CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR-WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
FORBES DALTON, late of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, but now
of Theobald's Road, in the said County, Coachmaker, 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 Twenty-first day of April, in
the forty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said James
Forbes Dalton, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said James Forbes Dalton, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR-WHEEL CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Forbes Dalton, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular descrip-
tion 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
six calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in

page_text: and by the same, relation being thereunto had, more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Forbes Dalton, do hereby declare that my said Invention is particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say):
. In constructing a landau, landau barouche, or other four-wheel carriage, in
which the upper part is to fall before and behind, the roof is to be formed of
wood, or other proper materials, in a firm body, and separated either into two parts
by a division from side to side, into three, (as at present customary, sec Fig. 1,
__c, c,)_or_more, but I give the preference to a single division between. c, c.
The space above the dotted lines a, b, or any other lines which will leave
suflicient space below to allow the head to fall, may be likewise closed up.
The whole of the roof and sides is to be supported by moveable pillars, joints,
or other supports, formed of wood, iron, or any other proper material, and
placed in the back and front parts, as represented by f, f, in Fig. 2, at any
given points between a, a, and e, c, or as on the sides from 'h to g, in Fig. 1, or
any other convenient point. On the removal of these supports, and the bolts
or other fastenings at 'the joint or division, the head will separate, and each
side turning on its own pivot at 6, the corners a, a, will describe the dotted
lines a, d, or so much of them as may be deemed necessary, the head being
freed by this method of support from the obstructions usually placed about the
point g. The methods of removing the supports may be varied. In Fig. 2 the
dotted lines between f, f, are what their tops will describe when released from
the roof, and falling inward (the bottoms turning ou pivots), will rest in an
horizontal position; in Fig. 1, tho. point at g must be released.. These appear
'tlio inost simple methods.
In constructing a landaulet, the back part of the head is to be constructed
according to the directions now given for a landau (or as far as they may
be useful); the fore part may be constructed according to the present custom.
In like manner these directions are to be attended to so far as they apply
in constructing any othor four-wheel carriage, by whatever name it may be
called.
..
In witness whereof, I, the said James Forbes Dalton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twentieth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seven.
JAMES FORBES DALTON. (L.S.)..

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1807, the aforesaid James Forbes Dalton came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything 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 Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seven.