An Improved Mail Cart or Perambulator, Convertible into an Indoor Sleigh, Rocking Chair, or Swing.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 19th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mail Cart or Perambulator, Convertible into an Indoor
Sleigh, Rocking Chair, or Swing.
JOHN THOMAS MILLER 662 Harrow Road, Kensal Green, Confectioner
Dealer in Toys &c., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A mail cart convertible into (1) indoor sleigh (2) perambulator (3) double
rocking chair (4) boat swing.
The body as shown in drawing forms in Fig. 1 a rocking chair.
Hung in a doorway by ropes attached to spindle A at points B it forms boat
swing.
Placed on undercarriage with four wheels and handle it forms perambulator
on C springs attached at points B.
Turned upside down the floor K doubles at hinges C and folds behind backs of
seats D the seats E slide back along runners F till back to back.
The two parts G which before were backs turn on the spindles A and form foot
boards supported by a metal slide H on each side which in the other position
folds in between the frame and back of seat.
It can now (Fig. 2) be used as indoor sleigh and with a pair of shafts, with
wheels on axle to attach at point J it becomes an ordinary shape mail cart.
Dated this 29th day of November 1895.
JOHN T. MILLER.
An Improved Mail Cart or Perambulator, Convertible into an Indoor
Sleigh, Rocking Chair, or Swing.
I, JOHN THOMAS MILLER, of 662, Harrow Road, Kensal Green, in the
County of Middlesex, Confectioner, Dealer in Toys &c., 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 a combined mail-cart, perambulator, indoor sleigh,
rocking chair and boat-swing.
According to my invention 1 provide a body of such a shape that in one position
it serves as the body for a perambulator or as a boat-swing or a rocking chair and
when inverted it serves as the body for a mail-cart or as a sleigh and I provide
the body with seats, backs and foot-boards so mounted or hinged to the sides of
the same and to one another that when the body is inverted the said seats, backs
and foot-boards can be caused to move so as to alter their relative positions.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a perambulator constructed according to my
invention:

page_text: Figure 2 13 a similar View ΟΙ a mail-cart
invention:
constructed according to my
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the body dismounted from the perambu-
lator frame so as to serve as a double rocking chair :
Figure 4 is an end view, and,
Figure 5 is a plan of the body:
Figure 6 is a similar view to Figure 3 but shewing the body inverted so as to
serve as a sleigh.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar or corresponding parts throughout
the drawings.
Referring to Figures 1, 3, 4 and 5, a, a are the sides of the body, b, b are the
backs of the seats, the said backs being hinged to rods c, e passing through the
sides a, a at each end, as shewn clearly in Figures 3, 4 and 5. d, d are the seats
having downward extensions d', d as clearly shewn in Figure 3.
e, e are metal or other strips or bars which may be hinged at one end to the
seats d, d as shewn in the drawing, or may be rigidly attached to the same, and
are provided with slots f, f in which work pins g, g fixed in the sides of the
backs b, b.
The seats d, d work in guides h, h fitted to the sides a, a, the said guides being
so arranged that the seat can move horizontally between stops h', h². i, i are
foot-boards which are hinged to the lower ends of the downward extensions d', d¹
of the seats d, d and to one another, as shewn clearly in Figure 3, and j is a stop
bar fixed to the sides a, a and adapted to support the foot-boards i, i in a horizontal
position and to hold the sides a, a rigidly together.
k, kare rollers arranged at the four corners of the body and on which the latter
is designed to run when used as a sleigh, as shewn in Figure 6.
When the body is to be used as a perambulator, as shewn in Figure 1, the hinged
parts are in the position shewn in Figures 3, 4 and 5, and the body is supported on the
springs of the frame by means of straps 1, 1 which pass through eyes m, m fitted
on the body a or in any other suitable manner.
When disconnected from the springs of the perambulator frame and rested on
the ground the body forms a rocking chair, as shewn in Figures 3, 4 and 5, or
suspended by ropes it forms a boat swing. If, now, the body be inverted, as
shewn in Figure 6, and the seats d, d be pushed inwards, the foot-boards i, i drop
into the position shewn and limit the inward movement of the downward
extensions d', d¹ whilst the backs b, b drop down into the position shewn in
Figure 6 and are supported in their lowermost position by the slotted bars e, e.
It will thus be seen that the backs of the perambulator seats now form the foot-
boards for the sleigh and that the underside portions of the seats d, d of the
perambulator form the upper sides of the seats and the extensions d', d¹ form the
backs of the sleigh.
The body in this inverted position can be mounted in any suitable manner
on an axle provided with shafts and wheels so as to form a mail-cart as shewn in
Figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A body for a perambulator, boat swing and rocking chair the seats, backs
and foot-boards of which are so hinged and connected to the sides thereof and to
one another that when the body is inverted the said hinged portions form the
seats, backs and foot-boards of a mail-cart body, or of a sleigh, substantially as
described.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts forming an improved body for a
perambulator, boat swing, rocking chair, nail-cart and indoor sleigh, substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the
accompanying drawings

page_text: 3. The manufacture and use of the improved perambulator or mail-cart the
body of which is adapted to be converted into a sleigh, rocking chair or swing, as
herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
10th tow of March 1896
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.