IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT DESCRIPTION OF PASSENGER CARRIAGES CALLED OMNIBUSES
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
HUNNYBUN and EDWARD VENDEN, of Cambridge, Coach Makers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twentieth day of November, in the ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Thomas Hunnybun and Edward Venden, our exors, admors, and
assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
we, the said Thomas Hunnybun and Edward Venden, our exors, admors,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Hunnybun and Edward
Venden, our exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT DESCRIPTION OF PASSENGER CARRIAGES
CALLED OMNIBUSES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
we, the said Thomas Hunnybun and Edward Venden, or one of us, shall cause
a particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Thomas Hunnybun and Edward Venden, do hereby declare that the nature of

page_text: as other arrangements of cranked axletrees heretofore applied to omnibuses.
The hinder parts of the back spring are connected to scroll irons m, fixed to
the body of the omnibus as shewn, and the fore parts of the back springs are
connected to eyes affixed to the body of the omnibus. By this arrangement
the shocks from the wheels and the weight of the body will be received in the
springs, and comparatively little strain will come to the vertical parts e¹, h', of
the axles, so as to cause them to bend towards each other, by which means we
are enabled to bring the body of an omnibus so low down that a passenger
may readily step from the roadway into the omnibus without any intermediate
step. And it is the application of such combination or arrangement of springs
and cranked axletrees, with plates i, to omnibuses, which constitutes the second
part of our Invention.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we would have it understood that we do
not claim any of the mechanical parts separately, nor do we confine ourselves
to the precise details herein described. But what we claim is,-
First, the applying the perch bolt behind the fore axletree, when combined
with the rounding-off or narrowing the fore part of the body of an omnibus,
together with recesses for the axles of the hind wheels, as above described;
and-
Secondly, we claim the application of cranked axles and springs with
plates or fixings i to omnibuses as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Hunnybun, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
THOMAS (L.s.) HUNNYBUN.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Thomas Hunnybun came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thou-