Year: 1895

page_text: Date of App ication, 5th. Apr., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
Bohemia.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards & Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, 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, and accompanying drawing, that is to say:
This invention has for its object a method of construction of children's carriages,
by which they can be easily folded together, without the external style of the
carriage being changed-materially, or their appearance. being interfered with.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of the invention, .
Figure 1 being a side view of a carriage ready for use;
Figure 2, a front view of the same.;
Figure 3, a similar view to Figure 2 but with the carriage on the point of being
folded up;
Figure 4 a similar view shewing the carriage folded together;
Figure 5, a view of Figure 1 from below;
Figure 6, a view of Figure 1 from above;
Figure 7,. a plan of Figure 3, shewing the carriage on the point of being
folded up; and
Figure 8, a plan of Figure 4, shewing the carriage completely folded together.
The new or improved folding carriage resembles the ordinary children's carriage
in external appearance. The sides a and bare of the ordinary kind; and each is in
a single piece.
At the ends of these sides a and b are angle-pieces or flanges d, f, d, f, to which
the ends of the carriage, at the head and. foot, are hinged. The parts cand c'
forming the head end are hinged together by external hinges u, and are also hinged
to the sides a and b or to the flanges d and d by internal hinges and s'. In the
same way the parts g and gl; forming the foot end are hinged together by external
hingest, and are also flexibly connected to the angle-pieces, or flanges f, f¹, of the
sides, by internal hinges o, v.
By this construction the ends of the carriage double-together-inwards when the
carringe is folded together; as illustrated in Figure 7.-
:
The bottom m, Figures 7 and 8, is in a single piece turning upon hinges 7, and is
connected with the front and back ends c₁ and g' by cords n so as to draw the
latter in when the bottom is turned up.
In the
The wheels are supported in a manner somewhat different to that ordinarily
adopted in such carriages in which the axles extend from side to side.
present carriage they turn upon pins for the front wheels and p for the hind
wheels, carried by vertical rods provided with curved or C-springs. These vertical
rodsk which are attached as described to the C-springs, are moveable vertically in
guides q at their upper ends, in which they can also turn to some extent. At their
lower ends where the axle pins are fixed, the rods k are also connected by stays or
rods i, one of which is connected at its outer end to one of the rods k, whilst the
inner ends of all are held together by a bolt w to which the lower end of a rod r is
jointed, provided at its upper end with a handle h.

page_text: To limit the rise of.r and to guide it, a band & fastened to the lower edges of the
sides a and b, is used.
The manipulation of the folding carriage is very simple. Suppose the carriage
to be in its opened out state, ready for use, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2, then to
fold it together, it is only necessary to raise the bottom m (Figure 6) by means of
the strap, when by means of the connections n the parts c and c, and also
and glare bent inward. If the whole carriage be then lifted by the handle h, the
rods draw together the wheels, Figures 3 and 4, whilst the front and back
ends 9, g' and c, c¹, are completely closed together, (Figures 4 and 8).
The reverse operation of opening out the carriage is effected equally quickly
and simply by pressing down the handle h. The handles for moving the carriage
along can be attached to the sides a and b, and they may be connected by a
telescopic tube, as illustrated in Figures 6 and 8.
If the improved folding carriage is to be provided with a cover or awning, it
must differ from the one ordinarily used, by having its upper frame or support of
flexible material. or made so that it can close together, but this method of
arrangement is not shewn on the drawing. Nor does the latter shew a brake
arrangement, which may be provided by spring arms on the lower edges of the
sides a and b.
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. The folding child's carriage, comprising the sides a and having angle-pieces
or flanges d, and d, f, to which the two parts c, c', of one end are hinged by
internal hinges s, s', the two parts being hinged together by external hinges u, and
the two parts g, g₁ of the other end are hinged to the sides by internal hinges v, v²,
the two parts being hinged together by external hinges t, the bending-in of the
parts of the two ends being effected by means of the flexible connections n on the
bottom m of the carriage, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In the child's carriage described and claimed in Claim 1, the pins serving as
axles for the wheels and carried by vertical rods in combination with curved
springs, the four axle pins and rods being connected by the rods i with a central
double joint w having a vertical arm r and handle h, substantially as described and
illustrated.
3. For limiting the upward movement of the handle h, the cross band x attached
to the bottom edges of the sides a and b.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
65 & 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.