IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GATES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Peters Moody, of Corton Denham, in the
County of Somerset, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GATES."
Sealed the 4th February 1862, and dated the 9th August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Peters Moody at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th August 1861.
I, CHARLES PETERS MOODY, of Corton Denham, in the County of
Somerset, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GATES," to be as follows:-
My present Invention is for improvements upon a former Invention, for
which Letters Patent were granted to me 12th December, 1860, No. 3050,
and consists in the means of securing and fastening the horizontal bars and
uprights by hoops or straps of iron or steel, which I. carry outside the
uprights on both sides of the gate, and tighten up by wedges or screws.
carry screws, bolts, or rivets through the straps or hoops, and into or through
as many of the horizontal bars and uprights as may be found necessary to give
solidity to the gate.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Peters Moody in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
PETERS MOODY, of Corton Denham, in the County of Somerset, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles
Peters Moody, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Peters Moody,
my-executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the said Charles
Peters Moody, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF GATES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Charles Peters Moody, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Peters Moody, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My present Invention is for improvements upon a former Invention for
which Letters Patent were granted to me the 12th day of December, 1860,
No. 3050, and consists in the means of securing and fastening the horizontal
bars and uprights by hoops or straps of iron or steel, which I carry outside the
uprights on both sides of the gate, and tighten up by wedges or screws.
carry screws, bolts, or rivets through the straps or hoops, and into or through
as many of the horizontal bars and uprights as may be found necessary to give
solidity to the gate.
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The accompanying Drawing shows a gate constructed in this manner.

page_text: a, a, are the hoops or straps; b, b, are the wedges; and c, c, are the screw or
bolt heads.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim securing and
fastening the horizontal bars and uprights of gates by hoops or straps of iron
or steel, substantially in manner herein-before described with reference to the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Peters Moody, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
CHARLES PETERS MOODY. (L.S.)
CHARLES PETERS MOODY.. (L.S.)