IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAMES AND BODIES OF CARRIAGES, WAGONS, CARTS, VANS, OR OTHER VEHICLES DRAWN BY HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Riley, of Whetstone, in the County of
Leicester, Engineer and Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAMES AND BODIES OF CARRIAGES,
WAGONS, CARTS, VANS, OR OTHER VEHICLES DRAWN BY HORSES OR OTHER
ANIMALS."
Scaled the 2nd March 1875, and dated the 7th September 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Riley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th September 1874..
I, CHARLES RILEY, of Whetstone, in the County of Leicester,
Engineer and Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAMES AND
BODIES OF CARRIAGES, WAGONS, CARTS, VANS, OR OTHER VEHICLES DRAWN BY
HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
•
This Invention relates to the construction of the frames and bodies of
carriages, wagons, carts, vans, or other vehicles by forming them with

page_text: bars of T Langle, trough, or other shaped iron, steel, or other metal rolled
to any section required, and bolted, rivetted, or welded together, whereby
great strength is obtained with lightness as compared with those
constructed with wood as heretoforc.
The frames and bodies of carriages and other vehicles constructed in
accordance with my Invention may be lined with and have panels of
wood metal or other material applied to the spaces between the angle or
other iron or metal bars forming the bodies, the surfaces of the bars
affording support thereto. The bearings for the wheels are also affixed
to the metal frames, by which great stability is given to the whole
structure.
The employment of metal bars as above described also affords great
facility for constructing carriages or other vehicles with three wheels.
The bodies of carriages or other vehicles thus constructed are not so
liable to injury from expansion and contraction arising from exposure to
the weather as when constructed of wood alone.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Riley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES 2
RILEY, of Whetstone, in the County of Leicester, Engineer and Machinist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the 2
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Riley, Her special
license that I, the said Charles Riley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Riley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and,

page_text: I would remark that I am aware that the frames or bodies of
thrashing machines have been formed with angle, trough, and other
sections of iron arranged for the purpose of forming bearings for the
support of the axes or working parts of such machines, I therefore make
no claim thereto, but what I claim is, the improved construction of the
frames and bodies of carriages, wagons, carts, vans, and other similar
vehicles drawn by horses or other animals with bars of TL angle,.
trough, or other shaped iron, steel, or other metal, substantially in the
manner herein-before described.
:
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Riley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
CHARLES RILEY. (L.S.)
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London, W.C.