Year: 1888

page_text: I, FREDERICK THOMAS HARRINGTON, of 17, Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool, in
the county of Lancaster, Coach Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The invention relates to two wheeled road carriages having a tail board and one
or two transverse seats. The object is to provide means for balancing the body of
the carriage on the axle both when the tail board is raised or lowered and the carriage
is used for one, two, or more passengers.
The invention consists essentially in connecting the tail board to the front seat in
such manner that when the tail board is lowered the said seat is moved forward on the
body and when the tail board is raised the seat is caused to return to its original
position. The tail board may be connected to both the front and back seats.
One connection consists of endless cords coupled directly to the seat and by means
of connecting rods to the tail board.
Other connections have the seat and tail board coupled by levers, wheels and racks
or other convenient mechanism.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of March 1888.

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I, FREDERICK THOMAS HARRINGTON, of 17 Upper Parliament Street Liverpool in
the County of Lancaster Coachbuilder, 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 :--
The invention relates to two wheeled road carriages having a tail board and one or
two transverse seats. The object is to provide means for balancing the body of the
carriage on the axle both when the tail board is raised or lowered and the carriage is
used for one two or more passengers.
The invention consists essentially in connecting the tail board to the front seat in
such manner that when the tail board is lowered the said seat is moved forward on
the body and when the said tail board is raised, the seat is caused to return to its
original position. The tail board may be connected to both the front and back seats.
One connection consists of endless cords coupled directly to the seat and by means
o' connecting rods to the tail board.
Other connections have the seat and tail board coupled by levers, wheels and racks
or other convenient mechanism.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figures 1, 2, 3 4 and 5 are sectional views showing five ways of constructing the
body of a two wheeled vehicle in accordance with my invention. The shafts springs
and other parts are made and connected in any usual or convenient way. In all the
views the same letters denote equivalent parts.
In Figure 7 a is the body of the Vehicle tailboard hinged to the body at c. d front
and back seat connected together and free to be moved to and fro on bearers e,
endless cord band or chain passing around pulleys g free to rotate in or on bearings
carried by the body a, the top of the said band is connected to the front seat at h and
the bottom is connected at to the tail board by the link j. It will be evident
that when the tail board is lowered as shown by the dotted lines the seats will be
moved forward.
In figure 2 a pinion and racks used instead of the endless band-The seats
are connected to the upper rack and the tail board is coupled to the lower rack ľ
by the link j. m are antifriction guides for the lower rack.
In figure 3 a lever n pivotted at o to the body of the vehicle is connected to the
seats by a link and to the tail board 6 by the link j and is used to give the desired
motion to the seat when the tailboard is raised and lowered.
In figure 4 the front seat d is coupled to an endless cord band or chain fat the
top as in figure 1 whilst the back seat d is attached to the bottom of the said cord
band or chain at i and to the tailboard at p by the link j. In this construction the
front seat moves forward and the rear seat backwards when the tailboard is lowered.

page_text: in gure the tail board is coupled to the front seat d by a link and to the
rear seat d by a link . In this construction also the front and rear seats are
moved in opposite directions by the tail board b
Antifriction rollers are advantageously interposed between the seats and their
bearers to ensure easy motion and set bolts or equivalent devices are used for
locking the seats in position when required.
It will be obvious that many forms of mechanism may be used to connect the
seats and tail board so as to obtain the required motion without departing from
my invention and that the improvements may be used with four wheeled vehicles
having a tail board and transverse seats though not so advantageously.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Connecting the front or front and back seats of a two wheeled vehicle to the
tailboard in such manner that the said tail board when raised and lowered gives
motion to the seat or seats substantially in the manner and the purpose set forth.
Dated the
December 18xx
ARREY UI December 1XXX
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.