IMPROVEMENTS OF COACHES AND OTHER WHEEL CARRIAGES, SO AS TO RENDER THEM MORE EASY, SAFE, AND CONVENIENT TO THOSE THAT ARE CONVEYED IN THEM, AND LESS BURDENSOME TO THE HORSES THAT DRAW THEM: THAT WE HAVE LATELY INVENTED AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION A SPRING OF A PECULIAR KIND, WHICH WILL BE ABUNDANTLY LIGHTER AND LESS LIABLE TO DISORDER THAN ANY OTHER FOR THE ABOVE PURPOSES HITHERTO USED, AND WHICH SPRING IS FORMED BY TWO BRACES, UNITED AT THE ENDS AND DIVIDED IN THE MIDDLE BY A STEEL
Year: 1754

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, SAMUEL
BUTLER and JOHN WRIGHT, of the City of London, Coachmakers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Second, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, & so forth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of January
last reciting (that whereas we, the said Samuel Butler and John Wright, had,
by our Petition, humbly represented to His said Majesty that we had, with
great study, labour, and expence, for many years last past employed ourselves
in the "IMPROVEMENTS OF COACHES AND OTHER WHEEL CARRIAGES, SO AS TO
RENDER THEM MORE EASY, SAFE, AND CONVENIENT TO THOSE THAT ARE CONVEYED
IN THEM, AND LESS BURDENSOME TO THE HORSES THAT DRAW THEM: THAT WE
HAVE LATELY INVENTED AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION A SPRING OF A PECULIAR
KIND, WHICH WILL BE ABUNDANTLY LIGHTER AND LESS LIABLE TO DISORDER THAN
ANY OTHER FOR THE ABOVE PURPOSES HITHERTO USED, AND WHICH SPRING IS FORMED
BY TWO BRACES, UNITED AT THE ENDS AND DIVIDED IN THE MIDDLE BY A STEEL

page_text: WORM IN TWO TRIANGLES; AND THAT, AS WE ARE THE FIRST AND ONLY CONTRIVERS
AND MAKERS OF THE SAID NEW-INVENTED SPRING, AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE
OF PUBLICK UTILITY BY RENDERING COACHES AND OTHER WHEEL CARRIAGES MORE
SAFE, EASY, LESS LIABLE TO DISORDER, AND CONSEQUENTLY CHEAPER TO HIS
MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS," and therefore praying IIis said Majesty to grant to us,
our executors, adiñors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use
and benefit of our said Invention, for the term of fourteen years, according to
the Statute in that case made and provided), did, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Samuel Butler and John Wright, our executors,
admors, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that we, the said Samuel Butler and John Wright, our executors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by us and themselves, or by our and
their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as we, the said
Samuel Butler and John Wright, our executors, adññiors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the said term of years, should and lawfully, might make,
use, exercise, and vend our said Invention within that part of the Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to us, our executors, adiñiors, and assigns, or
any of them, should seem meet, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted or mentioned to be
granted unto us, the said Samuel Butler and John Wright, our executors,
admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said recited Letters Patent; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if we, the said Samuel Butler
and John Wright, or one of us, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or the
hand and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery within three kalender months next and immediately after
the date thereof, that then the same Letters Patent, and all libertys and
advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as by the said recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Butler and John Wright, in
pursuance of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby
describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is performed, as follows, viz* :-

page_text: A spring to be applyed to coaches, and all kind of wheel carriages, formed
y two braces united at the ends, and divided in the middle by a steel worm or
ircle into two triangles.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Butler and John Wright,
have to this present Instrument sett our hands and seals, this Eigh-
teenth day of March, in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of our
said Sovereign Lord King George the Second, and in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-four.
Inrolled the aforesaid Eighteenth day of March, in the year above said.