AN IMPROVED METHOD OF APPLYING SPRINGS TO THE POLES OR SHAFTS OF TWO-WHEELED CAR- RIAGES, WHICH I CALL AN ANTIMOBILE, OR DESTROYER OF THE DISAGREEABLE SENSA- TION PRODUCED BY THE MOTION OF THE HORSES IN ALL TWO-WHEELED CARRIAGES, AND TO REMEDY WHICH THE METHODS HITHERTO ADOPTED HAVE PROVED INEFFECTUAL
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL
WILDEY, of New Compton Street, in the Parish of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields,
in the County of Middlesex, Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty's King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixtenth day of April, in the thirty-ninth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Wildey, His especial licence that I, the
said Henry Wildey, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF APPLYING SPRINGS TO THE POLES OR SHAFTS OF TWO-WHEELED CAR-
RIAGES, WHICH I CALL AN ANTIMOBILE, OR DESTROYER OF THE DISAGREEABLE SENSA-
TION PRODUCED BY THE MOTION OF THE HORSES IN ALL TWO-WHEELED CARRIAGES,
AND TO REMEDY WHICH THE METHODS HITHERTO ADOPTED HAVE PROVED INEFFECTUAL;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Henry Wildey, 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 inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had)
nay more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Wildey, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in tho
above Drawings and references thereto, and in manner following, that is to say:-

page_text: This antimobile, or improved method of attaching the pole or shafts to two-
wheeled carriages of every description, possesses the singular advantages of
entirely destroying that disagreeable sensation arising from the motion of the
horses in those carriages, of giving peculiar case to the horses, and of render-
ing the carriages much more durable, as the great pressure on the fore part
(particularly curricles, from the lever which the pole forms acting on the
front bars) is totally done away, and the weight made to act on the
axletree. These advantages are obtained by making the pole or shafts, as
occasion may require, move on a horizontal bolt or bolts passing through a
socket or sockets, or flaps, or side cheeks, which confine the pole or shafts,
and a spring or springs, extending from the pole or shafts to the axletree; or a
flap or flaps, stay or stays, socket or sockets, bar or bars, brace or braces, or
other bearing or bearings may be adopted, on which the spring or springs may
rest, act, or move.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Wildey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
H. WILDEY. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of May, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Henry Wildey came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided...
Inrolled the same Tenth day of Mov in the moon cha.