IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC ROOFING, CISTERNS BOILERS, WAGON AND BARROW BODIES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Hudson of Gildersome in the County of York,
Engineer, and Ironfounder for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC ROOFING, CISTERNS BOILERS, WAGON AND BARROW
BODIES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Hudson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd April 1883.
ROBERT HUDSON of Gildersome in the County of York, Engineer and Iron-
founder, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC ROOFING, CISTERNS,
BOILERS, WAGON AND BARROW BODIES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES,
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of metallic roofing or covering,
cisterns, boilers, bodies of wagons and barrows, pans and covers therefor, and other
articles of a similar nature.
The object of my invention is to dispense with the operation of "dishing" the
metallic sheets or plates of which such articles are to be made, an operation which
necessitates the use of sheets or plates of superior quality, as also the employment
of a multiplicity of "moulds" wherein to dish such sheets or plates to the required
form, this greatly increases the cost of production.
According to my invention, the roof covering, vessel or body is built up in
angular sections or segments such as can be curved in an ordinary bending machine,
and are flanged or furnished with angle pieces or caused to overlap one another
whereby the sections or segments can be connected together so that their apices
are juxtaposed, the fastening being effected by rivetting or bolting. Such a
structure may have (as seen in plan) any number of sides, its cross-sectional
elevation may be of a segmental form, the plates or sheets composing it, meeting
in, or pointing or tending to one common centre as above set forth
By my invention I am enabled to reduce the number of sheets or plates and
joints, and consequently the weight (in the manufacture) of articles such as above
mentioned, thereby producing them at a much cheaper rate than has been heretofore
usual, the sectional parts being as above noted capable of being bent to the correct
Price RII

page_text: form in an ordinary bending machine, and when put together forming a groin at
each junction
In the case of roofing, the part forming the eaves may be so returned as to form
a spout (in cases where a spout is not otherwise provided) the extreme edge being
turned over for giving stiffness to same, and to further strengthen the same it may
have a metallic rod inserted within the turned over edge.
The edges of wagon and barrow bodies and other vessels or articles such as above
referred to, I also form in a similar manner to that just described with reference to
the roofing or covering. Wagons and barrows having bodies of the form above
referred to are especially applicable to the conveyance of clay or other adhesive
material, such form contributing to the more easy discharge of such material than
the forms heretofore generally in use for the purpose.
In some cases I provide the bodies of wagons with a trap-door at the bottom
through which its contents are discharged.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Hudson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th October
1888.
ROBERT HUDSON of Gildersome in the County of York, Engineer and Iron-.
founder. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC ROOFING, CISTERNS,
BOILERS, WAGON AND BARROW BODIES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
"
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of metallic roofing or covering,
cisterns, boilers, bodies of wagons and barrows, pans and covers therefor, and other
articlès of a similar nature.
The object of my invention is to dispense with the operation of "dishing" the
metallic sheets or plates of which such articles are to be made, an operation which
necessitates the use of sheets or plates of superior quality, as also the employment
of a multiplicity of " moulds" wherein to dish such sheets or plates to the required
form, this greatly increases the cost of production.
According to my invention, the roof covering, vessel, or body is built up in
angular sections or segments, such as can be curved in an ordinary bending
machine, and are flanged or furnished with angle pieces, or are caused to overlap
one another so that the sections or segments can be connected together with their
apices juxtaposed the fastening being effected by rivetting or bolting. Such a
structure may have (as seen in plan) any number of sides, its cross-sectional
elevation may be of a segmental form, the plates or sheets composing it meeting in
or pointing to one common centre as above set forth.
By my invention I am enabled to manufacture articles such as abovementioned
with a lesser number of sheets or plates and joints, and consequently to make them
of less weight and at a much cheaper rate thau has been heretofore usual, the
sectional parts being as above stated capable of being bent to the correct form in
an ordinary plate bending machine, and when put together forming a groin at each
junction.
In the case of roofing, the part forming the eaves may be so returned as to
form a spout or gutter (in cases where a spout is not otherwise provided)
the extreme edge being turned over to give stiffness, and to further strengthen the
same it may have a metallic rod inserted within the turned over edge.
The edges of wagon and barrow bodies and other vessels or articles such as
above referred to I form in a similar manner to that just described with reference
to the roofing or covering-I would observe that wagons and barrows having
bodies the form above referred to are especially applicable to the conveyance of
clay or other adhesive material, that form contributing to the more easy discharge
of such material than the forms heretofore generally in use for the purpose. In
some cases I provide the bodies of wagons with trap-doors at the bottom through
which the contents are discharged.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the application of my invention in the
construction of some of the various articles previously referred to. Fig. 1. shews
in sectional elevation, and Fig. 2, in plan, the covering or roof of a quadrangular
building, the angular sections a. b, c, d, of which are capable of being bent in an
ordinary plate-bending machine so as to form (looked at sectionally) a semicircular
groined roof or cover, the edges e, at the springing being returned so as to form a
spout or gutter, and the extreme edges turned over for strengthening the same.
The angular sections a. b, have their edges turned over or overlap those of the
sections c, d, and are rivetted or bolted together, the apices of the four sections
meet at the centre of the roof or covering.-Figs, 3, and 4, show in sectional

page_text: elevation and in partial plan respectively, a tank or cistern, the sections f, g, h, i,
of which are bent and joined together in the same manner as described with
reference to a, b, c, d, Figs. 1, and 2,-Figs, 5, and 6, are partial sections of a
boiler or vessel, the ends of which are formed each of four angular sections.―
Fig 7. is an end view of Figs, 5, and 6.
The end j, of Fig, 5, (looked at sectionally) is semicircular and groined at the
joints similarly to the roof covering and cistern previously described with reference
to Figs. 1, and 2, and to Figs 3, and 4, respectively. The end j, of Fig, 6 (looked
at sectionally) is segmental in form, having its edge k, turned into a suitable form
for being embraced by and rivetted to the shell 7, of the boiler or vessel-Fig. 8,
is an end elevation. Fig. 9, a side elevation and Fig. 10, a partial plan of a wagon
whose metallic body is constructed of angular sections according to the method
described with reference to preceding figures.-Fig. 11, is a plan and Fig, 12, an
elevation of a barrow whose metallic body is of light construction and in accordance
with the previously described method.
Having now described the nature of the said invention and the manner of
carrying the same into practical effect I would have it understood that what I
consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as secured to me by the
Letters Patent first hereinbefore in part recited is
The manufacture of metallic roofing, boilers, wagon and barrow bodies and
other similar articles in the improved manner hereinabove described with
reference to, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings
In Witness whereof, I, the said Robert Hudson have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord, One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
ROBERT HUDSON (L.S.)
Witness to the signature of
the said Robert Hudson :
THOS E, CRAVEN. C,E. Fell, Inst. of Patent Agents
24 Victoria Chambers,
South Parade
Leeds