IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT DESCRIPTION OF CARRIAGES CALLED PERAMBULATORS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Tall, of 150, Blackfriars Road, in the County
of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT DESCRIPTION OF
CARRIAGES CALLED PERAMBULATORS."
Sealed the 9th August 1858, and dated the 15th February 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Tall at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th February
1858.
I, JOSEPH TALL, of 150, Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT
DESCRIPTION OF CARRIAGES CALLED PERAMBULATORS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in that description of
carriages called perambulators. For these purposes the body of the carriage
is constructed in such manner as to admit of being expanded and contracted
according as it is desired for the time being to carry one child or two children.
In order to accomplish this object the body is formed in two parts, which are
arranged in a suitable manner to allow of the sides being slid one towards the
other when the carriage is to be used for one child, and to be slided from
each other to the greatest extent when it is desired to use the carriage for
two children. The stuffed seat and the cushion at the back for each carriage
are made in two parts, and an additional cushion is introduced in the centre

page_text: when the two sides of the body are separated as far as they will go; or the
stuffing and seats may be otherwise formed. The wheels and axle are by
preference arranged as if the body of the carriage were intended to be suitable
for only one child, and the sides of the body are suitably formed to admit of
the wheels turning freely when the sides are separated as far as they can go
from each other. The riser of the seat and the footboard are made to slide
one part within the other to correspond with the seat of the carriage. In
applying the handle to the back of a perambulator, in place of the same
being fixed as heretofore, it is arranged in a suitable manner to fold down
under the body of the carriage when out of use, in order to occupy less space.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Tall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
August 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPII
TALL, of 150, Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Tall, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Tall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Joseph Tall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THAT DESCRIPTION OF CARRIAGES CALLED PERAMBULATORS" upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Tall, 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 Joseph Tall, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: sides ff, and by which the bottom of the carriage is completed when it is
expanded.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Tall, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
JOSEPH TALL. (L.8.)