IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERINGS OR AWNINGS FOR PERAMBULATORS AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Hatchman, of 73 & 74, Wood Street, in the
City of London, Warehouseman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COVERINGS OR AWNINGS FOR PERAMBULATORS AND OTHER PLACES."
Sealed the 1st July 1879, and dated the 8th January 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Hatchman at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th January 1879.
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WILLIAM HATCHMAN, of 73 & 74, Wood Strect, in the City of London, Ware-
houseman. IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERINGS OR AWNINGS FOR PERAMBULATORS
AND OTHER PLACES."
My Invention refers to the construction and employment of coverings, awnings,
or canopies applicable to carriages, perambulators, boats, chairs, windows, doors,
garden seats, and other places, and a convenient way of carrying the Invention into
effect, is as follows:-
The frame is made with metal ribs and metal or cane stretchers covered with
silk, alpaca, cotton, or other suitable material. I make the covering of a square, or
rectangular, or round, or other form when open, with square or curved corners.
The frame is supported by one of the ribs, which is made stronger than the others,
and is connected or fitted to the place it is intended to cover or shade in sockets by
screw clips or otherwise, and is fitted or not with a joint or joints for convenience
in packing or otherwise. The stretchers are connected to a runner on a short stick
fitted with a spring clip like an umbrella clip, like which latter the frame and
covering is opened and closed. Instead of the covering being connected by one
only of the ribs to the scat, perambulator, or other place it is intended to shade, it
may be connected thereto by two or more of the ribs aforesaid. A ring or hook is
attached to the top outside for pulling the covering together when the spring clip
is disengaged on the inside of the covering.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Hatchman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th July
1879.
WILLIAM HATCHMAN, of 73 and 74, Wood Street, in the City of London, Ware-
houseman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERINGS OR AWNINGS FOR PERAMBULATORS
AND OTHER PLACES."
My Invention refers to the construction and employment of coverings, awnings,
or canopies, applicable to carriages, perambulators, bassinets, boats, chairs, windows,
doors, garden seats, and other places, and a convenient way of carrying the Invention
into effect, is as follows:-
The frame is made with metal ribs and with metal or cane stretchers, covered
with silk, alpaca, cotton, or other suitable material. I make the covering of a
square, or rectangular, or round, or other form when open, with square or curved
corners. The frame is supported by one of the ribs, which is made stronger than
the others, and is connected or fitted to the place it is intended to cover or shade
in sockets by screw clips or otherwise, and is fitted or not with a joint or joints for
convenience in packing or otherwise. The stretchers are connected to a runner on
a short stick fitted with a spring clip like an umbrella clip, like which latter the
frame and covering is opened and closed. Instead of the covering being connected
by one only of the ribs to the seat, perambulator, or other placo it is intended to
shade, it may be connected thereto by two or more of the ribs aforesaid.
A ring
or hook is attached to the top outside for pulling the covering together when the
spring clip is disengaged on the inside of the covering.
And in order that my Invention may be more completely understood I annex.
hereto a Sheet of Drawings in illustration of my Invention as applied to awnings
suitable for perambulators.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing the awning opened; Figure 2 is a plan
of the underside of same; and Figure 3 shews the same awning closed up. a is
the rib which supports the awning, bent as shewn at lower end, whereby it is
secured to the back of perambulator or other article; b is the bracket screwed to
perambulator back, through which the rib a is passed, and there secured in any
desired position by means of thumbscrew c; & is the stick made short, as shewn, to
the upper end of which the rib a is hinged; c is the ring at end of stick for aiding
in opening the covering. Figure 4 shews the rib a outside the awning instead of
inside, ns in the previous case; here the rib a may be detached, if desired, from the
stick, to which it is secured by slot in top and pin passing through same. Figure 5
shews the awning applied to a perambulator.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner tho
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the aforesaid improvements in
coverings or awnings for perambulators and other places, the combination of sup-
porting rib with short stick and bracket, so that when the awning is open the stick
is out of the way, and a firm support is provided for the cover capable at the same
time of adjustment, all substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described, nud illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, together with any
mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hatchman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
WILLIAM HATCHMAN. (L.S.)