A New or Improved Combined Children's Mail Cart and Bassinette.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Children's Mail Cart and Bassinette.
I, HARRY ISRAEL 'HUMPHRY, of 91, Oakfield Road, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham, Warwickshire, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed new or improved combined
children's mail cart and bassinette which is so constructed that it will form and can
be used as either a mail cart with one seat, or a mail cart with two seats for the
occupants to sit face to face, or a bassinette.
For the purposes of my invention I provide a mail cart body mounted upon (by
preference) two large wheels and furnished with two shafts as usual by which the
mail cart can be pushed or drawn along. The said mail cart body is provided
with one fixed cross seat having a fixed seat back and sides so that the child sits
facing the shafts. At a convenient distance below the said fixed seat I provide a
foot rest consisting of a cross board having fixed at one edge by side pieces a
slightly inclined board or back part extending from the edge of the foot rest to the
front of the fixed seat. At each side of the said inclined board or back part and
at or near the top thereof I provide a projecting pin which pins take into
corresponding slots or guides in the body extending forward for a certain distance
along the shafts.
To convert the single seated mail cart above described into a mail cart having
two seats for the occupants to sit face to face, the foot rest and its inclined back
part have to be moved forward (the said side pins moving along the slots or guides)
and raised by being turned about the said two side pins as a hinge so that the back
of the foot rest will now form a second seat a short distance from the fixed seat of
which second seat the foot rest and sides will form the back and sides respectively.
Another foot rest which as in other mail carts is fixed at a convenient distance
below the seats is provided for the children's feet to rest upon.
Various means may be adapted for keeping the said foot rest and its said back
part in position when they are forming the second seat and its back as above
described; for instance there may be a downwardly projecting metal tongue at
each side of the foot rest which when the foot rest has been moved forward and
raised far enough as above described and then dropped through a short space,
engage in corresponding metal sockets or brackets fixed to the sides of the shafts.
Hinged to the edge of the said back part of the foot rest is a flap of about the
same size as the said back part which flap, when the mail cart is required to be
used as a bassinette, is raised from the second or moveable seat and turned down
so as to rest upon the front edge of the fixed seat and thus fill
up
the space between
the two seats.
At the end of the mail cart opposite to the shafts there are or may be as in
other mail carts two small wheels which are intended to touch the ground when the
mail cart is stationary and prevent its tipping up.
In order to make the said back and sides of the second or moveable seat higher
there is or may be a brass or other rod fixed thereto above the top of the same.
Dated this 5th day of November 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Children's Mail Cart and Bassinette.
I, HARRY ISRAEL HUMPHRY, of 91, Oakfield Road, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham, Warwickshire, Clerk, 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 consists of the hereindescribed new or improved combined
children's mail cart and bassinette which is so constructed that it will form and can
be used as either a mail cart with one seat or as a mail cart with two seats for the
occupants to sit face to face, or as a bassinette.
My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of a combined children's mail cart and
bassinette constructed according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same and
Fig 3 is an inverted plan of a part of the same.
In Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the parts are shewn in the positions which they occupy when
the vehicle is used as a mail cart with one seat.
