IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAIRS
Year: 1885

page_text: We CHARLES DIXON of N° 6 Downing Street Cambridge Tailor and Robe
Maker and CHARLES FLATTERS of Newmarket Road Cambridge Mechanic do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CHAIRS " to be as follows:-
WHEELED
According to this invention the chair is steered from the rear by the person
pushing it. This is done by constructing the handle at the back by which the
chair is pushed in such a way that it is capable of revolving and by gearing it to
the steering wheel or wheels. When the handle is turned more or less in either
direction the steering wheel is correspondingly turned and thus the chair can be
steered as desired. The front handle of the chair may be dispensed with.
CARPMAEL & Co., .
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in wheeled Chans
We CHARLES DIXON of N° 6 Downing Street Cambridge Tailor and Robe
Maker and CHARLES FLATTERS of Newmarket Road Cambridge Mechanic 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:
According to this invention the chair is steered from the rear by the person.
pushing it. This is done by constructing the handle at the back by which the

page_text: chair is pushed in such a way that it is capable of revolving and by gearing it to
the steering wheel or wheels. When the handle is turned more or less in either
direction the steering wheel is correspondingly turned and thus the chair can be
steered as desired. The front handle of the chair may be dispensed with.
In order that our said invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect we will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 is a plan with parts removed of a wheeled
chair constructed in accordance with our invention.
A is the body of the chair; it is supported by springs B from an axle and a pair
of wheels C. C and in front it is further supported by a small steering wheel D
carried in a fork D¹. In these respects the chair is of ordinary construction
and the precise form indicated by the drawings is given for the purpose of
illustration only.
The pushing handle F in rear of the body in place of being fixed to the body as
is the practice at present is mounted so that it can turu in bearings on brackets Ğ. G.
Fixed to the handle there is a bevilled pinion F¹, this gears with a corresponding
pinion H¹ upon an inclined axis H which also is capable of revolving in bearings
upon brackets fixed to the body A. H' is an arm at the lower end of the axis H
and this is connected by a rod I with an arm E' projecting laterally from the side
of the fork in which the steering wheel E is carried.
It will thus be seen that by rotating the pushing handle F in one direction or
the other the steering wheel E can be inclined and this being done whilst the chair
is travelling it is steered or directed as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
A wheeled chair in which the pushing handle F in rear of the body is capable
of being rotated and when so rotated gives motion to the steering wheel or wheels
inclining it to one side or the other and so directing the vehicle substantially as
described.