CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF COACHES, CHARIOTS, BAROUSH, LANDAUS, AND VARIOUS OTHER FOUR-WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ОвADIAH
ELLIOTT, of the Parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the County of Surry,
Coachmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of May,
in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Obadiah
Elliott, His especial licence that I, the said Obadiah Elliott, during the term
of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Inven-
tion of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF COACHES, CHARIOTS,
BAROUSH, LANDAUS, AND VARIOUS OTHER FOUR-WHEEL CARRIAGES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Obadiah
Elliott, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to 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 His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto bad, may more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Obadiah Elliott, do hereby declare that my said Invention, which consists in
the constructing or making coaches or any four-wheel carriages without a
perch or cranes, is described and ascertained by the above Drawings and the
following description thereof; that is to say:-
Fig. 1. A, A, are the fore and hind springs, which are fastened together by
two circular loops (B, B.) and are fixed or otherwise fastened to two beds which
project from the body or boot; and two pieces of timber are framed before,
and two pieces, when required, behind, from the front and bind "seat rail,
which project out at each end of the body to receive the spring bed or beds.
Fig. 2 is the principal of Fig. 1 applied to a chariot.
Fig. 3 represents the top horizontal wheel, fixed to the body or boot for the
purpose of locking round.
Fig. 4. C, the top front springs, fixed to a bed which projects from the
horizontal wheel E. F, the splinter bar, as fixed, with nunters or futchels
framed into the bed D. The hind springs are fixed with a projection from
the body, the same as the front, but without the horizontal wheel. See
A, A, B, B, (Figure 1).
Fig. 5. F, F, shew the ground plan of the mode of fixing the bottom
springs on blocks on the front and hind axletree.
Fig. 6 is a side view of the springs A, A, Fig. 1, with coupling plates B, B),
and blocks, with oval or other shaped holes in the bottom spring to prevent the
coupling plates B running round. B, a coupling plate by itself.
Fig. 7. The fore springs and horizontal wheel the same as Figure 1. G is
an iron loop or socket projecting down from the bottom of the body under
the door, to receive the end of the spring H, which reaches to. the hind axle-
tree, and fastens on a block with clips or bolts. (I), a cross spring, bolted or
otherwise fastened on the bottom of the body, fixed across or underneath the
spring H by a loop or loops, shackles, or braces, to give it side play or swing
if required.
Fig. 8 a, a ground plan of the hind axletree and springs of Fig. 7. I, the
cross spring. G, G, the loops, shewn both ways, that fasten the four ends of
the springs to the body, see H, Fig. 7.
Fig. 8b, a ground plan of the hind axletree and, springs of Fig. 9, and the
same as Fig. 7. G, G, two views of the loops.
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Fig. 9. K, the two side springs, fixed to the fore axletree, on blocks, with
clips or bolts. L, L, two cross springs fastened to the bottom of the nunters
or futchels with clips or bolts. The nunters or futchells are framed into a bed
fixed to the bottom of the horizontal wheel, as seen in ground plan, Fig. 10.

page_text: The hind part is hung or suspended on the principal of the hind part of
Fig. 7.
Fig. 10, the ground plan of the fore part of Fig. 9. K, K, the two side
springs fixed on axle tree. L, L, the cross springs bolted on the bottom of the
nunters or futchells, with or without blocks, as most convenient. I use springs
either with or without braces, as may best suit the intended purpose, and I also
vary the size, shape, or form, and the application of such springs, according to
existing circumstances or as different roads may require. And, if required, I
also fix a brace or braces, rope or ropes, chain or chains, from any convenient
part or parts of one axle tree to the other, and from the fore axle tree to the
splinter bar.
In witness whereof, I, the said Obadiah Elliott, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One tisuceul sight hundred and five