Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 12th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 13th May, 1887.
venicies.
We, ALBERT HENRY HAYES, of Scotgate Works, Stamford, in the County of
Lincoln, and JOHN EDEY HAYES, of 199 to 201 City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, both carriage builders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Our invention relates to improved means for effecting the adjustment at will of tho
seats of dog-carts or other vehicles, and is designed to effect this with ease and
dispatch, and with the least disturbance to the occupants.
Whereas it is usual in dog carts or similar vehicles, fitted with adjustable seats, for
the said seats to be provided with pins which drop into holes in the bearers carrying
the said seats, thus permitting of adjustment, but necessitating that the seat shall be
raised from its bearing in order to be adjusted, and consequently disturbing the
occupants. And further, seats so fitted are usually insecure as regards vertical
movement, and may thus rattle or be shaken from their bearings.
To avoid these disadvantages we make our improved adjustable seats to slide
between the usual bearers and an upper angle iron or bar, and provide them with
rollers which may be of wood, metal, india-rubber, or other suitable material on the
under and outer faces of the said seats, so as to secure them in place, to cause them
to slide easily, and to prevent rattle or any liability of displacement.
To lock them in any required position, we may adopt various equivalent means, of
which we specify the following as instances:-
We may notch the metal plate or angle iron which lies above the edges of the
seats and fit to the back or front of the front seat a pair of pivotted spring pressed
levers, which are conveniently connected at their inner ends and to a handle, so that
both the said levers may be simultaneously depressed at their inner ends, and thus
raised at their outer ends by the pressure of the driver or occupant upon the said
handle. The outer ends of the said spring levers are formed so as to engage in the
When
notches of the aforesaid angle iron or bar forming the top guide of the seats.
the outer ends of the said spring levors are normally depressed by the action of the
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page_text: spring or springs, the ends of the levers engage in the notches of the said angle iron
or bar, and the front seat is secured in place. When the handle is pressed by the
occupant or driver, the outer ends of the said spring levers are raised and the seat is
sot free, so that it may slide in its guiding groove to any required fresh position.
Equivalently we may use sliding spring pressed bolts on the back or front edges
on the front seat, the springs normally pressing out the said bolts so as to cause them
to engage into suitable holes in a guide bar or other part of the vehicle. To operate
these bolts, we may use a pivotted handle, provided with a T slot in which the inner
ends of the two bolts engage by means of suitable pins. Upon pressing or turning
the said handle, the T slot will draw the two bolts simultaneously inwards and thus
disengage the seat, a spring or weighted arm of the said handle conveniently causing
the bolts to shoot outwards and to lock the seat, as soon as the pressure is removed.
As the back seat is also fitted so as to slide on the bearer and between the bearer
and an upper guide it may conveniently be movably attached to the front seat by a
slotted bar, projecting from the back seat under the front one, and secured there by a
wing-nut. When the wing-nut is secured, the two seats will slide together, but as
the slot in the connecting bar is of considerable length, the two seats may be readily
adjusted at any required distance from one another.
Or, equivalently the back seat may be entirely independent of the front seat and
provided with any known catch levers or spring bolts, or, as above described, in
application to the front seat.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Adjustable Seats for Dog Carts and other
Vehicles.
We, ALBERT HENRY HAYES, of Scotgate Works, Stamford, in the County of
Lincoln, and JOHN EDEY HAYES, of 199 to 201 City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, both carriage builders, 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 :-
Our invention relates to an improved means for effecting the adjustment at will of
the seats of dog carts or other vehicles, and is designed to effect this with ease and
dispatch and with the least disturbance to the occupants.
Whereas it is usual in dog carts or similar vehicles fitted with adjustable seats, for
the said seats to be provided with pins which drop into holes in the bearers carrying
the said seats, thus permitting of adjustment, but necessitating that the seat shall be
raised from its bearing in order to be adjusted, and consequently disturbing the
occupants. And further, seats so fitted are usually insecure as regards vertical
movement, and may thus rattle or be shaken from their bearings.
