CERTAIN MACHINERY POR IMPROVING ROADS
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LAWRENCE
HOLLISTER,..of Norfolk Street; in the Parish of Saint Marylebone, in the
County of Middlesex, Artist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His-most Excellent Majesty King. George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great.
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of May, in the
forty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Lawrence.
Hollister, His especial licence that I, the said Lawrence Hollister, during the
term of years therein mentioned, should and, lawfully might use," exercise, and.
vend, within England,, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Inven- .
tion of CERTAIN MACHINERY POR IMPROVING ROADS;" in which said Letters.
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Lawrence Hollister, .
by, an instrument in writing under, my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of, the said: Invention,, and in what manner the same.
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month after the date of. the said recited Letters Patent, .
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto, had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Lawrence Hollister, in compliance with
the proviso in the said Letters Patent granted unto nie for certain machinery
for the purpose of cleansing and repairing roads, do hereby declare the
meaning and intention of my Invention in manner and form following, that is
to say:
My said Invention consists of two or more wheels. double tyred on an iron

page_text: axletree or axletrees, on which I place springs supporting a large board,
which I call a bed or bottom, to which I fasten my machinery, which has an
augular piece of iron, see L, L, in Drawing annexed, the lower part of which
represents the edge of a knife, with three uprights in the same form working
through the bed in spring sockets by means of a rack, which rack hath holes
to put pins in the socket; as also three other sockets in the same manuer, to
which I attach two curved or simicircular irons, which I call rutlers, the bottoms
of which are formed as the angular one, into which by the motion of the
machine, the dirt, gravel, or earth is collected from the sides of each rutt or
furrow made by the wheels of carriages, and returned through an open part in
each rutler into the rutts or furrows so continuing the gravel on the road.
These irons I secure by a cross bar, and each or all are raised higher or let
lower as found necessary by means of pinions in cocks F, in Fig. 1, fastened to
the bed by screws, and by the use of the racks, aforesaid; behind those rutlers is
a board, which I call a tail board, secured to the bed, to which a harrow is fixed
to level new laid gravel, and may be used or disused at pleasure from the
outside of each rutler, they taking the rutts or furrows made by the wheels of
carriages; as also from the front point of the angular iron, to take the middle
of the road, I fasten chains or ropes, holes being made for that purpose, and
took to the front of the bed, or to the shafts, or other parts of the machine, as
preventors, when the roads are so heavy as to endanger the works. At the
extreeme ends of the tail board, or to the bed, or other parts of the machine, is
fastened a roller or rollers to take the roads so levelled as before described by
the rutlers, &c. to press and role it, occasioning the wett to rise and run off' it,
thereby making it more firm without scraping, consequently will require much
less gravel than by the present method of scraping roads, see the Drawings
and explanation hereunto annexed, whereby the same are more particularly
described. Other modes I have adopted to produce the same effect; as, for
instance, the fixing the bed or bottom so as to be drawn on three or four
wheels, and an iron stay may be fixed from the tail board or hind end of the
bed or bottom to act as a pressure on the harrows should an extra weight be
required to any large quantity of gravel; and further, in addition to the afore-
said semicircular rutlers may be added two scrapers of a like form as scrapers,
which may be rose up or let down at discretion, and which will gather up all
the dirt, gravel, &c., that may escape the rutlers; over the roller or rollers is
suspended a scraper K to keep them from dirt, &c. which may adhere thereto.
To secure the works from injury by weather, a box the size of a bed is put on
the top thereof, divided into partitions and folding covers; in the front part will

page_text: be put stones or other weight, when required, the better to ballance the
machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lawrence Hollister, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and two.