IMPROVEMENTS IN PHAETONS, WAGGONETTES, AND BUCH LIKE VEHICLES OR CARRIAGES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mordecai Robert Maythorn, of No. 1, Wenlock
Road, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, Carriage Builder,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PHAETONS, WAGGONETTES, AND
BUCH LIKE VEHICLES OR CARRIAGES.”
Sealed the 1st September 1871, and dated the 6th March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mordecai Robert
Maythorn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 6th March 1871.
I, MORDECAI ROBERT MAYTHORN, of No. 1, Wenlock Road, City
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Carriage Builder, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PHAETONS, WAGGON-
ETTES, AND SUCH LIKE VEHICLES OR CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an arrangement illustrated in the Drawing
accompanying this Provisional Specification for increasing the accom-
modation of persons using phaetons, waggonettes, or other carriages of
a similar description.

page_text: This Invention consists of a lever working in a centre and attached
to the door at back of vehicle, and to half of the front scat, and in the
accompanying Drawing Figure 1 shows the door open. It will be scen
that the action of opening the door to the right has shifted the half of
front seat to the left, thus leaving a sufficient space for a passenger
ascending from the back to obtain easy access to the front without
having to ascend over the front wheel or pass the driver. It will be
seen that the steps are attached to the lever and the action of opening
the door and removing part of front seat also brings the steps into the
proper position for use.
Figure 2 shows the door shut, the action of shutting the door having
caused the seat to close and the steps to be placed away from the back.
Figure 3 shows a side elevation of a phacton or waggonette and the
position of lever below the body of vehicle.
Figure 4 shows the plan and elevation of lever with steps attached.
By means of an arrangement consisting of a stud and spring the door
can be opened with or without moving the seat, or the seat be moved
with or without moving the door at the option of the passenger or
driver.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Mordecai Robert Maythorn in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 6th September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MORDECAI
ROBERT MAYTHORN, of No. 1, Wenlock Road, City Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Carriage Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
"Letters Patent, hearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year of our
Lord Ono thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Mordecai Robert Maythorn, Her special licenco a
that I, the said Mordecai Robert Maythorn, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Mordecai Robert
Maythorn, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times

page_text: thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PHAETONS, WAGGONETTES, AND.SUCH LIKE VEHICLES
OR CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
.Mordecai Robert Maythorn, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Mordecai Robert Maythorn, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to
say:-
This Invention relates to an arrangement for increasing the accom-
modation of persons using phaetons, waggonettes, or other carriages of
a similar description.
In order that the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is effected may be particularly described and ascertained,
this Specification is accompanied by a Sheet of Drawings having figures
and letters of reference marked thereupon, the like letters being used to
denote a similar or corresponding part in each Figure.
This Invention consists of a lever a working on a centre b, and
attached to the door c at back of vehicle and to half of the front seat d,
and in the accompanying Drawing Figure 1 shows the door open.
It will be seen that the action of opening the door to the right has
shifted the half of the front seat to the left, thus leaving sufficient
space for a passenger ascending from the back to obtain easy access to
the front without having to ascend over the front wheel or pass the
driver. It will be seen also that the steps e are attached to the lever
and the action of opening the door and removing part of front scat
also brings the steps into the proper position for use. I propose to fit
the steps as arranged and described to any kind of carriage.
Figure 2 shows the door shut, the action of shutting the door having
caused the seat to close and the steps to be placed away from the back
to form side steps.

page_text: Figure 3 shows a side clevation of a phaeton or waggonette, and the
position of lever below the body of vehicle.
Figure 4 shows the plan and clevation of lever with steps attached.
By means of an arrangement consisting of a stud and spring the
door can be opened with or without moving the scat; or the seat bo 5
moved with or without moving the door at the option of the passenger
or driver.
The back scats in either a stanhope or waggonette are so attached to
the body of the vehicle that upon coming home to their proper positions
they wedge and lock in and are thus securely held.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to bo carried into
effect I wish it to be distinctly understood that what I claim is,—
Firstly. The arrangement of the lever working on centro and con-
nected on the one hand with the door of vehicle, and on the other with 1
the half of front seat, and operating as described.
And, secondly. The particular arrangement of carriage steps, all
as described in this Specification or illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mordecai Robert Maythorn, have 2
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Fifth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and soventy-
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MORDECAI ROBERT MAYTHORN. (L.s.)