IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES FOR COMMON ROADS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Emery, of No. 6, King Street, Saint
James' Square, in the City of Westminster and County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES FOR COMMON ROADS."
Sealed the 8th June 1860, and dated the 12th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Emery at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
December 1859.
I, RICHARD EMERY, of No. 6, King Street, St. James' Square, in the City
of Westminster and County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES FOR COMMON ROADS," to be as
follows, refference being had to the Drawings annexed:-
My Invention relates to the form and construction of springs, and is an
addition to my former Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth of April One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. Instead of carrying the upper end of
the spring B immediately on the back part of the body of the carriage as
shewn in my former Patent, I taper the upper end, and form a spring loop
as shewn at A, or I make a joint as the case may be, and attach the spring
thereto, and fasten the clip piece D to the back of the body, this being the
only addition to my former Invention under the same title.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Emery in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
EMERY, of Number 6, King Street, Saint James's Square, in the City of
Westminster and County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Emery, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Emery,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Emery, 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 term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
'exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARRIAGES FOR COMMON ROADS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Richard Emery, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their; or one of their hands and seals, 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 I, the said Richard Emery, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of improvements in carriages for common roads, and
are additions to my former Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and relate to certain alterations in
the form of the back spring and manner of hanging the body of the carriage,
and also the manner of attaching the forward spring to the axletree. Instead
of the spring (F, F,) being rigidly bolted on to the back of the body of the
carriage at the point E, E, and then pass through a loop iron G, as shewn in
Figure 1, Sheet 1, in the Drawings attached to my former Specification, I
have shewn the said alteration in the Drawings hereon annexed in Figures 1

page_text: and 3. I attach a hanging strap of iron B, B, to the back of the body of the
carriage, at the upper end of which is an eye or loop through which the upper
end of the spring C is attached by means of a free pin at the point D. At
the lower end E it is attached to the axle in the way described in my former
Specification, and shewn in plan Figure 2 in the annexed Drawing. By this
spring C, C, being attached in this way with a free pin and eye at the points
D and E, I obtain a much more easy motion than by the rigid attachment as
shewn and described in my former Specification. I also prefer attaching the
forward spring G, G, to the axle H with a square or elongated pin in section
instead of a round one, making the fastening more certain and not liable to
motion on the line of draught
What I claim as of my Invention is the addition of the hanging strap B
and the attachment of the back springs C, C, with a free pin at the ends D
and E, thereby giving a free motion to the body by a more easy deflection of
the said springs; and also the improved mode of attaching the end of the
spring G, G, to the axle by the square pin, all of which is fully shewn in the
Drawings and set forth in this Specification.
In witness whereof I, the said Richard Emery, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
RICHARD EMERY. (L.S.)
Witness,
PAUL R. HODGE.