A PARACHUTE TO PRE- SERVE ALL SORTS OF CARRIAGES FROM FALLING, OR INJURY UPON THE BREAKING OF THEIR AXLETREES
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
GAURY, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Warehouseman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Thirty-first day of March, in the fourth year of Her reign, did give ând
grant unto me, the said Joseph Gaury, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her
special lincence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Joseph Gaury, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said Joseph Gaury, my exors, adiñiors, 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, an Invention of "A PARACHUTE TO PRE-
SERVE ALL SORTS OF CARRIAGES FROM FALLING, OR INJURY UPON THE BREAKING OF
THEIR AXLETREES," communicated to me by a Foreigner residing abroad, within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Eng-
land, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in Her
Islands Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her
said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me,
the said Joseph Gaury, my exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them,
should in my or their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Joseph
Gaury, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and

page_text: enjoy the whole profit, benefit; commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned; in which Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso that I, the said Joseph Gaury, should cause a particular
description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be
enrolled 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, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Gaury, do hereby declare and describe the nature of the said Inven-
tion to consist in the fixing an apparatus, "which is denominated a parachute,
to the nave of all sorts of carriage wheels, so that the carriage may be pre-
served from falling and injury, and continue to run in the event of the axle-
tree or axletrees breaking; the nature of the Invention being to provide a
secondary or temporary support to the nave of the wheel; the means of
providing which will be understood by the accompany Drawing, and the
following description thereof.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
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Figure 1, a, shews a front view of a collar; b, a grooved ferrule fitting
into the inside of the collar; c, c, are jointed semicircular caps, which, fall
into the groove of the ferrule, and are kept in their position by a bolt and
nut.d, seen in the plan view. e, e, are separating bars screwed to the collar, in.
order to keep the wheel in equilibrium.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the Invention attached to the wheel of a carriage
for transporting heavy goods. f is a ferrule made in two parts, in order to
-admit the collar, the ferrule being afterwards closed and made firm to the,
nave by. bolts. 9, the collar, as seen from above, and h, h, the separating bars,
as before described.
Figure 3 is also a plan view of the Invention attached to the wheel of a
chaise, gig, or lighter kind of vehicle. i is a box attached to the nave of the
wheel by bolts, having on its periphery a groove, into which the collar j fits:
This collar is kept in its place by means of the circular cap k, which has a
screw on the inside for that purpose. 1, l, are the separating bars, as before:
described. m, m, are lugs to receive bolts from the plate of the axletree.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section of the Invention applied to the interior.
of the box attached to the nave of a wheel, and which box is secured by bolts
n, n. The groove in this Figure is in the interior of the box, as shewn at o, o,,

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one side of which is formed by the circular cap p, which screws into the box
at q. r is the plate or washer working within the groove. s is a fork, fitted
to the washer by nuts and screws, to maintain the wheel in equilibrium.
This fork is provided with lugs, in order that the plate s¹ of the axletree t
be attached to it by means of the bolt and screw shewn at v, Figure 5.
Having now described the nature of the Invention, and the matter in which
it is to be carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not claim
any of the separate parts, but the general arrangement for effecting the pur-
poses herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Thirtieth
day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and forty-one.