A METHOD FOR THE BETTER CONSTRUCTING OF CARRIAGE WHEELS AND WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPHI
JACOB the younger, of Saint Mary Axe, in the City of London, Coachmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, did, by my Petition,
humbly represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Third, that I had discovered "A METHOD FOR THE BETTER CONSTRUCTING OF
CARRIAGE WHEELS AND WHEEL CARRIAGES;" and in regard the same being a
new Invention, and of publick utility, I therefore humbly prayed His said
Majesty to grant unto me, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole making
and vending the same within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years according to the Statute in that
case made and provided, His said Majesty, being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick good, was
graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the First day of February, in the twenty-third year of His
reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Jacob the younger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Jacob
the younger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by

page_text: myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, my executors,
adniors, or assigns, should agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention, within
that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet, and that I,
the said Joseph Jacob the younger, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accruing, or
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from
the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully
to be complete and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the
said Joseph Jacob the younger, 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 four
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwith-
standing, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, in com-
pliance with the said proviso, do hereby declare that the under-written
description, together with the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the references
thereto herein-after expressed, do contain a just and true description of the
nature of my said Invention of a Method for the Better Constructing of
Carriage Wheels and Wheel Carriages, and of the manner in which the
same is to be performed (that is to say):-
The Materials. The new constructed patent wheels are composed of the
same materials as those in common use for coaches, carts, waggons, and other

page_text: carriages, and like them consist of a stock or nave in the center, a dis-
cretional number of spokes and fellies proportioned to the size and strength
of the wheel, are shod with iron, and constructed in the following manner,
to wit:-
The Construction.-The speeches are framed in the same manner as for
wheels on the common construction, but the fellies which compose the rim,
instead of abutting against each other as in common wheels, are united
and firmly joined together by means of the laps or splices A, B, C, D,
E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, Figure 1. Each felly is supported by two spokes
as in Figure 1, or by three spokes as in Figure 2, but in either case each
end of every felly is supported from the nave or center by a spoke framed
through the laps or splices, as at A and B, Figure 1, and N, O, Figure 2.
To put the wheel together, frame the spokes in the nave or center, and
prepare the nocks or tenons for the fellies in the same manner as for common
wheels, and to ring them bore on the fellies, beginning with No. 1, Figure 1,
and proceed in the following order, No. 2, 3, 12, 11, 7, 8, 9, 10, 6, 5, 4,
then wedge them up as common, and shoe them with iron in hoops or streaks,
as occasion may require.
Figure 3 is a pipe box made in two divisions, lengthways, of wrought iron
or steel, screwed or rivetted together to receive the arm of the axis in the
center of the wheel.
Figure 4 is a pipe box made in two divisions, lengthways, of wrought iron
or steel, fixed together with two iron hoops P, P, to receive the arm of the
axis in the center of the wheel.
Figure 5 is a splintree iron, which, being made in two lengths, and united
together by means of a male and female screw, may be shortened or lengthened
at pleasure.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of February, in the twenty-
third 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-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eleventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, the said
Joseph Jacob the younger came before the said Lord the King in His Chan-
cery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforosaid, and all and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instru-
ment aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the 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 year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the said Eleventh day of February, in the said year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.