IMPROVEMENTS IN JOINTS OR STAYS FOR THE HOODS OF PERAMBULATORS AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1885

page_text: We, WILLIAM EVANS, Clerk, and CHARLES JAMES HARCOURT, Brassfounder both
of 223 Moseley Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick do hereby declare
the nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN JOINTS OR STAYS FOR THE
HOODS OF PERAMBULATORS AND OTHER CARRIAGES to be as follows:
The Invention has for its object improvements in joints or stays for the hoods
of perambulators and other carriages and consists in forming the same in such
manner as to materially cheapen the manufacture thereof.
In the construction of stays or joints for perambulators and other vehicles
according to the method heretofore adopted it has been customary to cast the
screw plates and standards in one piece and to connect the end of the jointed rod
forming the stay thereto with capability of turning or swivelling thereon and this
mode of construction necessitated some very expensive fitting of the parts.
Now according to the present invention the usual rule or knuckle joint is
formed at the centre of or in other desired position in relation to the length of the
rod but instead of connecting the ends of the rod to standards, as above described,
such ends are simply bent over and connected directly with the screw plates by
rivetting or otherwise but so as to allow of their freely turning therein.
By these means the standards hitherto employed in the construction of stays
or joints of the character herein before described are entirely dispensed with, and
the costly fitting incidental thereto is avoided thereby greatly cheapening the
manufacture thereof.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Joints or Stays for the Hoods of Perambulators
and other Carriages.
We WILLIAM EVANS, Clerk, and CHARLES JAMES HARCOURT, Brassfounder of
223 Moseley Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick 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:—
The invention has for its object improvements in joints or stays for the hoods
of perambulators and other carriages and consists in forming the same in such
manner as to materially cheapen the manufacture thereof.
In the construction of stays or joints for perambulators and other vehicles
according to the method heretofore adopted it has been customary to cast the
screw plates and standards in one piece, and to connect the end of the jointed rod
forming the stay thereto with capability of turning or swivelling thereon and this
mode of construction necessitated some very expensive fitting of the parts.
Now according to the present invention the usual rule or knuckle joint is
formed at the centre of, or in other desired position in relation to the length of the
rod but instead of connecting the ends of the rod to standards as above described
such ends are simply bent over and connected directly with the screw plates by
rivetting or otherwise but so as to allow of their turning freely therein.
And in order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and
readily carried into effect, we will procced aided by the accompanying drawings
more fully to describe the same
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view and Figure 2 is an edge view partly in section illus
trating a joint or stay for the hood of a perambulator or other carriage constructed
according to our invention. a represents the usual rule or knuckle joint which is
formed at the centre of, or it might be in other desired position in relation to the
length of the rod a.
Instead however of connecting the ends of the rod a to standards carried by
the screw plates b-as above described, such ends are simply bent over and connected
directly with the screw plates b by rivetting or otherwise, but so as to allow of
their freely turning therein.
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In the arrangement shown in the drawings each end of the rod a is reduced in
order.to form a rivet a³ and the screw plate b is formed with a boss b¹ thereon.
Within the boss b¹ is formed a seat 62 to receive the shoulder a³ of the bent end
of the rod a and a hole b is bored to receive the reduced end a² of the rod a on
which a washer 6* is placed and over this washer. the end a* of the rod
rivetted.
is
By these means the standards hitherto employed in the construction of stays
or joints of the character hereinbefore described are entirely dispensed with and
the costly fitting incidental thereto is avoided, thereby greatly cheapening the
manufacture thereof,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
In a joint or stay of the character herein before described connecting the ends
thereof directly to the screw plates by bending them over to and there securing
them with capability of revolving therein in manner substantially as herein shown
and described and for the purpose stated.