An Improved Convertible Carriage for Children.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 14th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Convertible Carriage for Children.
I CHARLES FREDERIC OWEN of Beaver Park Dudsbury in the County of Lancaster
Perambulator Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to make a "bassinette" perambulator which can be
converted at will into either a children's mail cart, or into a velocipede.
For this purpose I make a bassinette perambulator with three or four wheels as may
be preferred. The ends or front and back of the same make either detachable
altogether or so that one or both of them may be turned over on hinges either over or
under the bottom when the carriage is to be used as a mail cart, the seat folding over
or against the ends, so that they will lie flat. The perambulator handle and mail cart
shafts may also be made detachable but I prefer to mount the same on hinges and
provide it with stays so that it can be turned up and fixed when the carriage is to be
used as a perambulator, and turned down and fixed so as to form shafts when it is to
be used as a mail cart.
For converting the carriage into a velocipede I provide a horse's head with seat,
cranks and steering handle like the front part of an ordinary velocipede horse (or it
may be without the head if preferred) and I make provision to fix this firmly by a
thumb screw or other convenient fastening to the front part of the bottom of the
carriage when the front end thereof has been removed.
For convenience of turning and steering when the carriage is in this form the
velocipede wheel must be so arranged that it will only touch the ground when the
driver sits on the horse and will then raise the hind wheels off the ground slightly
tilting the carriage, but if this tilting of the carriage be considered to be objectionable
the hind wheel axle must be so fitted with a screw or otherwise that it can be raised
sufficiently to lift the hind wheels off the ground when the carriage is to be used as a
velocipede.
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GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Convertible Carriage for Children.
I CHARLES FREDERIC OWEN of Beaver Park Didsbury in the County of Lancaster
Perambulator Manufacturer 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 object of this invention is to make a bassinette perambulator which can be
converted at will into either a children's mail cart or into a velocipede.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the
sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is a side elevation of a convertible carriage for children
made, according to my invention, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is a
section showing the manner of converting the bassinette into a mail cart or into a
velocipede, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detached views of portions thereof hereinafter more
particularly referred to.
I make a bassinette perambulator with three or four wheels (preferably four) as

page_text: shown at Figs. 1 and 2, a being the sides of the body, the springs, c, d the front and
main axles, and e, f the front and main wheels respectively.
The ends, or front g and back h (Fig. 1.) I make detachable altogether (as at g
Fig. 3.) or so that one or both of them may be turned over on hinges (as shown at h
Fig. 3) either over or under the bottom, when the carriage is to be used as a mail
cart, the end or ends folding over against the seat or seats so that they lie flat.
The perambulator handle (shown by dotted lines) and the mail cart shafts & may be
made detachable and interchangeable as shown at Figs. 1 and 2, it being of course
understood that although both are shown upon Fig. 1, one only is used at a time, or
the shafts may be mounted upon hinges as shown in the detached view Fig. 4, being
connected together by stays and provided with a thumb nut and quadrant / so that
they can be turned up and fixed when the carriage is to be used as a perambulator
and turned down and fixed so as to form shafts when it is to be used as a mail cart.
An additional detachable seat m provided with iron supports n may be fixed in
sockets as shown at Fig. 3, or it may be hinged to the back of the cart so as to fold
over when not in use as shown detached at Fig. 5.
For converting the carriage into a velocipedle I provide a horse's head p (Fig. 3)
with a wheel cranks steering fork s and handle t like the front part of an
ordinary velocipedo horse (or it may be without the horse's head P if preferred)
and make provision to fix this firmly by a thumb screw or other convenient
fastening to the front part of the bottom of the carriage when the front end g
thereof, and the front wheel or wheels e thereof and axle have been removed.
If it be thought undesirable to have the front wheels and the axle removable then
the velocipede part may be attached to the back part of the vehicle (which will then.
become the front) and for convenience of turning the velocipede wheel must be so
arranged that it will only touch the ground when the driver sits on the horse and
it will then raise the front wheels (which will now be the hind wheels) off the ground
slightly tilting the carriage or these wheels and axle may be fitted with slides and
screws or otherwise so that they can be raised sufficiently to lift these wheels off the
ground when the carriage is to be used as a velocipede, but for many reasons I con-
sider it the better plan to make these wheels and axle detachable as shown and first
above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :—
The improved construction of carriage for children made in the form of a bassinette
perambulator convertible into a mail cart or into a velocipede substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated th
1000
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.