IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO- WHEELED CARRIAGES
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HARVEY, of James Street, Buckingham Gate, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twentieth day of July, in the seventh year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Harvey, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Joseph Harvey, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Joseph Harvey, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO-
WHEELED CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that I, the said Joseph Harvey, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and, by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Harvey, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in so constructing two-wheeled close carriages, that
the driver, though within a compartment of a carriage, may be separated from
the three passengers, which a carriage constructed according to my Invention
is constructed to carry. And in order that my Invention may be fully under-
stood, and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing
hereunto annexed, in the various Figures of which the same letters are used
to indicate similar parts.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a back clevation of a close two-wheeled carriage to carry
three
passengers, constructed according to my Invention. Figure 2 is a side view
of the same; Figure 3, a plan; and Figure 4 shews a plan in section of the
carriage. a, a, are the wheels; b, the axle; and c, the shafts; d, the springs,
in the construction of which there is no novelty; e, e, is the body of the
carriage, having windows f. f, at front and at the sides as is shewn, though
these may be varied, and such is also the case with respect to the shape of
the body of the carriage, so long as the interior is so arranged as to carry
three passengers, and in such manner that the driver may be within a com-
partment of the carriage when driving, and yet be partitioned off from the
passengers therein, and also in such manner that his head and the upper part
of his person may come above the top of the carriage, thus giving the driver
a safe seat where he can have full power over his horse. The seats for the
passengers are so arranged that two persons may sit with their faces towards
the horse, the third passenger sitting on one side. 9, 9, are the front seats; and
h, the side seat for the passengers; i is the partitioned-off compartment of the
carriage for the driver, occupying the fourth corner or angle of the body of
the carriage; is the door by which the passengers enter; the driver enters
at the side door k, or in place thereof the door may be at the back, as is
indicated by red dotted lines; is the step by which the passengers enter;
m, m, are the steps by which the driver ascends to his scat n. In constructing
the carriage care should be observed that when the passengers and driver
are in their places, that tho whole weight should be as nearly as may be in
a state of balance on the axle.
From the above description it will be seen that the novelty consists in
the manner of constructing a two-wheeled close carriage, so that the driver,

page_text: though within the carriage, is separated from the three passengers which the
carriage is constructed to carry, and the passengers may communicate with
the driver through the small door o.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would wish it to be understood that I
do not confine myself to the precise details shewn, provided the peculiar
character of my Invention be retained. But what I claim is, the mode of
constructing two-wheeled close carriages to carry three passengers, whereby
the driver, though within a compartment of the carriage, is separate or
partitioned off from the passengers as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Harvey, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-four