IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Fox, of Stocks Bridge, in the Parish of
Peniston, in the County of York, Wire Manufacturer, for, the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 8th August 1856, and dated the 13th February 1856..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Fox at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th February 1856.
I, SAMUEL Fox, of Stocks Bridge, in the Parish of Peniston, in the
County of York, 'Wire Manufacturer, dó hereby declare the nature. of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER. CARRIAGES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in springs for railway.and
other carriages, and consists of applying corrugated steel plates in constructing
springs in place of the flat or tapering plates of steel now used, by which
lighter springs may be constructed for supporting a given weight.
I

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Fox in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
Fox, of Stocks Bridge, in the Parish of Peniston, in the County of York,
Wire Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Fox, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Fox, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as "I, the said Samuel
Fox, 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 SPRINGS
FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Samuel Fox, 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 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 Samuel Fox, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, 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 springs for railway and
other carriages, and consists of applying corrugated steel plates in constructing
springs in place of the flat or tapering plates of steel now used; by which
lighter springs may be constructed for supporting a given weight.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view, and Figure 2 is a transverse section, of a carriage
spring constructed according to my Invention. a, a, are the plates of steel,

page_text: which are superposed one on the other, as in ordinary carriage springs; but in
place of being made flat or tapering, as in ordinary springs, they are corrugated,
as is shown, by which greater strength is is obtained.
What I claim is, the constructing springs of corrugated plates as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Fox, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
0 Witness,
GEORGE WOOD,
Deepcar.
SAMUEL FOX. (L.S.)