Improvements in Carts for Bakers and other Tradesmen.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carts for Bakers and other Tradesmen.
I EDWIN NAPPER of 158 New Cross Road, in the County of Kent, Baker, 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 carts for bakers and other tradesmen, and has for its object
to produce a cart of this description, the interior of which can be quickly loaded
and in which the goods or commodities to be carried can be stacked or stored
in different parts, access to which is obtained by means of separate doors at both
the front and rear of the vehicle so that the driver may if so desired, serve the
goods or commodities without dismounting.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation, Figure 2 an end elevation, and Figure 3 a front
elevation of a cart constructed in accordance with this invention.
The same letters of reference are used to indicate the same or corresponding
parts in all the figures.
The cart is made with eight doors altogether, four in the rear and four in the
front. The four rear doors are arranged in two pairs A. A' and B, B', one above
the other, each pair being made after the manner of folding doors, the one in the
right hand side being secured to the other, which is itself secured by a bolt or its
equivalent to the frame of the cart. C is a bar which is fitted into recesses formed
in or attached to the sides F F¹ of the cart at the rear so that the doors A. and B
may be bolted to said bar in addition to, or instead of, bolting them to the top D
and bottom E of the frame of the cart. The bar C also serves as a rest on which
slats or trays may be placed to divide the interior of the cart horizontally, but the
interior of the cart may be otherwise divided according to the class of goods or
commodities which it is designed to carry.
The doors in the front of the cart consist of a flap lid H extending right across
the cart from side to side and hinged to the roof at G so that it can be lifted up in
the direction shewn by the dotted lines; a similar flap lid J hinged to the frame
at K so as to open upwards as shewn by dotted lines, and when closed down
forming the driver's seat; and two independent fall flaps L and L' situated at the
back of the driver and hinged to the frame of the cart so as to open downwards
towards the driver's seat. The fall flaps L and L' are independent of each other
and either or both may be opened as circumstances require. It will be seen that
these four doors will allow of complete access to the interior of the cart from the
front thereof, and either to the top, bottom, or right or left hand side.
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 :-
A cart for bakers or other tradesmen, having four doors in the rear arranged in
two pairs one above the other, and in the front a top flap lid hinged to the roof,
a bottom flap lid hinged to the frame and forming the driver's seat when let down,
and two fall flaps opening towards the driver, all the doors allowing access to the

page_text: interior of the body of the cart substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of February 1893.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.