Improvements in Springs for Carriages and other Road Vehicles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1889-Accepted, 17th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Springs for Carriages and other Road Vehicles.
We, CHARLES HEAD, of Chertsey Surrey and EDWARD HEAD, of. 3. Gloucester
Road, Queens Gate, Kensington S.W. Carriage Builders,, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to a novel method of constructing certain parts of known
springs for the purpose of combining them for obtaining ease of motion and for giving
comfort to the occupants of a carriage or other vehicle.
For the purpose of our invention, we apply to or make one of the plates of a half
elliptic spring, say that used for the lower part of our combination, an ear or eye for
the jointing or looping of the tail end of a short Cee spring thereto, we also apply to
or make with the body portion of the Cee spring an ear or eye for joining or looping
the drop eye of the said half elliptic spring to, we carry the bow of the Cee spring
sufficiently over and connect it by a "Robin" or loop strap to the shortened end of
another spring, which otherwise corresponds to the half elliptic and this has its opposite
end coupled to the first mentioned half elliptic.
The three springs form the combination and each take its share of the weight and by
their arrangement they give to and take up the forward and backward thrust of the
vehicle in starting and stopping without imparting a jolting or other unpleasantness to
the occupants.
Dated this 1EAL 1 1000
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said Charles Head
and Edward Head.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Springs for Carriages and other Road Vehicles.
We, CHARLES HEAD of Chertsey, Surrey, and EDWARD HEAD, of 3 Glos'ter Road,
Queens Gate, Kensington, S. W. Carriage Builders, 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:―
This invention relates to a novel method of constructing certain parts of known
springs for the purpose of combining them for obtaining ease of motion and for giving
comfort to the occupants of a carriage or other vehicle.
We
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For this purpose, we apply to, or make on, one of the plates of a half elliptic
spring A, say, that used for the lower part of our combination, an ear or eye B for
the jointing or looping of the tail end C of a short Cee spring D thereto, we also
apply to or make with the body portion of the Cee spring D, an ear or eye E
for joining or looping the drop eye of the said half elliptic spring A to.
carry the bow of the Cee spring D sufficiently over and connect it by a
"Robin
or loop strap or leather brace F from the bolt through the tail. end of Cee to the
shortened end G of another spring H which otherwise corresponds to the half
elliptic A and this has its opposite end coupled at I to the first mentioned half
elliptic A. The three springs form the combination and each takes it share of
the weight and by their arrangement they give to and take up the forward and
backward thrust of the vehicle in starting and stopping, without imparting a
jolting or other unpleasantness to the occupants of the vehicle to which such
springs are fitted.
As an example of the application of our invention, we show at Figure 2 a side
view of a cart with the springs fitted but we do not limit ourselves to the use of

page_text: our combination springs to two wheeled vehicles as they are applicable to four
wheeled vehicles, particularly to carriages in which it is essential to dispense with
the long under perch.
Having now particularly. described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The combination spring shown at Figure 1 of the annexed drawings, in which
the principal features are, the depending eyes or ears B from the top plate
of the lower half elliptic, and the upstanding eyes or ears E of the Cee, whereby
the lower bow of the Cee is suspended from the extreme end of the bottom half
elliptic, and the tail of the Cee hung at a distance therefrom, and from the same
plate of the lower half elliptic, as described for the purpose set forth.
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H. GARDNER,
Per R. Core Gardner,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said Charles Head
and Edward Head.