AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROOPS AND UPPER QUARTERS OF LANDAUS, LANDAULETS, BAROUCHE-LANDAUS, BAROUCHES, BAROUCHETS, CURRICLES, AND OTHER CARRIAGES, THE UPPER PARTS OF WHICH ARE MADE TO FALL DOWN
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
LUCAS BIRCH, of Great Queen Street, in the Parish of Saint Giles-in-the-
Fields, and County of Middlesex, Coach Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of
July, in the forty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Lucas Birch, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Charles Lucas Birch, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the
term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROOPS
AND UPPER QUARTERS OF LANDAUS, LANDAULETS, BAROUCHE-LANDAUS, BAROUCHES,
BAROUCHETS, CURRICLES, AND OTHER CARRIAGES, THE UPPER PARTS OF WHICH ARE
MADE TO FALL DOWN;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said Charles Lucas Birch, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Lucas Birch, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following, that is to say:-
Frame and fix in the top quarter rails to the tops of the standing pillars
and slats, and fix the slats to the neck-plates, rabbit the inner parts of the
standing pillars, the top quarter rails and the slats, and board them with thin
deals or any other proper material. Let the crown pieces or cornice rails be
long enough to bevel or mitre into the corners of the top of the standing
pillars, and let in the hinges and thimble catches on the top of the crown
pieces and top of the quarter rails; fix on the hoop sticks and back and front
rails, and board them all up, except the two hoop sticks which are nearest to
the hinges, which may be placed as close as possible to admit of the head
striking conveniently low. Conceal or let in one or more boxed locks to the
centre hoop sticks, or at least the hoop sticks which unite the thimble catches,
and fix them so as that they may be opened by a key on the inside of the
carriage. Stretch strong canvass or other fit material. and nail it or otherwise
fasten it, both on the inside, and the outside of the slats and elbows, and stuff'
it between with flocks or tow, or other fit material. Likewise stretch and
nail on or fasten canvas or any other proper material to the top hook sticks
on the roof, which are nearest to the hinges, before you put on the leather
covering.
In witness whereof, I, tlie said Charles Lucas Birch, 'have hereunto set
my land and seal the Twenty-first day of August. in the rear of our