IMPROVEMENTS APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF THE CARRIAGES KNOWN ASLANDAUS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF THE CARRIAGES
KNOWN AS LANDAUS."-A communication from abroad by Messieurs
Montegut and Barou, of No. 64, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris,
France
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Gedge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 18th June 1874.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in
the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF THE
CARRIAGES KNOWN AS LANDAUS," a communication to me from abroad by
Messieurs Montegut and Barou, of No. 64, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris,
France, to be as follows:-

page_text: held in two uprights with independent slide, and may thus remain
raised even when the one or the other of the landau hoods is lowered.
Two apparatuses have been constructed to obtain this result.
The first, shown Fig. 2. of the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, is
thus fitted-Two uprights A placed on each side of the door may move
up and down guided by the slot D and screw B' which holds them. A
spring E serves to fix and prevent these uprights from coming down
again. The window frame H is fixed to this upright by means of a
screw B, which may also slide in a slot D' when it is desired to lower
the window in the slide G of the door. The frame is manoeuvered by a
strap fixed to the bottom as in ordinary carriages. The plate H' pre-
vents the frame sliding forward, keeping it on the edge of the door.
The second apparatus which is on the same principle and gives the
same results, is shown Figs. 3 and 4; a slide B is fixed along the side
of the door, the upright A is imprisoned in this slide by two grooves,
into which it enters, and a spring C entering a recess keeps it raised. The
window frame is fixed to this upright by a screw sliding in the slot f.
When this frame is lowered the upright follows this movement auto-
matically and enters the space in the door. The frame in descending
strikes by a boss d against the projection e of the spring C, which it
drives back, and at this moment the upright being no longer upheld
is carried down by the frame into the interior of the door so as to be no
longer visible.
This Invention may be summed up as being for improved apparatus
applied to the doors of the carriages known as landaus, to facilitate the
working of the window of which these carriages have hitherto been
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th December 1874.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree witlı,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS
APPLIED TO THE DOORS OF THE CARRIAGES KNOWN AS LANDAUS," a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Messieurs Montegut and Barou, of No.
64, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this Invention is to permit the opening of the landau
door without lowering the window frame, that is to say, this frame is
held in two uprights with. independent slide, and may thus remain
raised even when the one or the other of the landau hoods is lowered..
Two apparatuses have been constructed to obtain this result.
The first, shown Fig. 2 of the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, is
thus fitted-Two uprights A placed on each side of the door may move
up and down guided by the groove or slot D and pin or screw B¹ which
holds them. A spring E serves to fix and prevent these uprights from
coming down again. The window frame H is fixed to this upright by
means of a screw B', which may also slide in a slot D¹ when it is desired

page_text: to lower the window in the slide G of the door. The frame is
manoeuvered by a strap fixed to the bottom as in ordinary carriages.
The plate H' prevents the frame sliding forward, keeping it on the edge
of the door.
The second apparatus which is on the same principle and gives the
same results, is shown Figs. 3 and 4; a slide B is fixed along the sides of
the door, the upright A is imprisoned in this slide by two grooves, into
which it enters, and a spring C entering a recess keeps it raised. The
window frame is fixed to this upright by a screw sliding in the slot f.
When this frame is lowered the upright follows this movement auto-
matically and enters the space in the door. The frame in descending
strikes by a boss d against the projection e of the spring C, which it
drives back, and at this movement the upright being no longer upheld is
carried down by the frame into the interior of the door so as to be no
longer visible.
This Invention may be summed up as being for improved apparatus
applied to the doors of the carriages known as landaus, to facilitate the
working of the window of which these carriages have hitherto been
partially depreved.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the said In..
vention, and the manner in which the same is or may be performed, I
would have it understood that I do not limit myself to any dimensions
of parts or to the precise details herein-before set forth and shown on
the Drawing; but that I claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, the combination with the
doors of the carriages known as landaus of slots or grooves and springs
by the aid of which the window may be raised and lowered, sub-
stantially as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.