NEW INVENTED CARRIAGE FOR ALL SORTS OF CANNON
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN GOVER, of Hollen Street, in the Parish of Saint Ann, Soho, in
the County of Middlesex, Carpenter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eighth day of December, in the thirty-seventh
year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John Gover,
my exors, admors, and assigns, special license, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said John Gover, my exors, adîiors, and
assigns, 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 "NEW INVENTED CARRIAGE FOR ALL
SORTS OF CANNON;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, that if I, the said John Gover, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to he performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar mouth next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters
Patent should determine and become void, as by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance and compliance with the said
provisoe in the said Letters Patent, I have set forth a full and true
description, as well of the several component parts of my said Inven-
tion as of the whole thereof united, by means of the several Drawings
and references berein-after particularly mentioned, viz.
•
In Section 1, letter A, A, I shew the two sides of my under carriage
with graduations for the purpose of placing a cross bar for the support
of the plane hercin-after mentioned, which sides I cause to be united
together at the bottom thereof by means of wooden rails or transoms
aud iron bolts, as letter B, B, B, B, morticed and tenanted therein, or by
any other means. The letter C, C, C, C, shews the under or truck rails
or transoms at each end of the said carriage, framed together by a
middle rail, as letter D, D, which I cause to be fixed to the sides of the
said carriage, underneath the same, by means of iron bolts. Letter
E, E, E, E, shew four trucks or rollers, which I cause to be placed between
the said truck rails or transoms by micans of iron bolts or axles passing
through their centre, upon which the same revolves, and upon which
said trucks or rollers my said carriage rests, and by means of which the
same is traversed or moved on either side with great facility; and which
trucks or rollers may be either made of wood, iron, or brass, and they
may be either of a conical, barrel. or parallel shape, but I prefer
the conical shape, in which case they should be so placed that they
all be directed to the centre of the evolution of the carriage, namely,
the spot to which the carriage is fixed, as shewn in Section 2, letter
I, I, I, I, I; the under side of the rollers moving level with the surface
of the place upon which they are intended to be used. Letter F,
shews the chain fixed to one of the transoms; letter G, shows the ring
intended to fasten on to a hook fixed to the ship's side when this
carriage is intended to be used on board ship; but if the same should
he intended to be used in garrison, it may be then fixed to the
platform by an iron bolt driven through the middle of the front truck
rail, but so loosely as to afford good room for the carriage to work

page_text: easily, or in such other manner as may suit convenience. In Section 2,
letter H, shews the bottom of my said under carriage with the several
component parts thereof united, and with the sanic references to the
particular parts aforesaid, as in Section 1. Letter I, I, I, I, I, shew the
centre above referred to, to which the trucks or rollers of the carriage
are directed for the most easy movement of the said carriage. Section 3,
letter K, shews the upper part of my said under carriage so united, as
aforesaid. Section 4, letter L, shews the upper part of the plane for the
elevation and depression of my upper carriage upon which the, gun is
placed; letter M, shews the under part of the said plane; letter N,
shews the rabbett or groove formed in the said plane for the slider or
tongue of the upper carriage to work in; letter O, O, shews the round
iron bolt or axle by which the said plane is fixed within the under
carriage; letter P, P, P, shew the eye bolts fixed to the said plane,
through which the said bolt or axle passes. Section five, letter Q,
shows an iron jack, which I cause to be placed within a space cut at
the foot or end of the aforesaid plane, as letters R, R. In Section four,
letter S, S, shows the gudgeons by which the said jack is hung within
two hook bolts, fixel underneath the said plane, as letter T, T, T, in
the aforesaid Section four; letter U, U, shews the bar or rack of the
said jack; letter V, shews a pinion or small wheel fixed to the centre of
a large wheel, as letter W, but projecting therefrom, so as to work
within the notches of the bar or rack, and which wheels are fixed
within the box of the said jack by an iron bolt or axle passing through
their centre and resting on the front and back plate of the said jack;
letter X, shews another pinion or small wheel which is intended to act
in the aforesaid larger wheel, and by means of the handle of the jack,
as letter Y, which is fixed at the end of the same bolt or axle passing
through the said last mentioned pinion; letter Z, Z, shews the forma-
tion of the bottom of the bar, which is so made in order to let into an
iron locking plate, as letter A, fixed upon the under or truck transom,
as letter B, in Section three of the said carriage, the same first being
put into the large recess, as letter C, and afterwards moved under the
aforesaid plate, within the smaller recess, as letter D; letter E, E,
shew's a joint stop fastened to the said plate, in order to secure the bar

