IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING CARRIAGES
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DUNBAR, of Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third
day of July, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the fourteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, George Dunbar, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George
Dunbar, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Dunbar, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, fom time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and in
all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that I, the said George Dunbar, shall cause a particular

page_text: description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Dunbar, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say):-
My Invention has for its object the suspending carriages from the axle by
flexible bands, braces, chains, straps, or cords.
And in order that the Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describo the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews the side view of a carriage suspended according to my
Invention.
Figure 2 also shews a side view of a carriage suspended according to S
my Invention. The means resorted to in the two cases differ somewhat in
the details, but they are alike in principle; that is, in both cases a strap, brace,
band, chain, or cord on either side of the carriage is fixed to the axle a, and
the carriage is suspended from such axle by means of the bands, braces, cords,
chains, or straps. Hence, in both cases the suspending of the carriage is by a
flexible means. In Figure 1 on each side of the carriage is placed what
may be called a double strap, band, or cord b, which is fixed to the axle,
and in order to adjust the position of the parts a screw and nut c is used to
adjust the position of the lever d, to which the flexible strap, band, or
cord is attached, as shewn. In Figure 2 the flexible suspending bands are
adjusted by barrels d, with ratchet wheels and catches, as shewn. I would
would remark that the details herein given may be varied. I do not, therefore,
confine myself to the detail herein given so long as the peculiar character of
my Invention be retained. And I would also state that the form of the
carriage to which my Invention is to be applied may be varied according to S
the object for which it is intended to be applied.
:
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner

page_text: in which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I
claim are the means herein described of suspending carriages.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Dunbar, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
Taken and acknowledged by George
Dunbar (party hereto) at Paris,
in the Republic of France, this
18th day of January, 1851, before
GEORGE (L.S.) DUNBAR.

page_text: By Allt.
AND BE IT REMEMEBRED, that on the oath of Samuel Carpmael, the
Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
made for that purpose.