A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIVERS OR PULLEYS FOR SHIPB' BLOCKS, WHICH ARE BETTER ADAPTED FOR THE RIGGING OF SHIPS AND OTHER PUR- CHASES THAN ANY NOW IN USE, AND THAT PART OF THE BAID INVENTION WILL BE OF USE FOR BOXES OF WHEEL CARRIAGES OF ALL KINDS
Year: 1781

page_text: TAYLOR'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
TAYLOR, of Southampton, Block Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said the Walter Taylor, did, by my petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I have, with great labour, study, and application, found out and invented
"A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIVERS OR PULLEYS FOR SHIPB'
BLOCKS, WHICH ARE BETTER ADAPTED FOR THE RIGGING OF SHIPS AND OTHER PUR-
CHASES THAN ANY NOW IN USE, AND THAT PART OF THE BAID INVENTION WILL BE OF
USE FOR BOXES OF WHEEL CARRIAGES OF ALL KINDS," I did, therefore, most
humbly pray His said Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, admors, and
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for
sole making and vending my said Invention within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided: His said Majesty
taking the premises into His Royal consideration, and being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions which be for the public good, was
most graciously pleased to condescend to my said request; and therefore His
said Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fifth day of June, in the twenty-first year of His reign, of. His special grace,
certain knowledge, and mere motion, did give and grant unto the said Walter
Taylor, his executors, adiñors, and assigns, His special license, full power, sole
priviledge and authority that I, the said Walter Taylor, my executors, adiiors,

page_text: and assigns, and every of us, by myself or ourselves, or by my and our deputy,
servants, or agents, or such others as I, the said Walter Taylor, my executors,
admors, 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 lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention
within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called Eng-
land, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such
manner as to me, the said Walter Taylor, my executors, adñiors, and assigns,
or any of us, should in our discretion seem meet, and that I, the said Walter
Taylor, my executors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantages, from time to
time coming, accruing, growing, and arising by reason of the same Invention,
for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said licence, powers, privilege, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Walter Taylor, my
executors, adñiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
that if I, the said Walter Taylor, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, 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 four
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
then the said Letters Patent and all liberty and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Taylor, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed in manner and form
following, that is to say:-
First, as to the planking shivers with lignum vitie, videlicet, to bush, box,
coque or plate all kind of shivers or pulleys made of any kind of wood whatso-
ever with lignum vitie plank or pieces of plank let in on each side of the
shivers to cross each other, so as it shall wear on the pin head or endway of the
grain, instead of any kind of metal, which kind of bushes, boxes, or coques, not
only strengthen the shivers or pulleys, but wear much better and longer than

page_text: when the shivers run on the pin flat or sideway of the grain as is now practised,
and by various experiments it has been found that they wear better than
coques now in use, and with less noise and less friction.
Secondly, as to planking shivers with other wood, videlicet, shivers or other
pulleys for common use, where less purchase is required, and made of any
kind of wood, as above mentioned, may be bushed, boxed, coqued, or plated
with pieces of plank, cut of yew tree, box, holley, and several other kinds of
wood, so as it is fixed with the shivers or pulleys to wear on the pin end or
headway of the grain, as before mentioned.
Thirdly, to make old shivers serve again, which was never before used,
videlicet, when lignum vitie or other shivers are worn out at the centre, they
may be made serviceable again the same as new, by new bushing, boxing,
coquing or plating them in the manner before mentioned.
Fourthly, with respect to all the above improvements, videlicet, all the
bushing, boxing, coquing, or plating made of lignum vitie or other wood, are
fastened in the shivers with screws or rivetts.
Fifthly, as to boiling English wood shivers in oil or salt water, videlicet,
shivers or pulleys made of English wood being liable to be affected by the
weather, may be rendered more serviceable by being boiled or soaked in oil
or salt water.
Sixthly, as to the rim or grove in metal shivers, videlicet, the new Invention
to make shivers or pulleys of cast-iron, brass, or any other kind of metal, as
follows: The rim or grove part of the shivers is to be made of cast-iron, brass,
or any other metal, and the shivers are to have spokes of liguum vitie, or any
other kind of wood, crossed at the centre and fastened to the said rims or
groves with screws or rivetts, which spokes may be either coqued with metal
or iron at the centre, or fixed so as the lignum vitic or other wood spokes shall
wear or run head or endway of the grain. The shivers or pulleys with rims or
groves of cast-iron or metal may have new spokes fixed to them when the old
ones are worn out, and will do again the same as new ones, which has never
before been practised.
Seventhly, as to plates of metal in wood shivers, videlicet, shivers bushed,
boxed, coqued or plated with wood, as before described, and shivers or pulleys
of cast-iron, brass, or other metal, made as before described, intended to have
great strains or heavy purchases, may have plates of iron, brass, or other metal
fixed on each side at the centre, to be screwed or rivetted in such a manner as
to jam the wood between the said plates, and thereby render the shiver more
secure.
Eighthly, as to the improvements in boxes of wheels for carriages of all

page_text: kinds. The boxes for wheel carriages are to be made of lignum vitie or other
wood to wear or run on the axletree head or endway of the grain.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the twenty-first
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
WALT TAYLOR. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered, (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
JAMES SHEEN,
Hoxdon Square, Gent.
W* CLULOW.
Clerk to Mr. I'Anson,
Cannon Row, Westm".
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1781, the aforesaid Walter Taylor came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
Clerk to Mr. I'Anson,
Cannon Row, Westm"
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1781, the aforesaid Walter Taylor came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.