IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STUFFING BOXES OF PISTON RODS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Weatherley and William Jordan,
of Chartham, in the County of Kent, Engineers, for the Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STUFFING BOXES OF PISTON RODS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Weatherley
and William Jordan at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th May 1853.
We, WILLIAM WEATHERLEY and WILLIAM JORDAN, of Chartham, in
the County of Kent, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STUPPING BOXES OF PISTON
RoDs to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a combination of several metal split or
divided rings, with angular or wedge formed sections. Two forms of
rings are used; one form with its widest part inwards, and inclining
outwards; the other form of rings have their widest surfaces outwards,

page_text: and incline inwards; these are placed in alternate succession around
the piston rod, and within a stuffing box, the cover of which being
kept down by screws and nuts, or with springs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Weatherley and William Jordan in the
Great Seal Patent Office, on the 24th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
WILLIAM WEATHERLEY and WILLIAM JORDAN, of Chatham, in the
County of Kent, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto us, the said William Weatherley and William
Jordan, Her special licence that we, the said William Weatherley and
William Jordan, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said William Weatherley and William Jordan, our
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 THE STUFFING BOXES OF PISTON RODS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said William Weatherley and
William Jordan, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should par-
ticularly 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.

page_text: to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a vertical section of a stuffing box and piston rod,
the stuffing or packing consisting of rings a, a, and b, b, arranged
according to our Invention. Figure 2, shows the two forms of rings a
and b, of which the packing is composed. The rings we prefer to be
of metal tin, but we do not confine ourselves to the use of that metal.
Figure 3, shows a vertical section of another stuffing box, and Figure 4.
shows the rings separately. The rings a, and b, shewn in these
Figures, somewhat differ in form to those shewn in Figures 1, and 2.
but they act on the same principle. In both cases the wedge form of
the rings a, a, when pressed on by the cover d, of the stuffing box, by
reason of their widest parts being outward, tends to force the other
wedge formed rings inwards, so as to cause them to come close to and
embrace the piston rod c, and this it is which constitues the peculiarity
of our Invention.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
in which the same is performed, we would have it understood that

page_text: what we claim is, the mode herein described of constructing stuffing
boxes, by combining a series of split or divided rings a, b, as shewn and
explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Weatherley and
William Jordan, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness, R. LAENGLEY,
of Chartham,
Kent.
WILLIAM WEATHERLEY. (L.S.)
WILLIAM JORDAN.
(L.S.)