A SHADE OR COVERING FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUTSIDE PASSENGERS OF UMNIBUSSES, TRAMWAY CARS, AND SUCH LIKE PUBLIC VEHICLES PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Salamon Guttmann, of 1, Park Road,
Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the In-
vention of "A SHADE OR COVERING FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUTSIDE
PASSENGERS OF UMNIBUSSES, TRAMWAY CARS, AND SUCH LIKE PUBLIC VEHICLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Salamon
Guttmann at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 10th April 1872.
I, ALFRED SALAMON GUTTMANN, of 1, Park Road, Holloway, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A SHADE OR COVERING FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUTSIDE
PASSENGERS OF Omnibusses, TramwAY CARS, AND SUCH LIKE PUBLIC VEHICLES,” to
be as follows (that is to say) :-
This Invention has for its object the protection of outside passengers
of omnibusses, tramway cars, and such like public vehicles" from the
weather by providing for them a suitable covering, and the following is
a simple method of carrying my Invention into effect :-At each end of

page_text: the seats which traverse the top of the omnibus or other vehicle, I erect
a suitable standard to carry two ordinary blind rollers at a sufficient
height above the heads of the passengers to allow them to enter and
leave their seats. These rollers are provided with blinds which may be
drawn or lowered over the passengers' heads when required, and are
fastened down by any suitable means so as to prevent them being blown
about by the wind.
The rollers may either be worked by hand or by ordinary blind roller
springs or other suitable contrivance, and when desired the blinds may
be fixed at such a height above the heads of the passengers as only to
allow of their sitting with ease, but in such a manner that they may be
raised when a passenger desires either to enter or leave the seat, which
arrangement may be effected by any suitable contrivance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Salamon Guttmann in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
SALAMON GUTTMANN, of 1, Park Road, Holloway, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Alfred Salamón Guttmann, Her special license
that I, the said Alfred Salamon Guttmann, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Salamon Guttmann, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A SHADE OR COVERING FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUTSIDE PASSENGERS OF OMNI-
BUSES, TRAMWAY CARS, AND SUCH LIKE PUBLIC VEHICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Salamon Guttmann, my

page_text: with the awnings (E), which are intended to be spread over the roof of
the vehicle, and which awnings have attached to them cords (F, F¹,) for
drawing them down when required, the said cords passing over grooves
in rollers (G) suitably fixed for that purpose; and are afterwards led
round suitable pulleys (H, H',) to a convenient position to be well under
control of the conductor or other person having charge of the vehicle,
and are there united so that both will be drawn equally at one pull, and
thus draw the blind evenly out. The awnings being rolled up on the
said spring rollers, and it being desired to lower them, it is only necessary
to pull the said cords (F, F¹,) at the said point where they are united
and pass together round the said pulley (H'), when the awnings may be
drawn as far out over the top as may be required, or over the rollers (G)
and down the side, as shewn in Figure 7, and when drawn out to a
sufficient extent may be fastened in such position by tying the said cords
round hooks (I) attached to the sides of the vehicle for that purpose.
When desired that the awnings should be rolled up it is only necessary
to unfasten the said cords, when the object will be immediately effected
by the action of the spring rollers.
When desired a shade (J) similar to that already described and fixed
on a spring roller (K) is provided at the front of the omnibus for the box
seat passengers, which when drawn down (as shewn at Figures 1, 2, 3,
and 8,) is held in that position by hooks (L) suitably placed and attached
for that purpose.
For the purpose of enabling the rollers and framework of the covering
to be lowered when required, the uprights of the standards (A) are pro-
vided with joints (M, N, O, P,) made to double inwards, the whole
assuming, when so lowered, the position shewn in Figure 5. The said
joints (M, N, O, P,) are shewn in detail at Figure 7.
Although in the accompanying Drawings the shade or covering with
the joints in the standards is shewn as applied to an omnibus roof, and
the shade without the said joints as applied to the roof of a tramway car,
yet it will be obvious that either form may be used with either vehicle,
as circumstances may necessitate or render desirable.
Having therefore thus particularly described and ascertained the
nature of this my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to or may be performed, I would observe in conclusion that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may

page_text: be modified in various ways without departing from the principle or
main features of my Invention; but what I claim as my Invention and
desire to secure by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the shade or covering for omnibuses, tramway cars, and such like
public vehicles, substantially as and for the purpose or purposes herein-
before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Salamon Guttmann, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
Witness,
JOHN WM. GRAY, C.E.,
Patent Agent,
23, Billiter Street,
E.C.
A. S. GUTTMANN. (L.s.)