Improvements in or Applicable to the Hoods of Perambulators and other Carriages.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 13th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 14th Jan., 1887.
Improvements in or Applicable to the Hoods of Perambulators
and other Carriages.
We FRANK DAVIS of 235 Queen's Park Road, Brighton, in the county of Sussex,
Engineer, and EDWARD GILLMAN BENFORD, of 16 Castle Square, Brighton, aforesaid,
Perambulator Factor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to the hoods of perambulators
and other carriages whereby the knuckle joint at present in use which necessitated the
exertion of considerable force to open and close the hood is dispensed with.
In carrying out our invention we make use of centres similar to those at present
employed and adapted to receive eyes which turn upon the same as heretofore. To
each of the said eyes we attach a tube, the said tubes sliding one within the other
telescopewise and arranged to be automatically opened out or lengthened by means
of a spring in the interior.
The end of the interior tube is formed with a flange or shoulder on its outside and
a flange or shoulder is also formed on the inside of the outer tube in order to present
the said tubes from becoming detached and the spring lost in case the centres should
break away from the hood.
By this construction in closing the hood, which for this purpose is merely pressed
in the required direction, the said tubes will be closed and will thereby compress the
spring and the hood can then be retained in its closed position by means of a suitable
clip or catch on the carriage. In order to open the hood it is merely necessary to
release the said catch when the spring in recoiling will automatically open out or
lengthen the tubes and open the hood.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in or Applicable to the Hoods of Perambulators
and other Carriages.
We, FRANK DAVIS, of 235, Queens Park Road, Brighton, in the county of Sussex,
Engineer, and EDWARD GILLMAN BENFORD, of 16, Castle Square, Brighton, aforesaid,
Perambulator Factor, 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:
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to the hoods of perambulators
and other carriages whereby the knuckle joint at present in use which necessitated the
exertion of considerable force to open and close the lood is dispensed with.
In carrying out our invention we make use of centres similar to those at present
employed and adapted to receive eyes which turn upon the same. To cach of the said
eyes we attach a tube, the said tubes sliding one within the other telescope-wise and
arranged to be automatically opened out or lengthened by means of a spring in the
interior.
The end of the interior tube is formed with a flange or shoulder on its outside and
a flange or shoulder is also formed on the inside of the outer tube in order to prevent
the said tubes from becoming detached and the spring lost in case the centres should
break away from the hood.
The hood is retained in its closed position by means of a suitable clip or catch or its
equivalent.
In order to enable our invention to be fully understood we will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawings in which figures 1 and 2
represent side elevations of part of a perambulator shewing our improvements applied
to the hood thereof, figure I shewing the hood closed and figure 2 shewing the hood
in its raised or open position. Figure 3 is a detached plan view drawn full size of
our improved tubular apparatus or joint for automatically raising the hoods of
perambulators, the said apparatus being shewn in its closed position and figure 4 is a
horizontal section of the same; figure 5 is a similar view to figure 4 but shewing the
apparatus or joint opened out. Similar letters in all the figures represent similar
parts.
a, and b, represent the centres which are similar to those at present employed for
the stays of perambulator hoods and c, and d, are the eyes which are adapted to rotate
on the centres a, and b, respectively; screws 'e, and f, being represented as suitable
pivots for this purpose; 7, and 7, represent our tubes which we attach to the
eyes c, and d, respectively, the said tubes being placed and arranged to slide one
within the other as shewn; i, is the spring which, when the apparatus or joint is
closed as shewn in figures 3 and 4, is confined within the inner tube : one end
of the spring, bears against the end j, of the inner tube g, and its opposite end
bears against the end k, of the outer tube h; 1, is a rod fixed within the outer
tube, and forming a guide over which the spring i, works; m, is the flange or
shoulder formed on the opposite end of the inner tube g, and n is the flange or

page_text: shoulder formed on the inside of the outer tube for the purpose hereinbefore referred
to; o, is the clip or catch for retaining the hood in its closed position, the said clip
or catch being pivotted at p, to the eye c, and adapted to pass automatically over and
engage with a projection 7, on the outer tube h, for this purpose; the lower eye d,
of the apparatus is split and formed with lugs, r, for receiving the screw bolt
and nutt (or their equivalent) whereby the eye d, can be loosened and slid to any
required position upon the outer tube A, and be then again fixed in the said position
as illustrated by the dotted lines in figure 3. By this means the apparatus or joint
can be adjusted to suit the size and kind of hood to which it is to be applied.
3,
The apparatus or joint is applied to a perambulator hood in the manner shewn in
figures 1 and 2, that is to say, the centre b, is screwed or otherwise fixed to the lower
part u, of the frame of the hood whilst the centre a, is similarly fixed to the upper
part v, of the said frame.
By this construction the hood being in its open position as shewn in figure 2 (in
which ease the tubes g, and , are maintained in their extended position by means of
the spring i, as shewn clearly in figure 5) in order to close the hood it is merely
necessary to press the part, of the frame, backwards and downwards when the tube,
will be forced within the tube h, and the spring i, will at the same time be compressed
within the inner tube g, as shewn in figure 4 the clip or catch 0, then automatically
passes over and engages with the projection, and the hood will be thereby retained
in its closed position as shewn in figure 1. In order to open the hood it is merely
necessary to release the clip or catch o, when the spring i, in recoiling will automatically
open out or lengthen the tubes y, and h, and thereby open the hood as shewn in
figure 2.
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By this means the hood is not only raised automatically, but it is stretched, and the
leather cloth kept in good tension, as there are no dead centres as in the usual knuckle
joint stay, the spring always tending to extend the hood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
1. An apparatus or joint applicable to the hoods of perambulators and other carriages
constructed in such a manner as to automatically the hood on the release of a
clip or catch or its equivalent substantially as herein before described.
2. In apparatus or joints or stays for the hoods of perambulators and other carriages
the use of tubes adapted to slide telescope-wise one within the other in combination
with a suitable spring for automatically forcing them into an extended position in such
a manner as to constantly tend to stretch the hood, the usual knuckle joint being dis-
pensed with, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The improved apparatus applicable to the hoods of perambulators and other
carriages substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in figures 3, 4 and 5
of the accompanying drawings.
4. The improved perambulator hood hereinbefore described and represented in
figures 1 and 2 of the accommanying drawinos.