METHOD OF MAKING SPRINGS FOR THE EASE AND CONVENIENCE OF COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WITH A WORM AND PIN, AND EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT A PLATE, FIXED IN SEVERAL FORMS AND SHAPES, TO ANSWER MANY USEFULL PURPOSES
Year: 1766

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
TREDWELL, of the Parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by IIis
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Eighth day of November, in the seventh year of His reign, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, did give and grant
unto me, the said Richard Tredwell, His especial licence, full power, sole pri-
viledge and authority, that I, the said Richard Tredwell, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, should and might, during the term of years therein expressed, make, use,
exercise, and vend, throughout that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my new-invented "METHOD OF MAKING SPRINGS FOR THE EASE AND
CONVENIENCE OF COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WITH A WORM AND PIN, AND
EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT A PLATE, FIXED IN SEVERAL FORMS AND SHAPES, TO ANSWER
MANY USEFULL PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obling me, the said Richard Tredwell, by writing under my hand and seal, to
cause a description of my said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months from 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 I, the said Richard Tredwell, in compliance with
the said provisoe, do hereby declare that my said Invention is made and
performed in the manner following (that is to say) :-

page_text: By means of the plate or plates and worm springs, with solid pins to go
through the center of the worm, as a director to keep the worm springs upright
or in a direct line or even, and short pins with shoulders to press the worms,
which are contained in any sort of pipes or tubes of mettle, or covering, or
otherwise, or without covering the same, as shall be thought fit; and also a
split pin and sliding bolt to go within the same, with worm springs fixed
thereon for a director, to keep them in a direct line, the sliding pins and
bolt being so contrived, and fastened with screws, rivetts, and stops, that when
the weight is fixed at each end with proper loopes or shackles of iron, it
presses the worm closer together at each end, so as to give it an elastick
motion. These may be made to any length, and to carry any weight. They
may be fixed to the points of any common sorts of springs, or to the body and
carriage, and with or without a short brace, or the assistance of any other
spring whatsoever. They will also supply the place of braces where they are
made use of, if required, and to be covered with tubes, or not covered, and
made to such forms, sizes, and fashions, and of such materials, as shall
be thought fit.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Tredwell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1767, the aforesaid Richard Tredwell came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped 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 Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-seven.