AN AXLETREE AND BOX FOR CARRIAGES ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, WHICH I CALL MY MOBILE COLLAR AXLETREE AND Box
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ROWNTREE, of the Parish of Christ Church, in the County of Surrey, Engine
Maker, 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 Jieland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of
April, in the forty-fifth year of Iis reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Rowntice, my executors, administrators, and assigns, IIis especial
licence, that I, the said Thomas Rowntree, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, duing the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN AXLETREE AND BOX FOR CARRIAGES
ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, WHICH I CALL MY MOBILE COLLAR AXLETREE AND
Box;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said Thomas Rowntree, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to 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 Majesty's
High Court of Chancery, within one calendar month after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, 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
Thomas Rowntree, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
the above Drawings and description thereof
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Rowntree, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and five.
Fig 1 represents my improved axletree box and mobile collar A, the
axletree B, the mobile collar C, the box screwed and fixed firm to the
mobile collar. D. a small round collar at the end of the aim, not touch
the end of the box, but free fiom any rub or friction. E, a leather collar to
prevent the oil from escaping. F, the cap screwed to the end of box to
receive and keep the oil as in other axletiees and boxes now in use G, a nut
screwed on the aim before the cone, to keep the mobile collar in its situation
and secure on the arm. To the axleti ee I have no nut at the end of the arm,
consequently the friction of that is done away, nor can a wheel accidently come
off by this method. The advantages to be derived in this improved manner
of constructing axletrees and boxes with a mobile collar is safety in travelling
and much less draft to the hoises
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of
May, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Rowntree came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year above written