An Improved Mail Cart Convertible into a Perambulator.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 29th June. 1894-Accepted 18th Aug.. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mail Cart Convertible into a Perambulator.
We GEORGE LOUIS ROTHSCHILD and HENRY VINCENT BAKER Perambulator
and Mail Cart Manufacturers 31 and 32 St. Pauls Square Birmingham do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An automatic convertible mail cart which by an automatic motion the well
or foot room of the cart is extended & raised simultaneously to form the bed of
perambulator enabling a child to be laid at full length. The well is hinged to the
mail cart with four hinges & the motion is directed by a groove or slot on each
side of the well, and two pins in the shafts. There are no adjustable screws or
loose parts connected with the Patent and change from mail cart to lie down
perambulator is effected with one effort of the user.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1893.
GEORGE LOUIS ROTHSCHILD.
HENRY VINCENT BAKER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mail Cart Convertible into a Perambulator.
We, GEORGE LOUIS ROTHSCHILD and HENRY VINCENT BAKER, Peram-
bulator and Mail Cart Manufacturers, 31 and 32 St. Pauls Square, Birmingham, 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 an improved mail cart which may be converted when
desired, into a perambulator.
The object of our invention is to so construct and arrange a mail cart, that the
well or box which forms the foot room of the cart may be extended and raised
simultaneously, to form a perambulator bed, enabling a child to be lain thereon at
full length. In like manner the perambulator bed to be capable of being readily
lowered into position to form the well or box of a mail cart.
In order that our invention, and the method of carrying the same into effect may
be the more readily understood we append hereunto one sheet of explanatory
drawings to be hereinafter referred to.
Figure 1 represents our improved cart or carriage when arranged or set as a mail
cart, while Figure 2 illustrates the same carriage when set for service as a
perambulator.
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Figures 3 and 4 are two views of the slotted metal sliding pieces we employ for
attachment to each side of the well or foot box, and Figure 5 is an illustration of
the pin, such as is attached to each shaft to direct the motion of the sliding
pieces.
Figure 6 is a view of the mail cart with the near wheel and handle shaft removed
in order to more clearly illustrate the construction of the well or foot box.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
Referring to Figures 1, 2 and 6, we construct the body of our improved carriage
in the ordinary and well known manner, and mount the same upon suitable springs
and wheels such as illustrated. The well or foot box A has its two sides, rigidly
secured to form one piece with the bottom and with the front end, but its back
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page_text: end B is formed from a separate piece, which is hinged at its upper part to the body
of the carriage, and at its lower part to the foot box, as illustrated at Figure 6.
The sliding piece such as C attached on each side of the foot box, is cast or stamped
from brass or other metal, and has a configuration such as illustrated at the enlarged
views Figures 3 and 4. The sliding pieces are secured to the sides of the foot box
by small screws or by other suitable means, and the sides of the box are slotted or
grooved out to receive the heads of the guiding pins, which we preferably form as
shown at Figure 5, the bearing portion D consisting of a small steel tube, mounted
upon the pin, and which acts as a roller for the sliding piece.
When it is desired to convert the mail cart as shown at Figures 1 and 6, to the
perambulator position, shown at Figure 2, the foot box is drawn up by means of the
-pull hook E, until the hinged end piece B is brought into a horizontal position, and
the box extended to form an enclosed or railed foot end of a perambulator as
shown at Figure 2. To retain the extended foot end in position we provide a
recess such as F Figure 4 at the lower end of the sliding pieces to receive the
roller D (Figure 5) of the pin, and thus prevent the weight of the foot end,
or the motion of the carriage, from causing the box to slip down to its mail
cart position. The box may be readily lowered when required by first slightly
turning the same on its hinges until the rollers D are removed from the
recesses of the sliding pieces, and then depressing the box until the upper ends
of the slots in the sliding pieces are brought to rest on the rollers or pins, as
shown at Figure 6.
We do not limit the application of our invention to the particular design or
pattern of mail cart illustrated in the accompanying drawings, but we employ
our system of conversion into a perambulator, with any modified form of cart
or carriage to which it may be advantageously applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :—
1. An improved mail cart convertible into a perambulator consisting of a cart
or carriage body suitably mounted upon springs and wheels, and having hinged
thereto an enclosed well or foot box that may be extended to form a peram-
bulator bed, substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
2. The construction and combination of a convertible mail cart and perambulator,
having a carriage body provided with handle shafts and mounted upon suitable
springs and wheels, with a hinged foot box provided with slotted sliding pieces
for working upon fixed rollers or pins, substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated L: 00
we claim is :-
1. An improved mail cart convertible into a perambulator consisting of a cart
or carriage body suitably mounted upon springs and wheels, and having hinged
thereto an enclosed well or foot box that may be extended to form a peram-
bulator bed, substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
2. The construction and combination of a convertible mail cart and perambulator,
having a carriage body provided with handle shafts and mounted upon suitable
springs and wheels, with a hinged foot box provided with slotted sliding pieces
for working upon fixed rollers or pins, substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated th
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.