IMPROVEMENTS IN PERAMBULATORS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Powles, of Number 87, Moseley Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Perambulator Manufacturer, for an Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN PERAMBULATORS."
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Powles at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th May 1880.
WILLIAM POWLES, of Number 87, Moseley Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Perambulator Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PERAMBULATORS.”
This Invention has for its objects improvements in perambulators and has the
following advantages:
That by means of a movable handle the occupants may in addition to the
ordinary way of being pushed in front be drawn or pushed in front with the body
of the perambulator in a reversed position for the purpose of protecting the
occupants from wind or rain, and with the object of providing the perambulators
with convenient bodies for the greater safety and comfort of the occupants, and
with an additional firm but moveable handle giving the person in charge greater
power, ease, and convenience.
It consists of an additional handle being placed in front of the perambulator,
with a joint to allow the handle to fall when not in use, attached to which is a
socket or spring to slide and firmly fix the joint for use by the person in charge
when required.
Many ways may be adapted of carrying out the Invention, and as one of which
I respectfully submit to be the foregoing, but I claim the sole right to carry out
my Invention in any way that may effect the objects above stated.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Powles in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th November
1880.
WILLIAM POWLES, of Number 87, Moseley Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Perambulator Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PERAMBULATORS."
This Invention has for its object certain additions and improvements in the
construction of perambulators. The present perambulator is constructed with the
pushing or propelling handle behind only, so that the person in charge of the same
is placed necessarily behind the occupant, and such occupant facing direction the
perambulator is proceeding. Now to vary this arrangement and enable the person
propelling to change his or her position without shifting or moving the occupant I
place an additional handle in front of the perambulator, such handle being somewhat
Bimilar to that which is behind, but so arranged that it may be shifted or adjusted
in or out of position at pleasure. When not required a joint in the handle allows
it to fall, and a socket or spring is provided to slide and firmly fix the joint when
it is in use, and so as to be easily adjusted by the person in charge.
By this arrangement the perambulator can be pulled as well as pushed, and the
occupants placed with either their faces to or backs to the wind and rain without
shifting them, and thus affording additional protection and convenience.
I do not confine myself to the precise mode indicated in the foregoing, but what
I claim and desire to be secured to me by the before in part recited Letters
Patent is the adjustable handle in front of perambulators, having a joint or other
arrangement to allow it to fall or be displaced when not required, and a spring or
socket to slide or other like arrangement for fixing it in position when required,
substantially as before described or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whercof, I, the said William Powles, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
eighty.
WILLIAM POWLES. (L.S.)