AN IMPROVED PHAETON-GIG or four WHEELED CARRIAGE OR CONVEYANCE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Lloyd of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
Carriage Builder for an Invention of AN IMPROVED PHAETON-GIG or four
WHEELED CARRIAGE OR CONVEYANCE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lloyd at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th August 1882.
HENRY LLOYD of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Carriage Builder.
"AN IMPROVED PHAETON GIG OR FOUR WHEELED CARRIAGE OR CONVEYANCE
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The main object of the said invention is to construct in an improved manner a
strong durable and elegant carriage or conveyance capable of being rapidly and
easily converted from a phaeton or double to a gig or single seated carriage or
conveyance.
In carrying my invention into practice the front seat forms part of and is
constructed with the main body of the carriage or conveyance, the rear seat is
connected to the main body by two parallel links or connections, the back one of
which forms part of the body of the carriage or conveyance whether in phaeton
or gig form. When used as a phaeton the two seats are independently supported
one behind the other, when used as a gig the rear seat rests on and is carried by
the front seat.
The front seat has a movable frame which is raised in position to form a support
or back when the carriage or conveyance is used as a phaeton.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Lloyd in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd February
1883.
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HENRY LLOYD of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Carriage Builder
AN IMPROVED PHAETON GIG OR FOUR WHEELED CARRIAGE OR CONVEYANCE
The main object of the said invention is to construct in an improved manner
a strong durable and elegant carriage or conveyance capable of being rapidly and
easily converted from a phaeton or double to a gig or single seated carriage or
conveyance.
In carrying my invention into practice the front seat forms part of and is
constructed with the main body of the carriage or conveyance, the rear seat is
connected to the main body by two parallel links or connections the back one of
which forms part of the body of the carriage or conveyance whether in phaeton or
gig form. When used as a phaeton the two seats are independently supported
one behind the other, when used as a gig the rear seat rests on and is carried by
the front seat.
The front seat has a movable frame which is raised in position to form a support
or back when the carriage or conveyance is used as a phaeton.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig 1 is a longitudinal section of a phaeton gig constructed in accordance with
my invention, a front seat constructed with and forming part of the main body b
of the carriage or conveyance, c is the rear seat connected to the main body b by
the parallel links or connections d. e hinged to the rear seat cat fand g and to
the body of the carriage or conveyance at h and i. The back link or connection e
forms part of the body of the said carriage or conveyance whether in phaeton or
gig form. The general construction of the body wheels shafts and connections is
of any ordinary or usual kind.
The drawing shows the seats so arranged that the carriage or conveyance serves
as a phaeton the two seats being independently supported one behind the other.
The dotted lines show the position of the parts when the carriage or conveyance is
used as a gig. It will be observed that in the latter case the rear seat rests on
and is carried by the front seat and practically serves as the front seat.
The front seat a is fitted with the movable frame j hinged at k so as to occupy
the position shown by the full lines and form a back to the front seat, when the
vehicle is used as a phaeton: When used as a gig the said frame is turned down
into the position shown by the dotted lines.
Having now described and illustrated the nature of the said invention in such
manner that others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect I
claim:
The improved Phaeton Gig or four wheeled carriage or conveyance herein
described and illustrated
In Witness Whereof I the said Henry Lloyd have hereunto set my hand and
seal this twenty-second day of February in the year of Our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three
HENRY LLOYD
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