Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1886,
Complete Left, 7th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th Feb., 1887,
I WILLIAM EREDERICK BARTON MASSEY-MAINWARING of No. 30 Grosvenor Place
Hyde Park in the County of Middlesex Bachelor of Laws do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in Hansom cabs
the objects of the said improvements being to facilitate the opening and closing of
the doors of the said cabs from the outside and to reduce the risk of injury to the
wheel splash boards by collision with other vehicles and to preserve the said splash
boards from being splashed with mud on their outer faces.
According to my said Invention 1 joint a rod or rods to the outer side of each of
the doors the free ends of which rods project from or towards the sides of the cab
between the said doors and the front splash board of the cab and carry handles. To
the said rods (which are hereinafter referred to as the handle rods) I connect guide
rods each of which is jointed at one end to the front or apron of the cab and at its
other end to the handle rod or handle rods of one of the doors.
This arrangement admits of the doors of the cab being readily opened before
entering it and without stepping on or inconveniently leaning over the cab the door on
the side at which it is wished to enter the cab being opened by grasping the handle on
the outer projecting end of the handle rod on that side of the cab and pulling the
said rod outward.
I arrange the splash boards of the wheels as follows. I secure the said splash
boards to the handle rods so that when the doors are closed the said boards are within
the space between the apron of the cab and the front splash board thereof and lie over
or in front of the peripheries of the wheels when the doors are opened. Consequently
the said wheel splash boards are not liable to be splashed with mud on their outer
faces or to be struck by other vehicles and damaged when the doors are closed as is
the case with wheel splash boards fixed to the sides of the cab as usual and while a
person is entering or leaving the cab the said splash boards are in the same position
relatively to the wheels as splash boards mounted or arranged in the ordinary
manner.
The arrangement hereinbefore described for facilitating the opening of the doors of
the cab may be used alone in cases where wheel splash boards are not desired and the
said arrangement may be applied to Hansom cabs provided with the ordinary fixed
wheel splash boards.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I WILLIAM FREDERICK BARTON MASSEY-MAINWARING of No. 30 Grosvenor Place
Hyde Park in the County of Middlesex Bachelor of Laws 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 consists of the improvements hereinafter described in Hansom cabs
the objects of the said improvements being to facilitate the opening and closing of
the doors of the said cabs from the outside and to reduce the risk of injury to the
wheel splash boards by collision with other vehicles and to preserve the said splash
boards from being splashed with mud on their outer faces.
According to my said Invention I joint a rod or rods to the outer side of each of
the doors the free ends of which rods project from or towards the sides of the cab
between the said doors and the front splash board of the cab and carry handles. To
the said rods (which are herein after referred to as the handle rods) I connect guide
rods each of which is jointed at one end to the front or apron of the cab and its
other end to the handle rod or handle rods of one of the doors. This arrangement
admits of the doors of the cab being readily opened before entering it and without
stepping on or inconveniently leaning over the cab the door on the side at which
it is wished to enter the cab being opened by grasping the handle on the outer
projecting end of the handle rod on that side of the cab and pulling the said rod
outward.
I arrange the splash boards of the wheels as follows
I secure the said splash boards
to the handle rods so that when the doors are closed the said boards are within the
space between the apron of the cab and the front splash board thereof and lie over or
in front of the peripheries of the wheels when the doors are opened. Consequently
the said wheel splash boards are not liable to be splashed with mud on their outer
faces or to he struck by other vehicles and damaged when the doors are closed as is
the case with wheel splash boards fixed to the sides of the cab as usual and while a
person is entering or leaving the cab the said splash boards are in the same position
relatively to the wheels as splash boards mounted or arranged in the ordinary
manner.
The arrangement herein before described for facilitating the opening of the doors of
the cab may
be used alone in cases where wheel splash boards are not desired and the
said arrangement may be applied to Hansom cabs provided with the ordinary fixed
wheel splash boards.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention I will proceed to describe the
manner in which the same is to be or may be performed reference being had to the
accompanying drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon. The same
letters and figures of reference indicate the same parts on each of the figures of the
said drawings.

page_text: Figure 1 of the said drawings is a front view Figure 2 a side view and Figure 3 a
plan view of mechanism of the kind herein before described and provided with a
wheel splash board the parts being shown in the positions which they occupy when
the door of the cab to which the mechanism is applied is closed. Figure 4 is a plan
view of the same in which the parts are shown in the positions which they occupy
when the door is open. In the said Figure 1 a portion only of the wheel splash
board is shown and no part of the cab is shown. In Figures 2, 3 and 4 a portion of
the fixed part of the apron of the cab and a portion of one of the doors are shown.
Figure 5 represents in front elevation and partly in section and Figure 6 in side
elevation a portion of a cab having the mechanism herein before described applied
thereto the door on the near side being open and that on the off side closed.
are the handle rods which are connected by a cross rod and are respectively
jointed at one end to plates de secured to the cab door portions of which are shown
in Figures 2, 3 and 4 and marked f. g. is the handle and i is the wheel splash
board which are carried by the said rods and are secured thereto by means of bolts j, j
and nuts k, k is the guide rod which is jointed at one end to the rod a at m and
at the other end to a plate » secured to the fixed part of the apron of the cab a
portion of which is shown in Figures 3 and 4 and marked o.
When the doors of the cab are closed the mechanism hereinbefore described, and
the wheel splash boards carried thereby lie within the space between the apron of the
cab and the front splash board as shown on the left side of Figure 5 and a person
desiring to enter the cab may open the door on the side at which he wishes to enter
without stepping on or leaning inconveniently over the cab it being only necessary to
grasp one of the handles h h and pull it outwards the door being thereby opened and
the wheel splash board brought in front of the wheel as shown on the right side of
Figure 5.
Instead of connecting the handles to the rods as hereinbefore described the said
handles may be formed in one piece with the said rods.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is.
First Mounting or forming the handles of the doors of hansom cabs on rods
jointed to the doors and projecting towards the sides of the cab the said rods being of
such length as to admit of the handles being grasped and the doors opened from the
outside without stepping on or leaning inconveniently over the cab.
Secondly Mounting the wheel guards of hansom cabs on rods jointed to the doors
in such positions that the guards lie in front of the wheels when the doors are open
and are withdrawn into the space in front of the apron when the doors are closed.
Thirdly The general combination and arrangement of parts constituting the
improvements in Hansom cabs hereinhefore described with reference to and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.