IMPROVING THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOLDING PERAMBULATORS IN ORDER TO CONTRACT THEM INTO A SMALLER COMPASS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Fry, Perambulator Manufacturer, of
No. 43, Stephen Street, Lisson Grove, Marylebone, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVING THE CONSTRUCTION OF
FOLDING PERAMBULATORS IN ORDER TO CONTRACT THEM INTO A SMALLER
COMPASS."
Sealed the 13th November 1868, and dated the 20th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Fry at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th May 1868.
I, JAMES FRY, Perambulator Manufacturer, of No. 43, Stephen Street,
Lisson Grove, Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVING THE CONSTRUCTION
OF FOLDING PERAMBULATORS IN ORDER TO CONTRACT THEM INTO A SMALLER
COMPASS," to be as follows:-
That the spring connected with the axle is made to pass upward
from the heel board through the foot board or bottom; by means of

page_text: which action the back wheels of the perambulator are brought forward
to its toe and thus contracted; or secondly by means of making the
bottom to move upward through the action of an hinge connected
with the springs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Fry in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
FRY, of 43, Stephen Street, Lisson Grove, Marylebone, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto the said James Fry, Her special license that
the said James Fry, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as he, the said James Fry, his executors, administrators,
and 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 "IMPROVING THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOLDING
PERAMBULATORS IN ORDER TO CONTRACT THEM INTO A SMALLER COMPASS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that the said James Fry, his
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
his, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:—
The lower works and body of the perambulator are made as usual
except that in place of the heel board being fastened down it is made
to move upon hinges so that it can be moved upward toward the front
of the seat; one end of the springs is attached to the axle and the
other end to the under part of the heel board, and when the per-
ambulator is folded the spring has passed up with the heel board
between the front foot board and the front seat board as shewn in
the accompanying Drawing No. 2. It is by means of a spring catch
and the movement of the springs and heel board upward that the
folding is effected.
The accompanying Drawing No. 1 shews the perambulator in its
open state; by pressing the spring catch marked B in Drawing No. 2
the springs, the heel board, and one half of the bottom are released,
and the hind wheels are forced forward until they close up with the
front wheel, as shewn in Drawing No. 2. When the heel board has
reached its proper position, that is, folded back upon the front seat
board, the spring catch marked A in Drawings Nos. 1 and 2 closes
upon the spring, and holds the perambulator in its folded position.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Fry, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twentieth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.