US280454A

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Publication number: US280454A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-07-03
Anticipated expiration: 1900-07-03

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J. A. ORANDALL. GHILDS CARRIAGE.

N0. 280,464. Patented July 3, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE A. CRANDALL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CHIVLDSV CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,454, dated July 3, 188?.

Application filed October 30, 1882.

(No model.)

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Parasol Attachments for Childrens Oarri ages, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improvement in parasol attachments for children s carriages. Fig. 2 is avertical section on an enlarged scale, showing the manner of connecting the post to the back of the carriage-body. Fig. 8 is a horizontal section 011 the plane of the line 0 c, Fig. 2. Fig. A is a detail vertical section, on an enlarged scale, through the joint between the post and the bow that carries the parasol. Fig. 5 is a bottom View of the top plate of said joint, and Fig. 6 a top view of the bottom plate thereof.

This invention relates to a new manner of joining the post of a parasol attachment for childrens carriages adj ustably to the carriagebody.

The invention is applicable to such structures as are described in Letters Patent N 0. 241,122, of May 10, 18 81, and to other parasol attachments; and it consists, first, in combining with the notched lower part of the post a certain slotted supporting-arm that projects from the carriage-body, and a movable latch or bolt that enters into one of the notches and holds the post firm at any desired elevation, and a combined rest and guide for said latch and said post.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the post, and B the bow or parasol-holder of the attachment. The post A is connected to the carriage-body D byabracket, C. This bracket 0 is more fully shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and consists of a face-plate, a, that is fastened to the carriage-body by means of screws or otherwise, and of a projecting arm, I), which extends horizontally, or nearly so, from the carriage-body. This arm b is perforated vertically, or nearly so, at two places. The perforation near its outer end serves to admit the post A through it, as shown in Fig. 2, and near the other end is pivoted in the other perforation to the bracket a latch or lever, d, which ordinarily rests .on a bridge or support,

e, which is formed in the arm I) and separates said two perforations. The post A has series of notches or indentations, f, on that side which faces the latch d. The post A at that portion which enters the bracket is of suitable cross-section other than a circular cross section, so that it cannot revolve in the bracket. It is properly guided in the walls of the outer slot, of which the bridge 0 forms one wall. The free end of the latch d, entering one of the indentations f of the post A, will have the effect of holding the post at any desired elevation and with it'the parasol attachment, so that the parasol can be let down or raised up, as occasion may require. Normally, the latch rests on the bridge 6, as shown. hen the child is sleeping or lying down, the parasol can be lowered, and when the child is seated in the carriage the parasol can be raised.

Heretofore the posts of vertically-adjustable parasol attachments were clamped in place by means of screws, which were liable to give out in their threads, and render the entire attachment useless. By my invention the adjustment is rendered very easy, and not liable to get out of order at any time, and the post is always held steady.

In order to adjust the post in the bracket, it is first slightly lifted, so as to carry the latch d slightly over the bracket or arm I), and then the latch is taken out of the notch and the post adjusted to bring another notch into line with the latch.

The upper end of the post A has an enlargement or plate, 71, 011 which rests an enlargement or plate, 17, that is formed at the end of the bow B, and these two enlargements or plates h andi are connected by a screw and nut, j, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, and as substantially described in said Letters Patent No. 241,122.

Z is a projecting button or pin (see Figs. 4 and 6) on the contactface of one of these plates, (in the example shown on plate 71.)

m m are a series of indentations or recesses on the contact-face of the opposite plate, (in this example platen) so that the button or projection Z must enter one of said indentations, thereby holding the bow in the desired position and preventing it from turning on the screw j. When it is desired to adjust the position of the bow, the screw must be loosened, the plate I? lifted off the button I and turned suflicient to bring another indentation m over the button, whereupon the joint is again rigidly closed.

I do not claim a bracket having outwardlyprojecting ears for holding it latch.

I clainr The bracket (3, having two apertures divided bythe bridge 0, and combined with thenohiehed 1 post A, that passes through the outer aperture, and with thelatch (l, hinged in the inner aperture, the bridge a serving to steady the post and also use rest for said latch, substan- I 5 fiftlly as herein shown and described.

This specification of my invention signed by me this 28th day of October, 1882.

JESSE A. (RANDALL Witnesses:

\VILLY G. SCHULTZ, \VILLIAM H. (1. SMITH.