IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING APPARATUS TO CARRIAGES TO FACILITATE THE DRAFT
Year: 1846

page_text: BOYDELL'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BOYDELL, of Oak Farm Works, near Dudley, Iron Master, 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 Twenty-ninth day of
August, in the tenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Boydell, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said James Boydell, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said James Boydell, my exors, adññors, 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 APPLYING APPARATUS TO
CARRIAGES TO FACILITATE THE DRAFT;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that I, the said James Boydell, 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 hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled 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
James Boydell, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon; that is to say :-
My Invention consists of a mode of applying moveable detached parts of 5
a railway to the wheels of carriages, whereby each part is successively placed
by its wheel in the road or land over which the carriage is to pass, each piece
of the railway, when down, allowing its wheel to roll over it, and the wheel
lifts the pieces of the railway successively, and holds each piece in such position
as to deposit it correctly when that part of the wheel which carries a part of
the railway again comes near the earth, by which means a railway will con-
tinuously be formed and broken up as the carriage is drawn along on a road or
over land, by which the power required to draw a given load will be reduced.
DESCRIPTION OF THE. DRAWING.
The Drawing A shows a side view of a wheel, and A¹ a transverse section
thereof, with apparatus applied according to my Invention; a, part of railway
over which the wheel is now rolling. The railway is composed of detached
parts, each depending on the wheel for its action. b, slot; c, cogs, either in
the hollow of the wheel or outside; e, pin to work in slot; f, the attachment
of the rail in the slot, which, when on the ground, allows the wheel to go round
without touching it; g, the point where the rail is taken off the ground, being
steadied in going round at the point h by the cog i. The rail being brought
to the top of the wheel, the rail changes its position and gets fixed in the
cog j, k. The rail now is supported by cog 1; m, part of railway now coming
down to be flat on the ground when the wheel is leaving the rail a. The
slots may either go through, if the wheel is prepared for it, or work on each
side, as shewn in the section. The wheel B shews a cast-iron wheel working
through the slots on the same principle.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
I perform the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the details so long as the peculiar character of the Invention be retained.
And I would have it understood that what I claim is, the mode of forming a
railway for carriage wheels of separate parts independent of each other, and
depending on their connection with the wheels for their action.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Boydell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
JAMES (L.S.) BOYDELL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1847, the aforesaid James Boydell came before our
said Ladly the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.