A Safety Hind Seat and Footboard for Dogcart or other kind of Conveyance.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Safety Hind Seat and Footboard for Dogcart or other kind of
Conveyance.
RICHARD HAMMOND Cobden Street Gainsborough Lincolnshire Coach Builder
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A hind seat & footboard which may be used-say-with a dogeart-in three
positions viz.
(1.) In which the passengers can mount & dismount with considerably more
ease & safety than in the ordinary style.
(2.) In this position it may be used as a safe rack for luggage or as an ordinary
footboard.
(3., In this position it is closed & converts the conveyance into a shut up dogcart.
It will be seen that this invention embraces both the conveniences of an open as
well as a closed dogcart.
In altering the position of the hind seat the seat is taken from its bearings as
shown in Sheet No. 2 left hand drawing and placed on bearings in a suitable
position to form seat a proper height to suit footboard as shown in Sheet No. 1.
The safety hindseat and footboard is formed by the hind door A Sheet 1 being
binged so as to fall into position on supporting stays D, the footboard B is hinged
on door A and supported by joints C as shown in Sheet 1.
The seat F is fitted on bearings resting un bottom G at a proper height to suit
the footboard B.
A and B folded together as shewn in Fig. 1. Sheet 2 and supported by chains H.
forms footboard for seat F on the top bearings E.
A and B unfolded and supported by chains H as shewn in Fig. 2 Sheet 2 forms
a receptacle for luggage.
When hind door A is shut with footboard B unfolded as shewn in Fig. 2 Sheet 3
it forms a closed up dog cart.
Dated this 29th day of April 1895.
RICHARD HAMMOND,
Cobden Street, Gainsborough.
A Safety Hind Seat and Footboard for Dogcart or other kind of
Conveyance.
1 RICHARD HAMMOND of Cobden Street Gainsborough in the County of
Lincoln, Coach Builder 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 bas for its object the application of a safety bind seat and foot
board to road vehicles and may be used in connection with a light or heavy two
wheeled dog cart, or may be employed in conjunction with a tour wheeled vehicle as
may be desired.

page_text: DO Folding arrangement of this description has been devised, and acces
to the back of the vehicle has been obtained by means of the usual foot step nov
and hitherto so commonly used.
I will more particularly describe the nature of my invention by reference t
the accompanying drawings, and would explain further that by means of my
improvements, passengers are enabled to mount and dismount from a vehicle wit
more case and safety than is obtainable when vehicles of the usual type ar
employed.
The adoption or use of my improvements also render by a simple modification o
the parts (which modification by the way can be carried out instantaneously and the
same re-converted back again with equal facility) the back portion of the vehicle
available either as a safe rack or receptacle for luggage etc., or on the other hand
by a modification hereinafter described this portion of the hind part of the vehicle
may be used as a seat and footboard for passengers.
When the back portion of the cart or vehicle is not required for either the
conveyance of passengers or luggage as aforesaid the folding portion may be closed
up & the vehicle is thereby converted into what I might term a closed or shut-up
dog-cart.
It will thus be seen that this invention embraces the advantages of both an open
and a closed conveyance.
By reference to the drawings accompanying this Specification, it will be noticed
that Figure 1 Sheet 1 shows a side sectional elevation of a dog cart with my
improvements attached thereto, and in this view the vehicle is represented suitably
arranged for carrying one or more passengers in the back part thereof. A represents
the hind door, which latter is shewn closed up in Figure 2 Sheet 3, B, is the foot-
board for the convenience of the feet of passengers. the knuckle-jointed
support for suspending same which latter support is affixed on both sides at a
suitable angle to both the bind door and the foot board herein before referred to, for
convenience of folding same, D are a pair of supporting stays, so designed that
they may act as a medium to take a portion of the weight or strain off the butt
joints (which connect the hind door to the cart bottom G) which necessarily ensues
on the occasion of a passenger getting into or alighting from the back part of the
vehicle. E are the seat rails affixed to both sides of the cart, F the loose or
detachable hind seat, G the bottom of the cart and H Figure 2 Sheet 3 the
chains I employ to suspend the hind door A when it is desired to convert the
vehicle into a receptacle for luggage or otherwise. L represents a side view of
the back rest a description of which latter is given hereafter. J is the front or
driving seat, K the block for sustaining the weight of the pressure given
from the backs of passengers conveyed in this position, and M Figure 2 Sheet 3
the hooks for holding the chains H when the latter are not in use.
With reference to the back rest (for hind seat) L hereinbefore referred to
I would explain that when the cart is employed as a vehicle for carrying three or
four people as indicated on Sheet 2 it will be observed that in case it is not
desirable to lower the hind portion as indicated on Sheet I this back rest is folded
up by means of the hinge shown and the loose seat F is supported on the seat
rails E, the loose seat being employed either as indicated on Sheet 1 or as in
Figure 1 Sheet 2.
It will also be seen that assuming it is required to convert the vehicle into a
closed up dog cart, as represented in Figure 2 Sheet 3 then all that is necessary is
for the back rest to be folded up in the manner indicated by the arrow and
dotted line notified on Sheet 1; the seat F having first been removed for this
purpose.
may here remark in reference to Sheet 2 Figure 1 and 2 that the chain, H
being composed of open links, can be correspondingly lengthened and shortened to
suit various requirements; in Figure 1 Sheet 2 the hind door is shown raised at
an augle whereas in Figure 2 Sheet 2 the said hind door is parallel with the bottom
of the cart, in the former case the dog-cart being used in this position for the

page_text: conveyance of passengers, and in the latter as a receptacle for luggage, the knuckle
joint C being employed to support the footboard B in an upright position and the
extension of the chains H for the support of the hind door A.
In the event of the vehicle being required simply as a closed cart as indicated on
Sheet 3 Figure 2 the chains H are detached from the door and temporarily suspended
by the hooks as shewn at M Sheet 3.
In the event of there not being more than one passenger, it may be found
desirable to balance the trap by means of the removal of the seat J to the hind
portion of the trap, and in this case it will be necessary to relax the knuckle joints
and fold the foot board B to the hind door A.
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 1
claim is :-
:-
1. The application of a drop back rest for hind seat of either a two wheeled
or four wheeled dog cart or other road vehicle, with loose or detachable seat
supported on suitable bearings in alternative positions, as shown in the
accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of hind or hanging door with foot board, knuckle joints, and
supporting stays, together with the loose or detachable scat and bearings substantially
as illustrated & described.
3. The arrangement of the parts herein before referred to, to form an ordinary
dog cart as shown.
4. The modification of the hind door and foot board employed as a receptacle for
luggage as aforesaid, and the utilization of hind door with foot board to form a
closed cart substantially as shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1895.
RICHARD HAMMOND.