An Improved Shield or Mudguard for Carriage Handles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shield or Mudguard for Carriage Handles.
I JAMES KING of Woods Leigh, Heaton, near Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Coachman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to bo us
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved shield or mudguard to be applied to the
handles of carriages to protect them from being splashed by the wheels in muddy
weather, the principal object of the invention being to construct a mudguard which
shall be detachable and readily applied to any carriage handle.
The invention consists principally of a guard or shield of cumvenient shape
which can be made of any suitable material but preferably of patent leather and
supported on a metal frame. To the inner and contral part of this frame is fixed
a short split tube or clip of such a diameter that it can be passed over the shaft or
stem of the carriage handle and preferably lined with india rubber or other suitable
material.
This tubo is provided at the split portion with two lugs or ears through which is
passed a screw bolt fitted with a winged nut or head, on slackening which the split
tube may be passed over the shaft or stem of the handle, and may be securely fixed
thereto by tightening up the winged nut or head. The tube may be hinged instead
of split or may be in the form of a spring clip.
It will be evident that this improved shield or mudguard can, if desired, be readily
removed and only fitted onto the handle in muddy weather.
Dated this 26th day of January 1893
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shield or Mudguard for Carriage Handles.
I JAMES KING of Woods Leigh, Heaton near Bolton in the County of
Lancaster, Coachman, do hereby declaro the nature of this invention and in what
manner the samo is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved shield or mudguard to be applied to the
handles of carriages to protect them from being splashed by the whools in muddy
weather, the principal object of the invention being to construct a mudguard which
shall be detachable and roadily applied to any carriage handle.
My invention will be clearly understood from the following description on
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings on which
Fig. 1 is a front view of one of my improved mudguards, and Fig. 2 a vertical
section thereof showing my improved mudguard applied to a carriage handle.
The invention consists principally of a guard or shield a of convenient shape
which can be made of any suitable material but proferably of patent leather and
supported on a metal frame a'. To the inner and central part of this frame is fixed
a short split tube or clip of such a diameter that it can be passed over the shaft
or stem o of the carriage handle and preferably lined with india rubber or other
suitable material as shown at 6¹ Fig. 1.
This tube 6 is provided at the split portion with two lugs or ears & through which
is passed a screw bolt b³, preferably passing through a nut hinged to one of the

page_text: lugs as shown, and fitted with a winged out or a head 6', on slackening which the
split tube (which is by preference made with a hinge at 6) may be opened out and
passed over the shaft or stem c of the handle, and may be securely fixed thereto by
tightening up the winged nut or the head b.
It will be evident that this improved shield or mudguard can, if desired, be readily
removed and only fitted onto the handle in muddy weather.
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 :-
The combination with a mud guard for carriage handles of a clip by means of
which it can be readily attached to the stem or shaft of the carriage handle when
required and detached therefrom when not required substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 25th day of October 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Squaro, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.