IMPROVEMENTS APPLI- CABLE TO TWO AND FOUR WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, REUBEN
DYER, of Boston, in the County of Lincoln, Brewer, 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 Ninth day of November
(One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven), in the eleventh year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Reuben Dyer, my exors, adññors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Reuben Dyer, my exors, adñors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Reuben Dyer, my exors, adñiors,
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 APPLI-
CABLE TO TWO AND FOUR WHEEL CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that I, the said Reuben Dyer, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: improvements applied thereto, which consist of combining wings or wheel
covers a, a, (covering the wheels, and preventing them throwing dirt in those
directions,) by rods or arms b, b, to the axletree of the carriage; hence the
wings will at all times retain the same relation or distance from the wheels.
Figure 2 shews another arrangement, in which, in place of having the arms
or rods 6 affixed to the axletree, they are affixed to the frame or shafts under
the body of the carriage. I, however, prefer the first arrangement, as in this
the second part of my Invention the wings or covers a rise and fall with the
springs of the carriage.
I would remark that it will be evident that in like manner either the first
or second part of my Invention might be applied to four-wheeled carriages.
I would remark that I am aware that wings have before been used over the
wheels of two and four wheeled carriages, but in such cases they have been
attached to the bodies of such carriages. I do not, therefore, claim the
application of wings generally. But what I claim is the combining wings
or covers a by suitable arms or rods b to the axletree of a two or four
wheeled carriage. And,
Secondly, I claim the combining wings or wheel covers a by suitable arms
or rods b with the shaft or frame under the bodies of two and four wheeled
carriages.
In witness whereof, I, the said Reuben Dyer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-eight.
REUBEN (L.S.) DYER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid Reuben Dyer 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
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-eight.