A CERTAIN APPARATUS OR MACHINE FOR CATCHING, DETECTING, AND DETAINING DEPREDATORS AND TRESPASSERS, OR ANY ANIMAL, WHICH I DENOMINATE THE HUMANE SNARE
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MADELEY, of Yardley, in the County of Worcester, Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth;
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the tenth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Madeley, His especial licence, that I, 'the said William Madeley,
my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Madeley,
my exors, admors, or assigns, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales; and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN
APPARATUS OR MACHINE FOR CATCHING, DETECTING, AND DETAINING DEPREDATORS
AND TRESPASSERS, OR ANY ANIMAL, WHICH I DENOMINATE THE HUMANE SNARE;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Willian Madeley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar

page_text: months next and immediately after the date. of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Madeley, of Yardley, in the County of Worcester, Farmer, or of 49,
Moor Street, Birmingham, Machine. Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
my said. Invention to consist-in making the herein-after described.
The mechanism of the humane snare consists of a box or boxes, spring or
springs, made of any materials that may be most suitable; also of a chain or
chains made to draw out double or single, of sufficient strength to take and
detain men and living animals. Now, I make the outer box of wrought
iron, or of any other metal, or of wood, twelve inches square, four inches and
an half in deep inside, or any other size I may find more convenient. In the
inside is placed what I designate one or more spring barrels, through which
is an upright spindle permanently fixed in a square at the top of the box, and
also at the bottom of the box.. In.this.box, which is made to turn loose upon
the fixed spindle, is one or more spiral springs secured to the spindle and
coiled-round-it,-and-secured to the barrel inside. Upon the ends of the
barrel are two flanges, and at one end is a rotchett wheel, and a lock attached
so that the bolt drops into the rotchett wheel. There is also a hook screwed
to the outside of the barrel to which the chain is attached. The chain is then
coiled round the barreli ready for fixing, the snare. To set the snare, the
chain must be drawn through, the hole of the box until it comes to a.round
link. The pivot for treddle pin is then putithrough the round link you
then take out the key, and the snare,will be locked and set. I then!lay.down
the box upon two or more pieces of wood to give space for the pinto Ifall
and liberate the springs. To catch the depredator the treddle. has two or
more springs to support it: The fork of the treddle is attached upon the pin.
head. I also find it convenient to have a wood frame grooved roundito.
receive the chain, and support it until the treddle is down! There is also a
swivel in the box to attach a chain, and lock the same to any tree or other
object that may be most convenient.
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In witness whereof, I; the said William Madeley, have hereunto set
iny hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of May; in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
WILLIAM (L.S.) MÄDELEY.
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page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of May,
in the year of our Lord 1829, the aforesaid William Madeley came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.