US33326A - Improvement in removable carriage-fronts - Google Patents

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' ATENT -OFFICE.

CHARLES F. ABRIGHT AND LEWVIS B'URKI'IARD, OF POTTSVILLE, PENN- SYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN REMOVABLE CARRlAGE-FRONTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,326, dated September 24, 1861.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES F. ABRIGHT and LEWIS BURKHARD, of Pottsville, Schuylkill county, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Im provement in Adjustable Fronts for Carriages; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference beto the letters ofreference marked thereon, the same letters in each figure representing like parts.

Figure l is a front view with the invention elevated so as to close the front of the earriage. Fig. 2 is a front view with the improvement let down and the front of the carriage open. Fig. 3 is aside elevation. Fig. 4 shows an elevation the reverse of that shown in Fig. 1..

The nature of our invention consistsin the manner of closing the fronts of carriages.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use our invention, we will describe its construction and operation.

In 1, A represents the posts of the top frame; B, the dash-board; O, the front view of the bottom of the carriage; a, the different other and to the strip D by folding hinges b; c, the glass windows; d, the pins in the top cross-piece A, which pinslet into the top edge of the upper portion of the folding front a; e, in Fig. 4, springs; f, a hole through which the reins pass to the driver.

In the operation of the invention it will be seen that to close the front of the carriage the folding front is turned up to the position shown in Fig. 1, and the pins 01 fit into holes in the upper edge of the top piece a of the folding front. The front is then pressed out until it fits closely up to the frame-posts A, when the springs c cat-ch into them. The front is then held firmly in place and the reins are passed through the hole f to the driver, the front of the carriage being closed against wind, rain, and cold. When it is desired to drive with the front open, the springs e are pressed inward, detaching them from their hold in frame A, and a slight pressure from the outside on the folding front will detach it from positiou,so that it can be folded up, as seen in Figs. 2 and 8, out of the way,

fitting snugly and neatly in front of the driver,

thus avoiding any inconvenience to persons in the carriage. r

We are aware that the fronts of carriages have been closed by various means; butthese, in comparison with our invention, are costly and inconvenient, difiicult in operation, and not so eifective for the purposes designed. Besides this, our front is not only neater and more durable than any front we have EH81. known, but is entirely dissimilar in construction and operation.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hinged or folding movable front for carriages, dispensing with aprons, constructed and operating as set forth, and for the purposes described.

(1. F. ABRIGHT.

. LEWIS BURKHARD.

Vitnesses:

LEWIS REESER, JOHN C. CONRAD, J OHN G. BROWN.

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