Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
GODFREY, of Elliotts Row, in the Parish of Saint George's, Southwark, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting..
WHEREAS His present Majesty. King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Sixth day, of April last, did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Godfrey,.my.executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Godfrey, my
executors, administrators,. and assigns, and every of them, by myself and
themselves, or by. my and their deputy. or deputies, servants or agents, or
such, others, as I, the said Samuel Godfrey, my exors, or admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all
times, thereafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, the certain Invention therein
particularly, mentioned, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed,, in such manner as to me, the said Samuel Godfrey, my executors,
adiiors, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretion seem
meet; in which said Letters Patent is also, among other things, contained a
provisoe or condition for my particularly describing and ascertaining the nature
of my said Invention, and by what means the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my band and seal, and for my causing the same to
be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar

page_text: month next and immediately after the date of those His snid Majesty's Letters
Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent, rolation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in, compliance with the said provisoc, and per-
formance of such condition, I, the said Samuel Godfrey, closcribing and
ascertaining the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, do declare that the nature of the Invention, being, as in the
said Patent, is described, "A MACHINE WHICH IN OPERATIONS OF DRAFT AND
BURDEN WILL RELIEVE THE LABOUR OF THE ANIMALS USUALLY EMPLOYED," in order
to those ends and purposes, consists of a combination of impollant and moving
powers, many of which have been hitherto frequently applied to the raising
weights in a perpendicular direction, but which are by this Invention arrangod
and employed so as to accomplish, in a manner never before effected, the
draught, in conveyance of burdens and other objects of labour, in directions
horizontal; hence, in the variety of cases in which tho said Invention and
improvement may be employed, according to different purposes and situa-
tions, it would be iminpossible to describe them so minutely as to admit of no
variations; but the general principles being adhered to, it will be sufficient to
furnish such a description, as may make the utility of them for the different
purposes, or the most material ones to which they may be applied, clearly
understood, and the more especially from their being no mysteries attached to
the said Invention, which will not, on the occular examination of its different
parts and combinations, fully explain themselves to any common capacity.
But with regard more particularly to the principles of tho said Invention,
their combination and application to some of the operations of draft and
burden, which would, but for the application of those principles necessarily
continue to be more extensively performed by the animal hitherto usually
employed, that is to say, in wheel carriages or vehicles of burden and draught,
I have drawn with all the accuracy in my power, a perspective of a wheel
carriage, combined and put together according to the principles of my said
Invention, and also views of such of its recondite parts as I could not in such
perspective fully and satisfactorily elucidate, unto which I have added a
particular explanation, as, by reference to the same as above set forth, will
more fully appear.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Godfrey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
SAM (1.5.) GODFREY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixth day of May, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Samuel Godfrey came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
5 also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Sixth day of May, in the year above written.

page_text: A. A The fly wheels which are to be put into a rotulary motion. This may be done by B the primary Lever C the axis of the fly wheels and of a pinion or toothed wheel between thems
resting in D.D.D. two parallel arches and communicating motion to E and E a pair of toothed wheels one on each side of the pinion at C..F.F. two smaller wheels concentric to E and E by
which is meant wheels placed anywhere on the same axis) or attached to them or a row of teeth in the plane surface of E and E. G. G. two communicating toothed wheels which continue
the motion they receive from FF. to HH" and they to H." I which communicate the same either in a similar a multiplied or a diminished ratio, according to the respective proportions, construction
number and circumference of contact of all the said communicating wheels to I. I. two sphero-cenhic wheels K.K. Fig 2 shows the form of the said sphero centric wheels and of their receptacle L. Fig 3
a ball moving in the receptacle K. K fig 2 which it nearly fits M the vale perforating the Ball through its center IV. N. Three stops or bolts of which two only are here represented equidistant on the ball
I and at right angles with the axle II having their piction relieved by rollers or rings and bearing against 0.0.0. Fig 2. Three circular upertures in the receptacle carrying round with them the axles
M fig 1 and also P.P.P.P. four of the ground wheels at the two extremities of the machine turned by means of the axles II. M. or by any other adequate communication with the wheels II. or instead of the
communicating wheels F F F by any competent communication with the fly wheels as by drum wheels connected by thongs cords or chains Q. Q. fig 1 and 4 the perch connected with R. Rutwo cradled
or frames, drawn nearer or set further from each other by S.S. screws passing through and turning within I a perforated perpendicular plate in the Ceadle V. the perforated head of the screw which
with W a mit fix it on the other side of the plate make the cradle advance to or recide from the perch and each other as the screw turns XX a pair of circular plates or rings in the cradle large enough
to admit the axles to turn to a sufficient angle and to whose internal plane surface are added or made part of them Y. fig 4 Rings whose outer curvilinear surfaces are channelled and receive the pair of
parallel circles K.K. fig 2 of the receiptacles which revolve round them fig 2. ZZZ. three or more small wheels or friction Rollers in each of the said rings of the said, receptacles (or in the additional
rings when the receptacle rings are channelled. a. a Two collar bolts or seruws perforating, B. b two Transums which said screws are set and secured by nuts, & fig 5 a collar moving up and down
according to the elevation or depression of the said collar bolts d. d. uprights in the frame work of the machine which is there connected with the perch by means of its collar and of ere plates
attached to the collar and to the perch by which contrivances and of the screws S. S. the wheels H? and H? are set and made to bear in a proper direction on the sphero-centric, wheels I. and I._
- f. f. Two pair of levers / of which only two appears connected with the axles by collars or rings furnished with friction rollers to effect one of the various modes of turning or changing the direction of the
machine 19.g. arches or sectors connecting the levers in pairs and haveroing between h.h. two pair of rollers to maintain their elevation i i cords or chains by which or by bars and cranks one or both of
the two and axles are made to advance or recede, k.k. k.k.k shiwrs over which the cords or chains pass to t.t. two turning or directing levers (when this operation is not performed by a wheel or
Windlass or otherwise). M.M. shieves relieving their bearing by a bord or Thong. Fig 6 shews either side of the nave so founed and furnished with catches or stops, n. fig 3 as to revolve
in part round the axles or the ground wheels or any of them may be wholly unlocked from their axles by means (among others / of screw w joints in the axles or of ratchets or ratchet wheels
turning and limitted by screws which are tumed and limitted by a curved rack prohruding from the frames R.R, and so applied as to fall according to the rotation wanted, which method
being seldom requisite is not represented to preserve the simplicity of the Drawing 0.0 the middle ground wheels on which the principal wright or burden to be conveyed are intended to bear
whereby the friction which would otherwise be excessive at and near the two extreme parks of the machine is relieved and the framing necessary to the combination of its several parks supported which
relief constitutes one of the material identities of this invention. p The place of the Conductor or Conductors may be varied or divided at discretion, the upper levers being varied accordingly or the fly wheels
put in motion (whether constantly or occasionally / by toothed wheels pinions or windlass (thrown in and out of ger at pleasure / and any toothed wheel or set of teeth concertric to the flyps or even
without such flyp or they may be set in motion by any other kind of impulse adequate to that effect. q. a projecting object connected with the fore axle M showing to the conductor the angle effected by
the levers II and directing his sight. Fig 7 shows the form of the globular and of all the acles or spindles which nearly fit into r, Fig & one of the hollow-Cylinders (set in corresponding direc=
tions in the two parallel arches D.D./receiving said balls s. s. screws to fit the bylinders and thereby the inter-revolving wheels so as to work with the utmost accuracy_t screw heads or bottoms to the-
Cylinders for the same purpose whereby the axle rests on and touches only in three or at most four points (r) The place of a friction board lever or girt which retards, or stops the machine when
-pressed against the fly wheels by means of a cord or other communication, u.u. hoo heavy balls covered with elastic materials attached hansversely to the lever B and striking corresponding protu-
berances of the fly wheels TV. W two hinges in the transverse permitting the balls to yield to the returning impulse of the flys and thereby as little as possible impede their increasing rupidity
if the lever be not removed with sufficient, adroitness I a wright restoring the balls immediately to their horizontal position by
I a weight restoring the balls immediately to their horizontal position by means of a cord or shing passing to the Balls over y.r.
