IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Edward Brown, of Redmond's Hill, in the
City of Dublin, Coachmaker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARRIAGES."
Scaled the 5th January 1872, and dated the 7th July 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Edward Brown
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 7th July 1871.
I, HENRY Edward Brown, of Redmond's Hill, in the City of Dublin,
Coachmaker, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to what are known as broughams and carriages
of a similar construction, and consists in the employment of half doors
only in the class of carriage above referred to, the lower part alone of
the door being retained whilst the glasses or windows which hitherto
formed the upper half, and which have been made to rise and fall
between the door pillars are now caused to slide horizontally into the
"quarter," thus dispensing with the door pillars. These glasses are
suspended from and slide along metal rods, and do not engage with the

page_text: half door, so that the accidental opening or shutting of the door whilst
the glasses are in their closed position or slid outwards, will not injure
the glass in any way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Edward Brown in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th January 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,` HENRY
EDWARD BROWN, of Redmond's Hill, in the City of Dublin, Coachmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the 35th
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Edward Brown, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Edward Brown, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Edward Brown,
my executors, administrators, or 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
CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Edward Brown, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly 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 Henry Edward Brown, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing and to the letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to what are known as broughams and
carriages of a similar construction, and consists in the employment of

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half doors only, in the class of carriages above referred to, the lower
part alone of the door being retained whilst the glasses or windows
which hitherto form the upper half, and which have been made to
rise and fall between the door pillars are now caused to slide horizontally
into the "quarter thus dispensing with the door pillars. These glasses
are suspended from and slide along metal rods, and do not engage with
the half door, so that the accidental opening or shutting of the door
whilst the glasses are in their closed position or slid outwards, will not
injure the glass in any way.
The accompanying Drawing represents a side elevation partly in
section of a brougham with my Invention applied thereto.
A is the half door; B is the window glass fitted in a wooden or other
frame a, in any convenient or well-known manner, or glasses without
frames may be used if desired. This frame is provided with grooved
rollers b, b, on its upper edge, which rollers or rings or other suitable
contrivance run along the supporting rod c of metal or other suitable
material fitted inside the quarter C of the brougham and extending
across the top of the door aperture.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the crein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, making the
glasses of broughams and other carriages of a similar construction to
slide horizontally into the "quarter," substantially as and for the purpose
herein-before described and illustrated by my Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Edward Brown, have to this
my Specification set my hand and scal, this Thirtieth day of
December, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
HENRY EDWARD BROWN. (L.S.)