AN IMPROVED COT FOR CHILDREN
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hoppe Wilson, of 5, Duncan Terrace, Islington, in
the County of Middlesex, Agent, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED COT
FOR CHILDREN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hoppe Wilson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st January 1880.
JOHN HOPPE WILSON, of 5, Duncan Terrace, Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, Agent. AN IMPROVED COT FOR CHILDREN."
"
My Invention consists in adapting to cots for children a clockwork contrivance,
so that the said cot may swing automatically, and this I propose to effect as
follows: I fix to one end of the supports of the swinging cot a clockwork cou-
trivance consisting of a spiral spring acting on a train of wheels similar to the
mechanism which produces the swinging motion of the pendulum of an ordinary
clock; this pendulum or lever I connect to the cot or part in which the child rests,
and consequently when the spring is wound up motion is imparted to the aforesaid.
lever or pendulum, which being connected to the cot causes it to swing. The
speed or motion may be regulated by a thumb screw acting on a break connected
from one of the uprights to the cot. By my Invention I produce an automatically
swinging cot.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Hoppe Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
July 1880.
JOHN HOPPE WILSON, of 5, Duncan Terrace, Islington, in the County of
Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED COT FOR CHILDREN."
My Invention consists in adapting to cots for children a clockwork contrivance,
so that the said cot may swing automatically, and this I propose to effect as
follows:-
I fix to one end of the supports of the swinging cot a clockwork contrivance,
consisting of a spring acting on a train of wheels similar to the mechanism which
produces the swinging motion of a pendulum of an ordinary clock; this pendulum
or lever I connect to the cot or part on which the child rests, and consequently
when the spring is wound up motion is imparted to the aforesaid lever or pendulum
which is connected to the cot causes it to swing. The speed or motion may be
regulated by a thumb screw connected from one of the uprights to the cot. By my
Invention I produce an automatically swinging cot.
And in order to explain my said Invention more fully, I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a side elevation of a child's cot with the clockwork contrivance
for rocking same automatically.
Figure 2 shews an end view of same.
Figure 3 shews an end view of cot drawn to an enlarged scale.
Figure 4 shews the clock-work contrivance drawn to an enlarged scale. At each
of the above Figures similar letters denote the same parts. a shews the cot
suspended (by means of the arms b fitted with knife edges c), in standards d, so that
the cot may rock freely; e shews the clockwork contrivance I propose to employ,
which may be fitted to either of the standards. The clockwork contrivance, as
shewn in the Drawing, is constructed as follows:-
f shews an ordinary clockspring, and g, h, i, shew a train of wheels with pinions ;
this train of wheels actuates another wheel k, to which is connected excentrically a
lever or arm 1, the other end of this lever being connected to the cot at x; when
the clockwork is set in motion the cot will rock on account of the action of the
lever, and will continue to rock so long as the spring acts unless it is desired to
stop it, which of course can easily be done.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion
that I do not intend to limit myself to the precise details of clockwork described
and shewn in the Drawings, as the same may be varied, but what I claim and
desire to secure by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is, connecting a
clockwork contrivance to children's cots so that they may rock automatically,
substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hoppe Wilson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.