IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF RAILWAY CARRIAGE WHEELS
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ROMUALD BOZEK, of Cheapside, in the City of London, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of January, in the ninth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Romuald Bozek, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Romuald
Bozek, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Romuald Bozek, my exors, admors, 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 the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF RAILWAY CARRIAGE
WHEELS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the
said Joseph Romuald Bozek, shall 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 Her said 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Romuald Bozek, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-

page_text: tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
In the construction and application of railway wheels as heretofore practised
it has been usual so to construct and apply them 'that the single flange on
each wheel shall come on the inside of the rails of a railway; and which con-
struction and mode of application I have discovered to be objectionable, and
that very important benefits will be derived by constructing and applying.
railway wheels so that the single flanch on each wheel shall come outside of
the rail on which it is moving. For this reason, in place of constructing the
flanch on the inner side, and then applying and keying the wheels on to their
axes so that the flanches come on the inside, I cause the flanch of each wheel
to be produced on the outer edge, and cause the wheels to be applied and
keyed on to their axles in such manner that the flanges will come on the
outside of the rails of a railway.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Romuald Bozek, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
JOSEPH ROMUALD (Ls.) BOZEK.
Taken and acknowledged by Joseph
Romuald Bozek (party hereto), at
Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy
at Vienna, in the Kingdom of
Austria, this 26th day of May,
Samuel Carpmael, of Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middle-
sex, maketh oath and saith, that he is acquainted with the manner, and
character of the handwriting of Joseph Romuald Bozek, late of Cheapside, in
the City of London, but now at Vienna, in the Kingdom of Austria, Mechanic.

page_text: And this Deponent further saith, that the signature "Joseph Romuald Bozek,"
set, subscribed, and written at the foot of the Specification hereunto annexed,
and marked with the letter A, and dated the Twenty-sixth day of May now
last past, and purporting to be executed by the said Joseph Romuald Bozek,
and acknowledged by him before John F. Clark, Attaché to Her Britannic
Majesty's Embassy at Vienna aforesaid, on the said Twenty-sixth day of May,
is of the proper handwriting of the said Joseph Romuald Bozek.