A Portable Convertible Baby-cage, Crib, Table, and Rocking Carriage.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Dec.. 1892-Accepted. 28th Jan.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Portable Convertible Baby-cage, Crib, Table, and Rocking
Carriage.
We JAMES MCHARDY of Fairfax House Chiswick Scientific Expert and
WALKER GEORGE DE FORGÉS GARLAND of East Molesey Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention which relates to a portable, convertible baby-cage, crib, table and
rocking carriage, may be carried into practice somewhat as follows;-
The corner-posts are formed of numerous parts drawn together by bolts passing
through them. The lower ends of the said posts may consists of suitable feet with
or without rollers, and may form the heads of the bolts, if the nuts be at the top.
Lines of rails are provided, either fixed into the component parts of the corner-
posts, or capable of being secured by the aforesaid bolts. A floor, capable of
being inserted at any convenient height, is provided; and a table-top is so
constructed as to fit on top of the corner-posts: whilst rockers (either framed or
separate) are made capable of being attached to the base of the structure either
in the longitudinal or the transverse position.
It is proposed to construct most of the said parts in wood, but we do not confine
ourselves to the use of any particular material; and any equivalent to bolts, screws
and other devices may be used.
Dated this 24th day of February 1892.
JAMES MCHARDY.
WALKER GEORGE DE FORGÉS GARLAND.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Portable Convertible Baby-cage, Crib, Table, and Rocking
Carriage.
We JAMES MCHARDY of Fairfax House Chiswick, Middlesex, Scientific Expert
and WALKER GEORGE DE FORGÉS GARLAND of East Moseley, Surrey, Manu-
facturer 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, which relates to a portable, convertible, baby-cage, crib, table
and rocking carriage, is performed by providing corner posts made up of numerous
parts drawn together by bolts passing through them. The lower ends of the said
corner posts may form the heads of the bolts, or the nuts, at the same time as they
form feet for the said contrivance, and they may be supplied with wheels or
rollers. Lines of rails are provided, either fixed into the component parts of
the posts, or, so perforated at their ends as to be capable of allowing the
aforesaid bolts to pass through them and secure them along with the parts of
the corner posts.
A floor is so hinged as to fit in between any of the lines of rails and secure itself
by its expansion.
The table top is so made that it may be laid upon the corner posts and there,
may remain secure by means of ledges or holes to engage the said corner-posts at
their upper ends.

page_text: d-The head of the bolt formed by the foot of the appliance.
e-A wheel or roller in d.
g-An end view off showing a hole to receive the bolt a. b.
h. i. One of the rails (several of which, in different positions are lettered h. i.).
The separate outline h. i. being a plan, shows the holes through which the bolts
pass.
-Small ring-pins or their equivalents, which form axes for the wheels. As
will be seen, these pins may be removed and serve to attach the rockers in the slots
from whence the wheels are withdrawn.
1. 2. (on dotted lines)-A section of the said floor hinged at the respective figures
so as to render it easy to slide the said folding floor in between any of the lines of
the rails at the end.
1. 2. (firm lines)-The same section of the floor when in position.
3. 4. Section of table top made to fit down upon the tops of the corner posts.
Fig. II. A reduced plan of the contrivance with the floor in position.
1. 2. The said floor hinged together, in three pieces, at the joinings indicated by
double lines near the figures 1. 2. The outline of the floor shows arcs cut out of the
corners to fit in against the corner-posts.
The lines of rails are suggested by dotted lines lettered as in Fig. I and
the firm circles suggest sections of bolts and corner-post pieces also lettered as
in Fig. I.
Now as the corner posts form flexible joints by reason of the bolts passing
through all the rails and parts employed, it follows that, on removing the floor
which serves to square the structure, the whole frame may be folded as suggested
by the dotted-line positions x. y, or the bolts may be withdrawn from the corners
whereupon the contrivance comes to pieces so as to render it portable. N.B. The
only difference between the crib and the baby-cage combination is in the position
of the folding floor.
Fig. III. Side elevation, with the rockers added. The upper parts being all
similar to such parts in other drawings already described are of no importance in
this.
mm- -The rockers with or without.
n--A stay securing the curved piece m m, into which it is fixed at its ends and
also by a cross piece at the middle. The said stay n, or its equivalent, is capable of
being inserted in the slots in d d (the feet) from which the wheels, represented by ee
Fig. I, are removed.
jj The pins or axes passing through n (instead of through the wheels) and
securing it, with m m- -(the rocker) to the feet d. d. It will readily be under-
stood that transverse or longitudinal rockers of this kind may be attached or
removed with facility or, as a matter of course transverse and longitudinal rockers
may be combined by using a number of such longitudinal rockers fixed into the
transverse rockers or vice-versa.
Fig. IV. A representation of the alternative method of forming the rails and
corner-posts, the rails being, (as hereinbefore described), fixed into the numerous
pieces which make up the corner-posts.
ff-The corner pieces as in the other figures.
hi-A rail. fixed permanently into the said corner nieces ff

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is;
1. The corner posts of many parts forming a hinge for folding particularly
as herein set forth, in combination with our said crib baby-cage and rocking
carriage.
2. The folding floor in combination with the aforesaid folding construction of the
corner posts of a crib or baby cage.
3. The combination of the bolts or their equivalents, passing through numerous
pieces, with the construction as herein set forth and with the said rockers.
4. The rockers, capable of being attached or removed, particularly as herein
set forth.
5. The table-top herein described in combination with a crib or baby-cage with
hinged corner posts as claimed.
6. A combined portable convertible baby-cage, crib, table and rocking carriage
all and each as herein set forth by the drawings and specifications.
Dated this 21st day of November 1892.
JAMES MCHARDY.
WALKER GEORGE DE FORGÉS GARLAND.