AN IMPROVEMENT FOR PRE- VENTING THE SPLINTER BARS OF WHEEL CARRIAGES FROM BEING OUT OF ORDER
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WILLIAM
LEEDAM, of Long Acre, in the County of Middlesex, Coach Maker, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the thirty-second year
of His reign, did give and grant unto the said William Leedam, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge, and authority that he, the said William Leedam, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by
his or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the
said William Leedam, his executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, his Invention therein mentioned, being "AN IMPROVEMENT FOR PRE-
VENTING THE SPLINTER BARS OF WHEEL CARRIAGES FROM BEING OUT OF ORDER,"
in such manner as to him, the said William Leedam, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretions seem
proper; in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe, that if the said
William Leedam should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
his said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of His said Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent, and the priviledges and, advantages thereby granted,

page_text: should determine and be void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and in obedience to the
directions of the said Letters Patent, he, the said William Leedam, doth by
this instrument in writing under his hand and scal, and intended to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, describe and ascertain the
nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
as follows, that is to say :-
The splinter bar is to contain in front a rod or bar of iron (or other metal),
the ends of which are to pass through the splinter bar sockets, for the
purpose of each receiving a nut or key; the rod or bar thus stationed is
to be confined to the middle of the splinter bar by one (or more) bolts, screws,
or rivets, and each extremity of the rod or bar prepared for and supplyd
with a nut, bolt, key (or other instrument), that will by its force or pressure
applied thereto cause the splinter bar to remain straight, or the fore side
contracted, for the purpose of keeping the wheel irons tight to the axletree and
splinter bar and free from noise.
In witness whereof, the said William Leelam hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Twenty-third day of December, in the thirty-second year
of Ilis said Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-one.
Inrolled the same Twenty-third day of December, in the year above.
-mentioned.