A METHOD OF MAKING A CARRIAGE OR MACHINE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF AND FOR THE SHOOTING AND DISCHARGING THEREOUT COALS, LIME, SOIL, MANURE, STONES, GRAVEL, SAND, RUBBISH, AND OTHER MATERIALS, ON A CONSTRUCTION ENTIRELY NEW
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, HENRY
CLAY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Esquire, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by his Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day
of February, in the thirty-sixth year of His reign, gave and granted unto me,
the said Henry Clay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Clay,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, by myself and themselves, or by
my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such other person or
persons as I, the said Henry Clay, should at any time agree with, and no
other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
fourteen years therein expressed should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my new Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING A CARRIAGE OR
MACHINE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF AND FOR THE SHOOTING AND DISCHARGING THEREOUT
COALS, LIME, SOIL, MANURE, STONES, GRAVEL, SAND, RUBBISH, AND OTHER MATERIALS,
ON A CONSTRUCTION ENTIRELY NEW;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if I, the said Henry Clay, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one

page_text: calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
that then the said Letters l'atent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Clay, in pursuance of and in
compliance with the said proviso in the said recited Letters Patent contained, do
by this present Instrument declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained
in the Plans hereunto annexed, and which is explained and referred to in the
letters, figures, and words following (that is to say) :-
The Drawing No. 1 represents a frame, marked a, b, to be fixed on two
carriages supported by four wheels; No. 2 represents a side view; No. 3 repre-
sents a front view; No. 4 represents two seperate and distinct bodies, supported
by the said frame, which is placed on the carriages, and which said bodies are
marked C, D. These bodies act or turn separately on axles that are placed on the
said frame, and at a certain distance from the wheel axle for the fore body, marked
E, to clear any part of the fore carriage in shooting or discharging the loading,
which will fall between the frame and the fore and hind wheels, and which said
axles are marked e,f; No. 5 represents the shooting out the load of the hind body.
marked D, which must be discharged first, and will fall between the hind part
of the frame; No. 6 represents the shooting out the load of the first body,
marked C, which must be shot down after the other body, and return first to
its former situation; No. 7 represents the carriage without the tail boards, as
marked g, h, and without the head board of body D, marked i, which then
represents a waggon body compleat; the two cross bars in No. 1, marked k
&, prevent the body's falling further than necessary; m & n, in Nos. 1
and 4, represent supporters for the hind part of the bodys, which turn on a pin;
o, p. represent bars across for hanging the tail boards, and keeping the sides of
the bodys firm; q represents an addition fixed on the side of the hind body.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Clay, have to these Presents set and
put my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of March, in the
thirty-sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
Henry Clay came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the sixth year of
the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and
so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His
present Majesty King George the Third
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of March, in the year last above
written.