An Improved Carriage Convertible into Various Forms, such as a Child's Ambulance, Go-cart, Perambulator, or the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Carriage Convertible into Various Forms, such as a
Child's Ambulance, Go-cart, Perambulator, or the like.
I, SAMUEL HERN, of 94 Saint Mary Street, Cardiff, in the County of
Glamorganshire, Estate Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved convertible carriage applicable to a child's
ambulance, go carts, mail carts or perambulators.
This invention consists of a rigid folding; or to collapse, a carriage, convertible
to the requirements of children. It may be constructed of iron, wire, wood,
bamboo, wicker-work, silk or net, or partly silk or canvas, calico or any other
suitable material, with or without a hood or covering; swinging on a pivot in a
frame with two or more wheels with ordinary or crank axles and shafts either for
hand or animal draught or propulsion. The various parts are constructed so as to
work from one shape into another for the purpose required, by the said parts being
provided with frames pivoted or hinged together and may be kept rigid by catches,
hooks, bolts and the like.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration and
that the shapes materials and parts may be varied in many ways within the scope
of my invention.
Dated this 10th dox of Aum 1901
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Carriage Convertible into Various Forms, such as a
Child's Ambulance, Go-cart, Perambulator, or the like.
I, SAMUEL HERN, of 94 Saint Mary Street, Cardiff, in the County of
Glamorganshire, Estate Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists of a rigid folding; or to collapse a carriage, convertible
to the requirements of children or adults. It may, be constructed of iron, wire,
wood, bamboo, wicker-work, silk or net, leather or partly silk or canvas, calico or
any other suitable material, with or without a hood or covering; swinging on a
pivot in a frame with two or more wheels with ordinary or crank axles and shafts
either for hand or animal draught or propulsion. The various parts are constructed
so as to work from one shape into another for the purpose required, by the said
parts being provided with frames pivoted or hinged together and may be kept rigid
by_catches, hooks, bolts and the like.
I attain these objects by the illustrations in the accompanying drawings, in
which―
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section with the shafts broken off for want of space;
Fig. 2, is a side elevation of Fig. 1, with a portion of the wheel broken off;
Fig. 3, is a side elevation of a cart;
Fig. 4, is a side elevation of an ambulance;
Fig. 5, is a side elevation of a mail or go-cart.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the views.

page_text: together, with the seats hh morticed thereto. The frames e are supplied with
springsbolted to the axle and mounted on wheels m. To the centre I attach a
loose canvas bag j with a foot board i, (indicated by dotted lines when in use in
Fig. 1,) this said foot board when out of use is bolted to the frames e by thumb-
screws. On the frames e I attach the frame a, c, g, with the joints d and d¹
bolted together. The frame abc can be let down as in Figs. 4, and 5, by
unscrewing a thumbscrew at f to release the end of the bar a from the box f; these
frames fall forwards or backwards.
The frame g is supplied with joints d¹ to allow the frame g to fall inwards on
each side of the carriage when the hook is removed from the eye d³. The
frame a and c being jointed at band d would fall on top of the frame g, both from the
front and back part of the carriage, when the said vehicle is required to be packed
in a small compass.
To the frame g on each side I fix or fill in the panels with canvas n or any other
suitable material. The canvas n attached to the frames a b c d is of a loose or bag
shape as in Fig. 3, for the purpose of when one or both of the frames are let down
the canvas may become rigid and act as a foot-board for the feet as in Figs. 4,
and 5.
The joints b, d, and ', work on pivots with flat swells or knuckle-joints.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration and that
the shapes materials and parts may be varied in many ways. within the scope of my
invention.
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 :-
1. In a carriage, the combination of the frame e, a, c, and g, joints b, d, and d¹
with the boxes f, seats h h foot board i thumbscrews canvas n and j with hooks d²
and eye d³, and springs wheels m, convertible into various forms such as a childs
ambulance, go-cart, perambulator or the like substantially as herein described and
according to the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of the various parts or shapes to be constructed of any
material, substantially as herein described and for the purpose set forth.
3. The combination of the parts, to be of any shape or with any modification of
the various parts, substantially as herein described and according to the accom-
panying drawings.
4. The combination of the carriage to be locked by any suitable mechanism for
fixing the same in the various positions, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of November 1891.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.