IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE BODIES AND IN APPLIANCES CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Johann Salomon Gustav Friedrich. Horcher of Altona,
Prussia one of the partners of the firm of Horcher and Falck, same place for
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE BODIES AND IN APPLIANCES
CONNECTED THEREWITH "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Johann Salomon Gustav
Friedrich Hörcher at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
23rd October 1882.
JOHANN SALOMON GUSTAV FRIEDRICH HORCHER of Altona Prussia, one of the
partners of the firm of Horcher and Falck, same place "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARRIAGE-BODIES AND IN APPLIANCES CONNECTED THEREWITH"
My Invention relates to improvements in carriage bodies in which two seats are
arranged one behind another, and the objects of my improvements are, first to
facilitate communication inside the carriage, second to combine the back seat with
the carriage door, and third to construct a folding back seat which may unfold
automatically. To facilitate the entry to the carriage through the door in the
back-shell, it is provided at the top with a horizontal platform to which the back
seat is attached by means of hinges, consequently the seat changes its position to
the longitudinal axis of the carriage when the door is opened.
The front seat is composed of two parts which are connected with the side-
shells of the carriage by means of hinges,-this arrangement by lifting one of the
two halves allows of any person passing from the back part of the carriage, to the
front without the usual climbing over the front seat.
When the back part of the carriage is not in use, it may be closed entirely by
folding the back seat over the place otherwise occupied by the passengers legs; to
effect this the railing which is attached to the seat by hinges may be folded
together entirely. The side railings are also hinged to the seat and connected to
the back railing by hooks dropping into suitable eyes formed on the extremities of
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page_text: the longitudinal rods of the back-railing; these are kept in an upright position by
the frames of the seat-cushions: Between the said frames is arranged a double
spring which is compressed by folding down the side-railings the lower ends of
which are bent inwards at right angles in order to place their hinges nearer to the
spring, the lower bent ends of the side-railings come into vertical position above'
the said hinges when the railings are folded down, thus causing the frames to push
against the spring and the latter to be thereby compressed. The back railing
may be placed thereon and kept in this position by hooking on a strap.
After the strap is unhooked the folded parts spring, back to an upright position, in
consequence of the action of the spring and thereby catch it automatically as above
described:

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Johann Salomon Gustav Friedrich Hörcher in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd April 1883.
JOHANN SALOMON GUSTAV FRIEDRICH HÖRCHER of Altona, Prussia, one of the
partners of the firm of Hörcher & Falck same place "IMPROVEMENTS
CARRIAGE BODIES AND IN APPLIANCES CONNECTED THEREWITH
"
IN
This invention relates to improvements in carriage bodies in which two seats
are arranged one behind another and the objects of my improvements are first to
facilitate communication inside the carriage, second to combine the back seat with
the carriage door and third to construct a folding back seat which may unfold
automatically.
I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings in which Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of the carriage
body; Figure 2 shows the carriage body with closed back-part; Figure 3 is a
back elevation of the carriage body with opened front seat and opened door,
and Figure 4 a plan thereof, Figures 5, 6, and 7 are detailed views of the
back seat.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
To facilitate the entry to the carriage through the door a in the back shell it is
provided at the top with a horizontal platform a¹ to which the back seat A is
attached by means of hinges a² consequently the seat A changes its position to
the longitudinal axis of the carriage-body when the door a is opened.
The front seat is composed of two parts b and b¹ which are connected with the.
side-shells of the carriage by means of hinges b. This arrangement by lifting one
of the two halves allows to any person passing from the back part of the carriage
to the front without the usual climbing over the front seat. When the back part
of the carriage is not in use it may be closed entirely by folding the back seat A
over the place otherwise occupied by the passengers' legs (Figure 2). To effect
this the railing of the seat may be folded together entirely. The back railing o is
attached to the seat A by hinges c³. The side railings c² are also hinged to the
seat A. and connected to the back-railing by hooks dropping into suitable eyes
formed on the extremities of the longitudinal rods of the back-railing; these are
kept in an upright position by the frames c² of the seat cushions. Between the
said frames c³ is arranged a double spring c which is compressed by folding down
the side railings c² the lower ends of which are bent inwards at right angles in
order to place their hinges nearer to the spring the lower bent ends of the side
railings come into vertical position above the said hinges when the railings are
laid down thus causing the frames c³ to be pushed against the spring c* and the
latter to be thereby compressed. The back railing c may be placed thereon and
kept in this position by hooking on the leather strap c (Figures 6 and 7). After
the strap c is unhooked the folded parts spring back to an upright position in
consequence of the action of the spring c and thereby catch in automatically as
above described (Figure 5).
What I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is :-
First Io carriages the combination of the two parts b and b' of the front seat
hinged to the carriage shell with the back seat A hinged to the platform a¹ of the

page_text: Second In carriages the combination of back-railing c and the side railings c³
with the cushion frames c³ and the spring c substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
In witness whereof I the said Johann Salomon Gustav Friedrich Hörcher
have hereunto set my hand and seal this Twenty first day of April in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
HANN
GUSTAV FRIEDRICH HORCHER (L.S.)