MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING THE WHEELS OF CARTS, WAGGONS, COACHES, AND CHAISES, THAT SHOULD BE MORE DURABLE AND BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC, AND FREE FROM THE DEFECTS AND EXPENCES OF REPAIRS, ATTENDING THE WHEELS THEN IN USB
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
JORDAN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Callico Printer, and
WILLIAM SWINTON, of Liverpool, in the said County, Merchant's Clerk, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Second day of October, in the twenty year of His reign, hath given
and granted unto us, the said William Jordan and William Swinton, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that we, the said William Jordan and William Swinton, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by ourselves and themselves, or by
our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as we, the said William
Jordan and William Swinton, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and all His Majesty's Plantations and Colonies abroad, our Invention of
"MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING THE WHEELS OF CARTS, WAGGONS, COACHES, AND
CHAISES, THAT SHOULD BE MORE DURABLE AND BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC, AND FREE
FROM THE DEFECTS AND EXPENCES OF REPAIRS, ATTENDING THE WHEELS THEN IN
USB;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if we, the said
William Jordan and William Swinton, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, and

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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 advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and agrecable to the true
intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
we, the said William Jordan and William Swinton, do hereby declare that
the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, is and are described and ascertained in manner following, that is
to say :-
The said wheels are of two species, the one being "cast metal wheels," and
the other "wrought iron wheels." The rim, spokes, and nave of the cast
metal wheels are to consist of one entire piece of good gray cast iron, or of
copper, brass, or other metal, or mixture of metals, to be cast from models
of wood, of a size, form, and strength most agreeable to the public, and suitable
to the kind of carriage for which such wheels are intended, either with or with-
out being hooped or shod, in like manner as is hercin-after described respecting
the wrought iron wheels, with wrought iron hoops or strokes, to be fastened by
one or more revits or screws between each spoke. The wrought iron wheels
to be of any form and strength at pleasure, and to be of the best tough
wrought iron; must be made, formed, and constructed by rivetting or screwing
the spokes, of suitable strength and size, into an inner rim, with proper screws
or revits; to be brazed with copper or brass and borax. And then casting the
nave, which may be of gray cast iron, or of copper, brass, or any other metal,
or mixture of metals, about the spokes; after which an entire hoop, out rim, or
but fire, of good wrought iron, must be fixed on hot over the inner rim, to which it
is to be fastened by one or more revets or screws between each spoke; or the
outside tire may consist of two or more pieces or strokes, to be fastened to the
inner rim in the same manner as if entire.
And with respect to the bushing of the said wrought iron wheels, and also of
the said cast metal wheels, the following method is to be observed:-Instead
of making the hole in the nave of a size suitable to the axletree arm, it must
be made of a size exactly to fit the bush, being grooved in two or more places
to receive a like number of snuggs, cast on the bush, similer to those on common
bushes; and such bushes must be made of hard cast iron, or of brass or other
metal, and being wrapped in leather dipped in linseed oil are to be driven down
into their place in the wheel; and for better security a screw may be fixed through

page_text: the farther or large end of the nave and bush. And if the middle part of the
bush be made hollow within, and a screw be fixed through the mask or middle
of the nave to pour oil or grease into occasionally, the wheels will by that
means supply themselves with oil or grease; the nave will likewise admit of
contrivances to diminish fiction. And, lastly, caps, similar to those on common
wheels, must be rivetted or screwed upon the nave.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Jordan and William Swinton,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-
three.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped, in the presence of,
WILLIAM (L.B.) SWINTON.
RP STATHAM.
ALEX. JOHNSTONE.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Fourth day of January,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Jordan and William
Swinton came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the
reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary of England, and
so forth.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of January, in the year above mentioned.