Improvements in Children's Mail-carts.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Mail-carts.
I, JOHN THOMAS BARNETT KING, of 33-39 Cable Street, Rochdale Road,
Manchester, Bassinette and Mail-cart Manufacturer, 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 improvements relate to childrens mail-carts, and have for object to provide
a cart with a detachable body, which latter may, when separate, be used as a child's
chair.
To accomplish this, and to effect my improvements, I provide a cart framing, of
wood or other suitable material which I mount upon a pair of wheels, in the usual
or any convenient manner, and to this frame may also be attached, if desired, stop
wheels, or stop bars, to prevent the cart frame from tilting too far in either a
forward or backward direction.
I next provide a special body for the cart, which body may be of any convenient
design, but is formed with legs, and, by preference, with a foot-board also, so that
when apart from the portion of the mail-cart already described, it may stand upon
the ground, and be employed as an ordinary child's chair.
This chair-body, when in position on the cart frame, rests upon the cross-bars of
the latter and is secured thereto by latch, bolt, or other convenient device.
By this means a mail-cart is provided from which a portion may be detached in
the form of a chair and the child may be removed therewith without disturbance.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid of the
accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. shews a side elevation, and Fig. 2 shews an end elevation, of a cart
complete, but with the wheel spokes removed;
Fig. 3. shews a view, partly in section, of the mounted frame without the chair
or body, and
Fig. 4, shews a view, also partly in section, of the chair-body detached from the
frame.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a. a. is the main framework of the cart, which is provided with cross pieces b. b;
c. c. is the chair body, and d. d. are one form of fastening attachments thereon,
whilst e. e. are corresponding attachments upon the frame, forming, with d. d.
a device for securing the body to such frame at will.
f.f. is the foot-board, by preference employed, and g. g. are the wheels and other
mountings by which the frame is supported and kept in position.
Variations in detail may be made, such as the design of the body or frame and
mountings, and in the method of fastening the detachable parts together, without
departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
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 :-
A child's mail-cart formed of a frame on wheels, and of a detachable body, which

page_text: latter, when separate, may be employed as a child's chair, in manner substantially
as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 14th day of October 1893.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.