Fig. 4 shews the said combined children's mail cart and bassinette when used
with two seats for the occupants to sit face to face, and
Fig. 5 shews the same when used as a bassinette ;
Fig. 6 shews in side elevation, back elevation, and in plan, a part of the said
combined children's mail cart and bassinette separately, and
Fig. 7 illustrates an alternative method of arranging the flap which as hereinafter
described completes the bottom of the vehicle when it is used as a bassinette.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
For the purposes of my invention I provide a mail cart body A mounted upon
(by preference) two large wheels B B and furnished with two shafts C¹ C² as
usual by which the mail cart can be pushed or drawn along. The said mail cart
body A is provided with one fixed cross seat a having a fixed seat back a² and
sides a a so that the child sits facing the shafts. At a convenient distance below
the said fixed seat I provide a foot rest (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3) consisting of a
cross board having fixed at one edge by side pieces dds a slightly inclined
board or back part extending from the edge of the foot rest d¹ to the front of
the tixed seat a¹. At each side of the said inclined board or back part d' and at
or near the top thereof I provide a projecting pin E the ends e e² of which take
into corresponding slots or guides F F on the body extending forward for a
certain distance along the shafts. Brackets G1 G2 through which the pin E passes
and in which the pin E can turn secure the pin E to the underside of the inclined
board or back part d. The guides F1 F2 are by preference each formed of a strip
of light flat iron fixed to the underside of each of the shafts as shewn and cranked
somewhat at each end so as to admit the pin ends el e² between the main portions
of the strips F F and the shafts C' C2 and allow of the pin E moving to and fro
along the guides F1 F2. The extreme ends e¹e of the pin E are by preference
turned down as shewn so as to prevent the pin E moving end ways.
To convert the single seated mail cart above described and shewn by Figs. 1, 2
and 3 into a mail cart having two seats for the occupants to sit face to face the
foot rest a¹ and its inclined back part d' have to be moved forward (the side pin E
moving along the slots or guides FF) and raised by being turned about the
pin E as a hinge so that the back d' of the foot rest will now occupy the position
shewn by Fig. 4 and form a second seat a short distance from the fixed seat a' of
which second seat the foot rest d' and sides d² d³ will form the back d' and
sides d² d³ respectively. Another foot rest H, which as in other mail carts is fixed
at a convenient distance below the seats, is provided for the children's feet to rest
прон,

page_text: be two
Various means may be adopted for keeping the foot rest d¹ and its back part d'
in position when they are forming the second seat d' and its back das above
described and shewn in Figs. 4, 5 and 7%; for instance there may
downwardly projecting metal tongues 11 12 fixed one at each side of the back
part d' of the foot rest, which tongues I¹ 12 when the foot rest has been moved
forward along the guides F1 F2 and raised far enough as above described and then
dropped through a short space engage in corresponding metal sockets J J2 or
brackets fixed to the sides of the shafts C' C these sockets J J2 are clearly
shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7.
When the double mail cart as shewn in Fig. 4 is required to be used as a
bassinette the flap K which is either hinged to the edge of the back part d' of the
foot rest d' (see Fig. 7) or hinged to the front of the permanent seat a¹ (see
Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 5) is raised and turned down so as to rest upon the front edge of
the opposite seat and thus fill up the space between the two seats as shewn in
Fig. 5 and in Fig. 7.
At the end of the mail cart opposite to the shafts there are or may be as in
other mail carts two small wheels such as 12 which are intended to touch the
ground when the mail cart is stationary and prevent its tipping up.
In order to make the said back d' and sides d² d³ of the second or noveable
seat d higher there is or may be a brass or other rod M fixed thereto above the
top of the same as shewn on the drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In combination with a children's mail cart body made with a fixed seat facing
the shafts, the employment of a moveable inclined foot rest made with a back part
and arranged substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings so as to either serve as a foot rest below the fixed seat
when the vehicle is used as a single mail cart or be turned up and moved forward
along guides and fixed to form a seat and seat back at a certain distance in front
of the said fixed seat and thus convert the vehicle into a double mail cart or
bassinette all substantially as herein before set forth.
2. In combination with the body and adjustable inclined foot rest of the
convertible children's mail cart denoted under Claim 1, the employment of a
hinged flap such as K arranged to fold down and cover the space between the two
seats a', d, or to fold back and leave the said space open substantially as herein-
before described.
3. In a combined children's mail cart and bassinette of the kind denoted under
Claim 1, the construction, combination and arrangement of parts forming the
adjustable inclined foot rest for the single mail cart and the seat back for the
double mail cart and the means by which the said adjustable inclined foot rest is
made adjustable and guided and fixed in either position, all substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of August 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.