Improvement in Folding Shafts for Go-carts and Children's Carriages.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Folding Shafts for Go-carts and Children's
Carriages.
I JOHN MUTER WILSON Saw Mill Manager 136 Manchester Road Heaton
Chapel Lancashire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to make the shafts in two parts in length & to
connect the said parts by hinges having the centre or connecting pin so constructed
as to be withdrawn & affixed at will. Thereby allowing the parts of the shafts,
to be either taken asunder or folded as required.
Dated this 20th day of March 1001
JOHN M. WILSON.
Improvement in Folding Shafts for Go-carts and Children's
Carriages.
I, JOHN MUTER WILSON, of 136 Manchester Road, Heaton Chapel,
Lancashire, 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 :-
This invention relates to the shafts of children's carriages known as mail carts,
and other like vehicles, and the object of this invention is to enable said shafts to -
fold back or over, or to be entirely removed, in order to occupy less space
when the carriage or cart is not required to be used. I attain this object by
the means hereinafter described, and as shown in the accompanying sheet of
drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents a plan view, Fig. 2 a front view, and Fig. 3 an end view of a
box hinge constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 4 drawn to a reduced scale shows my invention applied to a shaft fixed for
use, and Fig. 5 shows the same shaft folded back when the carriage or cart is not
required to be used.
In the several views shown on the drawing similar letters refer to similar parts.
In this invention I construct a metallic box hinge such as a represented on the
drawing, with two knuckle joints d and d¹. In one of said joints d', a loose pin e is
fitted that may at any time be withdrawn. I fit said hinge on to a shaft b that is
divided transversely as at c. When the shaft 6 is required to be rigid as if
consisting of one piece, the hinge a is retained in a closed position as in
Figs. 2 and 4 by means of the pin e, but when said shaft is required to be folded
back or over, the pin e is withdrawn and the outer portion of the shaft may then
be turned back as represented in Fig. 5. If preferred a removeable pin may be
employed in lieu of the rivet when the shaft may be entirely separated and
removed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1st. In children's carriages known as mail carts and in other like carriages, the
use of a metallic box hinge such as á employed as a means of forming a folding
shaft in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described.
2nd. In children's carriages known as mail carts and in other like carriages, the
use of a metallic box hinge such as a in combination with a pin or pins as e
employed as a meaus of forming a folding shaft, or for detaching said shaft, in
the manner substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 28th day of December 1894.
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.