Improvements in Suspending or Mounting the Bodies of Perambulators and other like Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 10th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Suspending or Mounting the Bodies of
Perambulators and other like Wheeled Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM POWLES of 87 Moseley Street in the City of Birmingham, Perambulator
and Bassinette Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention relates to perambulators or bassinettes, suspended from horizontally
directed coiled springs, stretched between the perambulator or bassinette body and
the frame, consisting of two inverted bow-shaped pieces of metal, curved under
the said body, from front to back, and with the wheels, axles, or their hearings,
connected at the middle of the said bow, whilst the handles of the vehicle pass
from the ends of the frame.
My invention consists in supporting the said bodies upon coiled springs, vertically
disposed in respect to the pressure exerted; that is, the bodies have holes through
them, wherein the terminal ends, or parts carried by them, pass; and between
the undersides of the brackets, and a collar near the ends of the frames, coiled
springs are disposed, which admit of the said body yielding in obedience to the
pressure exerted, and stopping off all vibration incurred in travelling.
In carrying out my invention, I take an ordinary body part, and a curved
supporting frame part, to the middles of which latter, the wheels are connected.
The body part has outwardly directed brackets, proceeding from its two opposite
sides, and through eyes of which, the terminal ends of the supporting framing of
the vehicle, upwardly pass.
The upper and terminal portions of the said framings, have collars, between
which, and the undersides of the brackets of the body part, coiled springs are
disposed, and upon them, which are preferably four in number, viz. :-two at the
back, and two at the front, the body of the vehicle is supported.
Instead of supporting the vehicle upon coiled springs, which are under compression,
I bang or swing the body from coiled springs, which then become distended, instead
of compressed.
The ends of the curved framing parts, are connected together at their terminal-ends,
by the handles, or by cross-bars.
WILLIAM POWLES.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Suspending or Mounting the Bodies of
Perambulators and other like Wheeled Vehicles.
1, WILLIAM POWLES, of 87 Moseley Street, in the City of Birmingham, Perambulator
and Bassinette Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to means for suspending or mounting the bodies of per-
ambulators, bassinettes, and other like wheeled-vehicles.
The invention consists in supporting the said bodies, upon vertically disposed coil
springs, interposed between shoulders of fixed framing, and eyes or loops of brackets,
carried by the body of the vehicle.
Thus, the invention consists essentially in supporting the said bodies, upon

page_text: coiled springs, disposed in the direction of the weight or pressure exerted by
them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in perspective, a perambulator,
ounted and supported according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a portion of one end of the body of the said vehicle, and
the means of support, with the coiled spring shewn in section.
Figure 3 represents a horizontal section, upon the dotted lines A. B figure 2,
whilst figure 4 represents a like section, upon the dotted lines CD, of the same
figure.
Figure 5 represents an elevation of figure 2.
The same letters of reference, indicate corresponding parts in the several
figures.
a is the body of the vehicle, supported through the intervention of end brackets a,.
upon coiled springs b, encircling upright end framing rods e², of bow shaped
framing irons c, directed from front to rear on the underside of the body of the
vehicle.
The brackets a², have eyes a", which take and slide upon the rods c³, above the
tops of the springs, which are interposed and are compressed between the undersides
of the said brackets a³, and fixed rest collars or brackets c³.
Branching upwardly from below the said rest collar, of the back framing, are
handle rods c, terminated by a handle d.
To the inverted bow shaped framing e, axles e, of wheels f, are connected by inter-
posed supports g.
The body of the vehicle is shown supported upon four coiled springs, encircling rods,
directed from the framing, and which springs, become compressed consequent upon
the weight of the body supported.
Although I have represented that the body of the vehicle is supported upon four
coiled springs, yet a greater or less number may be employed.
By the mounting of the bodies of vehicles upon coiled springs, which admit of
compression and extension, all tremor or vibration consequent upon travelling, is
stopped off, whilst the said body is yieldingly suspended.
Figure 6 represents a modification, in which the rod is carried by the body of the
vehicle, and the guido loop or eye, by the handle frame rod.
a is the body, a a rod bracket, attached to it, and surrounded by a coiled spring b
which is interposed between the head a³, and the eye c³, of the bracket c³, of the
rod c.
I am aware that vehicle bodies as aforesaid, have been supported by distended
springs, secured to the framing and body respectively..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First Suspending or supporting the bodies of perambulators, bassinettes, and
other like vehicles, upon coiled springs compressed and interposed between the said
bodies, or brackets of them, and collars or rests, carried by the fixed framing, substan-
tially as described and set forth.
Secondly-The means and fittings herein described, for yieldingly supporting and
mounting, the bodies of the said wheeled vehicles as set forth.
Thirdly Mounting the bodies of perambulators and like vehicles, upon yielding
supports, as described and set forth in figure 6.
Dated this 1st day of April 1890.
WILLIAM POWLES.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.