IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CRADLES OR COTSI "
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Friborg, of Store Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Designer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CRADLES OR
COTSI
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Friborg at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th July 1880.
JOHN FRIBORG, of Store Street, in the County of Middlesex, Designor.
'IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CRADLES OR COTS."
This Invention relates chiefly to improvements in the method of suspending
childrens' cradles or cots.
Hitherto it has been the practice to suspend or bang cradles or cots on central
pivots, or to place them on rockers, but such arrangements present several
disadvantages, as, for example, the rocking or rolling motion which they receive is
injurious to the health of children, and the cradle or cot is very liable to be
overturned by accident or from the motion of the child.
Now by my improvements these defects aro obviated, and a horizontal or nearly
horizontal motion is communicated to the cradle or cot instead of the usual rolling
inotion, and, further, means are provided for communicating motion to the cot or
cradle in a simple manner.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a suitable stand, and any suitable
construction of cot or cradle, such cot or cradle being suspended to the stand by
means of two or more connecting rods or links at each end pivotted to the bottom
of the cradle or cot, and to the upper part of the stand. To any suitable part of
one side of the stand I pivot a treadle to which is jointed a connecting rod, the
other end of which rod is jointed to one side of the cot:
By this arrangement it will be understood that any person sitting by the side
of the cot or cradle can without inconvenience swing the cot by means of the
herein before described treadle, and the cot will be moved backwards and forwards,
as herein before described, and cannot be overturned on its points of suspension.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Friborg in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th January
1881.
JOHN FRIBORG, of Store Street, in the County of Middlesex, Designer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S CRADLES OR COTS."
This Invention relates chiefly to improvements in the method of suspending
children's cradles or cots.
Hitherto it has been the practice to suspend or hang cradles or cots on central
pivots, or to place them on rockers, but such arrangements-present..severnl.
disadvantages, as, for example, the rocking or rolling motion which they receive is
injurious to the health of children, and the cradle or cot is very liable to be
overturned by accident or from the motion of the child,
Now by my improvements these defects are obviated, and a horizontal or nearly
horizontal motion is communicated to the cradle or cot instead of the usual rolling
motion, and, further, means are provided for communicating motion to the cot or
cradle in a simple manner.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a suitable stand, and any suitable
construction of cot or cradle, such cot or cradle being suspended to the stand by
means of two or more connecting rods or links at each end, pivotted to the bottom
_ of the cradle or cot and to the upper part of the stand. To any suitable part of
one side of the stand I pivot a treadle, to which is jointed-a-connecting-rod,-the-
other end of which rod is jointed to one side of the cot.
But to make my Invention better understood I will now proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side.
clevation; Figure 2, a plan; and Figure 3, an end elevation, shewing my improve-
ments applied to a child's cradle or cot; Figure 4, detached view of the cot; and
Figures 5, 6, and 7, details. Similar letters in all the Figures represent similar
parts.
a is the cot or cradle, which may be of any suitable construction; b, b, are the
end uprights of the stand connected together by the usual crossbars c, c; the
uprights b, b, are formed with brackets or projections d, d, as shown in the end
view at Figure 3, and also in Figure 5, which is a detached perspective view of one
of the end uprights, shewing also the method of connecting the several parts
together; e, e, are the connecting rods or links, two at each end of the cot,
pivotted or jointed at their lower ends, as shown in the several Figures, at f, f, to
the bottom of the cot or cradle, and at their upper ends g, g, to the brackets d, d,
of the stand; is the treadle jointed to the connecting rod i and to the cross bar k,
the other end of the said connecting rod i being jointed to one side of the cot;
Figure 6 is a view showing the treadle k, connecting rod i, part of tho cot a; and
Figure 5 shews one of the connecting rods or links e and part of one of the
brackets d, the several parts being detached so as to illustrate the manner in
which tho several parts may be connected together.
By this construction it will be understood that if the cot be moved it will
receive a nearly horizontal backward and forward motion, as shown in Figuro 7,
which represents an end view of the cot in the positions which it occupies when
moved to the right and to the left; and the method adopted for hanging the cot
will prevent its being overturned on its points of suspension. Further, the cot
may be swung by any person sitting by the side of the cot by means of the
hereinbefore described treadle h, the hands of the person being free.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, what I claim is,—
Firstly. The method of suspending children's cradles or cots by the employment

page_text: of two or more connecting rods or links at each end thereof, substantially as
herein before described and represented in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. The construction and application to children's cradles or cots of a
treadlo, as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Friborg, have hereto set my hand and
seal, this Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury,
London.
JOHN FRIBORG. (L.S.)