IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE FARM AND OTHER BUILDINGS, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CART AND WAGON BODIES AND OTHER STRUCTURES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dray, of Swan Lane, in the City of London,
Agricultural Implement Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE FARM AND OTHER BUILDINGS, PART OF WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CART AND WAGON
BODIES AND OTHER STRUCTURES."
Sealed the 1st August 1854, and dated the 10th February 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dray at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
February 1854.
I, WILLIAM DRAY, of Swan Lane, in the City of London, Agricultural Im-
plement Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE FARM AND OTHER BUILDINGS,
PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CART AND
WAGON BODIES AND OTHER STRUCTURES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in forming frames for portable farm and other
buildings of upright longitudinal and transverse tubes, such, for instance, as
those employed for gas, but varying in circumference with the size and
requirements of the various parts of the intended structure; and I fill the
up
interstices with planking or sheets of metal, which are tied by wires or joined

page_text: by staples or other like means to the tubing. Where frames only are required,
as for some descriptions of wagons, I make the vertical tubes to terminate in
a T shape at top and bottom, and secure them to the horizontal tubes by
screws. Frames thus constructed will afford great strength, will be light and
portable, and will allow of a structure once planned or erected being easily
taken to pieces, packed in separate parts, transported, and readily re-erected at
any desired spot.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Dray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DRAY, of Swan Lane, in the City of London, Agricultural Implement Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Dray, Her special licence that I, the said William Dray, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Dray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF PORTABLE FARM AND OTHER BUILDINGS, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS
ARE APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CART AND WAGON BODIES AND OTHER
STRUCTURES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Dray, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, [that I, the said William Dray, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say: -

page_text: My Invention consists in forming frames for portable farm and other
buildings of upright longitudinal and transverse tubes, such, for instance, as
those employed for gas, but varying in circumference with the size and require-
ments of the various parts of the intended structure, and I fill up the interstices
or spaces between such frames with planking or sheets of metal or other
suitable material, which are tied by wires or joined by wires or other like
means to the tubing.
Where frames only are required, as for some descriptions of wagons or carts,
I make the vertical tubes to terminate in a T shape at top and bottom, and
secure them to the horizontal tubes by screws.
Frames for phaeton, gig, and other similar structures, may also be con-
structed of tubing by bending such tubes in the ordinary manner to the shape
of the intended body or other part of the carriage, and connecting such frames
together by horizontal, vertical, or transverse tubes. Frames thus constructed
will afford great strength, will be light and portable, and will allow of a
structure once planned or erected being easily taken to pieces, packed in
separate parts, transported, and readily re-erected at any desired spot.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the constructing
the frames for portable farm and other buildings or structures, and also the
frames for wagons, carts, phaetons, gigs, and other vehicles, of metal tubes as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Dray, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four.
WILLIAM DRAY. (L.S.)