IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES AND VEHICLES, AND IN THE MEANS OF VENTILATING THE SAME, THIS PART OF THE INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE ALSO TO WINDOWS GENERALLY AND OTHER SUCH OPENINGS
Year: 1861

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Cooke at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th November
1861.
I, WILLIAM COOKE, of 26, Spring Gardens, Saint Martins in the Fields, in
the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES AND
VEHICLES, AND IN THE MEANS OF VENTILATING THE SAME, THIS PART OF THE
INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE ALSO TO WINDOWS GENERALLY AND OTHER SUCH
OPENINGS," to be as follows:-
One portion of my Invention consists in the constructing a carriage of a
form similar in outward appearance to what may be described as a double
Hansom cab, but so constructed that whilst from its lightness of structure it
runs on two wheels and may be drawn by one horse, four persons may ridg
in it with every degree of comfort and safety. In the centre of the said
carriage, and in manner most convenient, I place a suitable partition in which
may be a window to draw up and down, on each side of which partition I
provide a seat. I also provide to the said carriage two separate entrances,
namely, back and front. I also affix sliding windows with suitable apparatus
for regulating the same in position immediately over the axletree, and in the
roof I provide a convenient seat for the driver, together with a box for his
legs, the said box enters the carriage to a convenient distance without
incommoding the passengers. I also provide at the bottom and sides suitable
springs and everything necessary to support, secure, or fasten the same. The

page_text: axletree I place higher than the seats of the carriage and the shafts I securely
fasten to the carriage.
Another portion of my Invention consists in the adaptation and application
to carriage or other windows, or such like openings of wire gauze or other
perforated material so arranged as to form a series of folds extending and
contracting at pleasure for the purpose of allowing the vitiated air to pass off
at the same time that it admits the pure air, and excludes draughts or dust,
the folds being so arranged that they rise and fall with the raising and lowering
of the window, and are closely folded at the top of the window or opening
when not in action. For this purpose I construct a framework of suitable
size and material to the window or opening to which the perforated material
is to be applied, and fix therein in a suitable manner the folds or slabs of wire
gauze, or other suitable material. The apparatus can be so arranged that it
may be brought into use or disconnected by the movement of the window,
and so that when the window is drawn down it brings the ventilator with it as
far as a certain point, but as the window is drawn below such point the
ventilator ascends by the descending action of the window or sash and may
be again brought into use by closing and opening the window. A ventilator
constructed on this principle may be made either as a fixture or movable at
pleasure and so as to be applied to any aperture by which air or light is
admitted, not being confined to any particular shape or form.