CERTAIN MACHINERY TO BE ATTACHED TO CARRIAGES FOR GIVING THEM MOTION BY MANUAL LABOR OR OTHER SUITABLE POWER
Year: 1819

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BAYNES, of Leeds, in the County of York, Working Cutler, 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 called England, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
seventh day of September, in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said John Baynes, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said John Baynes,
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
MACHINERY TO BE ATTACHED TO CARRIAGES FOR GIVING THEM MOTION BY MANUAL
LABOR OR OTHER SUITABLE POWER;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso, that if I, the said John Baynes, shall not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted shall utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Baynes, do, hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
:-
My machinery to be attached to carriages, for the purpose of giving them
motion by means of manuel labour or by other suitable power, consists of
certain levers and rods or arms, represented in the Drawings annexed, in
which A and B are treadles, moving upon joints, and having slips or openings
about two-thirds of their length, for the legs and rods to move in. C and D
are legs or crutches, which bear against the ground as fulcrums, by which the
carriage is moved forward; E and F are the rods which support the legs;
G and H are the double rods, by which each treadle is connected to its leg.
The leg C, the supporting rod E, and the treddle rods G are conjoined together
by a pivot at I. The leg D, the supporting rod F, and the treddle rods H are
conjoined together at the pivot K. The action is as follows:-Press upon the
treddle A, when the rods G will bring down the pivot I, with the leg C, the
rod H, and the rod G into the situation of the dotted lines; the carriage being
connected to the leg C by the rod E, will by the action of the leg-and-rods
be impelled forward at the same time by the pull of the cord-L, which passes
through the sheave or pulley block M, and is connected at its two extremities
to the rods E and F by the arms N and O; the leg D, the rod F, the rods
H, and the pivot K will be brought up to the situation of C, E, G, and I,
respectively, ready for a stroke of the treddle B,' which being then raised will
also impel the carriage forward, as above described. This machinery I have
said consists of certain levers and rods, that is, there may be several sets of
the machinery above described for working each set with a treddle, or even
only one set and one treddle, but I prefer two for ordinary purposes, particu-
larly when only a single person is intended to be conveyed in the carriage,
who may work the same by placing one foot upon each treddle, in which the
action will be alternate. The lower parts of the legs should be so formed or
shod as not to slip upon the ground. This machinery may be variously applied
to carriages, according to circumstances, so as that the treddles may be worked
either behind or before the carriage, still producing a forward motion: In
some cases it may be advantageous to joint the front end of 'the treadles to the
carriage and press the feet on the hind ends.
In witness whereof, I, the said John. Baynes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty.
JOHN (L.s.), BAYNES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1820, the aforesaid John Baynes, came before our said
Lord the King in Her 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 stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1820, the aforesaid John Baynes, came before our said
Lord the King in Her 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 stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty.