IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROADS, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES TO BE EMPLOYED THEREOF AND ELSEWHERE
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WILLIAM BRANDLING, of Low Gosforth, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Esquire,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twelfth day of April, in the sixth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert William Brandling, His especial licence that I, the said
Robert William Brandling, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Robert William Brandling, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF RAILROADS, AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARRIAGES TO BE EMPLOYED THEREOF AND
ELSEWHERE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Robert William Brandling, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the

page_text: same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert William Brandling, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and the following description thereof (that is to say):—
To enable carts to travel both upon railroads and common roads, and to
leave the former and return upon them at any angle, this is done by
means of elevators cast upon the rail, or mado separate, of iron or any
other hard substance, by single, double, and triple tyred wheels and scra-
pers with socket joints and springs, and by moveable shafts with liberating
joints. These are all represented on the annexed Plan.
No. 1, side view of the railroad and elevator; A, B, C, D, railroad; C, G,
H, D, elevator; E, F, guides; the space E, 1, E, supposed width of the
common road crossing the railroad. No. 2, surface view of the same, to suit
wheel No. 4. x, y, groove to answer for the wheels used at present. The
dotted lines at F shew the continuation of the guides, which, by a joint at F,
and another on the inside at E, may be brought close to and parallel with the
rail, and form an occasional guide across the common road. No. 3, surface
view of the same, to suit wheel No. 5. No. 4 and 5, section of the wheels,
shewing the form of the tyres. No. 6, same as No. 4, with scraper springs
and joint. No. 7, front view of the same. No. 8, side view of the liberating
joint; this is a section of No. 9, from J to K. No. 9, surface view of the
liberating joint. The dotted line shews the position in which the shafts are
freed from the cart, by which the possibility of their being dragged off the
railroad is prevented. M & L (Fig. 8), two bolts; M, fixing bolt; L, centre
bolt.
The carts may be made for the shafts to fix in at both ends, and a string of
them may be attached by flat bars of iron extending beyond M, which bolt
is inserted and L removed. These bars must have a free lateral motion.
Scale, from 1 to 7, an inch to the foot; of 8 and 9, three inches to the foot.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Robert William Brandling, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
ROBT W (L.B.) BRANDLING.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid Robert William Brandling came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that
purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.