CERTAIN APPARATUS OR ADDITIONAL PARTS TO BE APPLIED TO AND USED WITH WHEEL CARRIAGES, IN ORDER TO RENDER THE SAME MORE SAFE AND COMMODIOUS
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILLIAMS, of Cornhill, in the City of London, Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty 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 Eighth day of June, in the
fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Williams, my
exors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Williams, my exors, admors, 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 "CERTAIN APPARATUS OR ADDITIONAL PARTS TO BE
APPLIED TO AND USED WITH WHEEL CARRIAGES, IN ORDER TO RENDER THE SAME
MORE SAFE AND COMMODIOUS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said John Williams, 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 enrolled 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 Williams, do hereby declare that the nature of my sd Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are partlarly described and
ascertained as follows, that is to say :-

page_text: In the Drawing hereunto annexed, Fig. 1 represents a certain apparatus
called a preserver, consisting of two branchers A and B, the foremost or
leading branch of which is by preference made longer than the other, and the
lower extremities of which lie in the plane of the wheel, or nearly so, and a a
strengthening piece C and D and a socket F at top, through which is an hole
for a pin, bolt, or screw.
Fig. 2 represents a spindle, the lower part of which is fitted upon a square
part of the axletree E, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, and secured in its place by a clip
When the preserver,
plate and bolts at each side, as is shewn at G, Fig. 2.
Fig. 1, is in its place, the spindle II passes through the socket F, which is
then made fast by a pin, bolt, or screw thro' the hole in F and one of the
holes in H.
Fig. 3 represents a pair of preservers applied to a two-wheel carriage,
seen endwise; and Fig. 4 represents the same seen sidewise. And the effect
of any said apparatus or additional parts is to prevent the great danger in a
two-wheeled carriage, when, by the fall of the horse or any part giving way,
the body might be thrown forward or backward by a motion on the axis;
for it is the manifest effect of my said apparatus to receive and support the
carriage nearly in the horizontal position, without the possibility of any con-
siderable tilt or inclination either forwards or backwards.
And I do farther declare that the said apparatus may be made of various
figures, according to the fancy or choice of the proprietor; and the branches
thereof may be made of different lengths with regard to each other, as well as
with regard to the carriage itself, provided only that the purposes of strength and
utility be duly attended to. And further, that in four-wheel carriages the said
preservers may be used to prevent accidents when the wheels are by any defect
or other wise incapable of afording the full and adequate support of the carriage,
and the same is effected by firmly uniting a spindle to the axle, as herein-before
shewn, but with the arm of the said spindle downwards, as at A, Fig. 5, and
forming the preserver at Fig. 6 with the brace of the two arms covered at the
bottom, which when called into action operates as a sledge upon which the
carriage can move and be supported, the same being fixed on the spindle thro'
the socket in the reverse way, like Fig. 1 and 2, by a pin, bolt, or screw; and
in the constructions last therein described for four-wheel carriages, the Figures
and application of the parts may also be varied by any competent workman, as
occasion may require.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the First day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and ten.
JOHN WILLIAMS. (1.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1810, the aforesaid John Williams 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 inrolled according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the First day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and ten.