US406330A - Child s carriage attachment - Google Patents

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P. AUSTIN. GHILDS GARRIAGE ATTACHMENT.

No. 406,330. Patented July 2, 1889.

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P. AUSTIN.

OHILDS CARRIAGE ATTACHMENT.

No. 406,330. Patented July 2., 1889 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAULINE AUSTIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

CHILDS CARRIAGE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,330, dated July 2, 1889.

Application filed March 21, 1889. Serial No. 304,183. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known-that I, PAULINE AUSTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ohilds Carriage Attachments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My improvement is intended to provide childrens carriages with a safety attachment designed to allow the child perfect freedom of motion within certain limits and the read y removal of the child from the carriage.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafter more particularly described, and then definitely pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a carriage provided with my attachment in position, and Fig. 2 a perspective view of the belt.

Referring now to the details of the drawings, A represents the carriage, and B a belt, having a clasp O, of any suitable kind, but preferably provided with a clamp c, by which it may be adjusted at any suitable place on the belt to accommodate the belt to the varying size of children. The belt proper may be an ordinary straight belt; but I prefer to make it with downwardly-proj ecting points or tabs 1), from each of which projects a strap D, having holes (1 to receive the tongue of a buckle E, attached to a short strap F, carrying a snap-hook G. The object of the buckles is to allow of the adjustment of the snap-hooks at any desired distance from the belt to suit the varying size of children, and the snaphooks are intended to be used to catch into rings attached to some part of the carriage.

If a basket or rat-tan carriage is used, a strap H may be used to fasten a ring [to the carriage. There the carriage is upholstered, a ring J may be sewed to the upholstering, and a common screw-eye and ring may be used, as shown at K, where such a' mode of fastening would be most convenient. These different fastenlngs are shown as specimens of the kind that may be used, at the discretion of the manufacturer; but I do not intend to limit myself to these, as others may be employed.

WVith this attachment a child may be firmly secured, so that he cannot possibly fall or climb out, and yet not be confined in such a manner as to make the belt and its connections irksome to him. At the same time the child may be instantly released from the belt, or the belt may be detached from the carriage by means of the snap-hooks.

If it is desired to let the child sleep in the carriage, it can be done by unsnapping the rear straps and, if found necessary, adjusting the front ones by means of the buckles, and the child will then be safely secured should he chance to waken while not being watched.

I am aware that it is not new to provide childrens carriages and baby-walkers with straps designed to hold children therein, and do not claim this, broadly.

My invention possesses advantages not possessed by devices of this kind heretofore employed. One of these advantages is the use of snap-hooks on the ends of the straps, by which the belts can be instantly detached from the carriage and as quickly fastened therein.

A second advantage is the use of the short straps F, by which, in conjunction with the adjusting-buckles, the length of the connection between the child and the carriage can be adjusted as desired, to allow the use of the belt whether the child is sitting up or lying down.

A third advantage is the use of the points I) on the belt proper, to which the straps D are attached, which allows of the belt being tightly secured to the body of the child without the ends of the straps irritating him, as they would if attached to the straight part of the belt, and besides this the points present a more ornamental appearance than a plain belt.

That I claim as new is 1. An attachment for childrens carriages, consisting of the belt B, having points I), a buckle O, and the front and rear straps connected to the points b and each having a snap-hook at its free end, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof- I affix my signature, in presence of two \vit11esses,tl1is 18th dayof IO March, 1889.

' PAULINE AUSTIN.

' \Vitnesses:

ABRAHAM HALSTED, DAVID H. RAMSEY.

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