IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Quick, of No. 4, Rosedale Cottages,
Albion Road, Hammersmith, and Edwin Napoleon Norminton, of
38, High Street, Camden Town, both in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Quick and
Edwin Napoleon Norminton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 30th January 1872.
We, CHARLES QUICK, of No. 4, Rosedale Cottages, Albion Road,
Hammersmith, and EDWIN NAPOLEON NORMINTON, of 38, High Street,
Camden Town, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists in the novel construction of carriages (such
as sandaws, sandawlets, single or double broughams, or carriages) in
such form as can be altered at pleasure from a close to an open carriage,
and this is accomplished by hinging the front standing pillars at the

page_text: elbow line with a knuckle hinge on the front or further up the standing
pillars, which allows the front pillars to throw forward. There is another
knuckle hinge near the top of the standing pillars on either side (which
is fixed to the cant rails) that allows the roof to fall inwards, the front
standing pillars and a portion of the roof is then folded together and
falls on the front part of the boot, which admits of sufficient room to
allow for fall of roof and standing pillars when the coachman's seat is
turned forward, which is done by means of a hinge near the coachman's
heels in connection with a stay that supports the seat. When the front
standing pillars and portion of the roof is folded together and laid on
the boot, the coachman's seat is turned back in its place and is supported
by a stay on either side of the same, with a hole in it that falls on
corresponding stays with spindles on the lamp irons on either side of
the boot. The front glasses fall with the roof and fold under the driving
seat either in a single or double seated carriage to carry two, three, or
four persons inside. The front glass or glasses of a single brougham or
sandaulet can be made to slide down the body, the driver's seat can be
taken away by slipping the spring support stays out of the sockets near the
coachman's heels, and a person can drive from the inside of the carriage.
The doors are hung on slip hinges and when the doors are taken off it
forms a Victoria. By this construction great lightness is obtained as
well as the capability of changing from a close to an open carriage, or
vice versa.
Double broughams with circular fronts can be made on the
same principle by the falling of the pillars and roof.
The parts claimed as being new in this Invention are the falling of the
front pillars in connection with the roof on the front part of the boot
and the means of supporting the seat, also the folding of the glass
frames to enable them to be carried forward with the folding fronts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Quick and Edwin Norminton in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
QUICK, of No. 4, Rosedale Cottages, Albion Road, Hammersmith, and
EDWIN NAPOLEON NORMINTON, of 38, High Street, Camden Town, both
in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Charles Quick and Edwin
Napoleon Norminton, Her special licence that we, the said Charles Quick
and Edwin Napoleon Norminton, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles Quick and Edwin
Napoleon Norminton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Charles Quick and Edwin Napoleon
Norminton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their; or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edwin Napoleon Norminton, on behalf
of myself and the said Charles Quick, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This Invention consists in the novel construction of carriages (such
as sandaws, sandawlets, single or double broughams, or carriages) in
such form as can be altered at pleasure from a close to an open carriage,
and this is accomplished by hinging the front standing pillars at the
elbow line with a knuckle hinge on the front or further up the standing
pillars, which allows the front pillars to throw forward. There is another
knuckle hinge near the top of the standing pillars on either side (which
is fixed to the cant rail) that allows the roof to fall inwards, the front
standing pillars and a portion of the roof is then folded together and
falls on the flat part of the boot, which admits of sufficient room to
allow for fall of roof and standing pillars when the coachman's seat is
turned forward, which is done by means of a hinge near the coachman's
heels in connection with a stay that supports the scat. When the front

page_text: standing pillars and portion of the roof is folded together and laid on
the boot the coachman's seat is turned back in its place and is supported
by a stay on either side of the same, with a hole in it that falls on cor-
responding stays with spindles on the lamp irons on either side of the
boot. The front glasses fall with the roof and fold under the driving
seat either in a single or double seated carriage to carry two, three, or
four persons inside. The front glass or glasses of a single brougham or
sandawlet can be made to slide down the body, the driver's seat can be
taken away by slipping the spring support stays out of the sockets' near
the coachman's heels, and a person can drive from the inside of the
carriage. The doors are hung on slip hinges and when the doors are
taken off it forms a Victoria. By this construction great lightness and
strength is obtained as well as the capability of changing from a close
to an open carriage, or vice versa. Double broughams with circular
fronts can be made on the same principle by the falling of the pillars
and roof, and we make an additional seat in the single sandawlet which
gives room for four persons' by hinging two flaps together, which when
folded slide up the front pillars; long dress wings are made to shift
which when put on forms the Victoria when the doors are taken off.
The parts claimed as being new in this Invention are the falling of
the front pillars in connection with the roof on the flat part of the boot,
and the means of supporting the seat, also the falling of the glass paines
to enable them to be carried forward with the folded fronts. The
carriage to be called the Victoria sandawlet.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Napoleon Norminton, on
behalf of myself and the said Charles Quick, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
EDWIN NAPOLEON NORMINTON. (L.s.) .