An Improved Arrangement of Movable Seat for Polo Carts and other Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Arrangement of Movable Seat for Polo Carts and
other Vehicles.
I, HUGH MCMULLAN, Coachbuilder, Banbridge, Co. Down, Ireland, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the seats of polo carts and such like vehicles and it has
for its object to so construct and arrange the seat that it can be readily moved
backwards or forwards and locked in position when moved.
In carrying out my invention I fit on or to the side panels of the body of the
vehicle two angle irons or flat pieces of iron so placed as to form projecting ledges.
These irons which run from front to back of the vehicle form slides on which the
seat can be slid back and forward. Attached to the underside of the seat by
suitable bearings is a rod having a crank or handle in the centre and its ends
partially cut away so as to form flat surfaces which bear against the undersides of
the projecting ledges.
The arrangement is such that when the bar is turned, by the crank or handle, so
that its flat end surfaces are against the iron ledges the seat can be freely slid back
or forward but when the bar is turned so that its round end surfaces bear against
the ledges the seat is locked firmly in place. The partially cut ends of the bar
serve practically as cams which can be turned so as to grip against the side
ledges.
The seat is also provided with pieces of iron, one at each side, which serve to
guide it when being moved and also as a tie for the sides of the vehicle.
Dated this 18th day of March 1896
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Arrangement of Movable Seat for Polo Carts and
other Vehicles.
I, HUGH MCMULLAN, Coachbuilder, Banbridge, County Down, Ireland, 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 the seats of polo carts and such like vehicles and it has
for its object to so construct and arrange the seat that it can be readily moved
backwards or forwards and locked in position when moved.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a cross section of the body of a polo cart having my invention fitted
thereto.

page_text: Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the cart Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a section showing a slight modification.
Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged detail views.
In carrying out my invention. It fit on or to the side panels a of the body of the
vehicle, two pieces of iron b, or two angle irons b¹ (see Fig. 3). The flat strips of
iron 6 or the angle irons 6' are so fitted in position, as shown, as to form projecting
ledges. The irons b or which run from front, to back of the vehicle, form
slides on which the seat c can be slid back and forward as desired in order to
produce equilibrium.
Attached to the. underside of the seat by suitable bearings, suoli as is a
rode having a crank or handle eat, its centre (the crank is shown in dotted lines
at Fig. 1) and also having its ends e partially cut away, say to the extent of frd
of its. diameter. The cut. away. portions: form flat surfaces, see Figs:,4. and 5,
which bear against the undersides of, the projecting ledges of the bars or bl in the
manner shown at Figs. 1 and 3.
The arrangement is such that when the bare is turned, by the crank or handle e',
so that the flat parts of its end' surfaces e are next the iron ledges b (or b),,see Fig. 4,
the seat can be freely slid' back or forward'; but, when the bar is turned so that the
round part of its end surfaces bears against the ledges, as at Fig. 5, the seat is
locked: firmly in place. The partially cut ends of the bar serve practically as cams
which can be turned so as to grip against the side ledges.
The seat is or may be provided' with pieces of iron f, one at each side, which
serve to guide it when moved and also as a tie for the sides of the vehicle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said iuven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
consider novel and desire to claim, is:
1. The method of locking the seats of polo carts. and other vehicles in position
by means of a partially turnable bar, such as e, or equivalent, substantially as
herein before described.
2. In combination, a movable seat, slides b or 6' for the seat to slide on, and' a
'bar e provided with partially flattened ends e for locking the seat in position,
substantially as herein before described and shown on the drawings annexed.
Dated this 15th day of December 1896.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.