Ax IMPROVED WHEEL FOR CARRIAGES AND OTHER VEHICLES PROAL
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Nichols Marshall, of Bideford, in the
County of Devon, Bacon Factor, for the. Invention of "Ax
IMPROVED WHEEL FOR CARRIAGES AND OTHER VEHICLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Nichols
Marshall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 1st October 1852.
I, JAMES NICHOLS MARSHALL, of Bideford, in the County of Devon,
Bacon Factor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED WHEEL FOR CARRIAGES AND OTHER VEHICLES" to be as
follows:-
Two cog wheels, made fast, one on each side of the tire of a wheel;
fourteen revolving cog rails, each ten inches long, fourteen revolvers
for the cog rails to work and turn on a pivot that runs through the
revolver and through the rails, and made fast to the tire of the wheel,
with a joint that will allow the revolver and the rails to lay flat on the
ground while the cog wheel passes over it, and so in succession; as

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said James Nichols Marshall, in the Great
Seal Patent Office, on the 1st April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JAMES NICHOLS MARSHALL, of Bideford, in the County of Devon,
Bacon Factor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said James Nichols Marshall, Her special licence
that I, the said James Nichols Marshall, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said. James Nichols Marshall, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
WHEEL FOR CARRIAGES AND OTHER VEHICLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Nichols Marshall, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Nichols Marshall, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in' and by the following statement (that is to say): "
First, an improved perpendicular wheel for carriages and other
vehicles, on the scale of five feet; made of wood, with an iron cog tire..

page_text: Second, twenty wooden rails attached to an iron plate, with cogs to
fit the cogs of the tire on the wheel, cach nine inches long, to girt the
wheel, three inches deep, and the same width as the iron tire. The rail
has a steel bolt, with a pivot on each end, fixed in the centre, working
in two steel collars bolted each side of the tire. These collars leave
room for the rail and revolvers to lay flat on the ground, and by them
are carried round the wheel and kept firm in their places. An iron
pivot passing through the wooden rail is fastened to the steel bolt
in the centre for the rail and wheel to turn on the revolver, there
being as many revolvers as there are rails. The revolvers are turned,
twenty-seven inches girt, horizontal top and concave bottom, with iron
bands. The pivot from the rail passes through the centre of these
revolvers, is screwed on the rail, and acts jointly with the rail and
wheel. These revolvers may be made either of iron or wood, the wood
acting better for a plough, &c., and the iron for the common road.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Nichols Marshall, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three.
JAMES NICHOLS MARSHALL. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named James
Nichols
presence of
Marshall in the
JOHN JONES,
Bideford.