CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES
Year: 1835

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
COLES, of Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of December, in the sixth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Coles, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said William Coles, my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Coles, my exors, adññors, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO LOCOMOTIVE
CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the
said William Coles, 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 His 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
William Coles, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A, upper part of frame, sixteen feet long, six inches deep, eight inches
broad; substance, one inch. B, lower part of frame, ten feet six inches long.
Ends b, b, each six feet; narrow part B, four feet six inches; b, six feet long,
eight inches broad, six inches deep + two inches raised at axle boxes. C, guides
in the form of crosses fixed to inner sides of A, and to outer sides of b, b, with
nave in the centre of these parallel guides to contain the axle for D, the
friction wheel, one foot nine inches diameter, six inches broad, resting on the
axle C of the wheel E, which runs on the rail. E, cast-iron wheel or spoked
wheel, two feet six inches diameter. a, a, a, a, four braces fixed to the centro
of frame A above and upon the frame b, b, b, b. d, d, d, d, four cross bearings
at the lower ends of the parallel guides, secured at the four points d, on B.
Now, the object of this Invention is the reducing of the friction of the axles
of railway carriages by the application of the friction wheels D, resting on
the axles at C, of the wheels E, which run on the rails of the railway, the
axles C being prevented getting out of their proper position by the parallel
guides C¹.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Coles, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand sight hundred and thirty civ