Improvements in or relating to Mail Carts.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Mail Carts.
We, WILLIAM JOHN PARKER, and EDWARD GAMES PARKER, both of
104 to 110 Curtain Road, London E. Perambulator Manufacturers do hereby
declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:--
The object of our invention is to construct mail carts in such a manner that the
parts may be readily adjusted to suit the varying lengths of legs of children when
in a sitting position, and also for an infant to lie down.
We will describe our invention as applied to a 'single' car.
In carrying out our invention we fit a sliding bottom under the seat of the car,
the support for the footboard being hinged to the front of the sliding bottom. The
footboard, is attached to the support preferably by means of bolts or pins, sliding
in slots formed in the support, one or more of the bolts being fitted with winged
nuts to fix the footboard in any position found desirable.
A spring clip, hook or other device may be fitted to the support to engage a rod,
fixed to the frame of the car so as to retain the support and footboard in position.
When the car is used as a bassinette for an infant to lie down the support is
raised and the sliding bottom withdrawn from under the seat until the clip or hook
becomes engaged with a rod suitably mounted between the shafts of the car:
..
Although we have described our invention as applied to a 'single' car, it will be
obvious that with suitable modifications; our improvements are equally applicable
to 'tandem' or 'double' cars.
Dated 5th January 1893.
I
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W:C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Mail Carts.
We, WILLIAM JOHN PARKER, and EDWARD GAMES PARKER, both of
104 to 110 Curtain Road, London E., Perambulator Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of our invention is to construct mail carts in such a manner that the
parts may be readily adjusted so as to suit the varying lengths of legs of children,
when in a sitting position, and also for an infant to lie down.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
figures of reference indicate corresponding parts.
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Fig. 1 is an elevation showing our improvements applied to a single cart.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view showing the footboard down, for a sitting
position.
Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the method of adjusting the footboard to enable
an infant to lie down.
4 is the fixed seat, secured to the side frames 5 and the back bar 6.
7 is a
sliding board, fitted to slide in grooves 8 in the frames 5. 9 is the heel-board
hinged to the board 7 at 10. 11 is the footboard, having brackets 12 attached.
thereto on each side. 13 is one of two guide bolts, sliding in grooves formed in the
heel-board 9. 14 is a bolt fitted with a fly nut, working in a central groove in the
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page_text: heel board 9, whereby the footboard 11 can be adjusted relatively to and upon
the heel board at varying heights to suit the length of a child's legs. 15 is an iron
bar secured to the underside of the side frames 5. 16 is an iron bar secured to the
legs 20.
17 is a similar bar secured to the shafts 21. 18 is a hook fixed to
the lower end of the heel-board for attachment either to the bar 16 or to the bar 17.
19 is one of a pair of stops secured to the back end of the board 7.
When a child is sitting in our improved mail cart, the extension board 7 is
pushed back in its grooves, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; the heel-board 9 is let
down, and the hook 18 engages the bar 16; the footboard 11 is then adjusted, as
to height, by the fly nut and screw 14; as shown in Fig. 2.
When required for an infant lying down, the board 7 is drawn out until the
stop 19 touches the bar 15. The heel-board 9 and footboard 11 are then raised;
the hook 18 engages the bar 17, attached to the shafts. The position of the
footboard 11 is then adjusted to suit the infant, as shown in Fig. 3; the cart being
ready for use as a bassinette.
Although we have described our invention as applied to a "single" cart, it is
obvious that, with suitable modifications our improvements are equally applicable
" tandem " or "double" carts.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a mail cart, the combination of an extension board 7; a heel-board 9
hinged to the board 7; a footboard 11 attached to the heel-board 9 so as to be
capable of adjustment thereupon, the whole being adaptable to a sitting or lying
position, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated
by the drawings.
2. The general construction, arrangement, and combination of the several and
respective parts, together forming our invention of improvements in or relating to
mail carts, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
drawings.
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.