IMPROVED. APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE POLES AND SPLINTER BARS OF CARRIAGES
Year: 1868

page_text: EETTERS PATENT to Francis Mulliner, of Northampton, in the
County of Northampton, Carriage Builder, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED. APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE POLES AND
SPLINTER BARS OF CARRIAGES.""
Sealed the 11th September 1868, and dated the 14th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Mulliner
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on. the 14th March 1868..
I, FRANCIS MULLINER, of Northampton,, in the County of North-
ampton, Carriage Builder, do, hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE.
POLES AND. SPLINTER. BARS OF CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain arrangements of mechanism by
means of which the poles of carriages are readily fixed and removed,
whilst they possess when fixed the capability of traversing vertically
without any movement of the splinter bar, or at all events of a portion
thereof. The splinter bar may, if desired, be divided, the several
parts thereof being connected by a suitable joint or joints in such

page_text: manner that a portion of the splinter bar may be fixed and a portion
thereof moveable. By preference the splinter bar is fixed rigidly to
the carriage, and has attached to the front or any other suitable part
thereof an iron frame carrying two sockets arranged at suitable distances
from each other for the reception of the pole, which is secured thereto
by means of an ordinary pole pin. The before-mentioned frame is
attached to the splinter bar by any suitable number of hinge joints
placed at any desired portions of the splinter bar, the result being
that while the pole is thus allowed to have an upward and downward
motion, the horses are only subjected to a very slight pressure or
weight.
Another modification of this Invention consists in having one or
more sockets (instead of two as before mentioned) to the splinter bar
with a joint or joints, and in which the pole may be placed when
ready for use; or the pole may be connected with the splinter bar by
joints or by means of any mechanical contrivance or arrangement
equivalent or analogous to the methods before mentioned; or the pole
may be made in more than one piece and provided with a joint or
joints, and secured by means of a pin or pins or in any other analogous
manner, so that the same may work vertically when fixed, and that
the same can be taken to pieces and removed at pleasure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Mulliner in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
MULLINER, of Northampton, in the County of Northampton, Carriage
Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Francis Mulliner, Her special
licence that I, the said Francis Mulliner, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis Mulliner,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time

page_text: agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH
THE POLES AND SPLINTER BARS OF CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Francis Mulliner, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Mulliner, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say:-
My said Invention consists in certain arrangements of mechanism,
by means of which the poles of carriages are readily fixed and
removed, whilst they possess when fixed the capability of traversing
vertically without any movement of the splinter bar, or at all events
of a portion thereof. The splinter bar may, if desired, be divided,
the several parts thereof being connected by a suitable joint or joints
in such manner that a portion of the splinter bar may be fixed and
a portion thereof moveable. By preference the splinter bar is fixed
rigidly to the carriage, and has attached to the front or any other
suitable part thereof an iron frame carrying two sockets arranged at
suitable distances from each other for the reception of the pole,
which is secured thereto by means of an ordinary pole pin. The
before-mentioned frame is attached to the splinter bar by any suitable
number of hinge joints placed at any desired portions of the splinter
bar, the result being that while the pole is thus allowed to have an
upward and downward motion, the horses are only subjected to a
very slight pressure or weight.
Another modification of my said Invention consists in having one
or more sockets (instead of two as before mentioned) to the splinter
bar with a joint or joints, and in which the pole may be placed
when ready for use; or the pole may be connected with the splinter bar

page_text: by joints or by means of any mechanical contrivance or arrangement
equivalent or analogous to the methods before, mentioned; or the pole
may be made in more than one piece and provided with a joint or
joints, and secured by means of a pin or pins or in any other
analogous manner, so that the same may work vertically when fixed,
and that the same can be taken to pieces and removed at pleasure.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would
observe in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and
therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to me by the
said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination
and arrangement of parts and mechanism as and for the purposes
herein-before described and set forth, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Mulliner, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twelfth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness,
DAVID KINLAY,
Foreman to Mr. Mulliner.
FRAS. MULLINER. (L.S.)