MAKING OR BUILDING WHEELED CARRIAGES FOR COACHES, CHARIOTS, PHETONS, CALASHES, GIGGS, CHAISES, WAGGONS, CARTE, DRAYS, FIELD PIECES, AND OTHERS WITH BOXES AND AXLE TREES, ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, WHEREBY THE GREATEST PART OF THE FRICTION ATTENDING BOXES AND AXLE TREES HERETOFORE MADE IS TAKEN OFF, AND SUCH NEW INVENTED CARRIAGES ARE RENDERED PAR MORE LIGHT AND EASY FOR WORK AND DRAUGHT THAN ANY HERETOFORE MADE, AND WHICH SAID BOXES ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN HYDRAULIC, STEAM, AND OTHER ENGINES, MILLS, AND MACHINERY WHERE SPINDLES, AXLE TREES, CRANKS, OR ARBORS ARE USED, WHICH DO NOT WORK ON CENTRE POINTS
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third hath, by His
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of December
last, been most graciously pleased to give and grant unto me, John Shankster,
of Great Pultney Street, in the parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Oval Turner, and my exors, aduiors, and assigns, for
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, especial licence, full
power, sole privilege, and authority to make, use, and vend, within that
part of Great Britain called England, His said Majesty's Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new invented method of "MAKING OR
BUILDING WHEELED CARRIAGES FOR COACHES, CHARIOTS, PHETONS, CALASHES, GIGGS,
CHAISES, WAGGONS, CARTE, DRAYS, FIELD PIECES, AND OTHERS WITH BOXES AND
AXLE TREES, ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, WHEREBY THE GREATEST PART OF THE
FRICTION ATTENDING BOXES AND AXLE TREES HERETOFORE MADE IS TAKEN OFF, AND
SUCH NEW INVENTED CARRIAGES ARE RENDERED PAR MORE LIGHT AND EASY FOR
WORK AND DRAUGHT THAN ANY HERETOFORE MADE, AND WHICH SAID BOXES ARE ALSO
APPLICABLE IN HYDRAULIC, STEAM, AND OTHER ENGINES, MILLS, AND MACHINERY
WHERE SPINDLES, AXLE TREES, CRANKS, OR ARBORS ARE USED, WHICH DO NOT WORK
ON CENTRE POINTS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said John Shankster, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
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 said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one month next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, otherwise the said
of

page_text: Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and be void, as in and by the said Royal Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the said Letters Patent, and of the
above-mentioned proviso therein contained, I, the said John Shankster, do
hereby ascertain, disclose, discover, and describe my said Invention in the
manner and form following (that is to say):-
As well by the representation of such boxes and axle trees, and also of the
carriages hereunder delineated, as by the several references thereunto here-
under written, and by me subscribed, and which said boxes, axle trees, and
other works, with respect to their several dimensions and strength, may be
varied according to the several uses..and-purposes to which the same may be
applied.
As witness my hand and seal, this Fifth day of January, in the twenty-
sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six:

page_text: Ban for Cancro Wheel) is to ach
The said internal Ban or Cancer Wheel, which is to wark upam the pin ar spinille
Figure in the centre of the External Ban and also in the centre of the cover to the
sume, Figure 2, or with such Pin order working in the centre holes of the external Ban
and Cover Anden the inside of the centre of the internal Banis cavity to be leth sufficient
to contain a spinge with a merely to supply the Pin m Spindle, and which from the
smallness of its demand will last several manthes without replenishing, But the
alebees and Bares at the parts they respectively work together neither require grenson oil
The cover to the caternal Ban themegh the holo of which, figure the paint of the Acle-tre
enters the upper part of the internal Boo for canave Wheel) and there turning si
turns faster armare on an average than the internal Bar consequently has littloerna
friction Figaro holes in the caternal Boy and cover for screws by which they are
to bomado fast to each other which may be done by any other maile
to The hole Figure 5may be variedrin so uch discretion forrecting the state.
The auto-tree the square whereof the wheels are to be fixed in the centre of themares
and kept therear by incans of all countersunk in the Navo and screwed my tho alo
tree just above the point, figuro5wlich ab figure arters the internal ban.
Figure 6 shows the shall part of the walo tree which works in the cylindrical or Canical
Tibical part thereof, Figure 1, arid by which the wheels will form different or retragude
motions at the same time and than suffer the Carriage to turn without the least obstruction
ddle trees upon the samo principle with bubuniting and harming in different parts of the
Tibes and Shafts, as shown in the plate, either of which tubes may be made of wood heaped
withriram or any other metal, anib Teph together by a pin or screw. Figure 8.
Is the front view of the aeterna ba ar bracket frame, the figure or ornament wherean, ingy
be altered agreeable to fancy and comprize the arms crest or any other ilevico and may be
Tend or oval or any other shape
The plan or view of a Perch Carriage with the necessary additions forcing the above werks.
Figure 9, recessed or quam parts in the framing of the Carnago for the wheds to ranim Add
itims may be made to any Carriages. Figure 10. The front view of the Boxes us fireibto the carmay
A sideriar of a crane neck Carriage with the above described/works thereto compleat.
to. The whenthe abovementioned Bares are for Engino work they must be reversed