Improvements in Folding Shafts or Handles of Children's "Mail" Carts, Perambulators, and other Light Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Folding Shafts or Handles of Children's "Mail"
Carts, Perambulators, and other Light Vehicles.
I, JAMES CARR, of Perambulator Works, Trafalgar Street, Bradford, in the
County of York, Perambulator Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in folding shafts or handles for
children's "mail" carts, perambulators and other light vehicles, and its object'
is to provide a simple and rigid joint.
For this purpose I pivot each shaft between lugs or their equivalent on a
metal attachment fixed to a continuation of the shaft or other convenient part of
the vehicle and I form an extension on each attachment forming a seat or rest
for the shaft when the latter is extended or unfolded. A clip is provided on
each shaft so formed and arranged that it may be pushed along the shaft over
the extension so as to embrace both the shaft and extension and thus hold the
shaft in position. A screw may be provided in the clip to tighten it upon the
shaft and the extension. The two shafts may be connected together by a handle.
Dated this 24th day of November 1898.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
Improvements in Folding Shafts or Handles of Children's "Mail”
Carts, Perambulators, and other Light Vehicles.
I, JAMES CARR, of Perambulator Works, Trafalgar Street, Bradford, in the
County of York, Perambulator 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 improvements in folding shafts or handles for
children's "mail" carts, perambulators and other light vehicles, and its object
is to provide a simple and rigid joint.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of such parts of a perambulator as are
necessary to illustrate the application of my improvements.
Figure 2, is a similar view with the shafts in the folded position.

page_text: Figure 3, is an elevation on a larger scale of the joint in the shaft.
Figure 4, is an end view of Figure 3.
Figure 5, is a plan of the joint showing a portion of the shaft in a vertical
position.
Figure 6, is an elevation of the same.
I pivot each shaft 2 between lugs 3 or their equivalent on a metal attach-
ment 4 fixed to a continuation 5 of the shaft or other convenient part of the
vehicle and I form an extension 6 on each attachment forming a seat or rest 7
for the shaft when the latter is extended or unfolded. A clip 8 (omitted in
Figures 5 and 6) provided on each shaft is so formed and arranged that it may
be pushed along the shaft over the extension so as to embrace both the shaft
and extension and thus hold the shaft in position. A screw 9 is provided in the
clip to tighten it upon the shaft and the extension. The two shafts are pre-
ferably connected together by a handle 10.
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:-
A folding shaft for a "mail" cart having an extension 6 on one part of the
shaft adapted to be secured to the other part of the shaft, to hold the shaft in
the extended position, by a clip 8, substantially as herein shown and described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Datel
1
P
1000