CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON OR ADDITIONS TO HARNESS,. PRINCIPALLY APPLICABLE TO CARRIAGES: DRAWN BY ONE HORSE
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GREAVES, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster,,
the Twenty-eighth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-
four, in the fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me; the said. William
Greaves, my exors, admors; and assigns, His' especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said William Greaves, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON OR ADDITIONS
TO HARNESS,. PRINCIPALLY APPLICABLE TO CARRIAGES: DRAWN BY ONE HORSE;" in
which said Letters Patent, there is' contained a. proviso; that if I, the said
William Greaves, shall 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 two calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the
same, relation being, thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Greaves, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say) :-
No. 1 is a horse harnessed upon my improved plan.
No. 2 is a collar upon the ordinary construction, to which I attach the
improved hames.
No. 3 are the hames, to which are secured my improved arms with eyes seen
at A, A, and through which said eyes the reins pass, and by them kept at
any suitable distance from the horse's neck, whereby greater command is
obtained in the management of a horse than by the common method now
in use.
No. 4, B is a rod made of iron or other suitable material, with eyes or holes
at each end, by which said rod I gain a similar advantage as by the arms A, A,
as seen at No. 3.
No. 5, C, C, are arms with eyes attached or secured to the saddle, similarly
constructed to those seen at A, A, No. 3, and intended to produce the same
effect.
No. 6, D is my improved rein fastened to the bit or nose-strap, passing
through a ring or loop E over the horse's head, also passing through the ring
or loop F on the saddle, and secured to the hook G by a ring or rings or loop,
as fastened to the splash-board. The advantages derived from this rein are as
follows:-Should the horse prove restive, or attempt to rear or kick, I imme-
diately pull the rein, whereby his head is raised, and prevent him when playful
or restive from doing mischief.
No. 7 is a box that the axle of the wheel is to run in, which may be applied
to the axletree of a water wheel to give an encrease of the power. Any con-
venient shape may be employed.
Under this Patent I claim as new the projecting arms, as seen at A, A,
No. 3, and the rod B at No. 4, or any other method method of keeping the
reins at any convenient distance from the horse's neck.
I also claim as my Invention the rein D, No. 6, passing over the horse's
neck, and attached, as above described, to the splash-board.
I do not confine myself to any particular dimensions or materials in the
manufacture of the aforesaid improvements, as in either case convenience must
be consulted.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Greaves, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
WILLIAM (L.S.) GREAVES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid William Greaves 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 above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid William Greaves 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 above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.