AN IMPROVED CARRIAGE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Edouard Delessert, of Rue Raynouard,.
No. 17, at Passy, Paris, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
CARRIAGE,"
Sealed the 20th June 1873, and dated the 15th January 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Edouard
Delessert at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 15th January 1873.
I, HENRI EDOUARD DELESSERT, of Rue Raynouard, No. 17, at Passy,
Paris, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED CARRIAGE," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction and arrangement of a.
brougham or carriage of like character in such a manner as to give easy
access to passengers, to leave their view uninterrupted, and to permit
the hind wheels to be placed near the front wheels so as to lighten
the draught without interfering with the accommodation of or facility of
access to the vehicle. For this purpose I construct the fore carriage

page_text: with its wheels and the driver's seat in the usual manner, but I form
the body of the carriage with its door opening at the back, and with its
seat over the hind axle, so that the passengers sit with their backs to the
driver and can see freely out through the glass in the door, or on each
side thereof. They can communicate with the driver by a window behind
them, opening to the front of the carriage.
with its wheels and the driver's seat in the usual manner, but I form
the body of the carriage with its door opening at the back, and with its
seat over the hind axle, so that the passengers sit with their backs to the
driver and can see freely out through the glass in the door, or on each
side thereof. They can communicate with the driver by a window behind
them, opening to the front of the carriage.
Instead of or in addition to the seat as above described there may be
seats, one on each side of the carriage, with the passage from the door
between them.
As the hind axle passes under the seat it can be placed farther forward
or nearer to the front axle than usual, and the draught is thus lightened;
also the body of the carriage is thus mounted lower than usual so that it
can be easily entered from the road level, a broad step or footboard being
arranged at the door behind, and the wheels being in such a position that
they do not interfere with access.
The springs are conveniently made of the elliptic kind, their lower
sweeps resting on the hind axle, one on each side of the carriage body.
A transverse bar which passes under the seat of the carriage is
suspended at each end from the upper sweeps of the springs, and the
carriage body resting on this bar is thus supported on the hinder
springs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Edouard Delessert in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
EDOUARD DELESSERT, of Rue Raynouard, No. 17, at Passy, Paris, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henri Edouard Delessert, Her special
license that I, the said Henri Edouard Delessert, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Edouard

page_text: Delessert, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time.
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CARRIAGE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Henri Edouard Delessert, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Edouard Delessert, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to the construction and arrangement of a
brougham or carriage of like character in such a manner as to give easy.
access to passengers, to leave their view uninterrupted, and to permit
the hind wheels to be placed near to the front wheels so as to lighten the
draught without interfering with the accommodation of or facility of
access to the vehicle. For this purpose I construct and arrange the fore.
carriage with its wheels and the driver's seat in the usual manner, but I
form the body of the carriage with its door opening at the back, and
with its seat over the hind axle, so that the passengers sit with their
backs to the driver and can see freely out through the glass in the door.
or on each side thereof. They can communicate with the driver. by a
window behind them opening to the front of the carriage.
Instead of or in addition to the seat as above described there may be
seats one on each side of the carriage with the passage from the door
between them.
As the hind axle passes under the seat it can be placed farther forward
or nearer to the front axle than usual, and the draught is thus lightened;
also the body of the carriage is thus mounted lower than usual so that

page_text: it can be easily entered from the road level, a broad step or footboard
being arranged at the door behind, and the wheels being in such a
position that they do not interfere with access.
The springs are conveniently made of the elliptic kind, their lower
sweeps resting on the hind axle, one on each side of the carriage body.
A transverse bar which passes under the seat of the carriage is suspended
at each end from the upper sweeps of the springs, and the carriage
resting on this bar is thus supported on the hinder springs.
position o
The springs are conveniently made of the clliptic kind, their lower
sweeps resting on the hind axle, one on each side of the carriage body.
A transverse bar which passes under the seat of the carriage is suspended
at each end from the upper sweeps of the springs, and the carriage
resting on this bar is thus supported on the hinder springs.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a side view; Fig. 2 a back view with a portion shewn
in section; Fig. 3 represents a sectional plan, and Fig. 6 a transverse
section of a four-wheeled carriage constructed according to this
Invention.
in front,
The scat G is
The front part A, with driver's seat is of the usual construction, but
the body B is reverted and provided with a door C at the back, with
windows at the sides and back, and also windows V, v,
and v,
whereby passengers can communicate with the driver.
placed next the driver, and passengers sit thereon with their backs
towards him. There may also be seats H on each side, preferably
hinged so that they can be raised (as shown in Fig. 3), or lowered. D
is a footboard which serves as a step for entering or leaving the
carriage.
The body of the carriage may be connected to the hind axle as shewn
to an enlarged scale in Fig. 4, where d is the axle secured by wings and
clips d', d, to the lower plates of the spring c, the body of the carriage
in this case resting directly on the upper plates of the spring. It is pre-
ferred however to rest the body on the springs in the manner shewn to
an enlarged scale in Fig. 5, where B is part of the carriage body resting
on a transverse bar F, which passes under the seat, and the ends
of which are bent a little upwards, widened out and secured by clips b
to the upper plates of the spring a; the axle in this case may be secured
to the lower plates in the ordinary way. The springs in either case may
be accommodated in recesses Z formed in the lower part of the carriage
body as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 7 represents a side view of a similar construction applied to a
two-wheeled carriage, in which case the driver's seat S is arranged on
the top steps m, m, being provided for giving access thereto.

page_text: It may be readily understood that the design and proportions of
carriages constructed as above described can be varied without departing
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HENRI EDOUARD DELESSERT. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
32, Boulevard Magenta,
At Paris.