Year: 1887

page_text: I, BENJAMIN THOMPSON of 152 Upper Street, Islington in the County of Middlesex
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 ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My Invention relates to improvements in perambulators; and it consists first in
constructing the bodies of perambulators with open side and end frames adapted to
receive ornamental panels of inlaid wood or fret work, or of other ornamental character,
secondly to means for obtaining increased strength of the back or end portion of such
open framed perambulator bodies to which the handles are attached, thirdly to means
for excluding wind and rain between the lower edge of the hood and the body of a
bassinette perambulator when the hood is raised.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification, wherein figure 1 is a side elevation of the body of the perambulator,
partly in section on line 1-1 figure 3. Figure 2 is an end elevation partly in section on
line 2-2 figure 1. Figure 3 is a plan view. Figure 4 shews a detail in underside
plan while figure 5 is a side view of one half of the body of a bassinette perambulator
having circular ends, with the improvements applied.
Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
The sides and ends of the body consist of open frames composed of the bottom or
floor g and the side and end frames. a is the top back rail to which the handles are
fixed, b the bottom end rail, e vertical end corner pieces, c¹ side corner pieces, d top
side rails, and e the bottom side rails. The top rail a and the vertical side corner
pieces c are halved together as seen at a' and the corner pieces cabut against the side
corner pieces c and the side rails d to which they are secured. The pieces cabut
at their upper ends against the lower edges of the top side rails & and at their lower
ends are halved into the lower side rails e, as shewn at e' in figure 2. The corners of
the frame thus made are preferably rounded.
The ornamental panels may be of any suitable material and pattern such as inlaid
woods or fretwork. These panels are let into recesses formed on the inside of the side
and end frames to which they are secured by beads, fillets, or otherwise in such manner
as to admit of their being readily removed."

page_text: The draught excluder consists of a longitudinal ledge attached to the outside of
each side rail d and extending from end to end of the body. The upper edge of the
ledge is flat and sufficiently below the level of the upper edge of the side rail d to form
with the side of the rail d an angular recess in which rest the edges of the hood which
is pivoted above the ledge hati. In figure 4, the draught excluder extends around
each side and the back of the body.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what
I claim is
1. A perambulator body constructed with open side and end frames adapted to receive
panels, as specified.
2. A bassinette perambulator body constructed with top and bottom end rails ab,
end corner pieces c, side corner pieces c¹ and bottom side rails e, the rails a and corner
pieces c and c¹ and corner pieces c¹ and bottom side rails e being halved together,
substantially as shewn and described.
3. In a bassinette perambulator, the employment of a .draught excluder consisting
of a ledge extending along the side top rail below its upper edge to form a seat for the
hood to rest on, substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 2cih dos
1007
B. THOMPSON.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.