CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKE AND CONSTRUCTION OF AXLETREES, FOR ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF CAR- RIAGES
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM. THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BELLINGHAM, of Levens, near Rostrevor, in the County of Down, Gentle-
man, 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 Twenty-eighth day
of July, in the fifty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
John Bellingham, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial license," full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Bellingham, my exors,
admiors, and assigns, during the term; of years therein mentioned; should and
lawfully might make,. use, exercise, and, vend, within England, Wales,, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my.Invention of CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MAKE AND CONSTRUCTION OF AXLETREES, FOR ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF CAR-
RIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I,
the said John Bellingham, shall not particularly describe and, ascertain th
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Bellingham, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Plan or Figure thereof hereunto annexed, that
is to say-
No. 1, side view of arm of axle, to rest horizontally upon the box from A
to B. No. 2, view from above the axle. No. 3, interior sectional view of axle,
shewing the oil passage E, E, E, communicating with the box at F and with
the oil reservoir H at G. No. 4, external view of box, wormed to screw into-
the nave No. 3. A,. A, A, internal sectional view of box: No. 6, internal
sectional view of nut. No. 7, view of nut, having six sides punched so as to
be capable of inserting the linch-pin into any of them. No. 8, spring linch
pin, which fills the dovetail space A in No. 3. No. 9, valve, as lifted from
out of oil reservoir connected by small chain to the bottom of worm spring,
which brings the valve home when let go, at No. 10. No. 11, view of top of
valve as in its place in No. 1 and 3.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bellingham, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twelve.
:
George Vesey, of the City of Dublin, Gentleman, maketh oath and saith,
he was present, and did see the above-named John Bellingham sign and seal,
and as his act and deed in due form of law deliver, the above-written: Deed,
and that the name George Vesey set.and.subscribed thereto is the proper name
and handwriting of the said George Vesey, subscribed as the witness attesting
the execution thereof.
Sworn before me, at Dublin, this Nine-
teenth day of September, 1812, at the
Court
GEO. VESEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1812, the aforesaid John Bellingham came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery in Ireland, and acknowleged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and speci-
fied, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.