Improvements in Road Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Road Vehicles.
WILLIAM SKERRY 48 Snow Street Newcastle on Tyne Railwayman do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The usual way two wheeled vehicles are fitted out is to provide them with one
pair of shafts only and this pair of shafts is for the use of one horse except where
a trace horse is used.
The novelty and subject of this invention consists in providing one or two
additional shafts to two wheeled vehicles that by this extra shaft or shafts a means
is provided by which two horses are to be yoked side by side. The manner in
which this is carried out is as follows. The extra shaft or shafts is fixed in the
centre of the vehicle.
In making use of two shafts I fix them close together but one answers the
same by providing for the inside parts of each horse's harness being attached to
this centre shaft whilst the outside shafts are fixed at a sufficient distance to allow
room for a horse between each of them and the centre shaft, thus I make three
shafts answer for two horses. The improvements and advantages claimed for this
my invention are these 1st that by its use a pair of horses attached to a two wheeled
vehicle can do more work and do it more easily then they could with two separate
carts or with a four wheeled vehicle of any description because four wheels adds
both weight and friction. 2nd that a vehicle fitted in this manner will cost little
more then half that of a four wheeled one. 3rd that the horses can be changed
one at a time without having to let the shafts down.
Dated this 15th day of February 1894.
WILLIAM SKERRY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Road Vehicles.
I WILLIAM SKERRY of 48 Snow Street in the City and County of Newcastle-
on-Tyne Railwayman do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
This invention relates to improvements in road vehicles.
According to the usual way which two-wheeled vehicles are fitted out they
are provided with one pair of shafts only and this pair of shafts is for the use of
one horse except where a trace horse is used.
The novelty and subject-matter of this invention consists in providing one or two
additional shafts to two-wheeled vehicles in order that by this extra shaft or shafts
means may be provided whereby two horses can be yoked side by side.
The manner in which this is carried out is as follows reference being had to the
plan-views shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings in which the
extra shaft S (Fig. 1) is shown fixed in the centre of the vehicle V.
In making use of two extra shafts I fix them close together as shown at S' S¹ in
Fig. 2 but one will answer the same purpose by providing that the inside parts of
the harness of each horse shall be attached to the centre shaft S as shown in Fig. 1,
the outside shafts S2 being fixed at a sufficient distance away to allow room for a
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page_text: horse between each of them and the centre shaft or shafts; thus I adapt three or
four shafts to a two-wheeled vehicle so that two horses can be yoked thereto.
The improvements and advantages claimed for this construction are as
follows;
By the arrangement described the work of a pair of horses can be more usefully
applied; the cost of the vehicle thus fitted will be much less than a corresponding
four-wheeled one; changing horses is facilitated; vibration is reduced and horses
thus yoked will ease each other.
The harness will be arranged as regards each horse and each pair of shafts in the
usual or in any convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
The use of a two-wheeled vehicle fitted with three or four shafts (S, S², S2 Fig. 1
or S¹, S1, S2, S2, Fig. 2) secured to the body of the vehicle the several parts being
arranged and adapted for use substantially as and for the purposes herein set
forth.
Dated this 19th day of Sentember 1894
W. SKERRY,
Applicant.