IMPROVEMENTS IN SACK HOLDERS
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSHUA
Cooci, of Harleston, in the County of Northampton, Agricultural Implement
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Tenth day of August,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the cleventh year of Her
reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joshua Cooch, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joshua Cooch, my cors,
adiiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joshua Cooch, my exors,
adñiors, 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 tho
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SACK
HOLDERS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the
said Joshua Cooch, should cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joshua Cooch, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following Specification thereof, referenco being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
Whereas an apparatus called a sack holder is now in use, whereby the sack
is held up while in the course of being filled; but such apparatus affords no
assistance to the moving of such sack when filled from one place to another.
Now my
Invention consists in adding to or combining with such apparatus the
means of promptly and expeditiously moving it with the sack upon it from the
place of loading to the place of deposit. Figure 1 is a perspective view of a
sack holder of the construction of those now in use; Figure 2 is a plan of the
parts constituting my improvements; and Figure 3 a perspective elevation of
Figures 1 and 2 combined. H, H, H, H, is a frame or carriage made of iron
(or any other suitable material) supported by and moving on two wheels I, I.
k is the axle. 1, a stirrup or seat on which the sack rests. m, m, are two
bearers or supporters, to which the frame of the sack holders is attached by
pins or pivots n, n. o is a hook or catch, in which the foot of the moveable
leg p, Figure 1, is secured during the wheeling away of the apparatus with its
load. Figure 4 is a side view, shewing the relative positions of the carriage
and the frame of the sack holder during the wheeling off; and Figure 5 shews
the positions of the same parts respectively during the process of filling the
sack. When the sack is filled it is necessary to place the frame of the sack
holder in an upright position (or nearly so), on which the foot p (Figure 1)
will drop of itself into the hook or catch o, Figure 3, where it remains while
the apparatus is wheeled from place to place in the manner represented in
Figure 4. To restore the frame to the proper position for filling the sack, it
is only necessary again to place the frame in an upright position (or nearly so),
when the leg or foot will be released from the hook or catch, and must be
extended to support the frame in the manner shown in Figure 5.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I make no claim to the
invention of the sack holder by itself, but that what I claim is the construction
of a sack holder with wheels or rollers, or other equivalent means of moving
the same from place to place, as before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Cooch, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
JOSHUA (L.B.) COOCH.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourth day of November, in
the year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid Joshua Cooch came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.