US2440126A - Carriage hood construction - Google Patents

Description

April 20, 1948.

R. E. STROTT CARRIAGE HOOD CONSTRUCTION Filed Sept. 28, 1945 IN V EN TOR. Rom-fir A. J'r/rorr Patented Apr. 20, 1948 CARRIAGE HOOD CONSTRUCTION Robert E. Strott, East Templeton, Mass, assignor to Thayer Company, Gardner, Mass, a corporation of Massachusetts Application September 28, 1945, Serial No. 619,075

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new and improved constructions in carriage hoods, particularly for infants carriages.

Objects of the invention include the provision of a "seamless" hood; i. e., exteriorly seamless as to the front hood bow, and obviating the necessity for the conventional seam in the hood extending across the same to form a pocket for said bow, this conventional seam being difiicult to guide and therefore often crooked and ill-appearing; the provision of said seamless hood for both lined and underlined, or padded or unpadded hoods; the provision of a single line of stitching appearing only at the junction of the hood and its visor, said single line of stitching connecting the exterior material of the hood to the visor and finishing a pocket for the bow at the same time, the pocket comprising a fold in the exterior hood material in the case of the unlined hood, and a fold in the lining material in the case of the lined hood, said line of stitching thereby providing a securement pocket for the bow and appearing at the exterior of the hood as the conventional stitching for the visor, leaving the hood free of stitching and seams.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a general view of a hood for a carriage;

Fig. 2 is a section thru the hood, visor, and front bow of an unlined hood;

Fig. 3 is a section thru the hood, Visor, and front bow of a lined hood; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary View of the top of the visor from the front.

Fig. 1 shows a carriage I having folding hood I2 extended and folded by a conventional break connection I4. The hood in the drawing is illustrated as having a front bow I6 and four other bows at l8, and for the purposes of this application, the front bow may be taken as U-shaped with the free ends of the arms of the U pivoted at 20. The hood also has a visor 22.

As shown in Fig. 2, the hood I2 extends to the left and slightly upwardly at 24 forming a bead, thence downwardly, under and around the front bow l6, terminating in a free end 26 tucked into the bead 24, as shown.

The visor has an end 28 tucked down in front of the bow, and a line of stitching 30 passes thru the visor end 28, interiorly thereof, thru the bead 24 and the end 26 binding all together completin a holding pocket for the bow l6. Another line of stitching 32 thru the bead and end 26 may also be used to stiffen the bead if desired.

The drawings exaggerate the bead 24 for clarity of illustration, and it is pointed out that this bead actually appears as a narrow length of piping. In any case, no other stitching is required to form the pocket for the how, but the hood is smooth and stretched taut by reason of the bow pressing upwardly and forwardly on the hood due to the connection [4.

Fig. 3 illustrates the invention as applied to a lined hood, and in this case the hood I2 is folded under at 34, resting on the end of the visor material at 36. The lining is represented at 38 and it extends forwardly under the bow i6, is folded over on itself at 40, and then passes up and over the bow as at 42, terminating in an end 44 sewed to th li i n y t iorly of the hood, to finish the bow pocket. A single line of stitching 46 serves to connect the hood, the lining and the visor. In this case, also, the drawing is somewhat exaggerated and actually the stitching squeezes the hood material to again make it appear like thin piping.

Both forms of the invention provide a seamless hood of good appearance and without unnecessary stitching heretofore thought to be required to hold the bow.

Divisional application Serial Number 692,187, filed August 22, 1946, covers the subject matter disclosed in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention and the advantages thereof, I do not wish to be limited to the details herein disclosed, otherwise than as set forth in the claims, but what I claim is:

1. A carriage hood, a bow therefor, a lining, the latter being generally co-extensive with the hood and folded over on itself to contain the bow, stitching securing the hood to the lining at the fold of the latter, said stitching being located wholly to one side of the bow, and means connecting the lining to itself adjacent the edge of the bow opposite the fold, said means being located Wholly at the other side of the bow, the latter being wholly contained in a pocket formed by the lining and the hood being free of the bow.

2. A carriage hood, a bow therefor, a lining folded over the bow at the front edge of the hood, the folded over portion of the lining lying concealed between the hood and lining and being secured to the lining, stitching securing the lining and hood at said front edge of the hood, and a visor having an edge lying between the hood and folded over lining, the stitching passing through the visor to secure the same.

ROBERT E. STROTT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 417,218 Bauer Dec. 17, 1889 656,159 Austin Aug. 21, 1900 882,232 Burg Mar. 17, 1908 1,307,073 Alvey June 17, 1919 1,721,856 Carleton July 23, 1929 1,741,946 Markee Dec. 31, 1929

Images