Automatic Appliance for Quarter Lights for Railway Coaches and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 5th May, 1900
Automatic Appliance for Quarter Lights for Railway Coaches
and the like.
WILLIAM SOUTHERN, Coach Finisher, Peavenhill, Purton, Wilts, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This appliance is manufactured from elastic indiarubber or any thing of an elastic
nature. The appliance is made in the form of an indiarubber garter, being sprung
tight around the edge of the glass it falls flat to both sides of the glass causing
much better bedding than putty. It can also be sprung around the mouldings if
required in place of putty before screwing up the mouldings. The appliance having
in itself the qualitative properties of contraction and expansion it works indepen-
dently according to the shrinking or the swelling of the coach or the like. This
automatic appliance is therefore to substitute an indiarubber band, in the place of
putty as now used in the bedding-in of quarter lights, in railway coaches, and the like.
Dated this 18th day of July 1899.
Automatic Appliance for Quarter Lights for Railway. Coaches
and the like.
WILLIAM SOUTHERN, Coach Finisher, Peavenhill, Purton, Wiltshire, 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:-
This appliance is manufactured from elastic indiarubber or any thing of an elastic
nature. The appliance is made in the form of an indiarubber garter, being sprung
tight around the edge of the glass it falls flat to both sides of the glass, causing
much better bedding than putty.
It can also be sprung around the mouldings if required in place of putty before
screwing up the mouldings.
The appliance having in itself the qualitative properties of contraction and
expansion it works independently according to the shrinking or the swelling of the
coach or the like. This automatic appliance is therefore to substitute an indiarubber
band in the place of putty as now used in the bedding in of quarter lights in
railway coaches and the like.
The rabbet of the frame is to be prepared precisely the same depth as the
thickness as the glass. The rabbet of the frame to be prepared th part of an inch
clear all around the edge of the glass, and packed at the bottom top and sides with
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page_text: 8 pieces of soft indiarubber, 2 at the top, 2 at the bottom, 2 at each side, 2 inches
longth wide the same strength as the thickness of the glass. This will allow the
glass to work independently without binding on the top or bottom or sides. This
quantity of packing, in number, is a fair calculation for an ordinary light size of
the like measures, 31 inches x 144. For larger lights, such as saloon lights, the
packing to be about the same distance as the ordinary lights, so it would require
an extra packing between where it measures larger. Place the glass in the frame,
and pack all around according to the above directions, screw the mouldings and the
frame together in the usual way, then cut off the superfluous indiarubber band with
sharp knife in the same way as cutting putty off and the work is completed.
How to commence operations for old work. Burn off all the old putty with the
new patent papillon lamp, and fill the rabbet in the body of the coach or the like
with strips of wood, making the rabbet precisely the same depth as the thickness of
the glass, then finish as before. All inside mouldings that do not come in direct
contact with the indiarubber band must have a strip of indiarubber put on the edge
that fits up to the woodwork of the quarter light in place of putty so that in case of
repairs the mouldings only require taking down and refixing. To fasten the strip of
indiarubber on the edge of the inside mouldings, cover the edge of the mouldings
evenly with bicycle solution, place on the strip of indiarubber on each piece, rub
over with vaseline to prevent sticking, place edge to edge, bind around with string
till set, cut off in the same way as putty with sharp knife. In case of any breakages
the same indiarubber bands can be used time after time, the sharp edge to be taken
off the glass by the use of an emery stick made of composition, so as to prevent the
sharp edge from cutting the indiarubber band.
On Sheet 1, Fig. 1, a shows the quarter light or glass, b, shows the indiarubber band
which is novel, c, show the packing which is novel. d, shows the cavity which
is novel, f, shows the outside indiarubber band which is novel.
On Sheet 1, Fig. 2, a, shows the quarter light or glass, b, shows the indiarubber
band which is novel, c, shows the packing which is novel, d, shows the cavity which is
novel. f, shows the outside indiarubber band which is novel. g shows the space to
allow for the shrinking or the swelling of the coach or the like therefore allowing it
to work independently, which is novel.
On Sheet 2, Fig. 3, a, shows the quarter light or glass, b, shows the indiarubber
band which is novel, c, shows the packing which is novel, d, shows the cavity which
is novel.
On Sheet 2, Fig. 4, a, shows the quarter light or glass, b, shows the indiarubber
band which is novel, c, shows the packing which is novel, d, shows the cavity which is
novel.
On Sheet 2, Fig. 5, u, shows the quarter light or glass, b, shows the indiarubber
band which is novel, c, shows the packing which is novel, d, shows the cavity which is
novel.
On Sheet 2, Fig. 6, a, shows the quarter light or glass, b, shows the indiarubber
band which is novel, c, shows the packing which is novel, d, shows the cavity which is
novel, f, shows the outside indiarubber band which is novel, g, show the space to
allow for the shrinking or the swelling of the coach or the like therefore allowing it
to work independently which is novel, h, shows the strip of indiarubber on the edge
of the inside mouldings as specified which is novel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The indiarubber bands. The packing. The cavity. The space. The strip, of
indiarubber.
Dated this 21st dan S M L 1000