US112758A - Improvement in landau carriages - Google Patents

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itldih iai5 @anni @dat `Letters Patent No. 112,758, dated March 14, 1871.

\ IMPROVEMENT lN LANDAU CARRIGE'S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it'm'ay concern v Be it known that I, EDWARD WELLS, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Landau Carriagesgand I do hereby declare the fol lowing, when takenin connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear,'and exact description of the4 same, and which said drawing con'stitntesfpart'of this specification and represents in Figure 1, a side view; -Figure 2, a longitudinal central section andin j Figure 3, a transverse section.

This invention relates to an improvementin Lan-A dau carriages and carriages with similar folding tops, for which a patent was granted to me, anddated Decemher 6,. 1870, the object being to avoid the folding of the top as described in that patent,

To this end the invention consists in constructing the top in a telescopic form, so that one part shallslide into the other instead of folding the parts over, as in my patent before referred to.

A is one part of the top, which is hinged to the part B in the usualv manner. v

O is the other part of the top of the part A, constructed with suitable guides D, which form a chamber into which the part O will slide, as denoted in desirable molding or form, and when desired to throw the top back to open the carriage the top C, after loe- :ing detached from the front, is run back into the part A, as denoted in iigs.2 and 3`; then the top is thrown back, folding in like manner as the ordinary Landau carriage.

By this invention the lining of the top is not ex.

posed, and other advantages over my aforesaid patent are so apparent as not 15o-require mention here'.

. I have representedl the forward part as lsliding into l the rear part, but it will be evident to those skilled in the art that the front part may be arranged to close over the rear part, or the part C may run entirely over the part A without closing into it, my invention being isimply for the closing of the two parts by sliding oneVA in'to cr-onto the other.

I claim as my invention- K In Landau carriages, the construction of the top in two or more parts, constructed and arranged to close into or onto the other, substantially as described. Witnesses: EDWARD WELLS.

A. J. TIBBITS,

J. H. SHUMWAY.

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