US106595A - Improved stat for carriages - Google Patents

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G. G. LARKIN.

Carriage-Top Stay. No. 106,595. Patented Aug. 23, 1870.

N. PETERS, PNOTGLQTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C,

GEORGE G. L'ARKIN', PORTLAND, MAINE.

Letters Patent]? 106 595, dated August 23, 1870.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEoRGn'G. LARKIN, of Portland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful improved Stay for Carriage-Tops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to make and use my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming'part of this specification, in which is shown a view of apiece of the stay with the covering partially removed therefrom, so as to expose the material of which the body of the stay is formed.

This invention consists in the use and application of a new material in the formation of a stay to extend from some part of the carriage-seat or seat-rail to the back bow, for the purpose of preventing the top from .tippingor pitching forward, or the leather from wrinkling, between the back-bow and joint prop.

It is well known to all carriage-makers that there has always existed great trouble in keeping carriagetops from pitching tor-ward, and keeping the back bow in its place, and many difiierent kinds of leather, clot-h, belting, 8.50., have been resorted. to, having had the stretch, so called, partly taken out to'remedy the serious evil found in practice. But after a little use the leather in the back stretches, the old fashioned stay gives, and the top tips forward, and the back bow gives up, causing theleather over the same to wrinkle, greatly to the injury of the carriage.

My invention consists in using a non-elastic substance, made of material that will not yield to any tension.

The non-stretching stay may consist of an iron, steel, brass, copper, or other metal wire-gauze or cloth, or thm strips of steel, brass, or other metal, that is snfficiently flexible to let the top back, when desired This is used inzthe same manner as and in the place of the ordinary stay.

The wrinkles in the leather over the bow, caused by the old-fashioned stay, are much increased by the turning back oi the carriage-top, and when they have once been begun, by reason of the stretching or expansion of the stay, soon mar the beauty of the'carriage-top, and render the leather liableto wear out and break.

The contraction and expansion, caused by heat and. cold, will effect the same to a considerable degree, and with leather stays moisture and succeeding dryness will make considerable difference in the length of the stay, and to the same degree alfect the leather of the carriage top.

The method of construct-ion of my improved stay is as follows:

I out from the wire-cloth or thin sheet metal astrip one or more inches wide, and cover it with some thin material to keep it from wearing the leather or cloth.

The strip is then made fast to the back bow and some part of the seat or seat-rail, or the body of the carriage, by being nailed, or in any other convenient and well known way.

This will prevent theme-ck bow from drawing up and loosening the leather, and let-ting thetop pitch forward, and will thus keep the leather smooth and 'the top comely in its appearance, and, at the same time, this does not prevent the top from lying fiat when the same is thrown back.

Inthe drawinga shows the covering of the stay, and b "the wire-gauze within. That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved stay for the tops of covered vehicles, constructed as herein described.

GEORGE G. LARKIN. Witnesses:

W. H. CLIFFORD, HENRY G. Hoosron.

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