IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEEL SKATES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph John Perry, of Red Lion Square, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEEL
SKATES."
Sealed the 16th July 1875, and dated the 21st January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph John Perry
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st.January 1875.
I, JOSEPH JOHN PERRY, of Red Lion Square, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN WHEEL SKATES," to be as follows :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in wheel skates. For
this purpose instead of forming all the wheels of india-rubber or of box-
wood, as heretofore, I, according to my Invention, form all except the
hind wheel of boxwood or of cast metal or other hard material, and I
form the hind wheel of india-rubber, by which means the skate is
made to run easily when using the front wheels, and the skater is
enabled to stop his motion by bringing the india-rubber wheel in contact
with the floor.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph John Perry in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 21st July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
JOHN PERRY, of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph John Perry, Her
special license that I, the said Joseph John Perry, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
John Perry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time 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 In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEEL SKATES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph John Perry, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, 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 Joseph John Perry, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
The Invention has for its object improvements in wheel skates.
Heretofore in the manufacture of wheel skates it has been customary
to make all the wheels of boxwood, cast metal, or other hard material,
or to make them all of india-rubber. Now, by the first-mentioned plan,
although the skate is made to run casily it is somewhat difficult for the

page_text: skater quickly to stop his motion; whilst by the latter plan, although
the skater can quickly stop his motion the act of skating is made a very
laborious affair.
Now according to my present Invention I am enabled to combine the
advantages of both the plans, herein-before described, without entailing
their disadvantages. For this purpose I make the front wheels of box-
wood, cast iron, or other hard material, and the hind wheel I make of
india-rubber or of compounds thereof, the skate being of that description
in which the wheels are arranged in a row, one behind the other, and so
that their peripheries shall not all stand in the same plane. By these
means the skater is enabled to run easily when using only the front
wheels, whilst he is also enabled quickly to stop his motion by pressing
the hind wheel on the ground or floor.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood, that
what I claim, as my improvements in wheel skates, is forming or
making the front wheels of boxwood, cast iron, or other hard material,
whilst the hind wheel is formed or made of india-rubber or compounds
thereof, for the purposes herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph John Perry, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twentieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.