IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MOUNTING OF CARRIAGE BODIES
Year: 1883

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LETTERS PATENT to Henry Arthur George Somerset commonly called Lord
Arthur Somerset of Badminton in the County of Gloucester and Francis
Mulliner of Brook Street Grosvenor Square in the County of Middlesex for
an Invention ofUT..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Honry Arthur George
Somerset and Francis Mulliner at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
on the 31st October 1883.
HENRY ARTHUR GEORGE SOMERSET, commonly called Lord Arthur Somerset,
of Badminton in the County of Gloucester and FRANCIS MULLINER of Brook
Street, Grosvenor Square in the County of Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MOUNTING OF CARRIAGE BODIES."
The object of this invention is to provide an efficient substitute for the heavy
C springs at present used in carriages whon great case of motion is designed to be
secured,
From these C springs as is woll known, leather braces are suspended for
supporting the carriago body and provision is made to check the lateral oscillations
of the carriage body.
To secure all these advantages and to effect an economy in the construction as
well as a material reduction in the weight of the carriage, and further to securo as
much elasticity of a bettor kind with less movement, We fit to the front and back
frames of the underwork; transverse springs in connection with elbow springs
from the body for supporting the leather braces on which the body of the carriage
rests after the manner of the hind part of a Tilbury.
This adaptation of the Tilbury mode of suspension to four wheel carriages may
be applied to either the front and hind parts of a carriage or to the hind or front
part only.
By this arrangement the tendency of the carriage body to oscillate laterally is
reduced to a minimum, and the weight of the supporting springs for the leather
braces is greatly reduced, whilst the efficiency of the elastic quiescent support of
the carriage body is secured.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Arthur George Somerset and Francis Mulliner in the Patent
Office on the 30th April 1884.
HENRY ARTHUR GEORGE SOMERSET commonly called Lord Arthur Somerset
of Badminton in the County of Gloucester and FRANCIS MULLINER of Brook!
Street Grosvenor Square in the County of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MOUNTING OF CARRIAGE BODIES
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The object of this Invention is to provide an efficient substitute for the heavy
C springs at present used in Carriages when great ease of motion is designed to be
secured.
From these C springs, as is well known, leather braces are suspended for
supporting the carriage body, and special provision is necessary to check the lateral
oscillations of the carriage body,,
To secure these advantages, and to effect an economy in the construction, as
well as a material reduction in the weight of the carriage, and further to secure as
much elasticity of a better kind, and with less movement, we fit to the front and
back frames of the underwork, transverse springs in connection with elbow springs
from the body, for supporting the leather braces on which the body of the carriage
rests, after the manner of the hind part of a Tilbury.
In the accompanying drawing Fig: 1 is a sido view of a four wheel carriage
fitted according to our Invention, and Fig: 2 is a back view of the same.
The back and front frames of the underwork have bolted thereto a pair of
transverse springs AA, which serve to carry the body by means of braces of
leather B B pendent from the onds thereof.
Through the loops of these leather braces, suspending pins are passed, which
connect the braces, through shackles CC, with the cross springs A. These bracings
are attached at their lower ends to jacks, which have their bearings in cheeks
forming part of the clips which connect the elbow springs D D with the carriage
body.
These elbow springs project, one pair in rear of the carriage body, and the other
pair in front of the carriage body, and they rest against their respectivo braces BB,
and are secured thereto by means of metal straps d. The use of these straps is to
provent the braces B from slipping off the elbow springs when a tendency to
latoral motion is given to the carriage body, but sufficient space is allowed between
the straps and the braces, to provide for the tightening up of the latter by means
of the jacks onto which their ends are wound.
It will be understood that the carriage body may be mounted in a precisely
similar manner at front and back The cross springs A yield to and neutralize the
effect of the vertical motions of the frames and the elbow springs B neutralizo the
oscillating motions of the carriage body. Or the carriage body may be mounted
with cross springs, elbow springs, and leather braces either at the front or hind
parts only, the opposite part being in that case supported by elbow or other
springs.
By these arrangements, therefore, the tendency of the carriage body to oscillato
laterally is reduced to a minimum, and the weight of the supporting springs for
the leather braces is greatly reduced, whilst the efficiency of the elastic quiescent
support of the carriage body is secured.
Having now set forth the nature of our Invention of "Improvements in tho
mounting of Carriage bodies" and explained the manner of carrying the same

page_text: into effect, we wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Lotters
Patent We claim:
The application to four-wheel carriages of the means above described for securing
ease of motion and an economy in the manufacture of such carriages.
In witness whereof I the said Francis Mulliner have hereunto set my hand and
seal the twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty four.