IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES.
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Faulding, of 340, Euston Road, N.W., for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES.
Sealed the 5th September 1861, and dated the 19th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Faulding at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
June 1861.
I, JOSEPH FAULDING, of 340, Euston Road, N.W., do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in so combining the mechanical parts of a loco-
motive engine that all the inertia and momentum caused by the motion of
the various parts shall be on or in equilibrium to the longitudinal central line
of the mass to be impelled; to effect which I place two cylinders at an
angle of 90°, or thereabout, to each other, and unite the connecting rods of
both to one central crank on the driving axle; or I use one superior cylinder
acting on a crank in the centre of the driving axle, and two inferior cylinders
working in unison, and connected to crank pins on the outsides of the driving
wheels, and placed at an angle of 90° to the central crank. The peculiarity
of the Invention consists in placing the engines of a locomotive engine so that
they shall work in equilibrium to each other, having reference to the longi-
tudinal central line of the engine at right angles to the driving axle or
shaft.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Faulding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPHI
FAULDING, of 340, Euston Road, N.W., send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Faulding, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Faulding,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Joseph Faulding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Joseph Faulding, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Faulding, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement thereof, that is to say:―
This Invention consists in so combining the mechanical parts of a loco-
motive engine that all the momentum resulting from the working of the
various parts of the engines shall be on the longitudinal central line of the
locomotive; to effect which I place the two cylinders of the locomotive at
right angles to each other, or thereabouts, and unite the connecting rods of
each to one central crank pin on the driving axle. I do not confine myself
to any particular positions for the cylinders, so long as they work at right
angles to each other, but I prefer that one of the cylinders should be vertical
over the crank shaft, and the other cylinder horizontal, the connecting rod of
each being connected to the central crank of the driving axle.
What I claim as my Invention is, the mode above described of combining

page_text: two engines so that all the momentum resulting from the working parts of
those engines shall be on or in equilibrium to the longitudinal central line of
the locomotive.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Faulding, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
JOSEPH FAULDING. (L.S.)