NEW-INVENTED AXLETREE, AND BOX FOR THE SAME TO RUN IN, TO BE USED FOR COACHES, CHARIOTS, AND ALL OTHER KIND OF CARRIAGES, WHICH IS SO CONTRIVED AS CONSTANTLY TO SUPPLY ITSELP WITH OIL WITHOUT HAVING OCCASION TO TAKE OFF THE WHEELS TO GREASE, AS IS COMONLY DONE, AND NO WATER OR DIRT IS LYABLE TO GET INTO THE STOCK OR NAVE OF THE WHEEL, EVEN WHEN IT IS UNDER WATER, WHEREBY THE CARRIAGE WILL RUN MUCH SMOOTHER, BE NEATER AND CLEANER, AND NOT LYABLE TO FIRE AS THOSE NOW USED ARE, AND W THE WHS GREASE, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER ADVANTAGES IN provisoc TRAVELLING
Year: 1763

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, OWEN
O'KEEFFE, of Long Acre, London, Coach Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Second day of December, in the fourth year of His said Majestie's reign,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three,
did give and grant unto me, the said Owen O'Keeffe, His especial lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Owen O'Keeffe, my
years
exors, adiñors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of
therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of
His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED AXLETREE,
AND BOX FOR THE SAME TO RUN IN, TO BE USED FOR COACHES, CHARIOTS, AND ALL
OTHER KIND OF CARRIAGES, WHICH IS SO CONTRIVED AS CONSTANTLY TO SUPPLY ITSELP
WITH OIL WITHOUT HAVING OCCASION TO TAKE OFF THE WHEELS TO GREASE, AS IS
COMONLY DONE, AND NO WATER OR DIRT IS LYABLE TO GET INTO THE STOCK OR NAVE
OF THE WHEEL, EVEN WHEN IT IS UNDER WATER, WHEREBY THE CARRIAGE WILL
RUN MUCH SMOOTHER, BE NEATER AND CLEANER, AND NOT LYABLE TO FIRE AS THOSE
NOW USED ARE, AND A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY AND TIME WILL BE SAVED BY NOT
TAKING OFF THE WHEELS TO GREASE, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER ADVANTAGES IN
provisoc
TRAVELLING;" in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a
obliging me, the said Owen O'Keeffe, by writing under my hand and seal,
to cause a description of my said new-invented axletree and box to be inrolled

page_text: in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months from
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto bad, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in complyance with the said provisoc, I, the said
Owen O'Keeffe, do hereby declare that my said new-invented axletree, and
box for the same to run in, is made and performed in manner following
(that is to say):
Make an inside shoulder to the box behind, and a rais'd shoulder on the
axletree to fill the inside shoulder of the box, and a hoop or cap and plate fixed on
the axletree to cover the bind end of the box to keep the dirt or water out,
and a grove or channel made in the top of the axletree for the oil to drop in
from a cannister or vessell or vessells fixed in the axletree beds, or to the
shafts or sides of the carriage or elsewhere, as is proper to convey the oil in
the box. At the linspin end of the box or boxes there is an inside shoulder
which stops the oil from running out, and an outside shoulder for the nut or
sockett for the wheel iron or inside shoulder or stop to stop the oil without an
outside shoulder.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentyeth
day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-four.
Inrolled the Twentyeth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-four.