Improvements in Perambulators and Mail-carts.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Loft, fat Nov., 1902 Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1903
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Perambulators and Mail-carts.
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS of 3, 5 & 7 Tanner Street, London, S.E.
Merchant and Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
First. In the method of making the hood. The top in wadded so as to cause it
to be round and smooth outside not showing the position of the supporting ribs.
The joints or arins for extending the hood are so placed that the sides of the hood
may be rolled up or detached at will.
Second. A drawer is inserted below the seat so constructed that the sides falling
inwards upon hinges and the front falling outwards the whole packs away in very
close compass but when drawn forward from under the seat and the sides and front
end fixed in position this drawer with the seat forms a bed of such length that a
young infant or an invalid may lie at full length.
Dated this Second day of February 1893,
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Perambulators and Mail-carts.
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS of 3, 5 & 7 Tanner Street London S.E.
Merchant and Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
In referring herein to the vehiclos to which the invention is applicable the words
perambulator and mail-cart are used as denoting children's carriages invalid-
carriages and all vehicles similarly pushed or guided by hand to which the invention
may be usefully applied.
The objects of the invention are :—
First. The construction of the hood with a smooth round top not showing the
position of the supporting rib or ribs.
Second. The construction of the joints by which the hood is extended and their
position on either side of the hood in such wise that the hood-sides in the form of
blinds or curtains may at pleasure be detached or rolled up thus providing for a
free circulation of air and enabling the rider while the hood is erected to look out
on either side.
Third. The use of curtains which can be drawn across the front of the hood.
Fourth. The provision of such an extension of the seat that it is convertible
into a bed upon which an infant or invalid can lie at full length which extension is
capable of being folded togather and stowed compactly away when not required
for use.
The aforementioned objects are thus attained :—
First. The ribs of the hood are first covered with some strong and inelastic
linen or similar fabric. Upon this inner lining are tacked suitable thicknesses of
wadding rising gradually upon the flat or depressed lining until the outer surface of
the top is smooth and round from front to back as well as from side to side. Over
this is then fastened the waterproof material of the hood.
Second. The hood-joints on either side of the hood are made in two portions one
running up the rear margin of the side and the other along the upper margin. The
vertical portion of the joints is hinged with one arm longer than the other so that
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page_text: when collapsed or folded the knuckle falls towards the eye or centre from which
the hood-ribs radiate. The hood-sides are made of separate pieces of stuff attached
preferably by buttons and button holes.to the upper and hinder margins. Tapes
with rings are fixed within the tops of the sides so that when these are rolled up
they are supported by drawing the tapes round them the rings being looped upon
the buttons on the ontside.
Third. The fixing of a bar or cord across the front of the hood upon which are
hung rings or hooks attached to the upper edge of curtains which can thus be
drawn across the open front of the hood or withdrawn at pleasure.
Fourth. In the apace under the sent a drawer is placed. There is no back to it.
The sides and the front end are hinged to the floor of the drawer. The sides fall
towards each other-upon it. The front end falls forwards or outwards. The drawer
can be drawn forwards upon longitudinal bearers when the sides and front end being
fixed up by hooks or catches a cushion can be laid in the drawer which with the
Beat cushion constitutes the required bed.
In order that tho nature and novelty of my invention may be clearly understood
and readily put into practice 1 now proceed to explain the drawings hereto appended.
Figure 1. is a side-elevation of the hood. It will be seen that the top is rounded
from front to back. This form is obtained by the use of wadding as already
explained. The supporting joints are in the two portions A B and B C. There
when folded both fall towards G the contro from which the hood-ribs radiate. To
provide for this the portion B C is divided into arms of unequal length hinged
at D. The side of the hood E F G C is made in a piece separate from the rest of
the hood but attached to it by the buttons at a. In the figure the side is shown rolled
up at E F and supported by the tapes e e. The hood is attached to the body of
the perambulator by thumbscrews at G C.
Figure 2. is a view of the hood-front showing a' a" a bar or cord upon which are
strung the rings or hooks carrying the curtain or curtains.
Figure 3. is a perspective view of the drawer in position to be used as a bed.
Figure 4. is a sectional view from the side showing the position of the bed when
collapsed and pushed away under the seat.
The same reference lotters refer to the same parts in Figures 3 and 4. A B is
the back of the perambulator B C the sent D the heelboard and E the footboard
HJ is a drawor of which K K are the sides and L the front end F G are bearers
upon which the drawer slides forward as in Figure 3 or under the seat as in
Figure 4. The sides K K are hinged to the drawer-floor and fall towards each
other thereupon. The drawer front L is also hinged and falls outwards as in
Figure 4 or the sides and front can be kept together in the erect position as in
Figure 3 by attachments at M is a stop-block which prevents the drawer
to the underside of which it is attached being drawn out farther than the
heel-board D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The use of an inner top to the hood hearing the tension when the hood is
erected and the fixing theroupon of suitable thicknesses of wadding so that the
outside covering of the hood when extended may have a smooth and rounded
surface from front to back.
Second. The construction of the joints extending the hood and the placing of
thom along the hinder and upper margins of the hood-sides and the making of the
hood-sides of separate pieces of stuff so that they can be dotached or rolled up
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings horeto
appended.
Third. The use of a curtain or curtains depending by rings or hooks from a bar
or cord across the front of the hood.

page_text: hinged as to fall towards each other upon the drawer-floor and front hinged to fall
forwards or outwards the whole to slide under the seat upon bearers substantially as
described and illustrated.
In witness whereof I, the said Thomas Frederic Simmons, have hereunto set
my hand this Thirty-first day of October in the year of Our Lord 1893.
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