Improvements in Swinging Apparatus for Cots and like Receptacles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1891-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Swinging Apparatus for Cots and like
Receptacles.
I, GEORGE PRINCE LEE, of Vernon Works Longsight, Manchester, Managing
Director of G. P. Lee, Limited Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to swinging apparatus for babies' and other cots, and
like receptacles, and have for object the construction of a swinging support for such
cots and like receptacles, whereto or whereon the cots shall be capable of being
attached or being detached from such swinging portions.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I provide a suitable framing
or standard of iron or other material, forming the cot stand, from each end of
which, at the upper portion, depend two swinging links, loosely attached to the
framing, or to fixings thereon, by means of pin-joints, or other equivalent con-
nections, and each carrying, at its lower end, one of the projecting arms of a plat-
form or other shaped swinging holder or support, forming a kind of parallel rocking
motion.
The cot or like receptacle is carried by the swinging platform or other support,
and is by preference capable of easy placement thereon or removal therefrom.
The framing may be of various forms but by preference such as will facilitate the
removal and adjustment of the cot or like receptacle on its swinging platform or
carrier, and variations in the details of the apparatus may be made without
departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Dated this 26th day of August 1890.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Swinging Apparatus for Cots and like
Receptacles.
I, GEORGE PRINCE LEE, of Vernon Works, Longsight, Manchester, Managing
Director of G. P. Lee, Limited, Manufacturers, 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 :-
The improvements relate to swinging apparatus for babies' and other cots, and
like receptacles, and have for object the construction of a swinging support for such
cots and like receptacles, whereto or whereon the cot shall be capable of being
attached or being detached from such swinging portion.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I provide a suitable framing
or standard of iron or other material, forming the cot stand, from each end of
which, at the upper portion, depend two swinging links, loosely attached to the
framing, or to fixings thereon, by means of pin joints, or other equivalent con-
nections, and each carrying, at its lower end, one of the projecting arms of a plat-
form or other shaped swinging holder or support, forming a kind of parallel rocking
motion.
The cot or like receptacle is carried by the swinging platform or other support,
and is by preference capable of easy placement thereon or removal therefrom.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid of the
accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me,

page_text: Fig. 1, shows a front elevation, and Fig. 2, an end view, partly in section, of
swinging apparatus arranged in accordance with my improvements; while Fig. 3,
shows an end view of a child's cot, carried on a frame or standard, and provided
with such swinging apparatus.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, a, is the swinging holder or support, forming a platform for the cot or other
receptacle.
b, b, are the swinging links, capable of oscillating on the pin centres c, c, and
loosely attached, at their lower ends, to the arms of the swinging holder or
support a, a.
In this case, the links and support arms are shown forked, to span certain
portions d', d', of the fixed framing or standard d, d; and the connecting pins e, e,
are caused to move, during oscillation of the parts, within the arcs of the slots f, f;
but these connections may be arranged in any other suitable manner.
In Fig. 1, a disturbed position of the cot support a, a, is shown in dotted lines,
and illustrates, to some extent, the rocking motion which may be imparted to the
cot or other receptacle g, g, on the same being moved by hand.
The framing d, d, may be of various forms, but by preference is such as will
facilitate the removal from, and adjustment of the cot or like receptacle on its
swinging platform or carrier a, a; and other variations in the detail of the
apparatus may be made without departing from the peculiar character of the
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
In swinging apparatus for cots and like receptacles, the employment of a
swinging support for such cots, carried on oscillating or swinging links, which links
oscillate on attachments to a fixed or rigid standard or framing, for the purpose
and in manner substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 25th day of June 1891
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.