US463179A - Two-seated carriage - Google Patents

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lNoModlel') P N VANIER TWO SEATBD CARRIAGE.

No. 463,179l Patented NOV. 17,1891.

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FRANCIS N. VANIER, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

TWOf-SEATED CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,179, dated November 17, 1891.

Application filed June 6, 1891. Serial No. 395,321. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS N. VANIER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in Amesbury, in thecounty of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have 'invented a new and useful Improvement in Two-Seated Carriages, of which the following' is a specification.

This invention relates to two-seated carriages or wagons which are provided with doors on the sides for admission to and egress from the rear seat; and it consists in the means below described, whereby the opening' of one of the side doors will cause the front seat on that side to swing down, the lazyback at the saine time folding against it, providing ample room on that side for the occupant of the rear seat to pass ont between the rear seat, which remains stationary, and the front seat, which is swung down into a substantially vertical position.

In the accompanying drawings, in which si milar letters of referenceindicate like parts, Figure 1 is a central longitudinal vertical section with the seats in position for use, the position of the front seat when swung down being indicated bybroken lines. Fig. 2 is a plan View with one of the front seats swung down.

A A A2 A3 represent, respectively, the floor, sides, tail-gate, and dash-board ot' the carriage.

B E are the doors, and C is the rear seat, all constructed substantially as usual.

D is a horizontal crosspiece supported by the frame D and situated beneath the front seats well forward of their centers.

F. E are the two front seats supported by the crosspiece D and each hinged thereto at e. Each of these front seats E is connected with the door B on the same side by mea-ns of a connecting-rod H, the. ends of the rod being loosely attached to the door and seat by means of eyes 7L 7L or equivalent Inechanical devices. The rods are connected to the under side ot' the seat at a point toward its rear edge and to the inner side of the door near its lower edge, so that said rod extends diagonally from the seat to the door. As will readily be seen, opening the door pulls down the seat, which swings on the hinges e into the vertical position shown by broken lines in Fig. l and by full lines in Fig.

2. This leaves a wide passage out between the seats on that side of the carriage. The lazy-back. I is disposed of at the same time by the following means: The lazy-back is supported by the standards I', which extend up from the horizontal rod J, Vsupported in bearings K, extending from the seat E. This rod is bent at its inner portion J at right angles, and its hooked end J holds loosely one end of the rod L, whose other end is caught in an eye N on the under side of the cross-bar D. Thus when the seat is pulled down by the opening of the'door the rod L acts on the portion J of the rod J and folds the lazy-back against the seat, as seen in Fig. 2 and broken lines, Fig. l.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatl claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isn

l. In a two-seated carriage provided with doors at the sides between the seats, the' combination of the door B, the front seat E, hinged at its under side to a cross-bar D, and the connecting-rod II, secured at its opposite ends to said door and seat, whereby the opening of the door causes the said seat to swing down into a substantially-vertical position, substantially as set forth.

2. In a two-seated carriage provided with doors at the sides between the seats, the combination of a front seat pivotevd on its under side to the carriage, 'a swinging door in the side of the carriage, and a connecting mechanism whereby the opening of the door swings the said seatdown into a substantially vertical position and the closing of the door swings it into its normal horizontal position, substantially as described.

The combination, with the seat E, hinged to the carriage -frame and adapted to be lowered and raised by the opening and closing of the door, of the rod J, supporting the lazyback, said rod being supported in bearings K and bent, as described, at J and the rod or link L, loosely connected with the end of the portion J of said rod J and the frameof the carriage, whereby when the seat is lowered the lazy-back will fold against it, substantially'as set forth.

FRANCIS N. VANIER. IVitnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, FRANK G. PARKER.

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