Hoods of Hansom Cabs and similar Vehicles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 31st May, 1887.
Hoods of Hansom Cabs and similar Vehicles.
I, ELLEN GRIMSHAW, of No. 11, Islington Flags, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancashire, Perambulator and Invalid Carriage Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved construction of removable sashes and hoods,
or weather guards, for the fronts of such vehicles as hansom cabs and the like, which
expose their occupants more or less to the weather.
In carrying my invention into effect, I provide the open front of the vehicle with a
hood of a suitable cross section. This hood is drawn up either into the top of the
vehicle, or up to its front, and let down therefrom, by suitable cords or straps
controlled by the occupant and driver, respectively.
I provide a guide-band which works in a loop, or its equivalent, to compel the
above mentioned hood to rise or fall smoothly. A set screw, or its equivalent, may
be added to the loop for the purpose of fixing the hood at any desired level.
The hood described above is fitted with suitable transparent media for the admission
of light, and which may be placed either in the sides or in the front of the hood, or
in both, as may be most convenient.
According to my invention, the front sashes slide horizontally in suitable guides
constructed for that purpose in the front of the vehicle.
It is obvious that where it is desirable to have front lights to the vehicle, these will
be furnished by the folded sashes above described.
Dated this 9th day of October 1886.
PHILLIPS & Leigh,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Hoods of Hansom Cabs and similar Vehicles.
I, ELLEN GRIMSHAW, of No. 11, Islington Flags, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancashire, Perambulator and Invalid Carriage Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved construction of removable sashes and hoods,
or weather guards, for the fronts of such vehicles as hansom cabs, and the like, which
expose their occupants more or less to the weather; and consists in providing them
with arc-shaped grooves in which they can be moved by pushing or pulling in com-
bination with folling sashes by which the front of the cab can be closed when the
guard is up and which form a bottom to the guard when the latter is down. Or the
hood may be dispensed with, and the front sashes modified so as to slide in arc-shaped
grooves fixed in the horizontal plane within the cab, the front vertical edges of which
will meet centrally about half way between the front of the cab and the heel guard.
I attain the object of my invention by means of the devices illustrated in the
accompanying drawing, in which
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the body of a hansom cab fitted with my hood-
guard, the dotted lines shewing its position when down.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation taken along the line A-B of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation shewing the hood guard up and the sashes closed.
Fig. 4 is a half front elevation of my sliding sash guard taken on the line C-D of
Fig. 5.
Fig. 5 is a sectional side elevation, and
Fig. 6 is a plan.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, which illustrate my improved hood-guard, M is the
ordinary hood within which are fixed two arc-shaped grooves m, m in which the hood
guard N slides upon antifriction rollers, n. Four further sets of antifriction rollers n'
are fixed within the top internal angles of the hood M.
Suitable lights are fixed in the sides, as well as in the front or top, of the hood-
guard.
A pair of sashes 0, 0, is hinged to the front edges of the hood-guard, and can
be either folded back upon the sides of the hood-guard, or closed across the front as
shewn in Fig. 3.
Cords o passing over suitable pulleys are fixed to the front of the hood-guard, by
means of which it can be raised by either the fare or the driver.
Proper catches are provided for retaining the sashes O, O, when they are folded
back upon the sides of the hood-guard, as well as for keeping them closed when
required.

page_text: Suitable handles by which the fare can easily pull the hood-guard down into the
position indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and a suitable stop of any convenient
kind to prevent the guard from protruding too far, are also provided.
When the sashes O are closed and the hood-guard down as illustrated in Fig. 1,
the fare is effectually guarded from the weather, and the space at his disposal within
the cab increased practically as compared with a cab fitted with the ordinary folding
drop window.
Referring to Figs. 4, 5 and 6 which illustrate a modified form of my invention,
M is the ordinary hood, and p, p, four arc-shaped grooves fixed two on each side of
the hood M, in which the sash guard can slide. This sash-guard is made in two
equal halves QQ, glazed at the sides as shewn in Fig. 5, and at the tops Q¹as shewn
in Fig. 6. Each half has a glazed flap q hinged to its lower edge. These flaps can
be either down as shewn in Fig. 4, or they may be raised against the sides of the
sash-guard (as indicated by the dotted lines of Fig. 4) as may be desired.
The full lines of Fig. 6 shew the sash-guard closed in front of the fare, and the
dotted lines shew the position which the two halves of it occupy after it has been
opened and drawn back into the cab. Ventilators may be fixed in the top of each half
sash-guard, if desired.
Suitable handles and catches are provided to facilitate the actuation of the sash-
guard.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination of hood-guard sashes hinged to the front edges thereof, and
are-shaped grooves in which the said hood guard can be slid in or out; substantially
as described with reference to the accompanying figures 1 to 3.
2. The combination of sliding half-sash-guards with arc-shaped grooves fixed within
the vehicle, in which said guards can be slid in and out substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying figures 4 to 6.
3. The combination of half-sash-guards, arc-shaped grooves, glazed sash-guard
tops, and flaps hinged to the sides of said half-sash-guards, substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying figures 4 to 6.
Dated this 28th day of April 1887.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Patent Agents,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.