IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES FOR THE CON- VEYANCE OF SHEEP AND OTHER ANIMALS ON RAILWAYS
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JEARY CANNON, of Cambridge, in the County of Cambridge, Solicitor, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Tenth day of February,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the eleventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Jeary Cannon, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial
license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Jeary Cannon, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Jeary Cannon, my exors, admors, or assigns, should 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES FOR THE CON-
VEYANCE OF SHEEP AND OTHER ANIMALS ON RAILWAYS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said William Jeary Cannon, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
band and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the

page_text: said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Jeary Cannon, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that
is to say:-
The Invention consists, in respect to cattle trucks, of introducing an open
flooring of transverse or lateral bars, slightly reeded or ridged, so as to secure
a sure footing for the cattle, composed of galvanized cast iron or other metal,
or wood, through which bars or open floors the urine and dung may pass into
a vessel or tank to be attached to the bottom of the carriage, from which
vessel or tank the contents may be drawn off by means of a tap or cock or
sluice, and deposited in a reservoir or tank to be provided for the purpose,
thus advantageously collecting the valuable manure now lost.
The above description applies to the construction of new carriages; but with
regard to existing trucks or carriages, such flooring is to be introduced above
the present floor, and the present flooring and sides are to be to the depth of
about two or three inches lined with sheets of galvanized iron or other incor-
rodible metal, so as to form a well or space for the reception of the urine,
and there should be a slight inclination at the bottom towards the cock or tap
or sluice, for drawing off the manure. The new flooring is to rest upon suffi-
cient supports, to be introduced for the purpose. I recommend that each cattlo
carriage should be divided into compartments, each for one head of cattle.
THE SHEEP AND SWINE TRUCKS.
The flooring of existing trucks to be lined or covered with sheets of
galvanized iron or of other metal or material, and small holes to be drilled or
perforated throughout the whole of the surface of the flooring, through which
the urine, &c. may run into a tank, to be attached to the bottom of such
flooring, such tank to be furnished with a cock or tap or sluice, towards
which it should slightly incline, for the purpose of drawing off the contents.
In new trucks the flooring should be composed either of wood covered with
thin sheets of galvanized iron, or be composed of sheets or plates of galvanized
iron, and sufficiently thick and stout to sustain the necessary weight without
any woodwork.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Jeary Cannon, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
W. J. (L.s.) CANNON,

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Ninth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid William Jeary Cannon came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-eight.