US572059A - Combined child s carriage and sled - Google Patents

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T. s. MINNISS.

COMBINED GHILDS CARRIAGE AND SLED. No. 572,059. Patented Nov. 24, 1896.

. Inventor.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS S. MINNISS, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO ROLAND B. THOMPSON, OF SAME PLACE, AND A. CLARK BANE, OF PITTSBURG,

PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED CHILDS CARRIAGE AND SLED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,059, dated November 24, 1896.

Application filed July 19, 1895. Serial No. 556,4=75. (N model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. MINNISS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an attachable sled to be used in combination with the ordinary childs wheeled carriage that can be converted at the pleasure of the user from the wheels to runners, or vice versa, almost'in- 1o stantly, of which the following is a specification.

\Vhere good sledding and bare walks alternate, as is the case in many northern towns and cities during the winter, ladies are forced I 5 to take the street with a childs ordinary sled when they reach a spot from which the snow has been cleared, nor can they reach from the street a store or other entrance across a pavement which has been cleaned. These facts render a combined sled and carriage desirable, and such have heretofore been invented. Such prior combinations have, however, been unnecessarily costly and elaborate, and it is the purpose of this invention to cheapen and simplify.

In the several views which make part of this invention, Figure 1 is a perspective of the sled proper. Fig. 2 is a plan of the device attached to the axles of a carriage with the body of the carriage omitted. Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the four swiveling links by which the sled is swung from the axles. Fig. 4is a side view of the adj usting-rods by which the sled is raised or lowered. Fig. 5 is a side 3 5 view of the device attached to a carriage with the body of the carriage omitted; and Fig. 6, an end view of carriage with sled attached, but having only one runner.

The sled proper is made of a single bar of either fiat or round steel about threeeighths of an inch in diameter. A piece would be about nine feet in length and is bent up into the shape seen in Fig. 1, where A A are the runners, andB B the cross-bars. The weld is best made at the junction of one of the crossbars with the curve of the runner. The cross-bars are spaced so that the distance between them will be the same as the distance between the axles F F of the carriage to which they are to be applied.

This will leave I a bearing for the runners on the ground of about a yard. The axles are fixed to the frame Gin the usual manner. 0 c are four swinging links connecting the four ends of V the cross-bars to the axles F F. The ends of 5 5 the links next the cross-bars are bent up into eyes and the free end fastened by bolt H, or in any other suitable manner.

D D are the adjusting-rods, secured at their ends to the front cross-bar B. At an intermediate point and on their under side each is provided with a lug or stop E, adapted to engage with one side or the other of rear axle F. I prefer to form this handle of stiff steel wire.

If the sled is down and it is desired to raise it, the rear cross-bar B can be pushed up until E E will ride over F. Then pressing rear cross-bar B with the foot push forward the body of the carriage until E E drop behind F, when the sled will be locked in raised position, the four swinging links acting like the bars of a parallel ruler, since the four links are of equal length and the cross-bars spaced apart at an equal distance with the axles. To throw the sled down, rear cross-bar B can be thrown up with the toe, raising lugs E E upon the rear axle, and by pressing the foot against cross-bar B and running the body of the carriage back lugs E E will drop in front of axle F, and the runners be locked in position on the ground.

The rods D D act as an efiective brace to runners A A against side strains.

In Fig. 5 I show but one runner A, suspended by similar links 0 c.

Having described my invention, I claim A sled made of a single bar or rod of metal and having runners upwardly curved at each end and cross-bars connecting at front and back the ends of said curves; a pair of links of equal length connecting the ends of said cross-bars pivotally with the running-gear or frame of a childs carriage, and means for raising, lowering and locking the sled either 9 5 up or down.

THOMAS S. MINNISS.

\Vitnesses J. N. MOOLOSKEY, J. W. SMITH.

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