Improvements in Stays, Joints, or Stretcher Bars for the Hoods of Perambulators, Bassinettes, and the like Vehicles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stays, Joints, or Stretcher Bars for the Hoods of
Perambulators, Bassinettes, and the like Vehicles.
ARTHUR COTTON 13 Peel Street Tunstall County of Staffordshire, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This Invention relates to improvements in hinges used for the purpose of keeping
the hoods of perambulators, bassinettes and like vehicles extended when in use.
The hinges ordinarily used are constructed with rigid arms, and require considerable
pressure to extend them, or when extended, to return them to their normal position.
By this my Invention I am able to form a hinge having adjustable tolescopic arms
made of metal or other suitable materials connected by a knuckle joint, the outer end
of each arm being screwed into a knob or boss, or having an eye formed thereon, so as
to vibrate on a fixed pin or centre.
One way of putting my Invention into practice is by screwing, rivetting or otherwise
fastening a tube of metal or other suitable material to one side of a knuckle joint, in
which tube at the knuckle joint end I place a spring which tends to push outwards a
bolt or tube made of any suitable material sliding inside same, the outer ond of the
sliding bolt or tube being fixed in any suitable manner to a knob or boss oscillating
on a pin fixed to the framework of the hood of a perambulator, or other like vehicle,
or the outer end of the said sliding bolt or tube may have an eye formed thereon so
as to be capable of vibrating around the said fixed pin, the sliding bolt or tube near
its outer end having screws, pins, or other suitable device capable of sliding in a slot
or slots formed near the outer end of the tube which is screwed or otherwise fixed to
one side of the knuckle joint, so as to keep the parts together, or the sliding bar or
tube may be rivetted or otherwise fixed to one side of the knuckle joint, and the tube
in which the spring is placed and the slot or slots formed made with an eye piece so
as to vibrate on the fixed pin. In constructing a hinge for the purpose herein
enumerated, one arm may be made as described and the other rigid, or both arms
may be made telescopic.
Dated this 11th day of Nov 1800
J. NEWTON,
Of the Firm of Billington & Newton,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stays, Joints, or Stretcher Bars for the Hoods of
Perambulators, Bassinettes, and the like Vehicles.
ARTHUR COTTON, 13 Peel Street, Tunstall County of Staffordshire, 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 :-
This Invention relates to improvements in hinged stays, rods or stretcher bars
which are used for the purpose of keeping the hoods of perambulators, bassinettes,
road carriages or like vehicles extended when in use. It is well known that the
hinges ordinarily used are constructed of any suitable material with rigid arms, and
require considerable pressure to extend them, and when extended impart undue strain
to the flexile material or materials of which the hood is made, and also require excessive
force to return them to a closed or normal position. By this my Invention I am able
to make a hinged stretcher bar or stay joint of metal or other suitable material or
materials having adjustable or telescopic arms, united by a knuckle joint, the outer
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page_text: end of each arm being screwed into a metal knob or boss or with an eye formed
thereon so as to be able to vibrate on a fixed pin or centre One way of carrying
my Invention into practice is by screwing, riveting or otherwise fastening or fixing a
round, oval, square or triangular tube of metal or other suitable material to one side
or a knuckle joint, in which tube at the knuckle joint end I place a spring made of
any
suitable material, which spring tends to push outwards a bolt or tube made of any
suitable material sliding inside same, the outer end of the sliding bolt or tube being
fixed in any suitable manner to a knob or boss oscillating on a pin fixed to the frame-
work of the hood of a perambulator or other like vehicle, or the outer end of the said
sliding bolt or tube may have an eye formed thereon, so as to be capable of vibrating
around the said fixed pin, the sliding bolt or tube near its outer end having a screw,
pin or other suitable device capable of sliding in a slot or slots formed in, and near
the outer end of the tube which is screwed or otherwise fixed to one side of the
knuckle joint, so as to keep the parts together, or the sliding bar or tube .may
be rivetted or otherwise fixed to one side of the knuckle joint, and the tube in
which the spring is placed and the slot or slots formed made with an eye piece so
as to vibrate on a fixed pin. In constructing a stay joint or stretcher bar for the
purposes herein mentioned one arm may be made as described and the other rigid, or
both arins may be made telescopic.
In order that my Invention may be more readily understood and explained in
detail I have hereunto annexed a sheet of Drawings on which letters of reference are
marked on corresponding parts on all the Figs. alike.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is a view of the body of a bassinette or perambulator, shewing a reversible
hood extended by means of a stretcher bar.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of the body of a bassinette or perambulator showing a fixed
hood extended by means of a stretcher bar.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the top side of my improved stretcher bar, shewing the
rigid arm as a tube partly in section.
Fig. 4 is a reverse plan view of Fig. 3 shewing both the rigid and telescopic arms
partly in section.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of an improved stretcher bar, having both arms telescopically
arranged, one of the fixed arms being attached to the knuckle joint, and the
other fixed arm to the knob or boss which vibrates on or around a fixed pin.
Fig. 6 is a plan view of an improved stretcher bar having both arms tolescopically
arranged, and both of the inner or fixed arms attached to a vibrating knob
or boss.
I wish it to be understood that the drawings hereunto annexed are for the purpose
of illustrating the manner in which stays, joints or strotcher bars are used, and also
to illustrate the manner in which I carry my Invention into practice, the bars or
stays being made of various lengths and sizes to suit the size of hood to which
they are to be applied.
In these Figs. a is the body of the perambulator or bassinette to which a reversible
hood bor fixed hood b' is attached by pins, rivets or in any other convenient way,
and which is kept extended by means of a stay or stretcher bar c, which said stretcher
bars as ordinarily constructed require considerable pressure to extend or open
them, or when open to return them to a closed or normal position as herein before
stated.
My improved stretcher bars consist of a knuckle joint d made of metal or other
suitable material, into one side of which I screw or otherwise secure a metal tube e in
which slides a metal bar or tube which has its inner end stopped or plugged in any
suitable manner, the said bar or tube e² is screwed or otherwise secured to a vibrating
metal knob or boss f. The metal bar or tube screwed into the other side of
the knuckle joint d being also fixed at its outor end to a vibrating metal knob
or boss f³.

page_text: It will be easily understood that when my improved stretcher bar or stay is attached
or fixed to the hood of a perambulator, bassinette or other like vehicle, somewhat
similar to the manner shewn at Figs. 1 and 2, the spring g tends to push the bar or
rod outwards, a metal pin or other device h fixed in one side of the bar e³ and
sliding in a slot i formed in one side of the tube e serving to keep the parts together,
two or more pins h and slots i may be used if suitable. In Fig. 5 it will be seen that
the metal tube e can be screwed or otherwise fixed at its outer end into the metal
knob or boss f while the said tube e on the other side of the knuckle joint d is screwed
or otherwise fixed into the said knuckle joint.
In Fig. 6 it will be seen that the metal tubes e on each side can be screwed or
otherwise fixed into the knuckle joint. In Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6 the respective positions
of the spring g within the tubes e will be readily understood.
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 :-
The construction of stays, joints or stretcher bars of metal, wood or other suitable
materials in the manner as herein described, and also illustrated at Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6
of the drawings hereunto annexed and of various sizes and lengths, to be used in the
manner and for the purposes as herein substantially described and set forth.
Dated this 19th day of May 1890.
J. NEWTON,
Agent for Applicant.