IMPROVE- MENTS IN CARRIAGES REQUIRING POLES' BETWEEN THE HORSES OR DRAUGHT ANIMALS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hazeldine, of Lant Street, Southwark, in
the County of Surrey, Coachmaker, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CARRIAGES REQUIRING POLES' BETWEEN THE HORSES OR DRAUGHT
ANIMALS."
Scaled the 20th March 1857, and dated the 15th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hazeldine at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th October 1856.
I, GEORGE HAZELDINE, of Lant Street, Southwark, in the County of Surrey,
Coachmaker, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES REQUIRING POLES' BETWEEN THE HORSES OR DRAUGHT
ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the adaptation of a peculiar "pole" between the
horses or draught animals, which "pole," instead of being, as now practised,
so formed as to be secured by slipping the same into a socket, &c., is by this
Invention made either in two parts, the hind part being secured to the
carriage, and the fore part jointed to the bind part, or the pole is jointed or
hinged to the carriage, which is suitably formed and arranged for the purpose.
A method by which this Invention may be carried into effect is this:-I have
two angle irons, one on each part of the pole, and one of which projects beyond
its part, so as to underlay and support the other part of the pole, the ends of the
pole being secured by a joint or hinge, which allows the fore part of the pole

page_text: to be thrown up and secured from accidents when not in use. When in use,
the two parts of the pole will be kept steady and fit for use by being secured
by locking mechanism, as by a pin or bolt passing through the two parts and
securing the same together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Hazeldine. in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HAZELDINE, of Lant Street, Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Coachmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and. grant. unto me, the said
George Hazeldine, Her special licence that I, the said George Hazeldine, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Hazeldine, 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 CARRIAGES
REQUIRING POLES BETWEEN THE HORSES OR DRAUGHT ANIMALS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said George Hazeldine, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
bands and seals, should particularly 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 George Hazeldine, 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:-
(I.) The nature of this, Invention consists in providing carriages requiring
a "pole" between the horses or draught animals with a pole made, either
in two parts, the hind part being secured, to the carriage, and the. fore part;
jointed to the hind part, or with a pole,, the whole of which is jointed. or.

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hinged to the "fore carriage," which fore carriage is properly constructed for
the purpose, as hereafter set forth.
(II.) Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, I will now
further describe the same, and particularly in what manner the same is to be
performed, wherefore I will refer to the accompanying Drawings in manner
following, that is to say:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
What is marked in the said Drawings as Fig. 1, denotes a side view of 'a
two-part pole with the fore part thrown up, as when not in 'use. Fig. 2, side
view of the same pole, with the two parts brought flush with each other, as
when in use. Fig. 3, plan view of the same pole, with its hind part inserted
into the sockets of the fore carriage, as usual. Fig. 4, plan view of the con-
struction of fore carriage, which I adopt when the pole is not intended to
have a bind part fitted into sockets in the fore carriage, as is commonly
practised. Fig. 5, view of the pin for "locking" the fore part of the pole
when in its elevated position, as at Fig. 1. Fig. 6, partial longitudinal section;
shewing the fore part of the pole with its shoe. Fig. 7, transverse section
through pole and shoe, taken at the section lines X, X,. (Figs. 6, 8, and 10).
Fig. 8, side view of the shoe of the fore part. Fig. 9, transverse section of this
shoe. Fig. 10, view of the bottom of this shoe. Fig. 11, view of the bottom
of the shoe of the hind part. Fig. 12, transverse section of shoe of hind part
Fig. 13, side view of shoe of hind part. Fig. 14, transverse section of hind
part of pole and shoe. Fig. 15, partial longitudinal section of the hind part
of the pole and its shoe.
At the said Figures, A denotes the hind part of the pole, and B, the
fore part, the two parts being connected together and secured by a centre
pin C, which passes through the shoe of the fore part of the pole and the pole
and shoe at the hind part, and is sufficiently loose to allow the fore part of
the pole to move up and down upon the same as required; the hind part of
the pole being also protected by an iron or metallic shoe D, fitting, as does the
shoe of the fore part, underneath, and at two of the sides of the pole; this
shoe does not extend beyond this hind part of the pole, and is secured thereto
by screws, the heads of which are countersunk to avoid friction when the shoe
of the fore part is brought in contact with it; E is a similar shoe in the end
of the fore part of the pole, one half or thereabouts of which extends beyond
the fore part, in order that when the two parts are brought together, as shewn
at Fig. 2, it may underlay and support the other part; F is an eye or staple
fixed in the end of the hind part of the pole, to which the end of the chain F*

page_text: is attached, the other end of which chain has the "locking" pin G, which
serves to keep the pole elevated when it is thrown up out, of use, as in Fig. 1,
by fitting into the two orifices G', G), in the sides of the projecting end of the
shoe E of the fore part; H is a bolt passing through the end of the fore part,
at the top of which is secured by a centre pin the pall or catch H*, which
takes into a notch or catch in the end of the hind part, for the purpose of
keeping the two parts of the pole even when in use, as shewn at Figs. 2 and 3;
I is a strap fitted to the fore carriage, to which strap is attached, by bearing
pieces and a centre pin, a pall 1*, which takes into a ratch or notch provided
in the hind part of the pole, and is for the purpose of locking the hind part of
the pole in its place when in use, as shewn at Figs. 2 and 3, and preventing
its being drawn out of its place in the sockets in the fore carriage.
As regards the improved fore carriage shewn at Fig. 4, the improvement
consists in dispensing with the two "futchells" usually adopted, and in having
a stock piece K for the pole, to which a pole is to be jointed in the same
manner as the fore part of the pole before described is jointed to the hind part;
the end of the piece-K being treated like the end of the hind part, and the
after end of this pole like the after end of the before described fore part.
(III.) Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improvements
in carriages requiring poles between the horses or draught animals, as set forth
in the outset (marked I.) of this my Specification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hazeldine, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
GEORGE HAZELDINE. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed in the presence of
J. SOWTER,
Clerk to F. W. Campin, Patent Agent,
156, Strand.