AN IMPROVED METHOD OF HANGING UPON THEIR AXLETREES THE BODIES OF THOSE CARTS WHICH CAN BE TIPPED TO EMPTY THEM OF THEIR CONTENTS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Warner and Edmund Freeman Woods,
1.
both of Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk, Engineers, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF HANGING UPON THEIR AXLETREES
THE BODIES OF THOSE CARTS WHICH CAN BE TIPPED TO EMPTY THEM OF THEIR
CONTENTS."
Sealed the 21st December 1874, and dated the 2nd July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Warner and
Edmund Freeman Woods at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 2nd July 1874.
T
We, EDWARD WARNER and. EDMUND FREEMAN WOODS, both of
Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF HANGING UPON
THEIR AXLETREES THE BODIES OF THOSE CARTS WHICH CAN BE TIPPED TO EMPTY
THEM OF THEIR CONTENTS," to be as follows:-
:-

page_text: The shafts are framed together and firmly fixed to the axletree.
Suitable bearings are bolted to the axletree, which bearings receive
journals, pins, or a bolt, which are bolted to the body of the cart. Or
the bearings may be bolted to the body of the cart, and the journals,
pins, or bolt fixed to the axletree or framework of the shafts. By
preference wo usc journals bolted to the body of the cart, which journals
are received by bearings bolted to the axletree. These journals are
formed with a concentric hole through their axes, and we pass a bolt
through the holes in the journals and through the shafts. The centres
of these bearings and the centres of the axles in the naves of the wheels 1
are so arranged with reference to each other that when the body of the
cart is not sccured in its usual horizontal position by the apparatus
used for that purpose only a small amount of power is required to upset
the balance of the body of the cart, and when empty the body can bo
restored to its usual horizontal position with little effort.
By means of this Invention the body of the cart freely leaves the
shafts and is tipped over without any motion of the shafts or of the
axles in the wheels, and without that serious jerk upon the horse which
is caused by the methods of tipping now in use.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patont, 2
filed by the said Edward Warren and Edmund Freeman Woods in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
WARNER and EDMUND FREEMAN WOODS, both of Stowmarket, in the
County of Suffolk, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and soventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Edward Warner and Edmund Freeman Woods, {
Her special licenco that we, the said Edward Warner and Edmund
Freeman Woods, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Edward Warner and Edmund Freeman Woods,

page_text: our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF HANGING UPON THEIR AXLETREES THE BODIES OF THOSE
CARTS WHICH CAN BE TIPPED TO EMPTY THEM OF THEIR CONTENTS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Edward Warner and
Edmund Freeman Woods, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edward Warner and Edmund
Freeman Woods, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters
and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention has for its object an improved method of hanging
upon their axletrees the bodies of those carts which can be tipped to
empty them of their contents.
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The shafts are framed together and firmly fixed to the axletree.
Suitable bearings are bolted to the axletree, which bearings receivé
journals, pins, or a bolt, which are bolted to the body of the cart. Or
the bearings may be bolted to the body of the cart, and the journals,
pins, or bolt fixed to the axletree or framework of the shafts. By
preference we use journals bolted to the body of the cart, which journals
are received by bearings bolted to the axletree. The journals are
formed with a concentric hole through their axes, and we pass a bolt
through the holes in the journals and through the shafts. The centres
of these bearings and the centres of the axles in the naves of the wheels
are so arranged with reference to each other that when the body of the
cart is not secured in its usual horizontal position, by the apparatus
tised for that purpose, only a small amount of power is required to upset

page_text: the balance of the body of the cart, and when empty the body can be
restored to its usual horizontal position with little effort.
By means of this Invention the body of the cart freely leaves the
shafts, and is tipped over without any motion of the shafts or of the
axles in the wheels, and without that serious jerk upon upon the horse 5
which is caused by the methods of tipping now in usc.

page_text: which bearings receive suitable journals, pins, or bolts, as herein-before
lescribed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Warner and Edmund
Freeman Woods, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.