TO BE USED AS A SUPPORT AND SAFEGUARD IN GETTING IN AND OUT OF CHAISES, CURRICLES, AND OTHER TWO-WHEELED CARRIAGES
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BURRELL, of Thetford, in the County of Norfolk, Smith and Founder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-first day of February now last past, did give and grant
unto me, the said Joseph Burrell, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Burrell, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and such others as I, the said Joseph Burrell, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "TO BE USED AS A SUPPORT AND SAFEGUARD IN GETTING IN AND OUT
OF CHAISES, CURRICLES, AND OTHER TWO-WHEELED CARRIAGES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Joseph
Burrell, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the said recited Letters Patent, reference being thereto had, will more
fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Burrell, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows,
that is to say:-
My said Invention consists of an iron or brass support or guard, a foot or more
or less in length, and of proper size and form for the hand to bear upon, to be
placed above the rim of the wheels of chaises, curricles, or other two-wheeled
carriages, in such a position as to be used as a support in getting in and out,
and a guard to prevent the wheel turning against the hand, as there will be no
occasion to bear upon the wheel, as is frequently done in getting in and out.
This guard is to be placed above the wheels at such a distance as on no occa-
sion to touch the wheels, nor the soil hanging upon the wheels; it is supported
at one end by a strong iron going across the shafts or frame of the chaise,
curricle, or other two-wheeled carriage, and at the other end by an iron
fastened to the body of the said chaise, curricle, or other two-wheeled carriage,
forming when fixed a support and guard, and making it much more safe, easy,
and convenient to get in and out of chaises, curricles, and other two-wheeled
carriages than it otherwise would be.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Burrell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April, in the fifty-fifth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of
the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred