A PIPE BOX, CONICALLY FLUTED, FOR ALL SORTS AND SIZES OF WHEEL CARRIAGES, BY WHICH THEY WILL RUN A THOUSAND MILES OR MORE WITH ONE GREASING, BY WHICH MOST USEFUL INVENTION THE FRICTION IS CONSIDERABLY REDUCED, AND CONSEQUENTLY THE DRAUGHT LESSENED, THE AXLETREE IS PREVENTED FROM WEARING, BECAUSE THE DISPERSION OF GREASE IS EQUAL. AND GRADUAL TO EVERY. PART, AND, FROM THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOXES, IS PREVENTED FROM WORKING OUT, THE WHEELS ARE CAUSED TO RUN REMARKABLY STILL, TRAVELLING IS RENDERED MORE PLEASANT AND EXPEDITIOUS, THE CAUSE OF DELAYS, AND EXPENCE IN GREASING THE WHEELS AND THE DANGER OF FIREING THEM, IS LY IN THE S
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
LYDFORD, of New Sarum, in the County of Wilts, Cabinet Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of
May, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign, did give and grant unto
me, the said Robert Lydford, His special licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Robert Lydford, my exors, adñors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed,
make, use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A PIPE BOX, CONICALLY
FLUTED, FOR ALL SORTS AND SIZES OF WHEEL CARRIAGES, BY WHICH THEY WILL
RUN A THOUSAND MILES OR MORE WITH ONE GREASING, BY WHICH MOST USEFUL
INVENTION THE FRICTION IS CONSIDERABLY REDUCED, AND CONSEQUENTLY THE
DRAUGHT LESSENED, THE AXLETREE IS PREVENTED FROM WEARING, BECAUSE THE
DISPERSION OF GREASE IS EQUAL. AND GRADUAL TO EVERY. PART, AND, FROM THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOXES, IS PREVENTED FROM WORKING OUT, THE WHEELS
ARE CAUSED TO RUN REMARKABLY STILL, TRAVELLING IS RENDERED MORE PLEASANT
AND EXPEDITIOUS, THE CAUSE OF DELAYS, AND EXPENCE IN GREASING THE WHEELS
AND THE DANGER OF FIREING THEM, IS ENTIRELY PREVENTED IN THE LONGEST
JOURNIES;" in which said recited Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Robert Lydford, by writing under my hand and

page_text: seal, to 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 His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the said recited Letters
Patent, and the Statute in that behalf made, relation being thereunto had,
may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Lydford, in compliance with
the said proviso, and in pursuance of the said Statute, do hereby declare that
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, is particularly described and ascertained as follows (that is to 1
Bay-
My said new invented pipe boxes, conically fluted, are made of different
kinds of metal, viz., cast iron, wrought iron, bell metal, brass, copper, &c.,
and of leather.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Lydford, have hereunto set my 1
band and seal, this Eighteenth day of September, in the twenty-fourth
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 liundred and eighty-four
.
ROBERT (L.s.) LYDFORD,
Signed and sealed in the presence of
W HUXTABLE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of Sep-
tember, in the the year of our Lord 1784, the aforesaid Robert Lydford, came i
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged 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 Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One, s
thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.