IMPROVEMENTS IN AP APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, of Bury Street,
St. James, in the City of Westminster, Master of Arts, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AP APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 12th June 1855, and dated the 19th December 1854.
J, FREDERICK ROBERT AUGUSTUS GLOVER, of Bury Street, St. James, in the
City of Westminster, Master of Arts, do hereby declare the nature of the said.
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES"
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the application or adaptation to four-wheeled and
other carriages of the springs or spring shafts, for which I have obtained
Letters Patent for the British Dominions, bearing date the Seventh day of
April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and numbered 807, and in
the necessary alterations and modifications of such carriages for the suitable
application and adaptation of such springs or spring shafts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of. the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th June 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
ROBERT AUGUSTUS GLOVER, of Bury Street, St. James, in the City of West-
minster, Master of Arts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, Her special licence that I, the
said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover,
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 Isle of Man, an Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO
THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, by an instrument in writing under
hand and seal, 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 to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
my
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, 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) :-
My Invention has reference to the application or adaptation to four-wheeled
and other carriages of the springs or spring shafts, for which I have obtained
Letters Patent for the British Dominions, bearing date the Seventh day of
April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and numbered 807, and to
the necessary alterations and modifications of such carriages for the suitable
application and adaptation of such springs or spring shafts.
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With reference to railway carriages, whether made with four or moro
wheels, my Invention consists in constructing them with my said already
patented springs, by fixing or securing--the-closed or connected end of each

page_text: spring to the under frame and one of the open ends to the axle box, and the
other of the open ends to the under frame, in such manner as to allow of the
necessary play or action of the spring.
With reference to carriages other than railway carriages, my Invention
consists in constructing them with my said already patented springs, by fixing
or securing to the hind axle one of the open ends of each spring employed at
the said axle and the other open end to the body, and by fixing or securing
the closed or connected end-of each spring so employed to the frame or body
in such manner as to allow of the necessary play or action of the spring; and
further, in constructing four-wheeled carriages made with shafts with my
improved spring shafts, one of the open ends of each spring being secured
to the axle, and the other to the moveable or turning frame or bed of the
fore carriage.
1.
Having thus set forth the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner in which I believe it is the best to be performed, refer-
ence being had to the accompanying two Sheets of illustrative Drawing, and
to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
In Drawing No. 1, the Figures 1 and 2 represent a side elevation and an
inverted plan respectively of the under frame of a railway: carriage constructed
with four of my said springs, two on either side of the carriage; and in
Drawing No. 2, Figure 3 is an end elevation of the same. A is the under
frame; B, B, the axle guards, and C, C, the wheels, and D, D, the axle
boxes, all of which I construct in the ordinary or any suitable manner.
E, F, G, E, F, G, are my said springs, each of which consists of an upper
portion E and a lower portion F, connected together at one end, and opened
or separated apart from each other by a stop or distancing block G near to
the other end, as more particularly described in the Complete Specification of
my said former Patent. Each spring is jointed or connected by one end
of its upper portion to the under frame of the carriage, and the same end
of the lower portion rests upon, or is supported in or by, a cradle or shoe I, of
wrought iron, or other suitable material, slung round or fixed to and projecting
underneath the axle box. The opposite and connected ends of each spring lie
in sockets or shoes K (one to each spring), slung by a link or plate k to the
under frame, so as to allow a free play or action to the spring. I wish it to be
noted that I prefer to construct the stops or distancing blocks G, g, with a
joint connecting them with the two portions of their respective springs, and to
thicken up or strengthen the said portions at these points, as represented, and
also that iron plates may be fixed or applied to the sides or the said portions
when required.

page_text: The Figure 4 represents a side elevation of the under frame or body of a
waggon constructed with a pair of my improved springs applied at the axle of
the hind wheels, one spring only being shewn in the Figure. A is the under
frame, and C one of the hind wheels, both under frame and wheels being
constructed in the ordinary or any suitable manner. E, F, G, is one of my
improved springs. The open end of the lower portion F of the spring is fixed
or secured to the axle, and the open end of the upper portion E to the body.
The closed or connected ends of both are fixed in a socket or shoe K, slung
by a link or plate k to the body, to allow the necessary play of the spring.
I would remark, that instead of the springs being placed behind the axle, they
may be placed in front of it, where the disposition of the fore and hind wheels
will allow of this arrangement; or both arrangements may be used together, if
preferred.
I have not represented my improved springs as applied to the axle of the
front wheels of the waggon, but it will readily be comprehended that the open
end of the lower portion of each spring is to be connected to the axle, and the
open end of the upper portion to the moveable or turning frame or bed W of
the fore carriage.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Robert Augustus Glover,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five..
FRED K. A. GLOVER. (L.S.)