Improvements in Children's Carriages or Mail Carts.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Carriages or Mail Carts.
We, WILLIAM SEATON MCLENNAN, of 222 Whitehill Street, in the County of
the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, and THOMAS MORTON
of 145 Finlay Drive, in the same county, Foreman Chair Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
Our said invention has for its object to provide, in the construction or combination
of the parts of children's carriages or mail carts, for a pleasant and controllable
spring rocking motion, in addition to or instead of the usual spring connection
between the body of the carriage and the wheel axle or axles.
In carrying out our invention we make the body of the carriage separate from
the side shafts or trams, to which we connect it by two strong helical springs,
placed one at each side. In the case of a single-seated carriage the springs will be
under the forward part of the body; but in a double-seated carriage they may be
at or near the middle of the bottom of the body. For adjusting the action of the
springs a transverse bar is placed with its ends between the shafts and bottom
pieces on the carriage body and this bar serves as a fulcrum on which the body can
rock. Accordingly as the fulcrum bar is nearer to or further from the springs so
is the leverage with which they act less or more; and the fulcrum bar_cau be
adjusted to suit the weight of the occupant or occupants of the carriage. For the
purpose of adjustment a board or frame having fixed to it, the fulcrum bar, or pins
corresponding to the ends of the bar, may be fitted to slide in grooves in the inner
sides of the shafts. In the case of a single-seated carriage the fulcrum bar or
equivalent will be behind the springs; and in the case of a double-seated carriage
there may be two fulcrum bars or equivalents one behind and the other in front of
the springs, both being moved by the same sliding board or frame, or otherwise
arranged so that when either is shifted towards the springs the other can be moved
away from them.
Dated this Eighteenth day of September 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Carriages or Mail Carts.
We, WILLIAM SEATON MCLENNAN, of 222 Whitehill Street, in the County of
the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, and THOMAS MORTON,
of 145, Finlay Drive, in the same county, Foreman Chair Maker 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, that is to say :-
Our said invention has for its object to provide, in the construction or combination
of the parts of children's carriages or mail carts, for a pleasant and controllable
spring rocking motion, in addition to or instead of the usual spring connection
between the body of the carriage and the wheel axle or axles.

page_text: In carrying out our invention we make the body of the carriage separate from
the side shafts or trams, to which we connect it by two strong helical springs,
placed one at each side. In the case of a single-seated carriage the springs will be
under the forward part of the body; but in a double-seated carriage they may be
at or near the middle of the bottom of the body. For adjusting the action of the
springs a transverse bar is placed with its ends between the shafts and bottom
pieces on the carriage body and this bar serves as a fulcrum on which the body can
rock. Accordingly as the fulcrum bar is nearer to or further from the springs so
is the leverage with which they act less or more; and the fulcrum bar can be
adjusted to suit the weight of the occupant or occupants of the carriage. For the
purpose of adjustment a board or frame having fixed to it, the fulcrum or pins
corresponding to the ends of the bar, may be fitted to slide in grooves in the inner
sides of the shafts. In the case of a single-seated carriage the fulcrum bar or
equivalent will be behind the springs; and in the case of a double-seated carriage
there may be two fulcrum bars or equivalents one behind and the other in front of
the springs, both being moved by the same sliding board or frame, or otherwise
arranged so that when either is shifted towards the springs the other can be moved
away from them.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood, we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings,
to be hereinafter referred to, and showing by way of example a single-scated mail
cart as made with our improvements.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a sectional elevation, and Figure, 2, is a plan, with
the body part removed, of the improved mail cart.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
We make the body, A, of the carriage separate from the side shafts, B, and C,
to which we connect it by two strong helical springs, D, and E, placed one at each
side. The carriage is single-seated, and the springs, D, and E, are under the
forward' part of the body. For adjusting the action of the springs, D, and E, we
place a rectangular frame behind them, consisting of two wooden transverse bars, G,
and H, and two short longitudinal flat metal bars, J, and, K, the inner ends of
which have short pins, L, and M, projecting from them so as to be between the
shafts, B, C, and curved bottom pieces, N, on the carriage body, A, and serving as
a fulcrum on which the body can rock. The bars, J, and K, are made with longi-
tudinal slots, P, and screws, Q, projecting through them are fixed in the side
shafts, B, and C, and form guides on which the frame, G, H, J, K, can slide.
Accordingly as the frame with the fulcrum pins, L, and M, is nearer to or further
from the springs, D, and E, so is the leverage with which they act less or more, to
suit the weight of the occupant of the carriage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
In children's carriages or mail carts connecting the carriage body to the shafts
by springs, and arranging a transverse bar or bars, or pins on a transverse frame, as
a fulcrum or fulcrums for the carriage body to rock upon, the bar, bars, or pins
being capable of being adjusted to and from the springs substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this Twelfth day of June 1805
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.