Improvements in Vehicles for the Conveyance of Children, such as Wheel-chairs, Mail Carts or Cars, and Perambulators.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1839-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vehicles for the Conveyance of Children, such as
Wheel-chairs, Mail Carts or Cars, and Perambulators.
J ROBERT WILLIAM POUND of 694 Coventry Road Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention has for its object to provide a vehicle either with three wheels or
with two wheels for the conveyance of children on a (Cripper) tricycle frame with
central socket bearing, such that the chair or car affixed thereto can be removed and
another chair or seat be substituted in its place, and so that any chair so fixed can be
adjusted in height according to the requirements of the occupant; the aforesaid vehicle
to be drawn by a single central handle.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1880
ROBERT WILLIAM POUND.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vehicles for the Conveyance of Children, such as
Wheel-chairs, Mail Carts or Cars, and Perambulators.
I ROBERT WILLIAM POUND of 694 Coventry Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Gentleman 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 has for its object to provide a vehicle, either with three wheels or
with two wheels, for the conveyance and amusement of children, to be used for various
purposes with various adjustable bodies or seats.
From the accompanying drawing it will be seen that the frame of the vehicle
consists of a ' backbone or 'perch' of steel tubing (A) connected with the
axle (B) and bent round at the end to receive a socket (C) with set-screw. In the
case of the threewheeled vehicle (Fig. 1, 2) the front end of the backbone or perch is
supported by a single wheel (D) working in a fork and turning in a socket (E) as a
steering wheel. To the top of the fork is attached a handle (F) with crosspiece
whereby the vehicle is drawn. In the case of the two wheeled vehicle (Fig. 3) the
front wheel and fork are removed, a leg is fitted into the socket (E) and a landle (L)
is attached rigidly fixed to the same. [In (Fig. 1) the near wheel, (Fig. 3) the
further wheel, is omitted.] In the case of both the threewheeled and twowheeled
vehicle the seat or body is attached to the frame by means of the socket-plate and
pin (G, H,). The plate (G) is provided with holes by which it can be screwed to
the bottom of a chair, mailcart, car, perambulator or parcel-basket, the pin (H) is
dropped into the socket (C) and made fast with the set screw (K).
It is thus evident that any seat, chair, or body, to which a socket-plate and pin are
affixed, can be attached to the frame of the vehicle and detached at pleasure, and that
the height of any chair so attached can be adjusted in the distance above a footboard
fixed to the 'perch.'
In the case of a perambulator the handle (F) can be removed, the steering-wheel
can be fixed in its socket (E) by means of a pin, and the vehicle pushed in the
ordinary way from behind.

page_text: 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 :
1. The 'back-bone' or 'perch' as applied to vehicles for children (other than
tricycles).
2. The socket-bearing with removable and adjustable pin and set-screw, as applied
to the same.
Dated this Thirteenth day of December 1889.
ROBERT WILLIAM POUND.