Improvements in or connected with Hansom Cabs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
Improvements in or connected with Hansom Cabs.
I, ABRAHAM MONTAGUE WARTSKI, of 78 and 79, Bishopsgate Street Without,
in the County of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
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My invention relates to hansom cabs and consists in the provision of means
whereby guards can be projected over the wheels to protect the dresses or coats
of persons entering the vehicles from being soiled.
My invention is advantageously carried into practice in the following manner.
Upon each door, or in the body of the same, I arrange a plate sliding in suitable
guides and adapted, when the door is closed, to lie upon or within the same but,
when the door is opened, to be projected therefrom a sufficient distance to cover
or shield that part of the wheel likely to be rubbed by the clothing. The plates
are preferably adapted to be projected automatically by connecting them by means
of suitable jointing pieces with some fixed part of the cab and, if desired, springs
may be arranged for drawing the plates back on to or within the doors.
Dated this 21st day of March 1894.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
1, ABRAHAM MONTAGUE WARTSKI, of 78 and 79, Bishopsgate Street Without,
in the County of London, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to hansom cabs and consists in the provision of means
whereby guards can be projected over the wheels to protect the dresses or coats
of persons entering or leaving the vehicles against being soiled.
My invention is advantageously carried into practice in the following manner.
Upon each door, or in the body of the same, I arrange a plate sliding in suitable
guides and adapted, when the door is closed, to lie upon or within the same but,
when the door is opened, to be projected therefrom a sufficient distance to cover
or shield that part of the wheel likely to be rubbed by the clothing. The plates
are adapted to be projected upon the opening of the door by connecting them by
means of suitable jointing pieces with some fixed part of the cab.
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 hansom cab having my improvements applied
thereto; and,
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same partly in section on the line 2-2,
Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a sectional plan, the section being taken on the line 3-3, Figure 1:
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page_text: Figure 4 is a front elevation of the door shewn in Figures 1, 2 and 3 detached
and drawn to an enlarged scale; and,
Figure 5 is an edge view of the same:
Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6, Figure 4:
Figures 7 and 8 are views similar to Figures 1 and 2 respectively illustrating
a modification of my invention; and,
Figure 9 is a half plan of the same :
Figures 10, 11 and 12 are views similar to Figures 4, 5 and 6 respectively
illustrating the arrangement of the door shewn in Figures 7 and 8:
Figure 13 is an elevation of a cab door provided with a mud guard of modified
form:
Figure 14 is a section on the line 14-14, Figure 13; and,
Figure 15 is a section similar to Figure 14 but shewing the door open so as to
project the mud guard over the wheel.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a is the body of the cab, b, bare the doors, and c, c are the travelling wheels.
d, d are my mud guards.
As shewn in Figures 1 to 6, my mud guards are simple metal plates of
approximately the same width as the doors, and arranged to slide in casings e, e
fixed upon the inner sides of the said doors, in such a manner that when the said
doors are closed the plates will be concealed wholly within the casing, for instance,
as shewn at the right hand side of Figure 2, and in Figures 4 and 6.
ffare links each of which is connected at one end to a bracket
fixed to the
body of the cab and at the other end to a bracket connected to the mud guard d
or to a stud i thereon, the said stud sliding in a slot ; in the door. k is a plate
attached to the bracket h and serving to cover the slot j when the guard d'is in
the position shewn in Figure 6.
With this arrangement it will be seen that when the doors are thrown back
from the position shewn at the right hand side of Figure 2 to the position shewn
in the left hand of the said figure, that is to say, when the doors of the cab are
opened, the mud guards d, d will be caused to project over the wheels c, c.
The
motion of the links and slides in passing from one position to the other may be
seen more clearly by comparing Figure 6 with Figure 15.
is a weather strip to prevent rain from getting under the plate and entering
the slot j, and d', ''are strips of india-rubber or other material arranged at the
mouth of the opening in the casing e and in contact with the guard d so as to
remove any mud on the latter when moved within the said casing.
In the modification shewn in Figures 7 to 12 each mud guard d instead of being
arranged in a casing on the inner side of the door, is arranged to slide in
guides, on the outer side of the same, and in this modification also, instead of
using only a single link for each mud guard, I have shewn two links as being
employed.
