A NEW MODE OF COVERING AND ENCLOSING ALL KINDS OF CARRIAGES
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILLIAMS, of Cornhill, in the City of London, Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
Ilis Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of Decem-
ber, in the forty-eighth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
John Williams, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Williams, my exors,
adors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, excrcise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MODE OF
COVERING AND ENCLOSING ALL KINDS OF CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Williams,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to 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 His Majesty's High Court of Chan-
cery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Williams, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained as follows, that is to say:-

page_text: I construct a moveable frame or cover capable of being disposed between
grooves, or within a cell or space in the body of the carriage, and of being
drawn up by one or more straps or webs suitably disposed so as to act nearly
in the manner commonly adopted with regard to the glasses or blinds of
carriages; and I do accordingly dispose and fit up the said frame or cover in
the method here mentioned and described; and I do make the said frame
or cover of any fit and proper materials, and put or make therein windows or
apertures when or if required; and when the materials thereof are inflexible,
I do make the same of such a form or figure as shall be capable of mathema-
tical description about a real or imaginary axis, that is to say:-I do make the
said form or figure spherical, spheroidal, cylindrical, or of such other description
as shall in its own nature have reference to an axis; and I do make my
carriage, or the grooves, spaces, or other receptacles therein, and into what tho
said frame or cover shall be intended to slide, of a correspondent figure,
adapted to the purposes herein-before mentioned. And further, I do make
the said frame or cover of any desired magnitude, with ends or sides, or in
such other manner as shall cover either part or the whole of the carriage, in
such places whero the same would otherwise have remained open and un-
covered; and I do by stops, pins, or holes in the straps or webs herein-before
mentioned, or by other fit and obvious methods and contrivances, provide that
the said frame or cover shall and may be drawn out of tho said grooves, spaces,
or receptacles in greater or less degrees or quantity, as may be needful, and
fixed in the positions so obtained. And further, in other cases, in the practico
of my said Invention, instead of making my cover of inflexible materials, I
do make the same of small rods, bars, or pieces of wood or metal, and joined
sideways together, either by tying, or sewing, or glewing the same to a cloth
of otherwise to each other, as hath been done in the covers of writing tables
ând some other articles; and in this method of structure it is not necessary
that the grooves, cells, spaces, or receptacles in the carriage should have a
figuré referable to an axis, as aforesaid, because the said cover may evidently
be disposed in various different kinds of receptacles, which it is unnecessary
to describe, because sufficiently obvious to every competent workman. And
farther I do in other cases make my said cover of cloth or other flexible
material; and in this last-mentioned construction the disposal of the same in
the body of the carriage, and the use and management of the same, will
require and admit of other variations, which are also sufficiently manifest; and
in every case wherein the said cover is or shall be made of materials more or
less flexible, it will be needful that certain leaders or supports should be pro-
vided and made, in order that the same may be held and secured in its place

page_text: when in use. And, lastly, I do declare that my said Invention is applicable
to all kinds of carriages or vehicles for conveyance either by land or by water;
and that the same may be made in various elegant forms of slighter or
stronger materials, as may be required, and that in its own nature it is very
durable.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eight.