AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING TRACTIVE POWER ON CARRIAGE WHEELS UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
VICKERS, of Firshill, Sheffield, in the County of York, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixth day of March, in the second year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William,
Vickers, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said William Vickers, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Vickers, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time
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, within England, and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-.
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING TRACTIVE
POWER ON CARRIAGE WHEELS UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES;" in which said,
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said William Vickers, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my 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:
William Vickers, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention and.
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and.

page_text: any other of the wheels of a train of carriages by means of bands as herein-
after described.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A represents the large or driving wheel of a locomotive carriage, and B
the lesser or carrying wheel; upon the driving wheel A, I attach or faster a
wrought-iron driving drum C, and a similar drum D on the carrying wheel
B, proportioning the size of the drum C, and the drum D as the driving
wheel A is to the carrying wheel B, when the tractive power of the driving
wheel A will be transmitted by a bolt, band, or strap E, of leather, or any other
flexible material, passing over the drums C and D, (either round or flat belts
may be used, but I prefer a flat strap about four inches wide.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would wish it to be understood that what I
claim as my Invention is the obtaining of tractive power for such carriage
wheels as are driven by what is usually called a driving wheel, by bands
leading from a drum on such driving wheel to a drum on the first carrying
wheel required to be made tractive, and so on from wheel to wheel, to any
number of carrying wheels required to be made tractive.
And such my
Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new, and
never before practised by any person or persons within that part of Her said
Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her
said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe that this
my said Specification doth comply fully and without reserve or disguise, with
the proviso in the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained;
wherefore, I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my
said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Vickers, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
WILLIAM (L.s.) VICKERS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of September, in the
year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid William Vickers 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
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.