Improvements in Mail Carts, Bassinette Perambulators, and other similar Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1895
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Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1896 Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mail Carts, Bassinette Perambulators, and other
similar Vehicles.
1 WILLIAM ASHTON, of 74 Sankey Street Warrington in the County of
Lancashire, Bassinette and Bath Chair Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to mail carts bassinette perambulators and other similar
vehicles, and consists, first, of a simple and efficient method of adjusting folding
shafts at various heights, and secondly, my invention consists of a simple method
of altering the body of the cart so as to form a bed and also of converting it into
a bassinette perambulator.
According to the first part of my invention I hinge the shafts together in the
usual way and I employ either a quadrant or a semicircular rim in which there is
a slot or a number of holes. This rim may be fixed either on the top or bottom side
of either the front or back part of the shafts and on the other part of the shafts
I fix a slotted guide-plate, through which the before-mentioned rim passes. It
will therefore be seen that when the shafts are raised, the rims pass through the
guide-plates and the shafts are held in position at the height required by bolt,
thumb-sorew, cotter-pin, or other similar device.
According to the second part of my invention, the front part of the body, to
which the hood is attached, I make in the usual way except that the sides project
below the seat, and are fixed on the top of the shafts thus forming grooves between
the shafts and the seat. The fall-part of the cart I make to slide between and
upon the shafts ; and a board which I call the well-cover I make to slide in the
before-mentioned grooves. These two parts viz. the fall and the well-cover are
joined together, preferably by means of pivoted plates, and on being drawn out to
the required distance, the fall-part is raised in line with the seat, thereby changing
the cart from the position of a seat to that of a bed, and further by substituting
in the place of the well-cover a well, working in the same grooves and attached by
the same means, I convert the cart into a bassinette perambulator.
Dated this 26th day of April 1805.
COME LEIE DIMOLPICATION.
Improvements in Mall Carts, Bassinette Perambulators, and other
similar Vehicles.
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I, WILLIAM ASHTON of 74 Sankey Street Warrington in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention relates to mail carts, bassinette perambulators and other similar
vehicles, and consists, first, of a simple and efficient method of adjusting folding
shafts at various heights, and secondly my invention consists of a simple method
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page_text: of altering the body of the cart so as to form a bed and also of converting it into
a bassinette perambulator.
On the accompanying drawing. Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 part
longitudinal sections and Fig. 4 a transverse section of mail cart and bassinette
perambulator with my improvements shown and applied thereto.
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In accordance with my invention I fix a quadrant D preferably on the front
part of shaft E working radially through a slotted guide-plate. G which is fixed on
the other part of the shaft E as illustrated more clearly in enlarged detail view
Fig. 5. Fig. 6 is an enlarged plan of guide-plate G illustrating the slot H and
the thumb-screw, cotter-pin or spring pin I. This pin or thumb screw I is passed
through the guide-plate G and through one of the holes in the quadrant D and
secures the shaft in the required position.
In accordance with the second part of my invention I construct the front part of
the body of cart A with the sides SS projecting below the seat J, and across the
front of the said seat J I fix a block K level with the sides and projecting to the
end of the shaft or thereabouts; the body is screwed and bolted on the top of
the shafts forming grooves L L between the seat J and the shafts E and I extend
the said grooves L to the required distance with a block M in line with the seat.J.
The fall B is joined to the well-cover. N with ordinary hinges or pivoted plates
at each end and falls between the shafts and by means of blocks 00 rests upon
the shafts and slides to and fro in the aforesaid grooves; when the fall B is drawn
out and raised to a horizontal position it is carried preferably by a cross rod P
bent at right angles as seen at Fig. 7 and by means of one or more hooks T Fig. 1
is made secure. The said cross-rod P is fixed to the outside of the shafts so as to
move radially as shown by dotted lines R Fig. 1 and Fig. 5.
Further by substituting a well C in the place of the well cover Nwhich slides.in
the aforesaid grooves and attaching it to the fall B by the same means as mentioned
heretofore I convert the cart into a bassinette perambulator as illustrated in
Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1st. In mail-carts, bassinette perambulators and other similar vehicles the use of
a quadrant D capable of working radially through guide-plate G for the purpose
of holding the shafts where required substantially as herein before described and
illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
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2nd. In mail-carts, bassinette perambulators and the like the use and employ-
ment of grooves L L formed between the seat J and the shafts E substantially a
and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
3rd. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting my improve-
ments as applied to mail-carts bassinette perambulators and other like vehicles
substantially as set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 28th day of January 1896.
WILLIAM ASHTON,
Applicant.