AN IMPROVEMENT IN AXLETREES FOR AND MODE OF APPLYING THE SAME TO CARRIAGES
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARGARET
'KNOWLES, of Lavender Hill, Battersea, in the County of Surrey, Spinster,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George. the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Fourth day of July, in the tenth. year of His reign, did;
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Margaret Knowles, His special licence that I, the said Margaret Knowles,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Margaret Knowles, my executors, administrators, or- assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times, during
the term of years therein expressed; should and lawfully: might make, 'use,
-exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town. of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN AXLETREES FOR AND MODE OF
APPLYING THE SAME TO CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said Margaret Knowles, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited. Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
.reférence being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW. YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
.Margaret Knowles, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and how the same may be performed, is hereby set forth and explained by
the following descriptions and Drawings hereto annexed, that is to say :-
That Figure 1 represents a front elevation or vertical section of my
improved axletrees. A is the axletree arm; B, a standard or fulcrum
moving upon its pivot at each end, and firmly braced to the axletree arm, as
noted by C; the top of the pivot B is steeled so as to bear the weight of the
carriage, and yet revolve without comparative friction. H is two bars con-
nected firmly together in the middle with hole or lockets at each end, for
the pivot B to move in.
Figure 2 is a horizontal section, shewing the pole pin at F fixed to the
carriage with another pin at K through the bar G, which connects it with
the arms E, and which arms or braces are firmly fixed to the axletree at D,
with joints near D, so that they may play up and down in case the carriage
is upon springs.
Figure 3 shews the effect of moving the pole to lock to turn the carriage
round; but in order to indentify and distinguish my Invention more clearly,
I hereby declare it to consist principally in the standard B and its brace or
braces C, whether both or either be placed above or below the axletree.
In witness whereof, I, the said Margaret Knowles, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

page_text: July, 1829, the Specification of which Patent came due on the 4 day of Janry
inst, and the Pet rečed the draft or description which he gave out to his
stationer to be engrossed, which was done, and properly acknowledged before
a Master in Chancery, when, on presenting the deed for inrollment, it was
discovd by the proper officer that it had been engrossed on unstamped parch-
ment, and it being late in the evening on the said 4th day of Jañry, which
being the last day and after the Stamp Office had closed, it was wholly impos-
sible to get the deed stamped; the Pet* therefore requested the proper officer
to keep the deed in his possession, which he accordingly did, and the same
has ever since been and still remains in his custody. It was therefore prayed,
and upon reading an affidavit of William Carpmael it is accordingly ordered,
that the proper officer in whose custody the deeds now is, do attend at the
Stamp Office, so that the proper stamp may be placed on the said Specifi-
cation, and that the said Specification do then stand and be enrolled as of the
said 4th day of January instant
Ent J. R.
T. A. R.