To avoid these disadvantages we construct our improved adjustable seat as follows,
reference being had for the better understanding thereof to the drawings hereunto
annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a back elevation of one adjustable seat.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figure 3 is a back elevation of a seat with alternative modified locking gear.
Figure 4 is a vertical section showing hinder seat adjustably attached to front
seat.
Figures 5 and 6 show details of fittings of rollers to the seats.
A is the main adjustable seat, B being the back seat adjustably attached thereto.
Both seats slide between the usual bearers C, and an upper angle iron or bar D. The
seats are provided with rollers E, which may be of wood, metal, india-rubber or other
suitable material on the under and outer faces of the said seats, so as to secure them
in place, to cause them to slide easily, and to prevent rattle or any liability to
displacement.
To lock the seats in any required position, we may adopt various equivalent means,
of which we specify the following as instances.
We may notch the metal plate or angle iron D which lies above the edges of the
seats, as seen in plan in figure 2, and fit to the back or front of the front seat A a
pair of pivotted spring pressed levers F, figure 1, which are conveniently connected
at their inner ends to one another, and to a handle G, so that both the said levers may
be depressed at their inner ends, and thus raised at their outer ends, by the pressure
of the driver or occupant upon the said handle G. The outer ends of the said spring
levers F are formed so as to engage in the notehes of the aforesaid angle iron or
bar D forming the top guide of the seat.

page_text: When the outer ends of the said spring levers F are normally depressed by the
action of the spring or springs H, the ends of the levers F engage in the notches of
the said angle iron or bar D, when the front seat is secured in place. When the
handle G is pressed by the occupant or driver, the outer ends of the said spring
levers F are raised, and the seat is set free, so that it may slide in its guiding groove
to any required fresh position.
Equivalently, wo may use sliding spring pressed bolts K K, figure 3, on the back
or front edges of the front seat, the springs L normally pressing out the said bolts K,
so as to cause them to engage into suitable holes in the guiding bar D or other part
of the vehicle. To operate these bolts we may use a pivotted handle M to which the
said bolts K are attached by suitable pins, one on either side of the fulcrum or pivot.
Upon moving the said handle in the direction of the arrow, figure 3, around its
fulcrum or pivot, the two bolts K will be simultaneously drawn inwards, and thus
disengage the seat, so that it can be moved at pleasure. Upon release of the handle K
the springs L or a weighted arm will cause the bolts to shoot outwards and lock the
seat in any desired further position.
The back seat B is fitted so as to slide on the bearer C, and between the bearer and
the upper angle guide D, and we movably attach this seat to the front one A by a
slotted bar N projecting from the back seat under the front one, and secured there by
a wing nut P.
When the wing nut is secured, the two seats will slide together, but
as the slot in the connecting bar is of considerable length, the two seats may be readily
adjusted at any required distance from one another.
Or, equivalently, the back seat B may be entirely independent from the front
scat A, and provided with any known catch levers or spring bolts or apparatus as
above described for application to the front seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1st. In a dog cart or other vehicle, the application of sliding seats which may be
moved and locked in place at the will of the occupant or driver without the necessity
for the disturbance of the occupants, substantially as described.
2nd. In a dog cart or other vehicle the construction of an adjustable seat locking
gear, consisting of a press lever operating rocking bars, which normally engage in
notches in an upper guide above the usual bearer, substantially as described.
3rd. In a dog cart or other vehicle, the construction of an adjustable seat locking
gear in the form of spring pressed bolts, normally locking or engaging into an angle
guide or other part of the vehicle, and operated by a suitable withdrawing handle,
substantially as described.
4th. In a dog cart or other vehicle, the combination of a front seat adjustable and
locked as hereinabove claimed with a back seat adjustably connected thereto by a
slotted connecting bar, substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of April 100.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.