IMPROVEMENTS IN GIGS AND SIMILAR VEHICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I GREGORY COPE of Old Hill in the parish of Rowley Regis in the County of
Stafford Carriage Builder do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN GIGS AND SIMILAR VEHICLES to be as follows-
My invention is an improvement applied to gigs in fixing and so connecting the
shafts with the body of the gig as to avoid the necessity of getting over or even
so high as the shafts when entering the gig.
The object of the improvement is by keeping the place of entrance as near the
ground as possible to make the entrance into the gig easy for old infirm and other
people.
My invention is described particularly in and by the accompanying drawings.
The letter A. shews the shafts The letter B. the body of the gig The letter C. is
an iron stay which forms a connection between the shafts and the foot board of the
gig which footboard is shewn by the letter F. The letter D. shews the step which
is joined to and connected with the stay C. The letter E. is a heelboard forming
another connection between the shafts and the footboard of the gig.
In my invention the shafts are, not as is usual extended to the back or along the
side of the body but the same reach no farther than the dash and heelboard in tlie
front part of the gig being connected with the gig by the stays and heelboard as
before mentioned.
I claim as my invention the addition to or combination with gigs of shafts
extending only as far as the dash and heelboard of the body of the gig and
connected with the gig by means of two iron stays and a heelboard running from
the shafts down to the footboard of the gig.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
I GREGORY COPE of Old Hill in the parish of Rowley Regis in the County of
Stafford Carriage Builder do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENT IN GIGS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention is an improvement applied to Gigs in fixing and so connecting
the shafts with the body of the Gig as to avoid the necessity of getting over or
even so high as the shafts when entering the Gig.
The object of the improvement is by keeping the place of entrance as near the
ground as possible to make the entrance into the Gig easy for old infirm and
other people.
My Invention is described particularly in and by the drawings accompanying
my provisional Specification. The letter A upon such drawings shews the shafts
the letter B the body of the Gig; the letter C. shews an iron stay which forms a
connection between the shafts and the footboard of the Gig which footboard is
shewn by the letter F. the letter D shews the step which is joined to and connected
with the stay C. The letter E. is a beelboard forming another connection between
the shafts and the footboard of the Gig.
In my invention the shafts are not as is usual extended to the back or along the
side of the body of the Gig but the same reach no farther than the dash and heel-
board in the front part of the Gig being connected with the Gig by the stays and
heelboard as before mentioned.
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 the addition to or combination with Gigs of shafts extending only as
far as the dash and heel board of the body of the gig and connected with the Gig
by means of two iron stays and a heelboard running from the shafts down to the
footboard of the gig the footboard of the Gig being consequently lower than the
shafts.