An Improved Mail Cart Convertible into a Perambulator.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1895-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mail Cart Convertible into a Perambulator.
GEORGE LOUIS ROTHSCHILD HENRY VINCENT BAKER 31 St. Paul's Square
Birmingham Perambulator Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
1
The well or foot room of the mail-cart is hinged with four hinges to front of
bottom of a larger well, which is attached to the shafts of the cart, whereby at one
movement the smaller well may be raised & extended at one effort, forming a
perambulator or lie down mail cart.
When closed as a mail cart the smaller well fits entirely into the larger well.
Dated this 11th day of October 1894.
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We, GEORGE LOUIS ROTHSCHILD, and HENRY VINCENT BAKER, trading as
Rothschild & Baker, both of 31 St. Paul's Square, in the City of Birmingham,
Perambulator Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The well or foot room of the mail cart is hinged with four hinges to front and
bottom of a larger well, which is attached to the shafts of the cart, whereby at one
movement the smaller well may be raised and extended at one effort, forming a
perambulator or lie down mail cart. When closed as a mail cart the smaller well
fits entirely into the larger well.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, illustrating an application of our
invention-
Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the well extended, forming a double mail
cart or perambulator.
Figure 2 is a similar perspective view showing the smaller well swung inside the
larger, and forming a single mail cart.
The construction and operation of the device to obtain the object of our invention
is as follows-
A is the smaller well or foot room, and it is hinged to the swinging board D by
two hinges E E. This swinging board D is hinged in turn by two hinges F F to
the bottom of the larger well or foot room G. The smaller well is shown extended
at Figure 1, and the action of closing it up to form a single well or foot room is
clearly shown by the dotted lines on Figure 1, where the well is shown half shut,
moving or swinging in the direction indicated by the arrow.
Figure 2 clearly shows the smaller well or foot room A swung over inside the
larger well or foot room G, and forming a single mail cart.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1. The improved method of adapting a vehicle for use either as a mail cart or a
perambulator substantially as herein before described, and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
2. In perambulators or mail carts, the use of a movable well or foot room, hinged
in such a manner that it may be extended to form an extra seat or swung inside a
larger and stationary well or foot room, substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The improved general construction and arrangement of the convertible mail
cart or perambulator substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of June 1805
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants..