NEW-INVENTED SPRINGS POR HANGING COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES UPON, WHICH IS SO CON- STRUCTED AS NOT TO BE LIABLE TO GIVE WAY OR BREAK, MUCH STEADYER, AND IN MANY OTHER RESPECTS PAR MORE SERVISABLE AND PREFERABLE THAN ANY OTHER THAT HAS BEEN MADE
Year: 1762

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, RICHARD
TREDWELL, of the Parish of Saint Giles, in the County of Middlesex, Coach
Spring Maker, and THOMAS OVERTON, of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, in the said
County, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Tenth day of February, in the second year of His said Majesty's reign,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, did
give and grant unto the said Richard Tredwell and Thomas Overton, their
exors, adiñiors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that they, the said Richard Tredwell and Thomas Overton, their
exors, adññors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves,
or by his and their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others
as the said Richard Tredwell and Thomas Overton, their exors, admors,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, should & lawfully
might, during the term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise,
and vend, within that part of His Majesty's said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Barwick-upon-Tweed,
and also in His Maty's Plantations and Colonies abroad, their "NEW-INVENTED
SPRINGS POR HANGING COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES UPON, WHICH IS SO CON-
STRUCTED AS NOT TO BE LIABLE TO GIVE WAY OR BREAK, MUCH STEADYER, AND IN
MANY OTHER RESPECTS PAR MORE SERVISABLE AND PREFERABLE THAN ANY OTHER THAT
HAS BEEN MADE;" in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging us, the said Richard Tredwell and Thomas Overton, or one of us, by
writing under our or one of our hands and seals, to cause a description of the
said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calender months next and immediately after the date of the said recited

page_text: Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance and full performance of the said
proviso above recited, I, the said Thomas Overton, do hereby declare that
the said New-invented Springs for Hanging Coaches and other Carriages
upon, are made and performed in manner following, that is to say:-
Take thin plates, and either flute the plates at the points, or throughout the
length thereof, or in the middle, which said plates are made in various direc-
tions or turnings, according as the purchasors desire; and in joining the said
plates together to make the said spring compleat, the back of the first plate is
adapted to go in and suit the second plate, either by fluting the same as
aforesaid, or by a slit, notch, or groove, made at the points or middle of the
plates to receive the flute and hold the same together; and the back of the
third plate is made and adapted in like manner to the second, and so on untill
the whole number of plates are joined and set which are necessary to compleat
the said spring; and in making the same, the back plate may be made flat,
while the other or others are fluted, whereby the said springs become strong
and much more useful and convenient than those heretofore made.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Overton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-two.
Inrolled the Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-two.