Railings and Standards to Rise and Fall as Required.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Guard Railings and Standards to Rise and Fall as Required.
DAVID OVENS Junior of 45 Millais Road Leytonstone in the County of Essex
Consulting Engineer and Manager of Works 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:-
"Guard railings and standards to be continuous jointed horizontal bar or bars
connected to vertical standards with and without braces and stays the whole to be
stationary when in use and to fall longitudinally by sloping motion (either to the
right or left according to the circumstances and conditions of fixing) to below
ground level when not in use.
Horizontal bars when manufactured in metal to be jointed by right and left
handed screw connection as shown on drawing at K and by suitable and similar
connection according to material when such is not metal.
Horizontal bars and vertical standards when manufactured in metal, wood or
like materials to be connected by fixed bolt in vertical standard passing through
hole in horizontal bar and secured together by means of nut or other similar device
as shown on drawing at F.
Horizontal bars when manufactured in ordinary rope, wire, wire rope tubing
or like material to pass through loose joint with eyes, horizontal bar to be fitted
with pin between eyes of joint connection to prevent running through as shown on
drawing at X.
Standards without braces to be made with flange at end of base bearing bar to
prevent slipping through clips or straps as shown on drawing at A, said standards
to be fitted with bolt as described in connection paragraph.
Standards with braces similar to standards without braces but to be made in one'
piece as shown on drawing at B.
Clips or straps to be of dowel shape to encircle base bearing rod of
standards which is to work loosely through said clips or straps as shown on
drawing at M.
Connections between lengths of railings to be as previously described namely by
right and left hand screw connection or by hook and eye joint.
Terminal ends of horizontal bars to be fixed by means of rods chains or hook
and eye joints at any angle as shown on drawing at H when by rods as shown on
drawing at C, when by chains as shown on drawing at D, when by hook and eye
joint as shown on drawing at E.
Fixing to be in cut and prepared channels in ground sufficiently large enough to
receive horizontal bars, standards, braces the whole when lowered to be below
ground level as shown on drawing at S clips or straps to be firmly fixed and let into
ground below channel level and to encircle base bearing rods of standards as shown
on drawing at S.
To raise railing pull up reverse way of fall.
The said invention will prevent accidents, loss of life, rushing, encroachments,
or like occurrences when applied (as described) to harbours, bays, cliff's, docks,
canals, rivers, basins, piers, jetties, wharves, platforms, embankments, bridges,
quays, railways and railway stations, warehouses, manufactories, machinery, level
crossings, footpaths, fields, sports and pastimes enclosures, and all such places.
Also that the said invention will, when used in warfare, act as tripping line to
cause alarm to defenders aud obstruction to enemy.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
now claim is :
A fence, guard rail, or guard rails, with standards and uprights, rising and falling
by longitudinal sloping motion; and that can be lowered to below ground level
when not in use.
100 1
1000
DAVID OVENS, JUNIOR.