IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO AXLETREE BOXES AND OTHER JOURNAL BEARINGS, TO LUBRICATE THE SAME
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Jobson, of Wordsley, in the County of
Stafford, Ironfounder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO AXLETREE BOXES AND OTHER JOURNAL BEARINGS,
TO LUBRICATE THE SAME."
Sealed the 11th February 1859, and dated the- 12th August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Jobson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
August 1858.
I, ROBERT JOBSON, of Wordsley, in the County of Stafford, Ironfounder, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO AXLETREE BOXES AND OTHER JOURNAL BEARINGS, TO
LUBRICATE THE SAME," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for supplying
water to axletree boxes and other journal bearings to lubricate the same;
and the improvements consists in combining a water cistern or vessel and an
axletree box on the bearing of a journal, with two water passages or pipes, in
such manner that the water may circulate from the axletree or journal to the
water vessel, and from the water vessel to the axletree or journal, by which a
constant change of water may be kept up. The water vessel may form part
of the box or bearing, or be separate and at a distance therefrom. The axle-
trees or journals, or their boxes or bearings thus lubricated with water, have
wood surfaces fixed thereto, which however is not new.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Jobson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th February 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
JOBSON, of Wordsley, in the County of Stafford, Ironfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Jobson, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Jobson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Robert Jobson, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO AXLETREE BOXES AND OTHER
JOURNAL BEARINGS TO LUBRICATE THE SAME," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Jobson, 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 Robert Jobson, 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 apparatus for supplying
water to axletree boxes and other journal bearings to lubricate the same;
and the improvements consist in combining a-water-cistern_or_vessel, and an
axletree box, or the bearing of a journal, with two water passages or pipes, in
such manner that the water may circulate from the axletree or journal to the
water vessel, and from the water vessel to the axletree or journal, by which a
constant change of water may be kept up. The water vessel may form part
of the box or bearing, or be separate and at a distance therefrom. The axle-
trees or journals, or their boxes or bearings thus lubricated with water, have
wood surfaces fixed thereto, which, however, is not new.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of an axletree box suitable to be
used on railways; Figure 2 shows a transverse section of the same. The box
or other axle bearing to which water is to be supplied as a lubricating fluid, is
to be made as fluid-tight as may be, and as is well understood. The axletree
box is to be connected with a suitable vessel containing a suitable supply of
water, and such connection is by means of two pipes a and b; the water flows
from the supply vessel through the pipe a into the box or bearing, and it flows
out of the box by means of the pipe b into the vessel containing the supply of
water; by this arrangement a constant supply of water will be kept up to the
axle; c, c, are blocks or pieces of wood let into the brass or bearing, to which
I make no claim, the same being similar to what has before been used; what
I claim is, the combination herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Jobson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
ROBT. JOBSON. (L.S.)