IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE BOXES AND AXLES FOR CARRIAGES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Dent Goodman, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE BOXES AND AXLES FOR CARRIAGES."A commu-
nication.
Scaled the 17th January 1853, and dated the 15th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Dent
Goodman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 15th November 1852.
I, JOHN DENT GOODMAN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BOXES AND AXLES FOR CARRIAGES" to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of employing an inner box, which is made
of two or more parts, which when together embrace the axles, which
has either a projection or a groove around it; the inner box having
a groove or projection to fit those of the axle, and the outer end of
the axle is supported by the end of the inner box. The inner box
fits into the outer box, and is drawn into and retained in it by the aid
of a screw and suitable nut or nuts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Dent Goodman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN DENT GOODMAN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Dent Goodman, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her special licence that I, the
said John Dent Goodman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Dent Goodman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the terin
therein expressed, should and lawfully might inake, usc, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention communicated to
me from abroad for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BOXES AND AXLES FOR
CARRIAGES" upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Dent Goodman, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, 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 in compliance with the said condition I,
the said John Dent Goodman, do hereby declare that the nature of
the said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, are fully described and ascertained in and by the following
stateinent thereof; reference being had to the drawing hereunto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to
say):

page_text: The Invention consists of employing an inner box, which is made
of two or more parts, which when together embrace the axle, which
has either a projection or a groove around it, the inner box having
a groove or projection to fit those of the axle, and the outer end of
the axle is supported by the end of the inner box. The inner box
fits into the outer box, and is drawn into and retained in it by the
aid of a screw and suitable nut or nuts. And in order that the
Invention may be more fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will proceed to describe the various figures shown by the
Drawing hereunto aunexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows an exterior view of the outer box, which is to be
fixed into the nave of a wheel, as is well understood. Figure 2, is an
exterior view of the inner box, which consists by preference of three
similar parts, though it may, as will be evident, bc of two parts.
Figure 3, is an interior view of one of these parts. Figure 4, shows
a section of the parts combined together; a, is the outer box; & is the
inner box; and c is an axle which is formed with a projecting ring
thereon which fits into a corresponding groove in the inner box,
but it will be evident that the projection or ring night be formed
on the interior of the inner box, and the groove be formed in the axle.
The interior of the inner box is to have grooves, or oil recesses, as
heretofore in ordinary boxes of carriage axles, and the exterior is to
fit the interior of the outer box. The outer end of the axle is
forined as shewn, or otherwise, and rests in the outer end of the inner
box. The inner box (with the axle therein) is drawn into the outer
box by there being a screw formed on the outer end of the inner
box, and is retained therein by a screw, cup, or nut, as shewn, or
otherwise.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the details as shown and described, as the parts
inay be varied in form without departing from the peculiar character

page_text: of the Invention. But what I claim is the combining of an inner
box and an axle constructed as hercin described within an outer
box.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Dent Goodman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
JOHN DENT GOODMAN. (L. s.)
Witness,
Tnos. VEREY MACREADY.