IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING BOXES TO WHEELS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MOSES
POOLE, of the Patent Office, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
:
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Moses Poole, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, adññors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, admors, 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, the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING
BOXES TO WHEELS," communicated to me by a certain foreigner residing
abroad, in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the
said Moses Poole, shall cause a particular description of the nature of
the 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, I, the said.
Moses Poole, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention, and the manner

page_text: in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):-
The Invention relates to a mode of constructing the axletree boxes of
wheels for various descriptions of carriages, whereby the same will, when in
their place in the wooden naves of wheels, be more secure from coming or
being forced out or deranged. It is well known that, according to the
ordinary construction of axle-tree boxes, that the outer surfaces thereof are
formed plain or they have projections or webs longitudinally, and that such
boxes are affixed in the wooden naves of wheels by means of wedges, and by
such modes of construction and application of axletree boxes to carriage
wheels, the same are very liable to be forced out or become deranged.
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Now, the object of the Invention is to make such axletree boxes with a
screw on their external surfaces in such manner that they will screw into the
naves of carriage wheels, and I either make such boxes with screws by casting
the boxes with screws on the external surfaces or I produce such screw by
cutting with proper tools. The nature of casting axle-tree boxes being well
understood, and as casting of screws for other purposes is well understood, it
will not be necessary to enter into a description of such processes further than
to remark, that in order to cast axletree boxes with screws on their external
surfaces, it will only be necessary to have suitable cores formed with screws for
the external surfaces in place of casting the external surfaces plain or with
longitudinal projections or webs, and further when the screw is to be cut by
tools then the axletree boxes are to be made of such additional substance as
will allow of cutting screws thereon suitable for screwing into the wood of
which the naves of wheels are made; and I would remark that, by the
employment of axletree boxes with screws on their external surfaces as above
explained, they will be less liable to derangement than axletree boxes of the
ordinary construction.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, I would have it
understood that I lay no claim to the processes of making screws nor to the
forming of axletree boxes when separately considered; nor do I confine
myself to any particular internal construction of axletree boxes, the Invention
only relating to the external surface of axletree boxes; but what I claim is,
the constructing axletree boxes for wheels of carriages of various descriptions
with screws on their external surfaces, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine.
MOSES
(L.S.) POOLE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
5 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.