A METHOD FOR THE BETTER CONSTRUCTION OF WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1771

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
JACOB the younger, of Saint Mary Axe, London, Coachmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present. most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of September, in the eleventh year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, His
especial licence that I, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
METHOD FOR THE BETTER CONSTRUCTION OF WHEEL CARRIAGES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph
Jacob the younger, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months 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
Joseph Jacob the younger, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a

page_text: Method for the Better Construction of Wheel Carriages, is performed in
manuer following, that is to say:
To the middle of the fore axletree or axletree bed of coaches and other
carriages of pleasure, as well as waggons and other carriages of burthen, is
united a piece of iron or wood, through which, at any discretional distance
from the axletree, is pass'd the perch bolt which forms the point or center on
which the carriage locks or turns, the fore end of the perch is protracted
before the transom far enough to maintain its bearing on the axletree bed
when the under carriage is lockt round to its utmost extent: The fore part
of the head of a landawlet is constructed with a joint or hinge at the top of
each standing pillar, another joint or hinge at the top of each fore pillar,
and a joint or hinge to the roof on each side between the fore pillars and
standing pillars, by means of which the upper part of the fore pillars and
the fore part of the roof fold up and fall back with the hind part of the
head. The body of pleasure carriages is hung by placing the center of
gravity below the points of suspension, which is effected by means of iron
rods let through the bottom withinside the pannels at the corners of the
body, and placed perpendicularly under sockets or plates fixt to the body at
discretion, to receive the rods; the step to the body is made with joints to
fold up
under the bottom, and, by means of a quadrant stay let through the
bottom, the step is put up and down. at pleasure. The, boxes of the wheels
to receive the axletrees are made in a spiral form of iron, steel, or any other
substance. The motion of the carriage is occasionally retarded by increase of
friction effected by means of levers fastened to the axletree or bed of one end,
and acting on the knaves of the wheels at the: other. The coachman's seat
cover or hammock cloth is made either. of carpet, or of canvas or cloth
painted of any colour or colours, and of any pattern or patterns..
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Jacob the younger, have here-
unto sett my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-one.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
THOS RUGELEY,
JAOB BANISTER.
JOS. JACOB, Jun'. (L.B.)
:

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Eleventh day of October,
in the year above said, the aforesaid Joseph Jacobs the younger came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation of his Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing 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 William and Mary of England,
and so forth.
Inrolled the aforesaid Eleventh day of October, in the year above said.