Improve- MENTS IN CASTORS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Wright, of High Gingerfield, Richmond,
in the County of York, Gentleman, for the Invention of “Improve-
MENTS IN CASTORS."
Sealed the 29th January 1875, and dated the 8th December 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
-8th December 1874.
I, RICHARD WRIGHT, of High Gingerfield, Richmond, in the County
of York, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASTORS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in castors. For this
purpose I form a castor of a ball placed in a cup, leaving about one-
third of the ball or pellet below the orifice of the cup so that the lower
part of the cup holds the ball below the centre. Above the ball is an
inner cup made of steel, iron, or any other hard material having a shank
standing up from it which is received in a bell or thimble inserted into

page_text: the end of the foot or leg of the furniture. The cup covers or catches
the ball on the side but does not touch or press on the top of the ball.
The shank rolls about in the bell or thimble when the furniture is pushed
along and carries the cup below the shank to one side of the pall, which
side push makes the ball roll on the same principle as the push to a ball
on a billiard table by a cue.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WRIGHT, of High Gingerfield, Richmond, in the County of York,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Wright, Her special licenso
that I, the said Richard Wright, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Wright, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CASTORS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Wright, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Richard Wright, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in castors. For this
purpose I form a castor of a ball placed in a cup, leaving about one-
third of the ball or pellet below the orifice of the cup so that the lower
part of the cup holds the ball below the centre. Above the ball is an
inner cup made of steel, iron, or any other hard material having a shank
standing up from it which is received in a bell or thimble inserted into
the end of the foot or leg of the furniture. The cup covers or catches
the ball on the side but does not touch or press on the top of the ball.
The shank rolls about in the bell or thimble when the furniture is
pushed along, and carries the cup below the shank to one side of the
ball, which side push makes the ball roll on the same principle as the
push to a ball on a billiard table by a cue.
R. WRIGHT. (L.S.)