IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Edward Brown, of Redmond's Hill, in the
City of Dublin, Coach Builder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CARRIAGES."
Scaled the 26th February 1875, and dated the 2nd September 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Edward Brown
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd September.1874.
I, HENRY EDWARD BROWN, of Redmond's Hill, in the City of Dublin,
3 Coach Builder, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
“IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES," to be as follows:—
This Invention relates to what are known as broughams and pleasure
carriages of a similar construction, and consists in the employment of
half doors only in the class of carriages above referred to, the lower part
alone of the door being retained, whilst the glasses or windows which
hitherto formed the half, and which have been made to rise and fall
between the door pillars, are now caused to slide horizontally into the
"quarter," thus dispensing with the door pillars, in consequence of

page_text: which the large front pillars with the bottoms and sides, as generally
used in forming the doorways of such carriages, are not required, and
by substituting therefore a framework of wrought, bar, or angle iron, or
other suitable material, the hind and front posts or pillars of the lower
doors can be made, swept, or curved to suit the sweep of the said frame-
work; the glasses are suspended from and slide along metal rods, and do
not engage with the half door, so that the accidental opening or shutting
of the door whilst the glasses are in their closed position or slid outwards
will not injure the glass in any way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Edward Brown in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRÝ
EDWARD BROWN, of Redmond's Hill, in the City of Dublin, Coach.
Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by, Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Edward Brown, Her special license
that I, the said Henry Edward Brown, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Edward Brown, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Henry Edward Brown, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
:

page_text: NOW KNOW YE; that I, the said Henry Edward Brown, 'do hereby
leclare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
s to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying.
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
NOW KNOW YE; that I, the said Henry Edward Brown, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
s to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying.
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
Say
The said Invention relates to what are known as broughams and
pleasure carriages of a similar construction, and consists of a peculiar
arrangement of the doors and adjacent parts, whereby the ordinary door
pillars are dispensed with, and facility is afforded for constructing the
doors of a suitably sweeping or curved form.
In carrying out my Invention I employ half doors only in the class of
carriages above referred to, the lower part alone of the door being
retained, whilst the glasses or windows which hitherto formed the upper
half, and which have been made to rise and fall between the door pillars,
are now caused to slide horizontally into the quarter. By this means
I am enabled to dispense with the large front and door pillars, and
the bottom sides as generally used in forming the doorways of such
carriages, and also with the usual heavy timber in the framework of such
carriages, and I substitute therefor a framework of wrought, bar, or
angle iron, or other suitable material, which arrangement admits of the
hind and front posts or pillars of the lower doors being made sweeping
or curved to suit the sweep of the said framework. The glasses are
suspended from and slide along metal rods, and do not engage with
the half door, so that the accidental opening or shutting of the door
whilst the glasses are in their closed position or slid outwards will not
injure the glass in any way.
The accompanying Drawing represents a sectional elevation of a
brougham with my Invention applied thereto.
A is the framework, the posts or pillars a, b, of which are made of a
sweeping or curved form, as shewn; B is the half door constructed of a
form corresponding to that of the posts or pillars a, b, and hinged at the
side a¹ to the post or pillar a, the opposite edge b' of the door closing against
the post or pillar of the framework A; C is the window glass fitted
by preference in a frame e provided with rollers or rings d, which run
along the supporting rod e placed inside the quarter D and across the

page_text: top of the door aperture, the window C being slid into the quarter D
when it is required to enter or alight from the vehicle.
.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is, or may be used, or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to
be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combina-
tion with glasses sliding horizontally into the quarter in broughams and
other carriages, of a similar construction of a framework made of a
curved or sweeping form, and half doors of a corresponding form, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein-before described and as illus-
trated by my Drawings..
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Edward Brown, have to
this my Specification set my hand and scal, the 26th day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
HENRY EDWARD BROWN. (L.S.)