In order to prevent mud from being thrown onto the mud guards in case a
person using the cab desires the doors to remain open, I provide an arrangement
whereby the driver can in such case move the doors sufficiently forward to take
the mud guards out of the planes of the wheels. As shewn in Figures 1, 2 and 3
I have shewn the usual stops against which the doors rest when open as being
attached to bell-crauk levers, m, m indicating the stops, and n, o the two arms of
each bell-crank lever. The arm n carrying the stop is arranged above the
platform and the arm o is arranged beneath the platform of the cab, and is
connected by a chain or cord p running ever suitable guide-pulleys q, q to a
lever r, arranged upon the cab in such a position that it can be readily operated
by the driver. This lever has a spring-bandle s working in conjunction with a
seginent having two notches t', the former of which corresponds with the
position of the lever r when the doors are thrown back and the latter with the
position of the said lever when the stops are moved forward in order to hold
the doors in the position referred to, in which the mud guards are out of the plane

page_text: of the wheels. The segment is made of sufficient length to permit of moving
the lever r sufficiently far to close the doors if desired, a spring u serving to move
each bell-crank lever in the opposite direction to that in which it is moved by
the lever r.
The arrangement shewn in Figures 7, 8 and 9 may be used for both opening
and closing the doors in combination with the mud guards and this arrangement
dispenses with the use of adjustable stops and consists in fixing the pivot between
the links and the brackets g. g to the said links and continuing it through the
platform, as shewn at Figures 7 and 8, whereby, when the pivot-pins vare
turned, the links, and consequently also the doors will be positively moved.
With this arrangement the two rods v, e advantageously carry sprocket or chain
wheels 10, w at their lower ends connected by a cross chain ; another chain ..
passing over a chain-wheel on the lever and another chain-wheel ³ fixel
adjacent to one of the chain-wheels w serving to transmit the movement of th
said lever to the doors b, b.
I have shewn the cab illustrated in Figures 7, 8 and 9 as having one door ope
and the other closed, but it will be understood that as they are both positively
connected to the lever they should both be closed when the said lever is in the
position indicated.
Instead of using rigid mud guards in the form of simple plates as hereinbefore
described, I may use mud guards of the kind shewn in Figures 13, 14 and 15,
that is to say, mud guards having those portions which project over the wheels
made of slats or strips y of metal or other material arranged to overlap, as shewn,
so that when projected from the doors they will curve over the wheels. These
slats are fixed to spring-bars, having the desired curvature, the said spring-
bars, allowing of the mud guard assuming a flat position when drawn within
the door, as shewn in Figure 14.
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I am aware that it has been proposed to provide a door with automatic mud
guards controlled by a parallel motion. According to my invention the guard
moves within or upon the door and approximately in the plane of the door, and
this arrangement, removes various objections to the employment of mud guards
upon cab doors.
An obvious modification of my arrangement is to control the projection of the
guard by a pivot instead of by guides, but having regard to my Provisional
Specification I have included this modification in a separate application for a
Patent No. 1395 of 1895.
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 :-
1. In a hansom cab the combination with the doors of mud guards which are
projected therefrom upon the opening of the doors and which lie within or upon
and move approximately in the plane of the doors, substantially as described.
2. In a hanson cab the combination with the doors of mud guards adapted when
the doors are closed to lie within or upon the same and when the doors are
opened to be projected therefrom, the said guards being caused to move by means
of links connected with the guards and with the body of the cab, substantially as
described.
3. In a hansom cab mud guards adapted to be projected from or beyond the
doors when opened, which are made flexible so that they shall curve over the
wheels, substantially as described.
4. In a hansom cab having mud guards designed to be projected from or
beyond the doors when opened substantially as hereinbefore described, the
combination with the said mud guards of adjustable stops for enabling the doors
to be moved by the driver so that the mud guards shall be out of the planes of
the wheels whilst the doors remain open, substantially as, and for the purpose,
described.

page_text: 5. In a hansom cab having mud guards which are projected from or beyond
the doors when opened substantially in the manner herein before described, the
combination with the said mud guards of means substantially as described by
reference to Figures 7, 8 and 9, whereby the driver opens and closes the doors
and holds them in an intermediate position, as set forth.
Dated this 21st day of January 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.