Improvements in Children's Mail Carts and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1900.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Mail Carts and the like.
I, ALFRED HARRIS, of Lion Works, Bradford Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention refers to double seated children's mail carts and has for its
object the folding up of one of the seats so as to form a splash board when using
the carriage for a single occupant only.
One seat is hinged to the front of the well and rests upon the shafts; to form
the folding back to the seat, hinges or brackets are fixed to the opposite edge of
the seat to that edge which is hinged to the well, so as to allow the back to fold
down on to the seat. The back is kept in its upright position by means of jointed
bars forming cranks which also act as the arms of the seat, one end of the jointed
bars being pivotted to the back and the other pivotted to the shafts or the well.
a stop being upon these latter ends to prevent the seat falling backward and a
suitable catch may be provided to hold the back in its upright position.
When folding up the seat and back, the back is turned down onto the seat
and the seat raised on its hinges into an upright position so that the underside
of the seat forms the face of a splash board, a catch upon the shaft or in any
other suitable position holding the folding parts together.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1899.
HENRY F. TALBOT,
30, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Children's Mail Carts and the like.
I, ALFRED HARRIS, of Lion Works, Bradford Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
Reference being had to the accompanying drawings, upon which the similar
letters refer to similar parts in the various figures.
This invention refers to double seated childrens mail carts and the like
carriages, and has for its object the folding up of one of the seats so as to form
a splash board when using the carriage for a single occupant only.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig. illustrates the body
and shafts of a mail cart shewing one seat constructed according to my invention
and in position for a double seated carriage.
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page_text: Figs. 2 and 3 are drawings to a larger scale shewing the seat
fferent positions. And Fig. 4 illustrates the body and shafts of a mail cart
ewing one of the seats folded and in position for a single seated carriage.
One seat is hinged to the front of the well and rests upon the shafts. To form
or brackets are fixed to the opposite edge of 5
he folding back to the seat hinges
he seat to that edge which is hinged to the well, so as to allow the back to fold
own upon the seat.
In the accompanying drawings the seat.A is shewn attached to the front of
he well B at C by the hinges 1, the seat A resting on the shafts D at E. To
form the folding back to the seat the board F is held within the metal frame G 10
by the brackets 2 and 3, the frame G being pivotted to the brackets 4, which
brackets are attached to the seat A so that the back F will fold down on to the
and 6; the bars 5 being pivotted
seat A as shewn in Fig. 3. The back F is kept in its upright position (Figs. 1
and 2) by means of the cranked jointed bars
to the brackets 3 and the bars 6 pivotted to two pins 7, projecting inwards at
the back of the front H of the well B, there being stop pieces or projections 8
upon the bars 6, which projections catch on to the well front H, and prevent
the tilting backwards of the back F; and a suitable catch may if desired be
and 6 form arms to the seat.
attached to one of the shafts to hold the bars 6, and thus keep the back F of the
seat A in position. Thus the cranked bars
When folding up the seat A and back F to form a single seated carriage with
splash board, as shewn by Fig. 4, the back F Fig. 2 is folded down on to the
seat A, as shewn in Fig. 3, and the seat A raised on its hinges 1, into an up-
right position carrying with it the folded down back F so that they stand up as
A catch 9 on the shaft D
shewn in Fig. 4, the underside of the seat A forming a splash board flush with
the front H of the well B, as shewn at A' Fig. 4.
holds the folded parts upright.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1
Double seated childrens mail carts and the like carriages capable of being con
verted into single seated vehicles by folding up one of the seats, so as to form a
upright front or splash board, substantially as herein set forth.
Cantember 1900.
his 20th day
ለ
HENRY F. TALBO
Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.