IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF CARRIAGES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Dameron, of Paris, and No. 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON-
STRUCTION OF CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 3rd November 1855, and dated the 7th September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Dameron at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
September 1855.
I, LOUIS DAMERON, of Paris, and No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Coach Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES" to be as follows, that is
to say:-
My Invention consists in the constructing a carriage convertible into
three different forms, as represented by Figures 1, 2, & 3 of the annexed
Drawing.
Figure 1 represents a side view of a carriage with two places; Figure 2 is
a side view of a carriage with four places; Figure 3 is a side view of an open
carriage with four places. The number of places may be increased according
to the size of the body.
The conversion of the form Figure 1 into either that of Figure 2 or 3 is
effected as follows:-The part A, Figure 1, is replaced by part B, & forms
with the rest of the vehicle the carriage with 2 places. The parts A or B can
be replaced by part C, the part D thrown back & form an open carriage.

page_text: To form the open carriage, the top of the doors are removed in one piece. I
employ covered joints & hooks, which secure against the running in of the
rain, & give at the same time a more simple & solid adjustment. I employ
above & below the same body, shafts with cramp hooks, which prevent
pressure on the body of the carriage, & improves the adjustment of the
parts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Dameron in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
DAMERON, of Paris, and No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Louis Dameron, Her special license that I, the said Louis Dameron, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Dameron, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Dameron, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 Louis Dameron, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures
and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing a carriage convertible into three
different forms, as represented by Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the annexed
Drawing.

page_text: Figure 1 represents a side view of a landau with four places; Figure 2 is a
side view of a landau with two places; Figure 3 is a side view of an open
carriage with four places.
The number of places may be increased by increasing the width of the body
of the carriage. The conversion of the form, Figure 1, into either that form
of Figure 2 or Figure 3, is effected as follows:-The part A of the landau,
Figure 1, with four places, moves off in a piece, and the part B, Figure 2,
substituted, which forms with the other parts a carriage with two places.
The seat in front of the carriage, Figure 2, with two places, is adjusted by
means of pins, and can be withdrawn by the hand, and one of the parts A
or B moves off and is replaced by part C, so as to form the open carriage,
which permits of the cover D being let down. The parts A, B, C, can be
taken down with great facility by means of two screws E. I employ covering
joint hooks to keep the rain from coming in, and affords a more simple and at
the same tine more permanent adjustment of the parts. I apply above and
underneath the framework lathes, bars with cramp irons, which prevent the
body from pressing, and renders the adjustment more perfect.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details herein laid down; but what I claim is, the
arrangement of parts for the construction of carriages, by which one form of
vehicle is convertible into two or more different forms, as herein-before
described, and referred to in the annexed Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Dameron, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
LOUIS DAMERON. (L.S.)