Improved Canoe Hearse or other Hearses or Cars employed for Funeral or other Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1891-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Canoe Hearse or other Hearses or Cars employed for
Funeral or other Purposes.
We THOMAS FOWDEX of 3 Hamnet Street Hyde, in the County of Chester,
Funeral Undertaker, and THE ASHTON, STALYBRIDGE, HYDE AND DISTRICT
CARRIAGE COMPANY LIMITED, of 82 Old Street, Ashton under Lyne, in the
County of Lancaster, Coach Builders and Proprietors, 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:-
Our invention relates to the construction of canoe, canopy, and other hearses,
Darley cars, and vehicles for funeral and other purposes.
Instead of employing the usual and customary separate framing, body, and
wheels or carriage, for each class or style of hearse, car, or other vehicle we
require to produce, we preferably construct our hearse, car, or other vehicle
body, or upper portion of such body, in moveable segments or parts, and, by the
removal or addition of one or more of such segments from or to our hearse, car,
or vehicle framework, we form respectively, a canoe hearse, canopy hearse, Darley
car, or other styles of hearse or funeral car, for each of these and other changes
of styles we employ only one framework and wheels.
We more particularly describe our invention as follows,-in conjunction with
the three accompanying drawings, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, which illustrate our combina-
tions as applied in three principal styles of hearse or funeral car.
Fig. 1. shows a side elevation of a canoc style of hearse. The chief moveable
segments or parts forming our vehicle body as referred to above namely
Sides A, ends B, canopy C, and pillars or other suitable supports D, are here
combined or secured together in a convenient and effectual manner, to and upon
the framework F, by means of sockets, catches, studs and nuts, where required.
Fig. 2, illustrates the same framework and carriage as in Fig. 1, but with the
sides A, and ends B,-removed from the framework F, thus, forming a canopy style
of hearse or funeral car.
Fig. 3, represents a Darley car style of funeral carriage, we form this by
removing (from the same framing as shown in Figs. 1 and 2)-the canopy C,
and the pillars or other supports D,-from their sockets or fixings in the frame-
work F, and by the addition of four corner pieces E,-inserted into the pillar or
supports (D) sockets in the framework F.
The novelty of our invention consists chiefly :-
In the combination of three or more styles of hearse or funeral car upon one
framework carriage and wheels.
Simplicity of construction and convertibility.
No skilled labour required to take in pieces or fit together the segments or parts
forming the combinations.
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. The methods, substantially as herein described, of combining a number of
moveable segments or parts upon one framework and carriage, and, by the removal
or addition of one or more of such segments or parts from or to the same frame-
work and carriage,—to produce changes of style in hearse or funeral car.

page_text: 2. For carrying out the methods above and herein described. The construction
in segments or parts, and the manners of arrangement and combination of the
same, as herein described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of June 1891.
UMAD TOWDEN.
For THE ASHTON, STALYBRIDGE, HYDE, AND DISTRICT
CARRIAGE COMPANY, LIMITED,
William Harry Dyson,
Secretary