IMPROVEMENTS IN TWO WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1885

page_text: I OLIVER FREDERICK WINDOVER of Sandford House Huntingdon in the County
of Huntingdon Carriage builders assistant do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN TWO WHEEL CARRIAGES to be as follows:-
In all two wheel vehicles to which hind seats or rumbles are attached for the
purpose of seating an additional person it has been necessary hitherto in order to
provide sufficient room to pass in or out from such seat to attach it at some con-
siderable distance behind the body of the vehicle thereby considerably affecting the
mechanical means of correctly equipoising the load under the various conditions
requisite in accomadating either one, two or three persons, beside the danger
attending the long leverage of the lengthy iron stays for supporting such hind seat
or rumble in addition to the extra dead weight to be carried and the consequent
increase of expense in the cost of production. By my invention persons are
enabled to pass in or out from the hind seat from the back, by partially removing
by revolving or hingeing the hind seat to a suitable metallic frame work and by so
doing I am enabled to bring my hind seat or rumble (a) Fig. 1 considerably nearer
to the back of the body, thereby effecting more direct support to the hind seat (a)
Fig. 1 by fixing the supporting stays (b) Fig. 1 in a more upright or perpendicular
position thus reducing the length of the iron stays (b) Fig. 1 at the same time
proportionately reducing the weight of the vehicle (one of the primary con-
siderations in vehicular construction) I am also enabled by my invention to obtain
the further important advantages of perfect immunity from all danger of accident
which the old system of inordinate long supporting stays and of a long acute
angular position of the same nearly approaching the horizontal are subjected to.
I am also enabled to effect an ascent or descent from the hind rumble seat (a) Fig. 1
almost momentarily, the old objectionable plan of having to climb over springs,
wheels, stays & being entirely obviated while perfect balance under all circum-
stances is effected.

page_text: I, OLIVER FREDERICK WINDOVER of Sandford House Huntingdon in the County
of Huntingdonshire Carriage builder's Assistant do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN TWO WHEEL CARRIAGES and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
In all two wheel vehicles to which hind seats or rumbles are attached for the
purpose of seating an additional person it has been necessary hitherto in order to
provide sufficient room to pass in or out from such seat to attach it at some con-
siderable distance behind the body of the vehicle thereby considerably affecting the
mechanical means of correctly equipoising the load under the various conditions
requisite in accommodating either one, two, or three persons beside the danger
attending the long leverage of the lengthy iron stays for supporting such hind seat
or rumble in addition to the extra dead weight to be carried and the consequent
increase of expense in the cost of production By my invention persons are
enabled to pass either in or out from the hind seat from the back by partially
removing by revolving or hingeing the hind seat to a suitable metallic frame work-
and by so doing I am enabled to bring my hind seat or rumble (a fig. 1 of the
Drawings accompanying the provisional specification) considerably nearer to the
back of the body thereby effecting more direct support to the hind seat (a. Fig. 1)
by fixing the supporting stays (b Fig. 1) in a more upright or perpendicular
position thus reducing the length of the iron stays (b Fig. 1) at the same time
proportionately reducing the weight of the vehicle (one of the primary con-
siderations in vehicular construction) I am also enabled by my invention to obtain
the further important advantages of perfect immunity from all danger of accident
which the old, system of inordinate long supporting stays and of a long acute
angular position of the same nearly approaching the horizontal are subjected to.
I am also enabled to affect an ascent or descent from the hind rumble seat ( Fig. 1)
almost momentarily the old objectionable plan of having to climb over springs,
wheels, stays & being entirely obviated while perfect balance under all circum-
stances is effected.
In all two wheel vehicles suspended upon or from "Cee" springs it has hitherto
been the practice of regulating the weight above the axle in order to effect perfect
balance whether the hind rumble seat is occupied or not, by altering the relative
position of the body & the wheels, which not only alters the character of the
vehicle, but when the hind rumble seat is unoccupied the body requires to be
shifted so far back in order to equalize the balance that the wheels are brought
unduly forward & in dangerous proximity to persons mounting or dismounting
from the interior of the vehicle This primitive plan I entirely superseed by so
constructing the inside seat & raised back (9 g Fig. 1) that it is made to slide in
metallic grooves on either side (gg Fig. 1) represent the position of the seat when
the rumble seat (a Fig. 1) is unoccupied (g¹ g¹ Fig. 1) representing the position of
the inside seat when the rumble seat (a Fig. 1) is occupied The inside seat (gg Fig. 1)
can be fixed in any position by means of a key bolt & nut passing through a slot

page_text: in the centre of the seat (gg Fig. 1) or by
worm thread screw worked from the
back of the body by the person occupying the hind rumble seat (a Fig. 1) the hind
rmble seat is also so arranged that it can be entirely detached when not required
by removing a bolt from the upper extremities of each of the iron stays (6 Fig. 1)
& withdrawing the slip collar bolt stay (c Fig. 1) & (c2 Fig. 3) from the socket eye.
(Fig. 2) representing a view of the body of the vehicle with the hind rumble
seat (a) upon the horizontal plane shews the method I employ in my invention
for openening the rumble seat by means of revolving it round the pivot (d Fig. 2)
the dotted lines defining the position of the seat when closed or shut over the iron
stay (Fig. 2) to which it is securely fastened by means of a powerfull spring
catch Fig. 3 represents the back view of the vehicle with the hind seat (a* Fig. 3)
opening up in a like manner to a box lid This method I intend chiefly to employ
in such vehicles that are not furnished with leather hoods.
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
1st The methods herein described of opening the hind or rumble seats of two
wheeled vehicles in order to effect egress or ingress thereto from the back part.
2nd The method of sliding the inside seat of the body of two wheel vehicles
that are suspended to or from "Cee springs.
3rd The method of attaching a worm thread screw to a sliding seat to regulate
the balance such screw to work from the back of the vehicle with a wheel propeller
or perforated disc,
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