An Improved Device for Fastening Hinged Shafts of Children's Mail Carts and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1898
Complete Specification Left 20th Apr
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Date of Application, 21st June, 1898
Complete Specification Left 20th Apr 1900 Accepted, 20th May, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Fastening Hinged Shafts of Children's
Mail Carts and the like.
FRANCIS JOSEPH BULLOWS, WILFRED LAWSON BULLOWS, Ironfounders, Long
Street, Walsall, ERNEST MANION, Pattern Maker, 31, South Street, Walsall, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of a hinge made in malleable iron, or other suitable
material, for affixing to the under side of the handles of children's mail carts &
other vehicles of a like character; such handles being in two parts, they are
rendered collapsible at will, by the application of this hinge.
There is a plate fixed upon the one side of the division of the-handle, upon
which is a raised catch.
The hinge is secured to the other side of the division of the handle & is entirely
governed by a steel strip spring, which is rivetted on same & causes a slot in the
hinge to engage the catch on the plate on the other side of the division, when
fastened.
Dated this 20th Tu 1909
F. BULLOWS,
WILFRED L. BULLOWS,
ERNEST MANION,
An Improved Device for Fastening Hinged Shafts of Children's
Mail Carts and the like.
We, FRANCIS JOSEPH BULLOWS, WILFRED LAWSON BULLOWS, Ironfounders,
of Long Street, Walsall, and ERNEST MANION, Pattern Maker, of 31, South Street,
Walsall, 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:-
Our invention relates to the fastening of the two part or collapsible shafts or
handles of children's mail carts and the like.
Our improved fastening device and its application is illustrated in the two
accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to.
Figure is a plan and Figure 2 a side elevation of the malleable iron or other
catch plate which is fixed upon one part of the handle, whilst Figures 3 and 4
are similar views of the malleable iron or other hinge which is fixed upon the
other part of the divided handle.

page_text: Figure 5 is a plan and Figure 6 a side elevation representing the catch plate
and the hinge in engagement.
Figure 7, on Sheet 2, is a side elevation representing our fastening device
applied to the shaft of a mail cart, the fastening being disengaged and one part
of the shaft or handle turned up at right angles to the other part; Figure 8 is
a similar view showing the two parts of the handle secured by our fastening in
position for service.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
The catch plate A is provided with a projecting lug or raised catch A' which
engages with the slotted part 1 of the hinge formed by the combined parts B
and B.
Accidental disengagement of the hinge and the catch plate is prevented by a
steel strip spring as C which is rivetted to one of the parts as B of the hinge and
has a free end projecting over on to the other part B as shown.
The two parts 1) and D' of the shaft or handle are connected by an ordinary
hinge as E.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
An improved device for fastening hinged shafts of children's mail carts and the
like, substantially as described and as illustrated.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicants.