IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY WHEELS, TYRES, AXLES, AND POINTS, AND CROSSINGS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OR ORDINAR TRES AMOmer CHDS GENERAL
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Brown Wilson, of Parliament Street, in the
City of Westminster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY WHEELS, TYRES, AXLES, AND POINTS, AND
CROSSINGS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE
OR ORDINAR TRES AMOmer CHDS GENERALLY
Sealed the 7th May 1861, and dated the 10th November 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Brown Wilson, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition on the 10th
November 1860.
I, EDWARD BROWN WILSON, of Parliament Street, in the City of West-
minster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY WHEELS, TYRES, AXLES, AND
POINTS, AND CROSSINGS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE MANU-
FACTURE OF ORDNANCE, TUBES, AND METAL CYLINDERS GENERALLY," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of railway wheels, tyres, axles,
and points, and crossings, also ordnance, gun barrels, tubes, and metal cylinders

page_text: generally, and consists in shaping and compressing such articles after they have
been cast or forged, by the aid of suitable dies acted upon by hydrostatic
pressure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Brown Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th May 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
BROWN WILSON, of Parliament Street, in the City of Westminster, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edward Brown Wilson, Her special license, that I, the said Edward Brown
Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Edward Brown Wilson, my executors, administrators, or 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY WHEELS, TYRES, AXLES, AND POINTS,
AND CROSSINGS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF
ORDNANCE, TUBES, AND METAL CYLINDERS GENERALLY," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Brown Wilson, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, or under
the hand and seal of one of them, 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 Edward Brown Wilson, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to the manufacture of railway wheels, tyres,
axles, and points, and crossings, also ordnance, gun barrels, tubes, and metal

page_text: cylinders generally, and consists in shaping and compressing such articles after
they have been cast or forged, by the aid of suitable dies acted upon by bydro-
static pressure.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Brown Wilson, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, the 9th day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
EDWP B. WILSON. (L.S.)