AN IMPROVED CARRIAGE SMEn
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to Stephen Leedham Fuller and Arthur Fuller, of the
City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Carriage Builders, and Charles
Martin, of 15, Duke Street, Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CARRIAGE SMEn"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Leedham Fuller,
Arthur Fuller, and Charles Martin at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 10th May 1865.
We, STEPHEN LEEDHAM FULLER and ARTHUR FULLER, of the City of Bath,
in the County of Somerset, Carriage Builders, and CHARLES MARTIN, of 15,
.Duke Street, Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CARRIAGE STEP,"
to be as follows:
This Invention consists in certain improvements whereby a carriage step
possessing great advantages is obtained. A bar of iron is placed immediately
below the rocker and the door of the carriage, the same being provided with
trunnions at the ends thereof, by means of which the bar is retained in bearings

page_text: of a suitable character attached to the carriage in such manner that the said
bar will work freely therein. A portion of the bar is cut away so as to reduce
the centre part thereof to a semi-cylindrical form, recesses being made in the
bar for the reception and passage of the sides of the step as herein-after
mentioned. The sides of the step consist of angle iron, the treads being formed
of iron plates secured to the sides by pivots, upon which they can freely turn,
transverse bars being so placed as to support the treads when in a horizontal
position and ready for use.
The nature of this Invention will be better understood by reference to the
annexed Drawings.
Figure 1 is a front view of the before-mentioned bar, with the recesses for
the reception and passage of the sides of the step; Figure 2 is a side view
of the step when in position for use.
A is a section of the rocker of the carriage; B is the before-mentioned
bar shewn in section; C is one side of the step constructed of angle iron as
before mentioned; D, D, are the treads; a, a, being the pivots upon which
they turn, and b, b, the transverse bars. Figure 3 is a section of the
angle iron of which the sides of the step are formed; Figure 4 is a section
of one of the treads with the pivot upon which it works. The upper ends of
the angle iron of which the sides of the step are formed are so shaped as to
butt against the bottom of the carriage when the step is in position for use,
thus retaining it at the proper angle. The arrangement by which the treads
are brought into a position parallel with the sides of the step, when the latter
is no longer required for use, is shewn in Figure 2. E is the slide in which
the angle iron sides work after passing through the recesses in the bar before
mentioned, when the step is pushed back under the carriage; F is a piece of
metal, the broad end of which works in the slide, the other end being con-
nected with the side of the step by a bolt or pivot, and also having pivoted
thereto a rod G, G, (represented in dotted lines,) which is connected with the
lower ends of the angular tabs or nosings of the treads by means of studs or
pivots. Upon the step being raised the treads are drawn by the rod into a
position parallel with the sides, thus allowing the step to be pushed backward
under the bottom of the carriage, where it is retained by means of a shelf or
case, or other analogous contrivance.
The arrangement thus described may be placed at one side only of the
step, or at both sides thereof, as may be desired.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Stephen Leedham Fuller, Arthur Fuller, and Charles Martin
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, STEPHEN
LEEDHAM FULLER and ARTHUR FULLER, of the City of Bath, in the County
of Somerset, Carriage Builders, and CHARLES MARTIN, of 15, Duke Street,
Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Stephen Leedham Fuller, Arthur Fuller, and Charles Martin, Her
special licence that we, the said Stephen Leedham Fuller, Arthur Fuller,
and Charles Martin, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Stephen Leedham Fuller, Arthur Fuller, and Charles Martin,
our 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 "AN IMPROVED CARRIAGE STEP,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Stephen Leedham Fuller,
Arthur Fuller, and Charles Martin, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Stephen Leedham Fuller, Arthur Fuller,
and Charles Martin, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-
Our said Invention consists in certain improvements whereby a carriage
step possessing great advantages is obtained, and which is constructed in the
following manner :-The sides of the step consist of angle iron, the treads
being formed of iron plates secured to the sides by pivots, upon which they
can freely turn, transverse bars being so placed as to support the treads when

page_text: in a horizontal position and ready for use. At the upper part of the step is
arranged a bar of iron, which, when the step is attached to a carriage, is placed
immediately below the rocker and the door, such bar being provided with
trunnions at the ends thereof, by means of which the bar is retained in bearings
of a suitable character attached to the carriage in such manner that the said
bar will work freely therein. A portion of the bar is cut away so as to reduce
the centre part thereof to a semi-cylindrical form, recesses being made in the
bar for the reception and passage of the sides of the step as herein-after
mentioned.
The nature of our said Invention will be more clearly understood by reference
to the annexed Drawings.
Figure 1 is a front view. of the before-mentioned bar, with the recesses for
the reception and passage of the sides of the step; Figure 2 is a side view
of the step when in position for use.
A is a section of the rocker of the carriage; B.is the before-mentioned bar
shewn in section; C is one side of the step constructed of angle iron as before
mentioned; D, D, are the treads; a, a, being the pivots upon which they
turn, and b, b, the transverse bars. Figure 3 is a section of the angle iron
of which the sides of the step are formed; Figure 4 is a section of one of the
trends with the pivot upon which it works. The upper ends of the angle iron
of which the sides of the step are formed are so shaped as to butt against the
bottom of the carriage when the step is in position for use, thus retaining it
at the proper angle. The arrangement by which the treads are brought into
a position parallel with the sides of the step, when the latter is no longer
required for use, is shewn in Figure 2. E is the slide in which the angle iron
sides after passing through the recesses in the bar before mentioned work,
when the step is pushed back under the carriage; F is a piece of metal, the
broad end of which works in the slide, the other end being connected with the
side of the step by a bolt or pivot, and also having pivotted thereto a rod G, G,
(represented in dotted lines,) which is connected with the lower ends of the
angular tabs or nosings of the treads by means of studs or pivots. Upon the
step being raised the treads are drawn by the rod into a position parallel with
the sides, thus allowing the step to be pushed backward under the bottom of
the carriage, where it is retained by means of a shelf, or case, or other analogous
contrivance. One rod so arranged as last described on one side of the step is
sufficient to effect the desired object, but, if preferred, a similar arrangement
may be fitted at both sides of the step.
Having thus fully declared and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which it is to be performed, we would observe in conclusion

page_text: that we do not claim the several parts of the mechanism herein-before
mentioned separate and apart from each other; but that what we consider
novel and original, and therefore claim as constituting our said Invention is,
the construction of carriage steps in the manner substantially herein-before
set forth and described, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said Stephen Leedham Fuller, Arthur
Fuller, and Charles Martin, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.
S. L. FULLER.
(L.S.)
ARTHUR FULLER.
(L.S.)
CHARLES MARTIN. (L.S.)
S. L. FULLER.
ARTHUR FULLER.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
CHARLES MARTIN. (L.s.)