NEW METHOD OF IMPROVEMENT OF A WHEEL IRON FOR A COACH, CHARIOT, CHAISE, PHAETON, OR ANY OTHER FOUR-WHEELED CARRIAGE, BY VIRTUE OF A SCREWED Box, NUTT, OR EYE TO AN IMPROVED PLAN TO SCREW AND AFFIX ON THE FORE AXLETREE, AND WITH THE AID OF A SCREWED Box NUTT TO RECEIVE A SCREW OR SCREWS HORIZONTALLY, AS OCCASION MAY REQUIRE, THROUGH THE FORE WHEEL BAB, (COMMONLY CALLED THE SPLINTER BAR), AND TO BE, AND BE, BY ; AND ALSO DO FOR ALL KIND OF WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
WILDEY, of New Compton Street, in the County of Middlesex, Coach
Axletree and Spring Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-fifth day of March, in the thirty-third year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Henry Wildey, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Wildey, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, shall
and lawfully may make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention or "NEW METHOD OF
IMPROVEMENT OF A WHEEL IRON FOR A COACH, CHARIOT, CHAISE, PHAETON, OR
ANY OTHER FOUR-WHEELED CARRIAGE, BY VIRTUE OF A SCREWED Box, NUTT, OR
EYE TO AN IMPROVED PLAN TO SCREW AND AFFIX ON THE FORE AXLETREE, AND
WITH THE AID OF A SCREWED Box NUTT TO RECEIVE A SCREW OR SCREWS
HORIZONTALLY, AS OCCASION MAY REQUIRE, THROUGH THE FORE WHEEL BAB,
(COMMONLY CALLED THE SPLINTER BAR), AND TO BE SCREWED TO THE INSIDE OF THE
SAID SPLINTER BAR, WILL COMPLETELY KEEP THE SAME IN ITS PROPER POSITION,
AND ALSO PREVENT THE FORE WHEELS OF SUCH CARRIAGE EVER COMING OFF WHILE
IN ACTION OR USE, AND THEREBY PREVENT MANY ACCIDENTS WHICH FREQUENTLY
HAPPEN THROUGH THE PRINCIPLE OF, AND CANNOT BE PREVENTED, BY THE WHEEL
IRON NOW IN USE; AND ALSO A NEW-INVENTED AXLETREE DOUBLE BOX FOR ALL
KIND OF WHEEL CARRIAGES, WHICH, BY MEANS OF ITS PRESENT CONSTRUCTION,

page_text: WILL CONTAIN AND SUPPLY ITSELF WITH OIL FOR SEVERAL MONTHS WITHOUT THE
OCCASION OF BEING TAKEN OFF TO OIL THE SAME, AS THE COMMON Box NOW IN
USE REQUIRES; in which Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging
ine, the said. Henry Wildey, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Inventions, and how the same are to
bo performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within ono calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may 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 Inventions are shown in the
plan thereof drawn in the margin of these Presents, and are described in
manner following (that is to say) :-
(A) represents the inner box which turns on the axletreo. (B) three collars
which are worked on the outside of the inner box, and which are either
welded or brazed thereto, (the middle collar being considerably smaller or
thinner than the two end collars to admit the oil to run from the body collar
to the linch collar). (C) countersink holes on the one side of the check bar
or partition, to let the oil pass in small quantities to keep feeding or oiling
the axletree. (N.B.) Thero is also holes on the other side of the check bar.
(D) the check bar which is to be fixed from the inside of the body collar to
the inside of the linch collar, and is to be fitted close and brazed or soldered
to the box and collars, and to bo the depth of the thickness of the shoulder
and linch collars. The use of this check bar is to throw the oil to the
countersink holes. (E) the cavity in the inner box in which the arm of the
Axletreo works. (F) the double box complete, ready to fix into the nave or
stock of the wheel; (in this Figure is an outer box made and fitted to tho
outside of the shoulder and linch collars and check bar of the inside box, and
is brazed or soldered thereto). This outside box may be made of any thick-
noss in proportion to the size and substance the axletree and wheel requires.
(G) the holo by which the cavity or reservoir between the outside and inside
box is supplied with oil by the use of a funnel, and which may be afterwards
stopped either with screw to fit or a good cork. (H) two pins (or sungs) by
which the box is prevented from turning or moving in the nave of the wheel.
(1) the double box cut through to shew the skeleton of or the double box
desected. (K) an over jett or harbour of the upper box beyond the inner
box, whereby the arm of the axletree, at the linch end thereof, as well the
body end, is protected from dirt or sand getting between the box and arm
of the axletree. (L) the cavity or reservoir between the inner and outer

page_text: box, wherein the oil is kept. (M) the horizontal face of the body complete.
(N) the wheel iron complete. (0) the screwed box, nutt, or eye of the
wheel iron which fixes to the linch end of the axletree. (P) the screwed box
at the end of the wheel iron to receive a screw or screws horizontally through
the fore wheel bar (commonly called the splinter bar). (Q) the screw to go
through the fore-wheel bar, called the splinter bar, to enter the box at P.
(R) the end of the wheel iron affixed to the forc-wheel bar called the splinter
bar. (S) the wheel iron to be affixed to the fore-wheel bar called the splinter
bar with a T flap. (T) the same with an flap. (W) the side view of
the wheel iron affixed with the view of the wheel splinter bar and futchell
complete. (X) a common wheel iron ey'd screwed.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Wildey, bave hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twentieth day of April, One thousand seven