Year: 1885

page_text: WC, ANDREW EADIE, and JOHN TANNAHILL, of the Clydesdale Tube Works,
Rutherglen, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Tube Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows: that is to say :-
Our said Invention has for its object to improve the construction of posts for
telegraph or telephone lines and more particularly to improve the mode, of
attaching the parts of the posts which are above ground to the parts entered into
the ground.
In carrying out the Invention according to one modification the pile or bottom
part of the post which is fixed in the ground is made with a tapered socket and
with a flange at its upper end; and the post which consists of a tapered tube of
wrought-iron or steel is made with its bottom end tapered to fit the socket in the
pile. The tapered bottom end of the post is made with its widest part a little
wider than the part immediately above it so as to form a shoulder, and a ring,
which is passed over the upper smaller end of the post, is shaped to bear on the
shoulder and being secured by screw bolts to the flange of the pile holds the post
firmly down in its socket.
In another modification the ring which is bolted to the flange of the pile is itself
formed as a flange on a short tube which is made with an internal taper to fit the
tapered bottom end of the post; and the post is fixed in the short tube by having
its extreme bottom end expanded or flared upon the rounded edge of the bottom of
the tube. The flanges of the pile and of the short tube may be made spherical
and the bolt holes may be elongated so as to admit of the post being adjusted and
fixed in a vertical position even when the pile has been driven or fixed with a little
inclination.
The pile may be made with a simple point to be fixed by driving in or it may be
screw-shaped to be fixed by screwing.

page_text: Improvements in Posts for Telegraph or Telephone Lines.
We, ANDREW EADIE, and JOHN TANNAHILL, of the Clydesdale Tube Works,
Rutherglen, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Tube Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this 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 :-
Our said Invention has for its object to improve the construction of posts for
telegraph or telephone lines, and more particularly to improve the mode of
attaching the parts of the posts which are above ground to the parts entered
into the ground.
And in order that our said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing modifications of our improved posts, for telegraph
or telephone lines. In these drawings the same reference numerals are used to
mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated..
In carrying out the Invention according to one modification, shown in figures, 1,
2, and 3, on the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings, the pile or bottom
part, 10, of the post which is fixed in the ground is made with a tapered socket
and with a flange, 11, at its upper end; and the post, 12, which consists of a
tapered tube of wrought-iron or steel is made with its bottom end tapered to fit
the socket in the pile, 10. The tapered bottom end of the post, 12, is made with
its widest part a little wider than the part immediately above it so as to form a
shoulder, and a ring, 13, which is passed over the upper smaller end of the post, 12,
is shaped to bear on the shoulder and being secured by screw bolts, 14, to the
flange, 11, of the pile, 10, holds the post, 12, firmly down in its socket.
In another modification shown in figures, 4, 5, and 6, the ring, 13, which is
bolted to the flange, 11, of the pile, 10, is itself formed as a flange on a short
tube, 15, which is made with an internal taper to fit the tapered bottom end of the
post, 12, and the post is fixed in the short tube, 15, by having its extreme bottom
end expanded or flared upon the rounded edge of the bottom of the tube, 15.
In the modification shown in, figures, 7, 8, and 9, the flanges, 11, 13, of the
pile, 10, and the short tube, 15, are made spherical and the belt holes are
elongated; those in the flange, 11, being elongated radially whilst those in the
flange, 13, are elongated concentrically, thus admitting of the post,, 12, being
adjusted and fixed in a vertical position even when the pile, 10, has been driven or
fixed with a little inclination.
The pile, 10, is made with a simple point to be fixed by driving in, or, where
preferred it may be screw-shaped to be fixed by screwing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1-The forming and fixing together of the parts of a post for telegraph or
telephone lines substantially in the improved manner hereinbefore described with
reference to figures, 1, 2, and 3, of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2-The forming and fixing together of the parts of a post for telegraph or
telephone lines substantially in the improved manner hereinbefore described with
reference to figures, 4, 5, and 6, of the accompanying drawings.
3-The forming and fixing together of the parts of a posts or telegraph or
telephone lines substantially in the improved manner herein before described with
reference to figures, 7, 8, and 9, of the accompanying drawings.
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