A Combined Twin Cee and Grasshopper Spring for Four Wheel and Two Wheel Vehicles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Twin Cee and Grasshopper Spring for Four Wheel and
Two Wheel Vehicles.
I, JOB PACK, of Sussex Coach Works, George Street, Brighton, Sussex, Coach-
builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of this. invention is to combine two well known springs in a special
manner and using them in conjunction for the front part or the hind part, or for both
parts of a four wheeled vehicle or to any two wheeled vehicle.
For the purpose of my invention, I combine a twin Cee Spring and a Grasshopper
Spring by loops, shackles, straps, couplings, or other appliances and I attach it to the
axle or its fixings of say, a front body of a four wheeled carriage and to the bottom
bed or loop of a fore carriage, or to the pump handle, or cross bar, or other convenient
part of the hind body, or I attach the combined spring to say, a cart body or car and
to the axle respectively, so that the weight of the body of the vehicle and its
occupants is borne by the Grasshopper Spring or by the twin Cee Spring according
to the position in which such combined spring is arranged, the centre of the twin
Cee Spring, or the centre of the Grasshopper Spring being attached to the axle or its
fixings.
By this invention, I obtain great ease of motion and comfort to the occupants and
when applied to the fore carriage of a four wheeled vehicle, the long under perch can
be dispensed with and a free locking action for turning purposes obtained.
Dated this 15th day of November 1888.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said Job Pack.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Twin Cee and Grasshopper Spring for Four Wheel and
Two Wheel Vehicles.
I, JOB PACK, of Sussex Coach Works, George Street, Brighton, Sussex, Coach-
builder, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to combine two well known springs in a special
manner and to use them in conjunction, for the front part, or the hind part, or for
both parts of a four wheeled vehicle, or to any two wheeled vehicle.
For the purpose of my invention, I combine as shown in the annexed drawings,
Figure 1, a twin Cee spring A, A, or it may be two ordinary Cee springs, and a
Grasshopper spring, B, by loops, shackles, straps, couplings, or other appliances C,
and I attach it to the axle, or its fixings of, say, a front body of a four wheeled
Carriage, and to the bottom bed or loop of a fore Carriage, or to the pump handle, or
cross bar, or other convenient part of the hind body, or I attach the combined spring
to say, a Cart body, or Car, and to the axle respectively, so that the weight of the body
of the vehicle and its occupants is borne by the Grasshopper spring B, or by the twin
Cee spring A according to the position in which such combined spring is arranged,
the centre D of the twin Cee spring A, or the centre E of the Grasshopper spring B
being attached to the axle, or its fixings.
Figure 2 represents the invention as applied to the fore and hind Carriage of a four
wheeled vehicle and Figure 3 as applied to a two wheeled vehicle.

page_text: By this invention, I ohiain great ease of motion and comfort to the occupants and
when applied to the fore carriage of a four wheeled vehicle, the long under perch
can be dispensed with, and a free locking action for turning purposes obtained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination of twin Cees, or two ordinary Cee-springs constituting a twin
Cee spring; and a Grasshopper spring, connected by shackles, straps, robins, or other
similar devices, so that said combination may be used as a single spring to a vehicle,
as set forth.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the said J. Pack.