New or Improved Means for Securing Hoods and Canopies to Perambulators and to Children's Mail Carts.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Means for Securing Hoods and Canopies to
Perambulators and to Children's Mail Carts.
I, HARRY ISRAEL HUMPHRY, of 91, Oakfield Road, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham, Warwickshire, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the hereindescribed new or improved means for
attaching the folding hoods and canopies to perambulators and to children's mail
carts so as to enable either a folding hood or a canopy to be speedily attached to or
removed from the mail cart or perambulator as may be required.
In carrying out this invention as applied for instance to attaching a folding hood
to a perambulator I provide and attach at each side of the hood where the bows
forming the frame thereof are jointed together, a small metal bracket. Each of
these two brackets has a base formed with a side projecting piece or side projecting
pieces, and on the top or inside or outside the body of the perambulator, at those
two points where the jointed ends of the said frame are required to be attached, I
provide a plate which is slotted or recessed for the base of the corresponding
bracket to engage with.
To attach the hood above described to the perambulator body, the said lower
ends of the sides of the hood are pressed towards each other and then placed in
position between the said plates on the body into the recesses of which, when the
sides of the frame are released and allowed to spring outwardly, the bases of
the brackets engage and thus secure the frame of the hood in place. The hood
can readily be removed by first springing its sides towards each other so as to
disengage the bases of the brackets from the plates.
In the arrangement above described the said lower ends of the sides of the
frames of the hood have to be so made that when detached from the body they will
be farther apart than the distance between the said plates, so that the said ends
will have to be sprung towards each other to attach the hood to the body as above
described; or instead of being made to engage with the plates by springing out-
wardly, the lower ends of the sides of the frame may be made nearer together than
the distance between the plates so that they will have to be sprung apart when
attaching the hood to the body and then sprung towards each other to engage with
the said plates.
In a modification of my invention the said brackets are dispensed with and the
inner or outer ends of the joint pins which secure the ends of the frame together
engage with holes in the said plates by the springing of the bows of the frame as
above described.
Or the said brackets may take the form of pins which engage in holes in the
said plates and are there secured by set screws or by a spring catch or by other
means.
My invention is similarly applied to securing the canopy to a perambulator or to
a mail cart or to securing the hood to a mail cart.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1891
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: tion appea;
Fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation of the same ;
Fig. 3 shews my invention applied to securing a canopy to a perambulator.
The remaining figures illustrate my invention in detail on an enlarged scale as
hereinafter fully described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawing.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, in carrying out
this invention as applied for instance to attaching a folding hood A to a peram-
bulator body BI provide and attach at each side of the hood A where the
bows a¹ a as a forming the frame thereof are jointed together a small metal
bracket C (see Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 6). Each of these two brackets C has a base c¹
formed with a side projecting piece or side projecting pieces c² ² and on the top or
inside or outside the body B of the perambulator at those two points (see Figs. 1
and 2) where the jointed ends of the bows a' a² a³ at forming the said frame are
required to be attached, I provide a plate D which is slotted or recessed at d¹ for
the base cc of the corresponding bracket C to engage with as shewn in Fig. 6.
Fig. 5 shews this bracket on an enlarged scale as made with a side web d for
fixing to either the inside or the outside of the sides 663 of the perambulator
body B as shewn fixed outside in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 7 shews the plate D when
In this case it will be seen that the
made for fixing to the top of the sides b' 6.
side web d' is dispensed with and the plate D is prolonged at each end for screw
holes.
To attach the. hood provided with the brackets C C above described to the
perambulator body B the said lower ends of the sides of the frame of the hood are
pressed towards each other as shewn by the inner dotted lines X X in Fig. 2 and
then placed in position between the plates DD on the body into the recesses d¹ of
which, when the said sides of the frame of the hood are released and allowed to
spring outwardly, the bases c¹ c³ of the brackets CC engage as shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 3
and 6 and thus secure the frame of the hood in place. The hood can readily be
removed by first springing its sides towards each other as shewn by the inner dotted
lines XX in Fig. 2 so as to disengage the bases c¹ of the brackets C C from the
plates D D.
In the arrangement above described and shewn by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 the
lower ends of the sides of the frames of the hood have to be so made that when
detached from the body they will (as shewn by the outer dotted lines Y Y in
Fig. 2) be farther apart than the distance between the plates DD fixed to the
perambulator sides so that the said ends will have to be sprung towards each other
to attach the hood to the body as above described; but instead of being made to
engage with the plates DD by springing outwardly the bows "a" a³ a may be

page_text: bent so that their lower ends will normally be nearer together than the distance
between the plates D D as shewn by the dotted lines X X in Fig. 2 so that the said
lower ends will have to be sprung apart when attaching the hood A. to the body B
and then allowed to spring towards each other to engage with the plates D; in this
case the plates DD have to be fixed to the body with the slots d¹ towards the out-
side of the perambulator.
In a modification of my invention as shewn by Figs. 8 and 9 the brackets CC
are dispensed with and the inner or outer ends of the joint pins E which secure the
ends of the bows a' a' a' a' of the frame together engage with holes d³ in the said
plates D by the springing of the bows of the frame as above described. In Fig. 8
the plate D is shewn as made for fixing to the inside or outside of the perambulator
and in Fig. 9 as made with a base d' for fixing to the top of the sides.
Or the pins E which engage in the holes in the said plates may be there
secured by a screw G as shewn by the dotted lines in Fig. 9; or by a spring catch
such as F (Fig. 10) which is fixed to the pin E and has a shoulder which
engages with the plate D as shewn. To disengage the spring catch F from the
plate D the outer end of the spring catch has to be pressed inwardly until the
shoulder will pass through the hole d³ in the plate.
My invention is similarly applied to securing the canopy to a perambulator or to
a mail cart or to securing the hood to a mail cart.
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 :-
For removably securing the hoods and canopies to perambulators and to
children's mail carts the employment of means substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing whereby the hood or
canopy is attached to or detached from the perambulator or mail cart by the
springing of the sides of the frame of the said hood or canopy as hereinbefore set
forth.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.