IMPROVEMENTŠ IN PERAMBULATORS CONVERTIBLE INTO CRADLES
Year: 1884

page_text: We GEORGE CRESWELL BOND of Newcastle Chambers Nottingham, Nottingham-
shire Mineral Merchant and JOHN SADLER of 56 Peveril Street in the same town
Mechanic do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTŠ
IN PERAMBULATORS CONVERTIBLE INTO CRADLES," to be as follows that is to say :-
This Invention relates to perambulators of the kind in which the body or cot of
the vehicle may be detached from the framing to which the wheels are connected
and being placed on the ground is ready for use as a cradle.
In perambulators or vehicles for children as hitherto constructed to serve this
double purpose the rockers are placed longitudinally or lengthwise of the cot and
consequently the rocking motion given to the cot is from head to foot. This
motion is very unpleasant if not injurious being akin to the pitching motion of a
ship and it is the object of this Invention to construct a perambulator which may
be easily and quickly converted into a cradle to which a sideway motion may be
given as is usual with ordinary cradles.
In perambulators constructed according to this Invention the handle wheels and
springs are put together so as to form one connected part, and the body or cot is
formed to fit on this part when it is wished to form a perambulator. Underneath
the body there is fixed longitudinally a rod or bar having attached transversely to
it two rockers. These rockers are each formed in two parts which are capable of
being folded together so as to lie parallel or nearly so with the longitudinal rod or
bar and out of sight when the body is on the wheels but when used as a cradle
they are unfolded and lie crosswise to the longitudinal rod forming rockers.
Dated this 31st day of March 1884.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, GEORGE CRESWELL BOND of Newcastle Chambers, Nottingham, Nottingham-
shire, Mineral Merchant, and JOHN SADLER, Mechanic, of 56 Peveril Street in the
same town, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PERAMBULATORS CONVERTIBLE INTO CRADLES," and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement that is to say :—
Our said invention relates to perambulators of the kind in which the body or cot
of the vehicle may be detached from the framing to which the wheels are
connected, and being placed on the ground is ready for use as a cradle.
In perambulators or vehicles for children as hitherto constructed to serve this
double purpose the rockers are placed longitudinally or lengthwise of the cot and
consequently the rocking motion given to the cot is from head to foot. This
motion is very unpleasant if not injurious being akin to the pitching motion of a
ship and it is the object of this Invention to construct a perambulator which may
be easily and quickly converted into a cradle to which a side way motion may be
given as is usual with ordinary cradles either while the cot is upon the wheels or
when detached therefrom.
In perambulators constructed according to our Invention, the wheels and springs
are put together so as to form one connected part and the body or cot is formed to
fit on this part and be fastened thereto when it is wished to form a perambulator.
Underneath the body there is fixed longitudinally a rod or bar having attached
transversely to it two rockers. These rockers are each formed in two parts which
are capable of being folded together so as to lie paralell or nearly so with the
longitudinal rod or bar and out of sight when the body is fixed on the wheels but
when used as a cradle they are unfolded by pulling the longitudinal bar or rod.
By pulling outwards the longitudinal bar, the cot is released from the wheels and
it may be rocked thereon, or it may be lifted off the wheels and placed on the
ground where it will rest upon the rockers which by the outward movement of the
bar or rod have been unfolded and brought cross wise to the cot.
And in order that our said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to and representing our improved arrangements of
perambulators or children's vehicles. In these drawings the same reference
numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
Figure 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings is an inverted plan of the body
of a perambulator detached from the wheels. Figure 2 is a side elevation of our
improved perambulator, whilst Figures 3 and 4 are respectively end views of the
perambulator and the body detached from the wheels. The body or cot of the im-
proved perambulator is formed of the usual material and shape. The body or cot 5
has pivotted underneath it to its bottom four parts 6 of wood, which parts 6 are so
formed with a curve on their lower sides that when two of the parts are brought
end to end they form a rocker and extend across the bottom of the cot 5 projecting
slightly beyond its sides. Each one of the parts 6 is pivotted at about the middle
of its length to the bottom of the cot 6, each pair of the parts 6 being placed
respectively at the front and back of the cot 5 at about half the distance between
the middle and ends of the cot. The parts 6 are connected by links 7 to a central
flat bar 8 of metal fitted in bearings 91 longitudinally along the bottom of the
cot 5. The pair of links 7 at the front end of the cot 5 are centered with their
ends just beyond and outside of the pivots of the parts 6 whilst the ends of the
other pair of links 7 are centered near to the pivots but between them. By this
arrangement when the bar 8 is pushed inwards or towards the front of the cot 5
the rocker parts 6 are brought into the position indicated by dotted lines in
figure 1 and are consequently out of the way when the cot is fixed upon the

page_text: wheels. The wheels of the perambulator are attached to a steel framing 9 which
forms the springs of the vehicle. At each end of this framing 9 there are upward
extensions 10 at each side of the vehicle having between them flat horizontal parts
for carrying the body or cot 5. The extensions 10 are of a height just sufficient
to permit the rocker parts 6 to clear the longitudinal part of the framing 9
between the ends. For securing the body or cot 5 on the framing 9 there aro
fixed to the bottom of the cot 5 three metal studs 11, 12 having rectangular holes
formed through them. One of these studs 11 is placed at the front in a line with
the end of bar 8 the end of which is formed with a nose 13 to enter the hole in the
stud 11. The other two studs 12 are placed at the other end one on each side of
the bar 8. The bar 8 at this end is formed with a cross or T piece having two
short projections 14 side by side with and paralell to the bar 8. When the body
or cot 5 is placed on the framing 9 the studs 11, 12 pass through holes made to
receive them in the flat horizontal parts at each end of the framing 9 and on the
bar 8 being moved forwards to the front of the vehicle the nose 13 and pro-
jections 14 will pass under the flat horizontal part of the framing and entering the
holes in the studs 11, 12 will secure the body or cot 5 on the wheels. At the same
time by the moving in of the bar 8 the rocker parts 6 will be brought to lie
longitudinally with the vehicle and out of the way. When it is wished to rock
the body or cot 5 without removing it from the wheels the bar 8 is pulled partly
outwards but not quite to its full extent and a cam piece 15 on it near its back end
raises the body or cot 5 by coming between it and the flat horizontal end part of
the framing at that end. The cam piece 15 being round enables the cot 5 to be
rocked upon the framing 9 as shown in figure 3. But when it is wished to remove
the body or cot 5, from the wheels and to form a cradle of it the bar 8 is pulled out
to its full extent, stops 16, being fixed on the body or cot 5 to prevent the bar 8
being moved further when each pair of the rocker parts are paralell to each other.
The body or cot 5 may then be removed and placed on the ground resting on the
rockers as seen in figure 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
(1) The forming of a perambulator so that the body or cot (5) may be detached
therefrom and form a cradle to which a side way rocking motion may be given
when placed upon the ground substantially as hereinbefore described with reference
to the accompanying drawings.
(2) The combination and arrangement of parts forming an improved peram-
bulator the body of which may be converted into a cradle having a sideway
rocking motion, either on the wheels or on the ground, substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
(3) The combination of the longitudinal bar (8), links (7), rocker parts (6) with
the body or cot (5) of a perambulator substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
ZALEA LBS ZOTⱭ ABY OF December 1884.
978120 HUS ZST AV OL DecemOPF L004.
Witness,
LOCK MOORE,
Nottingham,
Patent Agent.
GEORGE C. BOND.
JOHN SADLER.