IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIDS FOR RAILWAY AXLE BOXES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Wood, of Wordsley Foundry, near
Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIDS FOR RAILWAY AXLE BOXES."
Sealed the 25th January 1870, and dated the 20th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Wood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th November 1869.
I, BENJAMIN WOOD, of Wordsley Foundry, near Stourbridge, in the
County of Worcester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIDS FOR RAILWAY AXLE BOXES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture
of lids for railway axle boxes, and the improvements consist in adapting
rolled bar iron in suitable form of section to make the hinge lip and
flange overlapping the front of the orifice of the grease chamber. The
bars are then cut off to the lengths required, and the ends turned down

page_text: to form a corresponding flange with that overlapping the front of the
orifice of the grease chamber. This portion of the manipulation is done
by a smith on the anvil or by a suitable machine for stamping or pressing.
The back edge of the lid is rolled thick enough to allow of a hole being
drilled through it to receive the pin of the hinge, and portions of it are
cut away to-fit it to the snugs of the grease chamber, the hole to receive
the pin is drilled through it and is then case hardened. The usual
springs for closing the lid are applied to the box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Wood in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
Wood, of Wordsley Foundry, near Stourbridge, in the County of
Worcester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Wood, Her special licence,
that I, the said Benjamin Wood, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Benjamin Wood, 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 Islo
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIDS
POR RAILWAY AXLE BOXES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Benjamin Wood, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Wood, do hereby declaro
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture
of lids for railway axle boxes. For this purpose I roll bar iron in
suitable form of section to make the hinge lip and flange overlapping
the front of the orifice of the grease chamber. The bars so rolled are
then cut off to the lengths required, and the ends turned down to form
a corresponding flange with that overlapping the front of the orifice of
the grease chamber. The back edge of the lid where the joint is to be
formed is rolled thick enough to allow of a hole being drilled through
it to receive the pin of the hinge, and portions of it are cut away to fit
it to the snugs of the grease chamber, the hole to receive the pin is
drilled through it and the lid is then case hardened. The usual springs
for closing the lid are applied to the box.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood
and readily carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings

page_text: I claim is, the manufacture of lids for railway axle boxes, substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Wood, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this -Twenty-fifth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy.
Witness to signature,
BENJ. CARLESS,
Agent for the above,
Stourbridge.
BENJAMIN WOOD. (L.S.)