The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture (Volume 29, Nos. 169-174 ); Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inven (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1816. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Specification of the Patent granted to the Reverend WilLiam Milton, of Heckfield, Hants; for certain Improvements upon the Wheels and Perches of Carriages. Dated February 10, 1816. With an Engraving. X O all to whom these presents shall come, &c. Now Know Ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I the said William Milton do hereby declare that the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the drawings hereunto annexed, and the following references thereto, or description thereof; that is to say: My said improvements consist in, making the lock of a four-wheel carriage as practicable with wheels, however high before, as it is with the low wheels, now commonly used; and in making such high wheels more capable of enduring violent shocks than by the present mode of making they would be. The lock with high wheels before is thus affected: abed, Fig. 1, (Plate XI.) is the hind body of a waggon, of a stage coach, or of a gentleman's family travelling carriage, or other carriages up-borne by its wheels on the ground at G. To the top and along the middle of this hind body is fixed the upper perch abc to the bottom, the under perch d efc andf being in the central and vertical line of the, intended lock motion. Thus circumstanced, this hind body will fall backwards or for-, wards, according as the front of it, .A e, is heavier or lighter than the back ad. To prevent this falling, insert at and between cf the figure mhk, representing a fore body on its wheels, provided with top and bottopi pins**, and with proper keys, or with'a perch bolt, going all the way through N Patent for improved Wheels and Perches of Carriages. 337 through. This done, both bodies, with little effort, .