Improvements in Convertible Mailcarts
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 24th May, 1895
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS 3, 5 & 7 Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London, S.E.
Perambulator Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In the manner of constructing convertible mailcarts or jinrickshas with the
trough or bed in two portions connected together and with the seat by hinges
which portions when put up level with the seat extend this sufficiently for an
infant or invalid to lie upon it at full length or when folded become respectively
the heel board and the footboard of the cart.
The sides of the trough or bed also are each in two portions one within and
overlapping the other so that when the heelboard and the footboard are folded and
let down from their bed-position to their seat-position the two portions of each
side attached respectively to them pass one within the other.
Dated this 20th day of July 1894.
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS.
Improvements in Convertible Mailcarts.
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS, 3, 5 and 7, Tanner Street, Bermondsey,
London, S.E. Manufacturer, 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 :--
The word mail-cart herein is used as denoting children's handcarts and all
vehicles similarly pushed or guided by hand to which the invention may be usefully
applied.
The object of the invention is the construction of a trough or bed extending the
seat in such a manner that when no longer required for an infant or invalid to lie
upon the bed aforesaid will fold together and let down so as to serve as the heel-
board and foot-board of the mail-cart.
This object is thus attained :-The floor of the trough or bed is made in two
portions hinged together and to the edge of the seat so that when supported on a
level these two portions and the seat together constitute a bed of length sufficient
for an infant or invalid to lie at full length.
The sides of the trough or bed are also each made in two portions one projecting
beyond the other so that when the bed is fixed or supported on a level they
together make one side to the bed yet when the bed is folded and let down the
one portion passes inside the other and so permits the straight side to take the
form of a right-angle or nearly so.
In order that the nature and novelty of my invention may be clearly understood
and readily put into practice I now proceed to explain the drawings hereto
appended.
Figure 1 is a perspective drawing of the mail-cart showing the seat and bed in
the position to accommodate a person sitting.

page_text: Figure 2 represents the seat and bed fixed up in the level position to
accommodate an infant or invalid lying down.
The same reference letters refer to the same parts in both figures.
A is the seat of the cart. B and C are the two portions of the bed-floor
hinged together at F and hinged to the seat at E. When folded and let down to
serve as a seat as in Figure 1. B is the heel-board and C the foot-board. D is the
toe- or dash-board. and care portions of the sides of the trough or bed
passing within the two other portions 61 and 6" when the bed is folded and let
down. The shoulders of c¹ and c¹ then press against the heel-board B and so
prevent the portion C passing too far under the seat at A. G' and G¹ are the
thumbscrew and socket which support the bed when set up and extended between
the shafts. H is a support attached to the framework of the cart upon which the
footboard C rests when let down.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The use of a bed-extension to the seat of a mail-cart of which the floor in
two portions hinged together and to the seat is capable of folding so as to serve as
a beel-board and footboard substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the drawings hereto appended.
Second. The construction of each of the
passing within the other when the bed is
described and illustrated.
sides of the bed in two portions one
folded and let down substantially as
In witness whereof I, the said Thomas Frederic Simmons, have hereunto set
my hand this Nineteenth day of April, in the year 1895.
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS.