AN APPARATUS FOR RAISING HEAVY LOADS IN CARTS OR OTHER RECEPTACLES CONTAINING THE SAID LOADS, WHEN IT IS REQUIRED THAT THE UNLOADING SHOULD TAKE PLACE AT ANY CONSIDERABLE ELEVATION ABOVE THE GROUND
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
GOODACRE, of Ullesthorpe, in the County of Leicester, Gentleman, send
greeting.
I
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Tenth day of September, in the, fourth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Robert Goodacre, Her especial license that I, the said Robert Goodacré,
my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Goodacre;
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 ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"AN APPARATUS FOR RAISING HEAVY LOADS IN CARTS OR OTHER RECEPTACLES
CONTAINING THE SAID LOADS, WHEN IT IS REQUIRED THAT THE UNLOADING SHOULD
TAKE PLACE AT ANY CONSIDERABLE ELEVATION ABOVE THE GROUND;" in which said
Letters is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Robert Goodacre, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, and to cause. the same to be enrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the 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
Robert Goodacre, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist in a frame having the means of raising by machinery attached thereto

page_text: four ropes, to which the load, whatever it is, which is to be elevated is to be
attached by the application of power to one part only of the said machinery.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Robert Goodacre,
do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
annexed, and to the figures, letters, and explanations written thereon, that is
apparatus; and similar letters are used to denote similar parts in all the
Drawings. E, E, are two struts to strengthen the frame. By the arrange-
ments shewn in this Drawing, and the explanations written upon it, it will
be seen that the chain or rope C is in fact an endless chain or rope, which,
when set in motion by the central roller or wheel at F, turns both the rollers
R at the same time, and in the same degree, so that any load in any recep-
tacle attached to the hooks at the ends of the ropes g, g, would, by turning
the roller or wheel at F, be elevated to any required height within the scope
of the apparatus. The Drawing represents the rollers R as turning in the
same direction, but, by a lengthening and variation of the said rope or chain,
they may move in different directions if required. This apparatus, among
various purposes to which it can be applied, would be applicable to the raising
of a load of hay or corn to put it on a rick, or the raising of a carpenter or
bricklayer, with his materials and tools, to perform any work at any elevated
portion of a building.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention the apparatus aforesaid; and such
my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and
never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her said Dominion of Wales,
or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specifi-
cation of the same, and that I do verily believe this my Specification doth
comply, in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso
in the 'said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore
I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention=
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Goodacre, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
ROBT (L.S.) GOODACRE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid Robert Goodacre came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
5 written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-one.

page_text: It is intended to use a Wheel at F but the same being outside the
Frame could not be represented in Fig 1 without obscuring the
Machinery at F. the following sketch whilst it shews a side view of
said Wheel exhibits also a view of the roller or wheel F.
The roller about 8in in diameter. The dark
Line represents a grove in the Roller made to
receive pieces of Iron in the inside of the
wrappers to hinder them from shipping round.
Iron wrappers going round the roller and wi
can be moved backwards or forwards in
the direction of the grove.
The wheel indented in the middle so as
more effectually to hold the rope.
NB. The Roller does not go into the posts, but
has its ends resting on blocks as represented by
Bin Fig 1. The same observation applies to the
Wheel E