suitable shaft N to
which the cords or wire ropes L are affixed. The shaft N is provided with suit-
able bearings as shown at O Fig. 2, also with a ratchet wheel & pawl P, Figs. 1 & 2.
A movable or fixed handle is provided at one end of shaft Nas shown at Q for the
purpose of rotating it.
In an annular recess in the cap H an india-rubber buffer ring R is placed for the
projecting ring on socket B to strike against when raising the apparatus.
It will now be seen that if the apparatus is closed or collapsed as shown in Fig. 3,
by turning the handle Q in the right direction the sockets B with the awning &
attachments will be drawn up the pillars A until the socket B strikes the buffer
ring R, then by continuing the rotation of the handle the armis C. C. will be
expanded until the heels S come in contact with the bottom of the slots between the
lugs B', these are formed as shown upon the drawing to give the requisite pitch or
angle of the frame work carrying the awning.
The sockets B B are connected by means of rods T Fig. 2, at the ends a similar
rod T projects as shown. The ends of the arms C. C. are connected by means of
rods or tubes U Fig. 2, these are also extended at the ends as shown at U, and
connected by a link V Fig. 2 to the centre rod T Fig. 2, thus forming a framing to
which the awning is attached.

page_text: The awning is shown by dotted lines W Fig. 1. Openings are provided in the
awning for the pillars A & shackles E to pass through & the openings so formed
are covered by a gusset X.
Having now particularly described & assertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.-
1-A frame work for carrying an awning constructed as herein described and
illustrated.
2-The means by which this frame is expanded, contracted, raised & lowered by
one operation & by one person substantially as herein described & illustrated.
Dated this Eighth day of December 1888.
WILLIAM JONES.