Improvements in or connected with Carriages.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Carriages.
I, GEORGE SCRATTON, of The Vicarage, Stickford, in the County of Lincoln,
Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in carriages and especially to carriages
having the wheels arranged in the manner described in the Specification of former
Letters Patent granted to me No. 7501 of 1891.
According to my present invention I employ elliptical or other springs adapted
to be compressed between the upper ends of the forks carrying the wheels and the
body or fore-carriage of the vehicle, the said forks being preferably united to the
said springs. In order to retain the wheel forks in their vertical position tie-rods
or links are connected to the forks near their lower ends and to suitable brackets
upon the vehicle.
Dated the 27th dow of March 1802
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or connected with Carriages.
I, GEORGE SCRATTON, of The Vicarage, Stickford, in the County of Lincoln,
Clerk in Holy Orders, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in carriages and especially to carriages
having the wheels arranged in the manner described in the Specification of former
Letters Patent granted to me No. 7501 of 1891, the object' of my present invention
being to adapt the arrangement of wheels described in the said Specification to
elliptical springs.
According to my present invention the elliptical springs are adapted to be
compressed between the upper ends of the forks carrying the wheels and the body
or fore carriage of the vehicle, the said forks being preferably united to the said
springs. In order to retain the wheel forks in their vertical position tie-rods or
links are connected to the forks near their lower ends and to suitable brackets upon
the vehicle.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be
carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :—
Figure is a side elevation of a vehicle baving the wheels and springs arranged
according to my invention; and,
Figure 2 is a sectional rear elevation of the same.
a is the body of the vehicle, b, b, b are the wheels thereof, which may be placed
at suitable distances apart according to circumstances, and c, c, c are the forks
carrying the axles of the said wheels. d, d, d are the elliptical springs which are
secured to the upper ends of the forks c, c and also to a bar or beame upon the body
of the vehicle. ff are the tie-rods or links which serve to maintain the forks c, c
in a vertical position. Each pair of tie-rods being braced together to give them as

page_text: much lateral rigidity as possible. As shewn in the drawing two of such stays are
used in conjunction with each fork, each pair of links being at the rear end attached
to one of the forks and at the front end to a projecting bar or bracket g on the
framework of the body a.
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 carriage or other vehicle the wheels of which run upon axles carried by forked
standards connected to elliptical springs upon which the body rests, suitable
tie-rods or links being arranged between the body and the said wheel forks,
substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of December 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.