INVENTED METHOD FOR PREVENTING ACCIDENTS FROM HORSES FALLING WITH Two-WHEEL CARRIAGES, ESPECIALLY ON STEEP DECLIVI- TIES, SUPERIOR TO. ANY HITHERTO KNOWN OR IN USE
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BUSH, the younger, of Saffron Walden, in the County of Essex, Surveyor and
Builder, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the fifty-fifth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said William Bush, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Bush, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "INVENTED METHOD FOR PREVENTING ACCIDENTS FROM
HORSES FALLING WITH Two-WHEEL CARRIAGES, ESPECIALLY ON STEEP DECLIVI-
TIES, SUPERIOR TO. ANY HITHERTO KNOWN OR IN USE;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Bush,
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 next
and immediately 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
William Bush, do declare that my said method for preventing accidents from
horses falling with two-wheel carriages, especially on steep declivities, is

page_text: particularly specified in the following description of the apparatus, which I
attach to such carriages to produce the effect intended, reference being had to
the Drawings or Figures hereunto attached, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists of an apparatus made of iron (or other fit
material or materials), which for brevity I denominate a sledge or sliding sole,
or a safety wheel (when a wheel is attached thereto), and which is constructed
in the following manner, or consists of the following parts:―
Figure 1, A represents what is properly the sledge or sliding sole, having
two pivot holes to allow the back and fore braces (which will immediately be
described), to be attached to it with the action of joints or hinges. This
should be turned up at one or at both ends to prevent its burying itself in the
road, and should be from three to six inches broad, and from eight to twelve
inches long.
Figure 2, B or B represents the back brace, having the pivot hole a, by
which it is attached to the sledge or sliding sole by means of a pin passed
through both, and properly secured in its place; b, b, b, are catches to allow
the sledge or slider to be brought into action at a height suited to the height
of the horse. These catches may be of any form that will lock them in an eye
(described hereafter) attached to the middle of the axle, or instead of these
catches, holes c, c,.c, may be pierced through the brace into which a pin may
be put to keep the back brace in its place. To this is joined a ring or
hook e, shewn on Figure 6, to be hooked on Figure 5, when the apparatus is
not in action.
Figure 3, c, c, the two fore braces, having also pivot holes d, d, to attach
them to the sledge or sliding sole. The other ends have a ring and bolt to
attach them to the shafts
a screw and nut, or they may be nailed to the
shafts or made fast to them in any workman-like manner.
Figure 4, D is the eye which receives the back brace, and which is made
fast to the middle of the axle. The eye or opening is shewn by D, Figure 9.
Figure 5, E is an iron hook which is fastened to the hinder part of the
carriage on which the ring e of the back stay (see Figure 6) is hooked when
the apparatus is kept up from the road or out of action.
Figure 6 shews the sledge A, the back brace B, the hook or ring e, the fore
braces C, C, all united, and the back brace passing through the eye D, made
fast to the axle F (shewn in section).
. Figure 7 exhibits the apparatus attached to a carriage-and in action, that is,
with the sliding sole on the road.
Figure 8 shews the apparatus with one small wheel H (or two small wheels)
substituted for the sledge or sliding sole A.

page_text: In the foregoing Figures the same letters refer to the same or similar parts,
and from the parts viewed seperately and joined, no competent workman will
be at a loss how to execute my Invention. From inspection of these Figures
the mode of the action of the apparatus may also be clearly seen. When the
carriage is to be supported, and the horse's back relieved from the load, the
ringe of the back brace B is to be unhooked from E (Figure 5 and 7), and
the said brace is to be moved forward through the eye D (Figure 4 and 9)
till the sledge or slider A, or safety wheel H, Figure 8, takes the ground, and
the corresponding catch or hole with its pin is to be made sure in the eye D
(Figure 4, 6, and 9), by which means the shafts and load will be borne up
from the horse's back, and security be provided against his being thrown down
by the weight of his load when descending a hill. The different parts which
I have described may be altered in form, provided the workman keeps in view
the end intended to be gained, and adapt all the different parts properly to
each other, and to the work they are to perform.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bush, the younger, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the fifty-fifth.
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace
of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifteen.
WILLIAM (L.s.) BUSH.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the presence of
E. PLOMER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-eighth day of
June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Bush came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.