AN IMPROVED TRUCK. APPARATUS FOR MOVING AND TRANSPORTING STONES AND OTHER HEAVY BODIES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontainemoreau, of
89, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South
Street, Finsbury, London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED TRUCK.
APPARATUS FOR MOVING AND TRANSPORTING STONES AND OTHER HEAVY
BODIES." A communication.
Sealed the 15th September 1857, and dated the 16th April 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte
de Fontainemoreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 16th April 1857.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comto DE FONTAINEMOREAU, of No. 89, Rue de
l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury,'
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "AN IMPROVED
TRUCK APPARATUS FOR MOVING AND TRANSPORTING STONES AND OTHER HEAVY.
BODIES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the peculiar construction of an adjustable rolling
truck for moving and transporting stones and other heavy bodies.
The truck is composed of two or more rollers in the form of a double
truncated cone, each roller being fixed to a longitudinal axis, which works in:
bearings on a strong frame. The bearings of each conical roller are held
together by strong connecting iron or wooden pieces of a suitable length.

page_text: Upon these two pieces, forming the frame of each roller, the stone or other
heavy body is placed. The axis of each roller extends beyond the bearings of
the frame, to allow the two adjustable racks to be placed upon them.
One end of each rack is formed with a number of teeth, which fit upon the
axis of one of the frames, thus connecting the two conical rollers together,
and adjusting the required distance from each other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand lo Comte do Fontainemorcau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 14th October 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINEMOREAU, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in
the Empire of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Peter Armand le Comte de Fontainemorcau, Her special license that I, the
said Peter Armand le Comto do Fontainemoreau, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le Comto do
Fontainemorcau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
timo 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 "AN IMPROVED
TRUCK APPARATUS FOR MOVING AND TRANSPORTING STONES AND OTHER HEAVY
BODIES," communicated to me by a foreigner residing abroad, upon tho con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine-
morcau, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine-
morcau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing

page_text: bereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is
to say:-
This Invention consists in the construction of a truck or carriage with a
peculiar form of adjustable rollers.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawing is an elevation, and Figure 2 a plan of
the improved truck, which is composed of two iron or wooden rollers A, A, of
the shape of a double truncated cone. One of these rollers is represented in
section. Each roller is furnished with a cap B screwed to each of its ends,
and with an iron axle C, C, keyed thereto. The two axles turn in bearings
or supports D, D, composed of iron or other material. The iron cross bars
E, E, upon which the heavy body to be moved is placed, are fixed to the
supports D, D, by bolts and nuts F, F. The two rollers are connected laterally
by the rack bars G, G, Figures 1 and 2. One end of each of the bars is
fitted on the axle C', and the opposite ends formed with a number of rack
teeth II, H, fit on the axle C, and by this arrangement the distance between
the two rollers may be increased or diminished, as required.
In order to draw the truck along, hooks of an S form, to which ropes may
be fixed, should be passed through the holes I, I, in the bearings or supports.
Another mode of constructing the truck consists in forming the truck with
iron bearings or supports, in the same manner as that herein-before described,
in which the axles turn. Each axle is fitted with two flanged wheels which
run upon a tramway. The supports or bearings are fixed to a table or
platform by bolts and nuts.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same may be carried into effect, I would observe that I do not
confine myself to the precise details of construction herein laid down; but
what I claim is, the mode of constructing an improved truck for moving and
transporting heavy bodies, as herein-before described, and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine-
morçau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of
October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
L DE FONTAINEMOREAU (L.S.)