AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING OSCILLATING OR SWINGING Manion ADER
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Deavin, Martin Deavin, and John Henry
Sutton, all of Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey, Engineers, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING OSCILLATING OR SWINGING
Manion
ADER"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Deavin, 'Martin
Deavin, and John Henry Sutton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 16th February 1864.
We, JOHN DEAVIN, MARTIN DEAVIN, and JOHN HENRY SUTTON, all of
Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING
OSCILLATING OR SWINGING MOTION IN SWINGS, CRADLES, COTS, AND OTHER LIKE
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
We connect to metal or wooden uprights, which carry at their lower ends
the swing, cradle, or other like article, two cross beams, one on each upright,
and at or near the upper ends thereof. These cross beams extend both from
the front and from the back of the uprights; the uprights are suspended
on axes, and above these axes we fit pulleys. We connect cords at or to the
fore ends of the cross beams, and other cords at or to the rear ends of the
cross beams, carry them over the pulleys, and bring the free ends down within
reach of the occupants of the swing. By pulling alternately upon these cords

page_text: the occupants of the swing obtain the swinging motion. For cradles for
infants and others unable to pull the cords, we apply clockwork to obtain the
swinging or pendulum motion.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Deavin, Martin Deavin, and John Henry Sutton, in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th August 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
DEAVIN, MARTIN DEAVIN, and JOHN HENRY SUTTON, all of Rotherhithe, in the
County of Surrey, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said John Deavin, Martin Deavin, and John Henry Sutton, Her
special licence that we, the said John Deavin, Martin Deavin, and John
Henry Sutton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Denvin, Martin Deavin, and John Henry Sutton, our
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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING OSCILLATING
OR SWINGING MOTION IN SWINGS, CRADLES, COTS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," upon
the condition (amongst others), that we, the said John Deavin, Martin
Deavin, and John Henry Sutton, or one of us, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our 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 we, the said John Deavin, Martin Deavin, and
John Henry Sutton, 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 thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
We connect to metal or wooden uprights, which carry at their lower ends

page_text: the swing, cradle, or other like article, two cross beams, one on each upright,
and at or near the upper ends thereof. These cross beams extend both from
the front and from the back of the uprights; the uprights are suspended on
axes, and above these axes we fit pulleys. We connect cords at or to the
fore ends of the cross beams, and other cords at or to the rear ends of the
cross beams, carry them over the pulleys, and bring the free ends down within
reach of the occupants of the swing; by pulling alternately upon these cords
the occupants of the swing obtain the swinging motion. For cradles for
infants and others unable to pull the cords, we apply clockwork to obtain the
swinging or pendulum motion.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation with one side
of the frame removed, and Figure 2 an end elevation of a swing, to which
oscillating or swinging motion is imparted according to our Invention by the
occupants pulling upon cords as before mentioned.
A, A, is the frame supporting the swing; B is the swing carried by
uprights C, C; D, D, are two cross beams connected one to each upright C,
near the upper end thereof. The uprights C, C, are suspended from an axis E,
supported by the frame of the swing, as shewn. a, a, a, a, are four pulleys
on an axis b, also supported by the frame of the swing; c, c, are cords connected
at one end, as shewn, to the uprights C, C, and carried through rings or
pulleys in the fore ends of the cross beams D, D, and then over two of the
pulleys a, a; their free ends are brought down within reach of the occupants
of one end of the swing, and are attached to a handle d; c', c', are other cords
also connected at one end to the uprights C, C, and carried through rings or
pulleys on the rear ends of the cross beams D, D, and then over the remaining
two pulleys a, a; their free ends are in like manner brought down within
reach of the occupants of the other end of the swing, and are attached to a
handle d'; by pulling alternately on the handles d and d', or on the cords c, c,
and c', c', the occupants of the swing obtain the swinging motion.
Figure 3 is a side elevation with one side of the frame removed, and
Figure 4, an end elevation shewing the manner in which we obtain swinging
motion by means of clockwork. Similar letters refer to parts corresponding
to those in Figures 1 and 2. I form a slot e in the top of either or both of
the uprights C, C, to receive a crank or bent rod f, one end of which projects
beyond the side of the frame A, and carries a pulley g, over which a chain h,
to which a weight i is attached is passed; the chain is connected to clock-
work.
When it is desired to impart oscillating motion to the cradle or other
article the chain h is wound up to raise the weight i to the pulley g; then by
allowing the weight to descend, the running out of the
chain will impart

page_text: rotary motion to the pulley g and crank f. and the uprights C, C, and the
cradle B will receive oscillating motion. Or, instead of employing a chain
and weight, rotary motion may be imparted to the crank f, by means of a
spring, similar to the spring of a watch. Sometimes I fit cords to this ring or
other article as well as a chain and weight or a spring, and in that case the
crank f must be removed when it is desired to obtain the oscillating motion
by the cords.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim obtaining
oscillating or swinging motion in swings, cradles, cots, and other like articles,
substantially by the means and in manner berein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Sutton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
J. H. SUTTON. (L.S.)