Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 31st Dec., 1888
I WILLIAM PETTINGER WEST WEATHERILL of 33 Beech Street Waterloo Road
Cheetham Manchester in the County of Lancaster Coach Body Maker do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Having made a carriage with shafts as may be required I attach an artificial
animal to the shafts by means of metal bands or other suitable substitutes.
I make a hole through the body or belly of the artificial animal to enable me to pass
a metal pin or other suitable substitute through same.
At the bottom end of such pin or other suitable substitute I form a fork to receive
a wheel.
At the top end (that is over the back of the artificial animal) of each such pin or
other suitable substitute I fix a cross lever.
To the ends of such cross lever I attach a rein or reins as the case may be.
I may make the said reins sufficiently long to reach from the mouth of the artificial
animal to the said cross lever and from there to a convenient place for the rider to
use them.
The said reins may be used in the ordinary way or I may attach a cross bar at
a convenient distance to enable the rider to operate upon them with one hand for the
purpose of steering.
The said reins may be made long enough to reach and be attached to a cross
bar working on a pivot fixed to the back of the carriage to enable the person in
attendance upon the rider to steer and have control over the said carriage with an
artificial animal attached.
By another arrangement in lieu of taking the before mentioned pin through the
body or belly of the artificial animal I may fix a socket under the body or belly
of the artificial animal to receive a pin or other suitable substitute with a fork
attached to receive a wheel and may have projections from the pin or other suitable

page_text: substitute or from the fork to form levers to which the reins may be attached. Or
the axle-tree upon which the wheel revolves may be made sufficiently long to form
such levers or projections.
My invention is such that it may be applied to one or more artificial animals when
attached to childrens carriages suitable attachments and connections being employed
for that purpose.
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W. P. W. WEATHERILL,
33, Beech Street, Waterloo Road,
Cheetham, Manchester.
Steering Artificial Animals when Attached to Children's Carriages
I WILLIAM PETTINGER WEST WEATHERILL of 33 Beech Street Waterloo Road
Cheetham Manchester in the County of Lancaster Coach Body Maker 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 and
accompanying drawings :-
:-
My invention relates to the steering of artificial animals when attached to childrens
carriages.
Having made a carriage and shafts as may be required I attach an artificial animal
to the shafts by means of metal bands or other suitable substitute I make a hole
through the body or belly of the artificial animal to enable me to pass a metal pin or
other suitable substitute through same-At the bottom end of such pin or other
suitable substitute 1 form a fork to receive a wheel-At the top end (that is over the
back of the artificial animal) of such pin or other suitable substitute I fix a cross lever.
To the ends of such cross lever I attach a rein or rein as the case may be. I make
the reins sufficiently long to reach from the mouth of the artificial animal to the said
cross lever and from there to a convenient place for a driver to use them.
The said reins may be used in the ordinary way or I may attach a cross bar at a
convenient distance to enable the driver to operate upon them with one hand for the
purpose of steering. The said reins may be made long enough to reach and be
attached to a cross bar working on a pivot fixed to the back of the carriage to enable
the person in attendance upon the rider to steer and have control over the said carriage
with an artificial animal attached.

page_text: My invention is such that it may be applied to one or more artificial animals when
attached to children's carriages suitable attachments and connections being employed
for that purpose.
My invention will be better understood when described with reference to the
drawings which accompany this specification.
Fig. 1 is a drawing of a two wheeled carriage with the animal fixed in the shafts
and shews how the reins are attached to the animal and carriage-The animal is
secured in the shafts by two metal bands a a or other suitable substitute being secured
to the animals body or belly, the ends of each band being secured to the shafts-The
top end of wheel fork 6 passes through the animals body or belly to which cross lever c
is secured.
Having passed the reins through the bit (rings d) they are secured to each end of
cross lever c-The reins are then secured to the ends of cross bar e which works on a
pin or pivot on the top of propf which prop is secured to the back of the carriage
body g. Another cross bar h is secured to the reins i in a convenient position for the
riders use for steering purposes-By using the cross bar h the rider when old enough
is enabled to steer with one hand to the greatest nicety and have one hand free-By
continuing the reins to cross bar e the attendant is enabled to do the same. Letter L
shews the top end of levers M. M. (of which there are two, one at each side of the
carriage body g) at which ends on their inner sides are fixed pedals for the riders feet
to push against The bottom ends of said levers M. M. are jointed to the bottom of the
body g or to a stay N attached to the bottom of the body g as shewn-Cranks are
formed on the axle at suitable distances apart to receive connecting rods 00 which
connecting rods are joined to levers M. M. according to the length of push by the feet
required It will be readily understood that for a short push the nearer the con-
necting rods 0. O. are to the tops of levers M. M. the shorter the push will
be and the nearer the bottom the longer the push-By pushing at the pedals the axle
is made to revolve and as one of the wheels is secured to the axle it sends the carriage
-When the rider is old enough to propel a carriage fitted up with levers connecting
rods and crank axle like figure I drawing the cross bar e may be dispensed with.
on-
Fig. 2 shows the reins ii with the cross lever e and cross bars and e also the pin
or pivot . It will be readily seen and understood when the cross bars e and h are
actuated the reins act on the cross lever c and turn the wheel in the direction it is
desired to go, the front part of the reins being loosely passed through the bits d—as
shewn in fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed I declare what I
claim is
(1) The attachment of reins to cross lever c and attaching the cross bars e and ½ to
the reins for steering purposes or I may use the cross bar e without the cross bar / or
I may use the cross bar without the cross bar e as substantially set forth and
indicated.
(2) The combination of an artificial animal or artificial animals attached to a
carriage fitted with pedals and crank axle as shewn in figure 1 or other suitable means
of propelling the carriage and attaching the reins having cross bars attached to a
lever or levers attached to the wheel fork for the purposes substantially set forth and
indicated.
Dotad this 20th day of November 1880