IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTABLE VEHICLE FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO WALK, AND GIVING ASSISTANCE TO INVALIDS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Askew, of Charles Street, Hampstead Road, in
the County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTABLE VEHICLE FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO
WALK, AND GIVING ASSISTANCE TO INVALIDS."
Sealed the 22nd August 1865, and dated the 25th February 1865.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said John Askew at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration, on the
25th February 1865, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ASKEW, of Charles Street, Hampstead Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTABLE VEHICLE FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO WALK, AND
GIVING ASSISTANCE TO INVALIDS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant

page_text: unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the
first and true Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Askew, do hereby declare that the
following Complete Specification under my hand and seal fully describes
and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, in and by the following statement:-
My improved Invention consists in the construction of portable carriages
manufactured of iron, brass, steel, or others.
The portable carriage is formed with a suitable shaped rim, by preference
circular; to the under side of this rim three or more tubes are attached by
pin joints; within these tubes other smaller tubes or rods slide, the lower end
of which are connected to a large rim by pin joints; the lower rim is also
preferred to be of a circular form, the inner tubes or rods have springs coiled
around them, by which they are retarded (according to the degree of the
strength of the springs) from sliding within the upper tubes, by which is
obtained an elastic action between the upper and lower rims. These tubes
have at their lower end collars capable of being affixed in any desired
position by set screws, and thus to regulate the height of the upper rim,
which receives the child or invalid, which upper upper rim provided has a
door or opening as heretofore, and which door or opening is secured by
a lock and key or thumbscrew, to prevent the child or invalid falling
out of the carriage. The carriage is made moveable and noiseless by the
use of castors of brass or other metal lined with india-rubber or any other
substance that may be considered preferable, and the least or slightest
movement of the child's foot or feet gives the facility of going in any
direction.

page_text: sliding one within the other, and applying springs thereto to give elastic
support to the upper rim, as herein described..
In witness whereof, I, the said John Askew, do hereby set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
GIRARDO MIGOTTI..
JOHN ASKEW. (L.B.)