US222043A

US222043A - Improvement in carriage-tops

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Publication number: US222043A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1879-11-25
Anticipated expiration: 1896-11-25

Description

J. N. HAZE-LIP. Carriage-Top.

No. 222,043. Patent d Nov. 25, 1379.

NPETERS. PNOYO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. 0 G2 and forward end of the arms.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH N. HAZELIP, or BALTIMORE, ASSIGNOR on ONEHALF or HIS RIGHT ro BENJAMIN e. HARRIS, OF sAME rLAoE, AND WILLIAM oANBY, or BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,0 fi3, dated November 25, 1879; application filed October 9, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH N. HAZELIP, of

the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in OhildsCarriage Tops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in standards for the support of a top or canopy of a childs carriage, and to certain improvements in means for attaching the top or canopy upon side standards, whereby the top may be shifted independently of the standards, as hereinafter set forth.

The improvements will first be described, and then designated in the claims.

Figure 1 is aside elevation of a carriage with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side view of my improved standard. Fig. 3 is a transverse view of same. Fig. 4 is a View, on a larger scale, of a portion-of my standard as seen from the inner side. Fig. 5 is a transverse view of the same parts. Fig. 6 is a perspective of the base part of the standard.

The letterA designates the body of a childs carriage, mounted on running-gear in any approved manner. The improved standards are designated by the letters B O. The part B, which is the base, is secured to the sides or arms of the body midway between the rear The upper end of this base part forms a frame, d, having three sides, one of which, d, is longer than the others, for a purpose hereinafter named. A socket or eye, 6, is provided on one side with a shank or journal, 6, which is secured in a hole or bearing in the part B, located equidistant from the three sides of the frame (Z. This socket is thus adapted to rotate in the hearing, or to rock back and forth. The eye in this socket, in the present example, is square; but it may be round or hexagonal, or other shape.

The lower end of part 0 of the standard terminates in any shape that will lit the eye or socket, so as to adapt it to play therein back and forth and just above such portion there is a part, c, which, in practice, is about one and a half inch in length. At the upper extremity of said part c is a shoulder, f, and a I spiral spring, g, fits about the part 0 and rests against the said shoulder. From one side of the said shoulder a hook, h, projects.

To connect the two parts of the standard, the upper part, 0, is turned down to an angle something like forty-five degreesbelow a horizontal, so as to enter the hook h in the long side, (1, of the three-sided frame, and at the same time enter the end of the standard in the eye or socket c. This beingaccomplished, the journal 0 of the said socket is partly rotated, and the part 0 of the standard is turned up to the desired position, the hook engaging on the lower edge of the three-sided frame. The lower end of the spring g rests on the socket, and the spring serves to maintain the standard or lift it away from the socket, thereby insuring the hook it to engage with the three-sided frame d.

The upper part of my improved standard, as herei-nbefore described, may be turned or inclined either to the front or to the rear. The upper portion of the standard is provided with two arms, 11, which extend lengthwise of the carriage-body and in opposite directions from the standard, and these arms support a'horizontal rod, n, the forward end, a, of which is turned down to any desired angle-in the present example it is turned down about forty-five degrees below the horizontal. The rearward end, 12 of the rod projects a short distance and terminates in an upward-turned knob; but said rear end may be turned down in manner similar to the forward end.

To the lower side of the top or canopy, and near each side, edge, a metal guide, (1, is at tached. This guide consists of a plate for attachment to the top, and is provided with two or three pairs of projections, r, (seen in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,) those constituting each pair being of sufficicient distance apart to set astride the rod n, and the real-most pair, after being set on the rod, is bent together to form a ring, which encircles and loosely clasps the rod, and thus prevents the top from slipping off either to :the rear or to the front.

By this arrangement, it will be seen when the top L is drawn forward, while the standards are perpendicular, it will dip or incline so that the occupant of the carriage may be protected in front, and in this position it will be sustained on the turned-down part a of the rod.

It will be understood this part of my improvement is applicable either to standards which are adapted to be inclined both to the rear and to the front, or to those which incline only to the rear.

While I have shown the socket c, that is adapted to rock, as having only a single eye, and the lower end of part 0 of the standard as terminating in one rod to fit and play within the socket, I nevertheless contemplate providing a double socket, or two eyes having one common shank or journal, and the lower end of the part 0 of the standard to terminate in two rods, one of which shall lit and play in each of thetwo eyes or sockets. This arrangement will prevent any tendency of the upper part of the standard to twist, and will hold the same firmly.

In the present example, the inner edge of the three-sided frame (I is provided on each side with a projection, m, 1) ferably aroundin g promoved and adjusted to any inclination, by merely depressing the top so as to disengage the hooks from the projections. To effect this, the pressure of one hand placed on the top is sufficient.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1.. A standard for supporting carriage-tops,

provided at its upper end with arms whichsupport'a horizontal rod, one end of which is turned down at an angle below the horizontal, and a top or canopy having a guide attached near each side edge, which guide'is adapted to loosely clasp the rod, substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH N. HAZELIP.

Witnesses:

CHAS. B. MANN, W. A. NUMsEN.