IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING SEMAPHORE SIGNALS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Lloyd Wise, of Chandos Chambers,
Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING
SEMAPHORE SIGNALS."-A communication from abroad by Martin
Wattson, of the Village of Thedford, in the County of Lambton,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Lloyd Wise
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 6th March 1874.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of Chandos Chambers, Adelphi, in the
5 County of Middlesex, Patent, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention, for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
OPERATING SEMAPHORE SIGNALS," to be as follows
This Invention is designed to work signals with ease, also to save
time and expense..

page_text: It will be fully understood from the following description and the
Drawing therein referred to, which forms part of this Specification, and
wherein A, A, is an endless or double wire, which goes from the lever
G over the pulley H, and thence to the sleeve pulley F. The sleeve D
has a pulley on its upper end and a bevel wheel on its lower end, which
turns the bevel wheel E, which is fastened to the signal arm B; C is
the lamp stand, on which the signal and the sleeve and gearing work.
This semaphore signal can be worked either with an endless or double
wire, or a single wire.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Lloyd Wise in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
LLOYD WISE, of Chandos Chambers, Adelphi, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of Mareh; in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did; for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Lloyd Wise, Her special license
that I, the said William Lloyd Wise, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Lloyd Wise, my exécutors,
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 Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING SEMAPHORE SIGNALS," a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Martin Wattson, of the Village of Thedford,
in the County of Lambton, and Province of Ontario, Canada, Lumber
Merchant, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Lloyd Wise, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals; should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same

page_text: 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 William Lloyd Wise, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say) :—
This Invention is designed to work signals with ease, also to save
time and expense.
It will be fully understood from the following descripton and the
Drawing therein referred to, which forms part of this Specification, and
wherein A, A, is an endless or double wire, which goes from the lever G
over the pulley H, and thence to the sleeve pulley F. The sleeve D
has a pulley on its upper end and a bevil wheel on its lower end, which
turns the bevil wheel E, which is fastened to the signal arm B; C is
the lamp stand on which the signal and the sleeve and gearing work.
This semaphore signal can be worked either with an endless or double
wire or a single wire.
Having described the nature of the said Invention, and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, as com-
municated to me as aforesaid, I hereby declare that what I consider to
be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination
of the endless or double wire A, A, signal arm B, lamp stand C, sleeve D,
and lever G, in the manner and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Lloyd Wise, have hereunto
set my hand and and seal, this Fourth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.