Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-03-05

THE VELoCIPEDE FURoRE.-Some IN
teresting Facts about VeLocipedes and the
Rights of Man,gacture.-That we are to
have velocipedal furore the ensuing
summer is q fact no one will question.
Three months ago the demand became
so great as to lead the principal carriage
makers into making it an important
branch of their business. 1t was gener-
ally understood that any manufacturer
was at liberty to make the two-wheeled
velocipede in any way he deemed most
profitable, no one being aware that the
present form of the machine had been
duly patented. When the furore for We
locipedes began to manifest itself in this
country, Mr.. Calvin Wittyof Broadway,
New York, very quietly went to work to
find out in what way the business of
making the machines could be control
ed, and ascertaining that a patent had
been recorded, he sought out the owners
of the patents, and purchased their
rights and he now holds the right to
the exclusive use of the two-wheeled We
, locipedes with treadles and guiding arms.
The following is the copy of the record
of the patent registered at the Patent
Office at Washington
, "VELocIPEDE.-P Pierre Lallement,
: d, 80 IH,aaao A 10 hipaoa1f and
James Carroll, New Haven, Conn. Dat
ed Nov. 20, 1866. The fore-wheel is
! axled in the jaws of depending bar
( which is pivoted in the frame, and turn
ed by horizontal lever-bar. This is re
n volved by a treadle-crank. Claim
The combination and arrangement of the
:, two wheels provided with treadles, anC
d the guiding arms, SO as to cooperate sub
p stantially as and for the purpose hereir
o set forth"
! As soon as Mr.. Witty had completed
+ his arrangements, he at once ascertainet
the names of the parties engaged in man
ufacturing velocipedes, and sent then
the following notification:
No. 63S BROADWAY, N. Y, Feb. 3, '69
You are hereby notified that Lette
Patent No. 59,915, granted Novembe
Il 20, 1866, secures velocipede with tw
n wheels, treadles and guiding arms, am
d that the velocipede you manufacture i
R an Infringement upon the said patent.
! The present is to require you to ceas
= the further manufacture of said veloc
e pedes, and to settle with me for all pas
Of infringement Of the rights under sal
Or patent. Yours, Respectfully,
h CALVIN WITTY.
NJ Many of the manufacturers "poof
of poohed " the claim of Mr.. Witty, an
, took no notice of the above warning, bu
in others took pains to have legal advice o
IL the subject. Among these may be enl
of merated the noted firms of the Woo
IL Bros. of New York &; J. NJ. Quimby
h. Co., of Newark; w. p. Sargent & Co.
or Boston; and, in fact, nearly all who ha
ed gone into the manufacture of veloc
as pedes. A meeting was recently held
he the principal men in the business, an
or the result was a final Acknowledgment
De- of the validity of Mr. WHY'S CLAIM
on and their purchase of State and Cit
Sc rights from him to use his patent.
by We understand that w. P. Sargent
er Go. and John p. Whittier, of Bosto,
he have bought the exclusive right to maj
of ufacture two-wheel velocipedes in IL
lso States of New Hampshire, Vermont an
IT. Massachusetts, except in the city of Ne
for Bedford, and are prepared to take orde
I'm for any number wanted, from one to OIL
,m hundred, or more.
os-
W. The police of an Ohio town adve
lin tise that they will wake up persons wi