AN IMPROVED AXLETREE FOR WHEELS OF CARRIAGES, AND ALSO IMPROVED WROUGHT OR CAST-IRON BOXES AND CAST-IRON HOCKS TO RECEIVE THE SPOKES OF THE WHEELS
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WHEATLEY, of Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Coach Builder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of
October, in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said John Wheatley, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Wheatley, my exors,
aduiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might during the term of years
therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
AXLETREE FOR WHEELS OF CARRIAGES, AND ALSO IMPROVED WROUGHT OR CAST-IRON
BOXES AND CAST-IRON HOCKS TO RECEIVE THE SPOKES OF THE WHEELS;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said John
Wheatley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and 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 two calendar months after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Wheatley, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described and

page_text: ascertained in and by the Drawings and the references thereto hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Wheatley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of December, in the year of our
T
light hundred and ton
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1810, the aforesaid John Wheatley came 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 Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and ten.

page_text: References to the Drawing
Sheweth The Cap as screwd on the end of the Box
The Cap of the Box.
The Cap as screwed on the hind end of the Box with two
Screw Bolts through the Stock & screws into the hind Cap..
The Cup on the Axle tree without the Box
The Cap off of the Axle tree
The Box.
The Box/cut down the middle shearing the reservoir for the Oil
The Bed of the Axle tree
The Arm of the Axle tree without the Box
The Axle tree with a solid Iron Collar m
Two leather washers
steel washer in two halves which are connected.
ether when in use by a joint 9.9.
Those washers are placed at the back of the Iron Collar.
The steel washer between the two leather ones which
secures the wheel on the axle tree by screwing on the
hind Cap.
he Stock of the wheel.
he iron stock as cut in two shewing the Axle tree and
on the same principle
The two spokes.
The Axle tree in the Stock.