Improvements in Four-wheeled Vehicles for Common Roads.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
...Improvements in Four-wheeled Vehicles for Common Roads.
We MAUDE AGNES LAWRENCE, commonly known as The Honorable Miss Law-
Irence, of 18 Eaton Place, Belgravia, in the County of London, and FREDERICK
ARTHUR COLE, of the Firm of Wm. Cole & Sons of 26 Kensington High Street,
in the same County, Coach Builders do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention has for its object the production of a four wheeled "
"cart
common road carriage, having two smaller fore wheels and two larger hind wheels,
with capacity for the seating of, say, four riders and combining in its construction.
elegance of design with strength, convenience and lightness.
The improved carriage consists of a body which we prefer to make of a substan-
tially rectangular outline relieved at the front by curves. The floor, upper edges
and rails being parallel and horizontal, the ends of the rails preferably curved.
The seating is arranged, either fixed, or movable and for two riders on each of two
seats dos-a-dos with an intermediate back rest. The "body" is joined to the "foot
board" by a "sham door" and the foot board has usual splash board and
connections to springs and under fore carriage work to the axle and wheels.
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The back of the body is capable of being let down or of being closed, it turning
on preferably deep hinge parts and being controlled by quadrants. The body is
supported underneath the floor and rearward of the sham door by means of.
combined wood and iron continuous partly straight and partly curved "cranes,""
the iron or other metal of these "cranes " forming at their ends downwardly
projecting curved connections or scrolls, which by means of suitable couplings at the
backs and fronts thereof are attached to the springs which springs are connected to
the larger hind wheels. The back end of the body is by scrolls connected to and
supported on the backward portion of the "cranes" which pass below and to
beyond the rear of the "body."
Dated the 21st dow
1.000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Four-wheeled Vehicles for Common Roads.
We MAUDE AGNES LAWRENCE Commonly known as The Honorable Miss Law-
rence of 18 Eaton Place, Belgravia in the County of London and FREDERICK
ARTHUR COLE, of the Firm of Wm. Cole & Sons, of 26 Kensington High Street,
in the same County, Coach 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 has for its object the production of a four wheeled "cart" or
common road carriage, having two smaller fore wheels and two larger hind wheels
with capacity for the seating of, say four riders, and combining in its construction
elegance of design with strength, convenience and lightness.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews the improved vehicle by a side view and
Fig. 2 shews the same by a back view.
The improved carriage consists of a body a which we prefer to make of a
substantially rectangular outline relieved at the front by curves as shewn.
The floor b, upper edges c and rails & being parallel and horizontal, the ends of
the rails preferably curved.
The seating e, is arranged, either fixed, or moveable and for two riders on each
of two seats dos-a-dos with an intermediate back rest f. The "body" a is joined to
the "foot board " 9 by a
"sham door" and the foot board has usual splash
board and connections to springs k and under fore carriage work to the axle l-and
fore wheels m.
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The back of the body is capable of being closed, it turning on preferably deep
hinge parts and being controlled by quadrants. The body is supported
underneath the floor and rearward of the "sham door" by means of combined
wood and iron continuous partly straight and partly curved "cranes
the iron or
other metal of these "cranes " forming at their ends, n', ', downwardly projecting
curved connections or scrolls, which by means of suitable couplings n³ ³ at the
backs and fronts thereof are attached to the springs which springs are connected
to the larger hind wheels m'. The back end of the body is by scrolls n³ connected
to and supported on the backward portion of the "cranes" which pass below and
to beyond the rear of the "body."
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 :—
The construction, arrangement and combination of parts of a four wheeled cart-
comprising smaller fore wheels, larger hind wheels, body and sham door joining
body to foot board, curved cranes and scrolls connecting the springs-all substan-
tially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 21st day of September 1894.