Year: 1785

page_text: LONDON:
PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY:
PUBLISHED AT THE GREAT SEAL PATENT OFFICE,
25, SOUTHAMPTON BUILDINGS, HOLBORN,

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
EDGELL, of Frome Selwood, in the County of Somerset, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date on
or about the Twelfth day of January, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-
five, and in the twenty-fifth year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said James Edgell, my exors, admors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
James Edgell, my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during
the term therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part
of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britian called England, His Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED AXLE OR
CENTER PIN, PROPER AND FIT FOR THE WHEELS OF COACHES, CHAISES, WAGGONS,
CARTS, AND ALL OTHER WHEEL CARRIAGES, WHICH AXLES OR CENTER PINS ARE SO
CONSTRUCTED, AFFIXED, AND SUPPORTED AS GREATLY TO REDUCE AND LESSEN THE
FRICTION THEREON, THEY BEING MADE MUCH SMALLER IN THE PARTS PRODUCING
FRICTION THAN ANY AXLES HITHERTO USED FOR WHEEL CARRIAGES, AND YET ARE

page_text: FIXED AND SUPPORTED IN SUCH MANNER AS TO PRESERVE EQUAL OR GREATER STRENGTH
AND SECURITY FROM BREAKING OR DANGER THAN THE AXLES THEN IN USE, BY
MEANS WHEREOF SUCH CARRIAGES WOULD BE DRAWN WITH MUCH GREATER EASE TO
THE HORSES OR BEASTS DRAWING THE SAME THAN BY ANY METHOD BEFORE FOUND
OUT;" in which said in part recited Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso that if I, the said James Edgell, should not particularly describe
and ascertain 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, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Edgell, do hereby declare that my said new-invented axles or center
pins, so constructed, aflixed, and supported as greatly to reduce and lessen the
friction thereon, are made, used, and to be performed in manner following
(that is to say):
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The said axles or center pins are made of iron or steel, one of which is
applicable to one wheel only, and goes through or is affixed in the stock or
nave of such wheel, and is borne or supported at each end of such stock or
nave by a bar or rail being placed for that purpose on the outside of the wheel
as well as on the inside, so that each wheel turns on its axis within a frame at
each side of the body or bed of the carriage, by means of which support at
each end the said axles are strong, and yet much smaller than has hitherto
been accustomed or used for wheel carriages.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Edgell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of April, in the twenty-fifth year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace
of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1785, the aforesaid James Edgell came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.