US329023A

US329023A - Support for carriage-tops

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Publication number: US329023A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 1902-10-27

Description

(No Model.)

J. A. ORANDALL.

SUPPORT FOR CARRIAGE TOPS. No. 329,023. Patented 001;. 27, 1885! INVENTEIR NITE Smarts ATENT Wren.

JESSE A. GRANDALL, OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

SUPPORT FOR CARRIAGE-TOPS.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,023, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed July 9, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ESSE A. CRANDALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Supports for Carriage- Tops; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings annexed to and forming part of the same, furnishes a full and clear description of the invention, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and operate the same.

My invention relates to the topsor canopies of carriages, and has for its object the provision of supports for the same which can be easily moved and adjusted and admit of the arrangement and retention of the top or can opy in any desired position over the body of the carriage.

In its general construction my said invention resembles the device shown in the application heretofore made by me for Letters Patcut for an improvement in canopies for childrens carriages, and allowed on the 3d day of June, 1885, but differs therefrom in some of its details, as is hereinafter shown.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear viewof a carriage-body, showing my im proved canopy-supporting rods applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a side view in elevation of said rods.

A is the body of the carriage.

B B are supports fixed in any desired and suitable location upon the rear of the carriage-body.

G G are sockets in said supports.

D D are thumb-screws attached to and forming part of said supports, and E E are metal rods, (the respective upper, middle, and lower portions of which I designate as E, E and E2) the purpose of which is to furnish the support for the top or canopy of the carriage. The said rods-E E, when secured, as is hereinafter specified, to the supports B B, extend, respect ively, outwardly along and parallel with the back of the carriage-body, to or a short dis tance around the side of the body of the carriage, as shown at E, Fig. 1, and there bend upward to a point just above the side of the carriage-body, as shown at E, Fig. 1, and then Serial No. 171,063. (No model.)

curve upward and forward and run parallel with each other over the body of the carriage, as shown at E, Fig. 1, supporting the canopy, and being held there in relative position by suitable braces or cross-pieces, F F.

Having thus described the several parts of my invention and improvement, the manner of attaching the same to a carriage is as follows:

I firmly affix the supports B B, each having a socket, O, and-thumb-screw D, to the body of the carriage at any desired and suitable location upon the. back thereof, and loosen the thumb-screws D D. Into the sockets O G of the supports B B, respectively, I insert the respective lower extremities, E, Fig. 1, of the metal rods EE, constructed as shown, and, arranging the said rods in the position shown in the accompanying drawings, Fig. 2, Itighten the thumb-screws D D. A top or canopy such as is described and shown in the application hereinbefore referred to is then secured to said supporting-rods E E in the manner shown in the aforesaid application; or any other suitable top or canopy desired may be attached to said rods in any suitable and desired manner. By the construction and arrangement of said metal rods E E as described and shown the parts E E of said rods, which extend from the supports B B to the sides of the carriage-body, form pivots or swivel-joints upon which the rods may be turned or revolved, and permit of said rods with their canopy (the thumb-screws D D being slightly loosened for that purpose) being bent forward and downward to or near the front of the carriage-body, or backward and upward in the direction of the back of the body of the carriage, as may be desired, and secures to the occupant of the carriage the protection and shelter of the top or canopy without any disturbance of the relative position of the same upon said rods.

In the first above-specified position of said rods the top or canopy acts as ashield and barrier from and against the ingress of snow, rain, wind, or dust, or the rays of the sun at the front of the-carriage. In the second abovesp'ecified position of said rods rain, snow, wind, or dust, or the suns rays, are prevented from finding entrance at the rear of the carriage.

If rain or snow or the rays of the sun fall vertically upon the carriage, annoyance to the occupant of the carriage is prevented by arranging the supporting-rods'of the top or canopy as shown in the accompanying drawings, Fig. 2.

The aforesaid arrangement and construction of said rods EE, in connection with said supports B B, as shown and described, has a further advantage over the devices commonly in use for supporting the tops or canopies of carriages, in that it admits of any desired adjustment of said canopy or top without endangering or injuring the hands or fingers of the occupant of the carriage.

Having thus described my invention, its construction, advantages, operation, and mode of use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with the body of a carriage, the rods E E, attached to the rear of the carriage-body, as shown, and curving outward and forward to form supports for the top or canopy of a carriage,substantially as described.

2. In combination with the body of a carriage, the rods E E, swivel-jointed at the back of the carriage and provided with the sockets O C, supports B B, and screws I) D, to permit of the partial rotation of said rods and any desired adjustment of the top or canopy over the carriage-body.

3. In combination with a carriage-body, a pair of canopy-rods made adjustable by pivoting at points on the back of the carriagebody, substantially as shown, and for the purposes specified.

4. A canopyrod for carriages, constructed with the two parts E and E bearing at right angles to each other, and with a curved or double-angled elbow, E between them, substantially as and for the purposes described.

' JESSE A; oaANDA n.

I Witnesses:

ISAAC J AOOBSON, F. W. HANAFORD.