IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, CHAIRS, AND TABLES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake,
& Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, CHAIRS, AND TABLES."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd August 1876.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES,
CILAIRS, AND TABLES." A communication from abroad by Charles F. Tenney and
Thomas J. Hobbs, both of Baldwinville, Massachusetts, United States of America.
This Invention relates to a combined carriage, chair, and table or play board for
children, and consists in the combination with the seat of pivoted legs provided
with wheels or rollers, whereby the parts may be changed readily from a carriage
to a high chair or vice versa; also to the combination with the carriage of a table
or play board; and also in the combination with the carriage of a pivoted guard to
retain the child in the scat, and provided or not with a miniature horse.
Figure 1 18 a side view of the said carriage.
Figure 2 is an end view of the same.
Figure 3 is a side view of the said carriage with the table thrown in front; and
Figuro 4 is a side view of the carriage converted into a high chair. Similar letters.
indicate corresponding parts throughout the Drawing.
The carriage is composed of a seat a and suitable railing a³, legs b, c, and wheels
or rollers b, c. The legs bare hinged at d to the chair seat a.
The logs care
connected with the legs b so as to turn with reference to them by a cross bar or
round e. The legs are further connected by a cross bar or round f, and between
the lower ends of each pair of legs is a cross bar or axle provided with two wheels
or rollers.
When in the position shown in Figure 1, the seat is lowered, the cross bar f
between legs c strikes the upper end of legs b, and a hook g on cross bar e is engaged
with an eye on the seat (see Figure 2). In this condition the carriage may be

page_text: rolled about at pleasure. Pivoted to legs c is a guard h, which may be thrown into
the position, shown in Figure 1, to retain the child in position in the seat. This
guard is so pivoted that downward pressure on its cross bar will cause it to move
toward the seat, and projecting forward from the cross bar of the guard is a leaf
on which is placed a miniature horse 2, and in this condition the child will seemingly
have a horse to drive, and this miniature horse may have connected with it reins,
and strain on the reins will draw the guard back.
In this condition, or as shown in Figure 1, the table or play shelf, pivoted to
the rail a of the seat or other suitable part will preferably be thrown back, and
if the carriage is to be moved the person moving it may use the table or shelf as
a handle, or if the carriage is left stationary in the house, the shelf may be kept in
a horizontal position, or nearly so, by means of a brace extending from the shelf to
the legs c, and then the table may be used as a work table and the child be kept
constantly in view.
If desired the guard h may be-thrown forward, as shown in Figure 3, and the
table i turned forward and be allowed to rest on the guard. In this position the
projections on the leaf 'enter holes in the axle b forming a brace, and the table
may then be used to receive toys or as a table for food or other purposes.
If it is desired to convert the carriage into a high chair the legs b, c, are brought
together as shown in Figure 4, the wheels are elevated from the floor, the pins
enter holes m in the ends of the legs c, and hooks n engage eyes on the seat, the
table i can then be turned back, and the child be placed up to an ordinary tablo,
or if preferable the table i may rest on an ordinary table, or be properly supported
in front of the child for dining or other purposes.
From this description it will be apparent that the combined carriage, chair, and
table may be used solely as a carriage, and be very cheaply constructed, and may
also be used as a table from which the child may be fed, or the table may be used
by the child's attendant for other work, as sewing and the like, and the carriage
may also be used as a high chair. The seat is provided with a foot rest o.
Having thus fully described the said. Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim―
First. A child's carriage composed of a scat a, a¹; legs b, connected with the
seat, legs c pivoted to the legs b, and wheels all combined to operate and to be con-
verted into a high chair as above set forth.
Second. The combination with the seat and its hinged legs b of the legs c
pivoted to the legs b, and the pivoted guard connected with legs c, whereby down-
ward pressure on the guard throws it back against the seat as above described and
for the purpose specified.
Third. The combination with the carriage of the table or play shelf i as above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of August in the year of our Lord One