CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARS OR OTHER CARRIAGES, AND THE APPLICATION OF A POWER HITHERTO UNUSED FOR THAT PURPOSE TO DRAW THE SAME, WHICH POWER IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE DRAWING OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS, AND FOR RAISING WEIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1826

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
VINEY, of Shanklen, in the Isle of Wight, Colonel in the Royal Artillery, and
GEORGE POCOCK, of Bristol, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-six, in the seventh year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said James Viney and George Pocock,
His especial licence, that we, the said James Viney and George Pocock, our
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James Viney and
George Pocock, our exors, adññiors, 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, and also in
all His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, our Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARS OR OTHER CARRIAGES, AND
THE APPLICATION OF A POWER HITHERTO UNUSED FOR THAT PURPOSE TO DRAW THE
SAME, WHICH POWER IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE DRAWING OF SHIPS AND OTHER
VESSELS, AND FOR RAISING WEIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging us, the said James Viney
and George Pocock, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or
under the hand and seal of one of us, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be inrolled in His 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 there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
James Viney and George Pocock, do hereby declare that the nature of our
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, arc
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof
(that is to say) :-
This Patent is obtained for an Invention by which kites are made to act as
endyant sails, for the purpose of navigating or drawing vessels or drawing
carriages, for the purpose of raising weights or persons in the air, for life
preservers in cases of shipwreck, for signals, or for the hoisting of flags. The
peculiarities of these kites are:-First, they are rendered portable by folding
up, there being joints in the wings, and also in the standard. Second, there
is a moveable distender, by which the wings are spread. Third, they have four
lines by which their power is 'controlled or their course directed. Fourth, the
Invention also consists of attaching kite after kite at a convenient 'distance one
behind the other, by which plan an indefinite power may be obtained......
The Patent also includes carriages drawn by these kites. The peculiarities
of which are:-First, in the centre of front seat is a. T handle, the perpendicular
spindle of which, passing through the bed of the car, fits by a square at the lower
end into a horizontal small wheel, round which a strap or rope passes on to
another horizontal wheel fixed to the centre pivot of front axletree; by this
apparatus, called the guide, the course of the charvolant is directed. Second,
beneath the car, suspended by a spring, is a drag or regulator, acting by a lever
power or a windlass, by which the velocity is controlled or the machine stopped.
Third, a platform with wheels is attached behind, for the carrying a poney.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Pocock, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twants coron