Patents for inventions. Abridgments of specifications, Volume 631873 |
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66 Printed 66 The invention 66 The patentee apparatus applicable arrangement atmospheric railways attached bearers blocks carriages cast cast-iron centre combined connected cross Drawings edge elastic employed ends engine fastenings fish plates fixed flanges girders groove holes hollow horizontal Improvements in railway inclined inclined plane invention consists invention relates inventor jaws joint length lever line of rails locomotive London Journal Newton's longitudinal sleepers machinery manner manufacture means Mechanics ments metal mould mould box moveable nuts ordinary Patent Journal permanent piece pipes piston placed point rails portion prevent provements Provisional protection purpose rails of railways railway chairs railway signals railway switches Repertory of Arts ribs rivets roads rods rolled rollers screw bolts side signals slot spikes steel suitable switches thereon tie bars tongue rail train tram tramways transverse trenails tube turntables valve vertical wedge wheels WILLIAM wood wooden wrought iron
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Page 674 - Patents' publications (each set including more than 2,880 volumes and costing for printing and paper nearly .£2,700) have been presented to the authorities of the most important towns in the kingdom, on condition that the works shall be rendered daily accessible to the public, for reference or for copying, free of all charge. The following list gives the names of the towns, and shows the place of deposit, so far as ascertained, of each set of the works thus presented : — Aberdeen (Mechanics' Institution)...
Page 20 - ... apparatus for, communicating and transmitting or extending motive power, by means whereof carriages or waggons may be propelled on railways or roads, and vessels may be propelled on canals...
Page xxx - In the evidence given before the Committee of the House of Commons, the promoters stated their expectation of obtaining about one-half of the whole number of passengers that the coaches then running could take, which was from 400 to 500 a day. But the railway was scarcely opened before it carried...
Page 57 - Baron VICTOR.—" Improvements in the con" struction of railways, and in wheels to run on railways, and in " apparatus for clearing the rails." " Round blocks " are placed every two yards on well rammed ground or a prepared foundation, " and transverse sleepers of cast iron made hollow, in which there " is a slope or cutting destined to receive the longitudinal bearers " at a right angle. These longitudinal bearers are twelve inches " square, and are placed at a right angle in the slope of those...
Page 56 - Martin's-lane, civil engineer, for certain improvements in railways and carriage-ways, railway and other carriages, and in the mode of propelling the said carriages, parts of which improvements are applicable to the reduction of friction in other machines.
Page 93 - Engineers' and Architects' Journal, vol. 10, p. 291.] AD 1847, February 12—N° 11,577. HEDGE, EGBERT.—" Certain improvements in rails for railways " and in the manner of securing them." " The rail is formed '.' with an upper and lower table connected together by a rib, the " upper table being made with projecting shoulders, which rest " on the sleeper, and the lower table to be inserted in the sleeper, " so that the rail may be firmly clamped to and secured in a...
Page 29 - Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex, for his invention of certain improvements in tram-roads or railways, and in the wheels or other parts of carriages to be wheeled thereon.
Page 146 - Engineers' and Architects' Journal, vol. 15, p. 428.] AD 1852, May 17.— N° 14,127. NEWTON, WILLIAM EDWARD. — (A communication.) — " Im" provements in the construction of docks, basins, railways, and " apparatus connected therewith, for raising or removing vessels " or ships out of the water, or on to dry land for the purpose of " preserving or repairing the same.
Page 166 - ... the constructing fishes for connecting the rails of railways, with a groove adapted for receiving the heads of the bolts or rivets employed for securing such fishes, and the application of such fishes for connecting the rails of railways.
Page 674 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.