Improvements in Closed Goods Delivery Carts.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
Improvements in Closed Goods Delivery Carts.
We, ALBERT HENRY HAYES and JOHN EDEY HAYES, both of 199 City.
Road, in the County, of London Coach Builders, do hereby declare the nature of
our 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 improvements in closed goods delivery carts, either of
the two wheeled, or four wheeled type, by which tradesmen deliver goods to their
customers; & has for its object the mounting & arrangement of the drivers seat,
whereby the whole of the body of the cart is available for the carriage of goods,
the driver is in a safer position and runs less risk or danger should the horse fall
and also the mounting and dismounting from his seat is greatly. facilitated in
comparison with the carts at present in use.
In order that our invention may be the better understood, we will now describe
it in connection with a two-wheeled cart as an example of one way of carrying out
our invention with reference to the drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters &
figures marked thereon, like letters refer to like parts in the various figures
Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved cart.
Figure 2 is an end elevation with the doors closed.
Figure 3 is the same view with the doors open.
Figure 4 is a detail view of the door fastening arrangement showing the locking
device.
Our invention consists in arranging upon the back of a goods delivery cart the
driver seat, A, so that it is mounted thereon and projecting therefrom, as shown in
the drawing-the seat is preferably mounted upon, one of the doors B, at the back
of the cart, which afford means of access to the interior of the body, the seat is
therefore situated, to one side of the centre line of tho cart.
The door B. is hung on substantial hinges and is maintained in its closed con-
dition by a special fastening arrangement with a locking device, herein after more
fully described, the door B being fastened to the door B. by means of an ordinary
carriage lock.
The fastening device of the door B. consists of a bar D. movably pivotted,
preferably at about its middle, to the back of the door B, at C. and having its ends
projecting above.& below the top & bottom edges of the door respectively.
The ends of bar engage into or behind suitable recesses E, El, situated on the
upper & lower parts of the framework of the body respectively, the recesses being
made so as to permit each end of rod D, being turned into them radially.
The ends of the rod D, are supported by bridle guides, F & G, attached to the
back of the door B.
Upon the lower end of the rod D. I arrange a pivotted handle H, which acts at
the same time as a locking device to the fastening bar D by its nose N. dropping
down into the recess E¹ & engaging against its end thus preventing the movement
of the rod D, & consequently the disengagement of its ends from the
recesses E!, E!.
The edge of the door B' may project inwards beyond the edge of the door B¹ &
so prevent the movement of the fastening bar D, about its axis until the door Blis
opened.
A step I is arranged at the back to enable the driver to mount his seat.

page_text: Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner it is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1st. A closed goods delivery cart having the driver's seat, mounted on the back
of the cart.
2nd. In a closed good's delivery cart the arrangement of the driver's seat upon a
door at the back substantially, as described.
3rd. In a closed goods delivery cart the driver seat mounted on a door at the
back in combination with a pivotted fastening bar arranged on the door, and a
hinged handle on the said bar, the nose of which is adapted, to engage against the
end of a recess formed in the frame.of. the cart substantially as & for, the purpose
specified.
4th. The construction & arrangement of a closed goods delivery cart sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 14th day of July 1891.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the 'Applicants.