Improvements in the Manufacture of Railway Crossings.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Railway Crossings.
I, RICHARD PRICE-WILLIAMS, of 32 Victoria Street, Westminster, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention I roll a rail of about double the usual width and
then slit it in a vertical plane along part of its length. The halves of the double
rail are then bent apart into a V and one or other of them has a groove to form
the crossing cut or pressed in its upper face. In the case of a diamond crossing
two pairs of such rails are used the double portions and one half of each V of
one pair forming the main line and the other halves of this V the branch line
whilst the double portions and one half of each V of the other pair form the
guard rails and the remaining portions of the V continue the branch line.
Dated this Sth day of December 1896.
R. PRICE-WILLIAMS.
TION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Railway Crossings.
I, RICHARD PRICE-WILLIAMS, of 32 Victoria Street, Westminster, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
According to this invention I roll a rail of about double the usual width and
then slit it in a vertical plane along part of its length. The halves of the double
rail are then bent apart into a V and a groove to form the crossing cut or pressed
in its upper face. In the case of a diamond crossing two pairs of such rails are
used the double portions and one half of each V of one pair forming the main
line and the other halves of this V the branch line whilst the double portions
and one half of each V of the other pair form the guard rails and the remaining
po.tions of the V continue the branch line.
The drawings annexed show a diamond crossing constructed in the above
manuer.
Figure 1 is a plan of the crossing. Figures 2, 3 and 4 sections (to a larger
scale) on the lines 2-2 and 3-3 and 4 4 Figure 1.
a a are the ordinary rails of the main line and 66 those of the branch line.
cc are the double rails, el c¹ being their split portions, and the grooves
(shown by shading), which are formed in them. d d are the guard rails and
dd the grooves formed in them.
As will be seen the two halves of each ✓ of one pair of double rails form

page_text: portions of the main and branch lines and the two halves of each V of the other
pair form portions of the branch line and the guard rails.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The combination of two pairs of rails at an angle to each other and four
wide rails each having in its upper face a groove to form the crossing and slit
in a vertical plane the halves being bent into a V, the rails of the two pairs
being connected to the halves of two of the wide rails the adjacent rails of one
pair being connected to the other ends of the same wide rails and the adjacent
rails of the other pair being connected each to one half of the other wide rails
the remaining portions of which form guard rails.
2. Railway crossings substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 8th day of September 1897.
R. PRICE-WILLIAMS.