page_text: gun
therein; letter F, F, shows a paul or stop, in order to fasten or stay
the motion of the jack. Section six, letter G, shews the aforesaid
carriage with the plane fixed therein, and the jack placed at the foot or
end thereof; letter II, shews an eye bolt fixed on cach side of the
carriage to look the training tackles to in case it should be thought
necessary to apply them. Section sevon, letter 1, T, shows the two sides
of the upper carriage; K, K, K, K, K, K, shew the iron bolts and
wooden rails or transoms upon which the gun rests, by which the sides
of the said carriage are united and are morticed and tenanted together,
or fixed in any other manner; letter L, L, shews' a ring bolt fixed to
the said carriage for the purpose of receiving the breeching of the
through; letter M; M, shows an iron paul, made in an angular form,
but which is fixed so easily to the side of the upper carriage, that upon
its recoil from the firing of the gun, it will drop within the recesses cut
in the side of the under carriage, and in the plane shewn by letters
N, O, in Section six; and prevent the said upper carriage returning
forward; letter P, P, shew the recess in the said upper carriage in
which the trunion or axle of the gun is placed, and which is secured
therein by a cap square fastened over the trunion, as letter Q, Section
eight; letter R, R, shew the under part of the said upper carriage
with the aforesaid transoms and bolts fixed therein; letter S, S, S, S, S, S,
shew the trucks or rollers revolving upon iron bolts or axles passing
through the same, supported by the transoms and fixed within the sides
of the said carriage; upon which trucks or rollers this upper carriage
moves backwards and forwards upon the plane with great case;
letter T, T, shews the slider or tongue which I cause to be fixed to
the middle rails or transoms of the upper carriage, sliding within 'the
rabbett or groove of the plane, as letter N, N, Section four: Section
nine, letter V, shew's the whole of the said upper carriage in the
manner it appears upon the plane, with the slider fixed thereto; letter
W, W, show trucks or rollers, which, in case it should be thought more
convenient to leave the same placed on the outside of the carriage,
may be so fixed, instead of the mode described in Section 8, within the
sides of the said carriage, but in that ease it will be necessary the
under carriage and plane should-be made of wider dimensions. Section

page_text: ten, Figure 1, shews a truck or transporting wheel which is intended
to be fixed to each side on the under carriage; Figure 2, shows the -
bolt or axle upon which the said wheel acts; Figure 3, shews an
Hanoverian truck which is fixed underneath the truck transom at the
foot or end of the carriage, and which said wheels and Hanoverian
truck are intended to be used when the carriage is required to be
moved from place to place, by raising the same from its dependence.
upon the trucks or rollers, which by that means becomes rested upon
the aforesaid trucks or transporting wheels and Hanoverian. truck;
Figure 4, shews the handspike or lever placed in a socket, as Figure 5,
for the training of the carriage, but which may be placed in any
position to suit the situation of the trainer of the carriage, and on the
inside, if required; Figure 6, shews a cleet, upon which the handspike
or lever is intended to rest when the same is used to raise the paul of
the upper carriage out of the recess, in order to let the upper carriage
go forward; Figure 7, shews the bed and coin for the clevation and
depression of the gun; Figure 8, shews the bar by which the plane is
supported, and the said last mentioned Section also shews the whole of
my said Invention in its compleat state. Section 11, shews the other
side view of my said Invention, but without transporting wheels and
Hanoverian truck. And I, the said John Gover, do hereby declare and
intend that the aforesaid Drawings shall be taken as part of these
Presents.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the
Seventh day of January, in the thirty-seventh year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,. Defender of the
Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety-seven.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1797, the aforesaid John Gover 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,
and stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that
purpose.
Inrolled the Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.