THE METHOD OR METHODS FOR THE SECURITY AND SAFE CONVEYANCE OF SMALL PARCELS AND REMITTANCES OF PROPERTY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, AND ALSO FOR SECURITY IN THE FORMATION OR APPENDAGE OF SHOES
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
PITT, formerly of the Strand, but now of Adam Street, Adelphi, in the City of
Westminster, and County of Middlesex, Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Eleventh day of May now last past, did give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Pitt, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Charles Pitt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
such others as I, the said Charles Pitt, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's Colinies
and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "THE METHOD OR METHODS FOR THE
SECURITY AND SAFE CONVEYANCE OF SMALL PARCELS AND REMITTANCES OF PROPERTY
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, AND ALSO FOR SECURITY IN THE FORMATION OR APPENDAGE
OF SHOES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Charles Pitt, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled
in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as

page_text: in and by the said recited Letters Patent, reference being thereto had, will
more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Pitt, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows,
that is to say:-
First, the security and safe conveyance of small parcels and remittances of
property. This is effected by making one or more of the seats of mail and
other coaches to form a box or case, from which a drawer is to slide, opening
through the pannel on the outside of the coach, in which drawer may be de-
posited as many different boxes as may be required. This drawer to be supplied
with a good lock and keys, one of the keys to be kept in London, and another
by each of the persons in trust, who on the arrival of the coach can take the
moveable box out of the drawer belonging to that town, and in its place to put
the one to be forwarded from thence. All this may be done with a facility
equal to the changing of post bags. Neither the guard, coachman, nor
passengers have controul over the parcels, as by means of an iron bar at the
top of the coach, reaching to the back, with a spring exactly perpendicular to
the centre of the said drawer, which top bar communicates with two perpen-
dicular bars reaching to the bottom of the said drawer at the centre part thereof.
The top bar has at the back of the coach a hasp and staple, which are secured
by a padlock, the key of which is under the controul of the guard, and which,
until he releases, no person even with the key can open the drawer.
In respect to the remittances.-The art of manufacturing a sheet of paper,
stamp't in the usual or any any other form with any of His Majesty's stamps
now or hereafter in use, is to take the sheet of paper, and by means of a liquid
composed of the following ingredients:-To one quart of water add one table
spoonfull of Indian ink and one tea spoonful of treacle, which boil well together,
and when so manufactured therewith cover (either by the hand, machine, press,
or other method,) so much of the sheet of paper as may be necessary to com-
prise the legal instrument to be written upon, which manufacture so used will
comprise the security in conveyance of remittances throughout the limits of the
Inventor's Patent. In as much as in the pressing of the said tint or manufac
ture the name of the place at which the sheet is issued is at the same time
imprinted, all which will constitute the additional security in remittances never
hitherto put in practice.
The other security proposed is that of enabling horses to travel with safety
either in the mail and other coaches, vehicles of any description, rode, drove,
or led horses, in frosty or other weather. The plan is to have the horseshoe in

page_text: the common form, having any number of corkings raised above the face, either
in the solid shoe to make them permanent, or by means of a groove formed in
the face of the shoe, into which certain plates are to be introduced, on which
plates the corkings are to be worked in solid, but to afford the opportunity of
having shoes either with or without corkings plain plates are prepared, in like
manner to fit the grooves when the plates with corkings are not in use. The
plates are to be secured in the grooves either by screw, spring, or any other
effectual method, so that when in their places they will be in effect a part of
the shoe. The plates may be made in sets, so that any number may be had
for each set of shoes. Annexed is the plan of the shoe in its various states of
formation:-
No. 1 represents the shoe either with plates or formed by the solid, repre-
senting the corkings raised above the plate or face of the shoe.
No. 2 represents the shoe in its grooved or prepared form, ready to receive
the plates.
No. 3 represents the plates in a prepared state to go into the grooves; the
number of corkings may be at pleasure.
No. 4 represents the plain plates which screw or fasten in the
the corking plates are not wanted.
grooves
when
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Pitt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifteen.