Improvements in Carriage Hood-joints.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 14th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 19th Feb.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carriage Hood-joints.
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS, 3, 5 and 7, Tanner Street, London, S.E., Perambu-
lator Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The provision in carriage hood-joints of a means by which they can be held or
maintained at any desired degree of extension automatically and without the use
of set screws or props. This is provided for by means of a spring which presses
a ball or knob contained in the one half-joint into one or other cups or holes sunk
in the segment of a circle into a disc- or crescent-shaped plate attached to the
other half-joint. As the joint is closed or extended with sufficient force the afore-
mentioned ball or knob retreats upon the spring out of the holes in the plate but
when the force closing or extending the hood-joint ceases to operate the ball is
projected into the nearest hole and is there held by the spring with firmness
sufficient to keep the joint and therefore the hood extended just so much.
Dated this 7th day of January 1898.
THOS. F. SIMMONS.
Improvements in Carriage Hood-joints.
THOMAS FREDERIC SIMMONS, 3, and 7, Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London, S.E.,
Perambulator Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The carriage hood-joints referred to herein are applicable to carts carriages and
vehicles of all kinds to which hoods are applied whether such as perambulators
and mail-carts used for children or larger carriages used by adults.
The object of the invention is the provision in carriage hood-joints of a means
by which they can be held or kept at any desired degree of extension automatically
and without the use of set-screws or props.
As the hood-
This is provided for by means of a spring which presses a ball or knob contained
in the one arm of the joint into one or other cups or holes sunk in a semicircle
in a disc- or crescent-shaped plate attached to the other arm,
joint is closed or extended with sufficient force the aforementioned ball or knob
retreats upon the spring out of the holes in the plate but when the force closing
or extending the hood-joint ceases to operate the ball is projected by the spring

page_text: into the nearest hole and is there held with firmness sufficient to keep the joint
and with it the hood extended just so much.
In order that the nature and novelty of my invention may be clearly understood
and readily put into practice I now proceed to explain the drawings hereto appended.
The drawings represent different views of the knuckle or hinge of a carriage hood-
joint of which a portion of Figure 1. is represented in section.
The same reference letters represent the same parts in both drawings.
A¹ and A are the arms of the hood-joint connected at the knuckle or hinge
by the pin B. C is a well sunk in the thickness of one of the arms. In this well
is placed the spiral spring 1) pressing outwards the ball or bolt E. F is a disc- or
crescent-shaped plate held to the side of the knuckle by the pin B and the rivet
G which prevents the plate F from revolving and holds it solid with the arm A¹.
HHH, are cups or holes sunk into the plate F.
As the arms A and A" are closed or extended with sufficient force the ball E is
by the movement, of the arm A" round the plate F forced out of one of the
holes H H into another. If the force closing or extending the joint ceases to operate
the spring D holds the ball E in the hole H in which it is then resting with firm-
ness. sufficient to keep the joint and hood extended just so much.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and. in what manner the same is to, be performed; I declare that what I
claim is:
The combination in carriage hood-joints of the spring the knob or ball and the
plate with the holes substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated' in the
drawings hereto appended.
In witness whereof' I then said. Thomas Frederic Simmons have hereunto set my
hand this Fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1898..
THOS. F. SIMMONS.