Improvements in Milk Perambulators and other Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1898-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Milk Perambulators and other Vehicles.
I, JAMES JOSEPH WHITBY, of 31, Holly Street, Dalston, Dairy Farmer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in milk perambulators and other vehicles,
and is applicable more particularly to those vehicles provided with springs such as
described in the specification of my invention upon which Letters Patents have
been granted, dated the 17th day of July, 1896, No. 15840.
The object of the present invention is to provide means whereby the distance
apart of the axle trees of the front and rear wheels may be regulated in accordance
with the load to be carried and its position upon the perambulator, truck, or
other vehicle or conveyance.
According to my invention I provide a sliding block or plate to which the wheels
are connected, the ends of which sliding block or plate travel in guides formed upon
the inside of the side frames of the vehicles. A fixed cross-beam or bar is placed
in a convenient position beneath the car or other vehicle through which works a
screw. This screw also passes through the sliding block or plate and as same is
turned so will the sliding block (and with it the wheels carried by same) be drawn
either backwards or forwards as may be required.
The screw may be turned by means of a loose handle, or in heavy vehicles a spur-
wheel and pinion operated from a lever at either end or side of the vehicle, may
be used for operating the screw, or any other suitable means may be employed.
Dated this 27th day of October 1897.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Milk Perambulators and other Vehicles.
I, JAMES JOSEPH WHITBY, of 31, Holly Street, Dalston, Dairy Farmer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement: —
This invention relates to improvements in milk perambulators, and other vehicles,
and is applicable more particularly to those vehicles provided with springs such as
described in the specification of my invention for which Letters Patent have
been granted, dated the 17th day of July, 1896, No. 15840.

page_text: The object of the present invention is to provide means whereby the distance
apart of the axle trees of the front and rear wheels may be regulated in accordance
with the load to be carried and its position upon the perambulator, truck, or
other vehicle or conveyance.
And in order that this my invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a vehicle with my invention applied thereto,
and
Fig. 2 a plan view of same.
Referring to the drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts, a is a sliding block or plate to which the wheels 6 are connected,
the ends of which sliding block or plate travel in guides c formed upon the inside
of the side frames d of the vehicle. A fixed cross-beam or bar e is placed in a
convenient position beneath the car or other vehicle through which works the
screw f. This screw f also passes through the sliding block or plate a and as
same is turned so will the sliding block (and with it the wheels b carried by
same) be drawn either backwards or forwards as may be required.
The screw may be turned by means of a loose handle fi as shewn, or in heavy
vehicles a spur-wheel and pinion operated from a lever at either end or side of
the vehicle may be used for operating the screw f, or any other suitable means may
be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The improvements in milk perambulators and other vehicles, substantially as
described and illustrated.
2. In a device for altering and regulating the distance apart of the fore and hind
wheels of a vehicle, the sliding block or plate a to which the wheels are connected;
the guides ; fixed cross-beam e; screw f and means for operating same, all
arranged, combined and operating, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 27th day of July 1898.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
For the Applicant.