sheaves or rollers Z. Z.Z. the remaining frame work Fig t is therefore the perspective of the whole carriage without its burden It may be constructed of wood and metal of such sorts and
nor too ductile and the wood work must be of such scantling and seasoning
proportions as its purposes and the burden intended to be carry'd require but the metals must not be too fragile.
on
as not to be liable to contact expand warp or swell so as to separate any contiguous part or derange the communication of motion or increase the friction, it is represented as a six whell
are still adhered to _ however as tor
Carriage but the number both of its ground and other wheels may be reduced or increased and their positions varied at discretion provided the principles.
position my experiments convince me that the placing the communicating wheels from the pinion or axis of to the receptacle wheels I. & I in a curve is perferable to a straight line as thef
communicating wheels thereby act as angular and not as direct or straight levers towards those two extreme object of motion the ground wheels P.P.P.P. the friction of this machine is dimi-
nished by reducing every moving surface of contact to the utmost minuteness and by substituting the contact of co-revolving surfaces which as it were only touch and.
d go in lieu of those which
rub one against another this may be accomplished by the cycloidal epicycloidal or curvilinear form of all the Cogs or teeth throughout the machine and by the spindles or axles terminating
in a Ball which nearly fits into a hollow cylinder or by cylindric axles turning within a moving set or box of surrounding balls and by many
other methods now in practice for reducing
piction whether the same are limitted by patents or otherwise but so as not to prejudice their respective patentees but as many of the methods heretofore proposed by mechanics for the relict of
friction depend on theory and many others on the doubtful result of inaccurate experiments the inventor does not limit or rest the action of his machine upon any particular method recom-
mending only a discretionary application of oil or other unctuous matter and proper repository's for diffusing the same over the parts acting in contact with each other as also such
covering for the machinery as may be best calculated to secure it from wet and dust with regard to the power and operations of the machine to the wright it will carry to the setting it
in motion and to the accellerating or retarding its speed much depend not only on the discretion and exertions of the conductor or conductors and on its dimensions and proportions but also
on the weight applied or attached to the fly wheels (which may be of a bylindric or other form / either regularly throughout their eircumference or at their quadratards or other segments
an advantage may also be gained in the first setting the machine in motion by stop hinges in the radii or flaps on the circumference of the fly wheels so that a part of their weight
may lie back on their periphery, any tremulous motion should be corrected by gripes collars or
• tremulous motion should be corrected by gripes collars or other confining instruments attached to the contiguous framing Cases of draught or labor may
occur where this method of setting the machinery in motion by any impulse acting on the fly wheels may be detached from and their force applied consistent with the principles of this Invention
independent of many other parts of the machine to cranes and other machinery any of the stops or drags employd to prevent the too rapid or rehograde motion of other Carriages on steep
hills will be applicable to this. The reduction of labor to the animals usually employed in the operations of draught and burden by this machine will be in proportion to the superiority
of the force and powers of the Machine over the centripetal or force of gravity of that and its burden with the impediments of friction and whatever other resistance is to be overcome in the operations
of draught and burden and also in proportion to its public use and adoption _ Finally in every view which the Inventor has both as to the original properties and the general application
of the invention confident of the importance of the one and the utility of the other and secure in the Patent granted him thereof which expresly requires and strictly commands all ando
they be within his said Majesty's
"every person and persons bodies politic and corporate and all other his Majesty's subjects whatsower of what estate quality degree name or condition ovever:
"dominions therein described that neither they. nor any of them at anytime during the continuance of the term of fourteen years thereby granted either directly or indirectly make use or puit
"in practise the said invention or any part of the same or in anywise counterfeit imitate or resemble the same nor make or cause to be made any addition thereto or subhaction from the same
for themselves the inventor or inventors devisor or devisors without the consent of the Inventor his executors administrative or
"whereby to pretend himself.
in writing under his or their
assigns
hands and seals first had and obtained in that behalf" the the Inventor takes this method of declaring his determination not to suffer any impringement of these his patent rights to
pais unnoticed by the Laws in force for their protection for though as a friend to the public welfare he shall ever be happy to witness the progress of feublic improvement yet he shall hold its
-duty consistent with that character to prevent to the utmost of his power every trifling Imitator from intruding on the rights of original inventions or superseding those advantages
which are the just recompense of the labor and perseverance attending their accomplishment.
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