IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES OR PERAM MRULATORS ORS AND INVALID CARRIAGES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Smith, of the City of Bristol, Surgical
Instrument Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S
CARRIAGES OR PERAM MRULATORS
ORS AND INVALID CARRIAGES"
Sealed the 26th February 1856, and dated the 27th August 1855...
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION" left by the said James Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
August 1855.
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I, JAMES SMITH, of the City of Bristol, Surgical Instrument Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S
CARRIAGES, OR PERAMBULATORS, AND INVALID CARRIAGES" to be as follows:-
Whereas carriages for children and invalids have hitherto been made of
wood, now my Invention consists in constructing the bodies thereof of sheet
metal, perforated or plain, whereby great variety and elegance of shape com-
bined with durability will be obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SMITH, of the City of Bristol, Surgical Instrument Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Smith, Her special licence that I, the said James Smith, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, OR PERAMBULATORS, AND INVALID CARRIAGES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Smith, 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 Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Smith, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention; and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
Whereas carriages for children and invalids, pushed or driven from behind,
have hitherto been made of wood: now my Invention consists in constructing
the bodies thereof of sheet metal, perforated or plain, whereby great variety
and elegance of shape combined with durability will be obtained.
I secure the padding or upholstery work or furniture by fastening it to wood,
which I screw, nail, or otherwise attach to the back, arm pieces, sides, seat,
and foot board of the carriage.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what

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manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as of my
Invention, the construction of the bodies of children's carriages, or peram-
bulators, and invalid carriages, pushed or driven from behind, of sheet metal.
In witness whereof, I, the. said James Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
JAMES SMITH. (L.S.)