AN IMPROVED METAL WHEEL. STOCK
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John May Munro, jun', of Bristol, in the City and
County of Bristol, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METAL WHEEL.
STOCK."
Sealed the 12th March 1858, and dated the 18th September 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John May Munro a
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th September 1857.
I, JOHN MAY MUNRO, jun', of Bristol, in the City and County of Bristol, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "AN IMPROVED METAL
WHEEL STOCK," to be as follows:-
At present some wheel stocks are made with an oil box behind, but fixed
with a linch pin and cap; other wheel stocks are made without oil boxes, but
have bolts through; patent mail axles and boxes have a metal box in a
wooden stock.
Now this Invention consists in combining the two systems of oil boxes and
bolts through the stock in my improved metal wheel stock, and which may be.
cast in iron or other suitable metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John May Munro in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MAY MUNRO, jun', of Bristol, in the City and County of Bristol, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said John May Munro, jun', Her special licence that I, the said
John May Munro, jun', my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John May Munro, jun, 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 In-
vention for "AN IMPROVED METAL WHEEL STOCK," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John May Munro, jun', my executors or administra-
tors, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 John May Munro, jun', do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
At present some wheel stocks are made of wood with oil box in them, and
some are made of metal with bolts through them.
This Invention consists in combining the two systems of bolts through and
oil box in a metal wheel stock.
The annexed Drawings represent a cast metal wheel stock made on
the combined principle. Fig. 1 is a section of the wheel stock; Fig. 2
is a plan of the same; Figs. 3 and 4 are plans of the back and front of the
same.

page_text: Having now described the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which it may be carried into effect, what I claim as my Invention is a
metal wheel stock in which the oil box and the bolts through are both used.
In witness whereof, I, the said John May Munro, junior, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
JOHN MAY MUNRO, JUN*. (L.S.)