AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF VIBRATION OR JAR ON THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS: AND ON THE WHEELS, AXLE- TREES, AND OTHER PARTS OF CARRIAGES, AND THE WORKING AND OTHER PARTS OF MACHINERY LIABLE TO SHOCKS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Désiré Marchal and Adrien Carton de Wiart, both
of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, for the Invention of AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF VIBRATION
OR JAR ON THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS: AND ON THE WHEELS, AXLE-
TREES, AND OTHER PARTS OF CARRIAGES, AND THE WORKING AND OTHER PARTS
OF MACHINERY LIABLE TO SHOCKS."
Scaled the 31st October 1862, and dated the 7th May 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Désiré Marchal aud
Adrian Carton de Wiart, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 7th May 1862.
We, DESIRE MARCHAL and ADRIAN CARTON DE WIART, both of Brussels, in
the Kingdom of Belgium,do hereby declare the nature of the said Inventionfor
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF VIBRATION
OR JAR ON THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS, AND ON THE WHEELS, AXLETREES.
AND OTHER PARTS OF CARRIAGES, AND THE WORKING AND OTHER PARTS OF MACHINERY
LIABLE TO SHOCKS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention of an improved method of preventing the destructive effects
of vibration or jar on the permanent way of railways, and on the wheels, axle-
trees, and other parts of carriages, and the working and other parts of
machinery liable to shocks, consists in the application to those parts which
are liable to shocks of a band plate, washer, or lining of lead, tin, zinc,
copper, or an alloy of these metals, or either of them.
The Invention is applicable to the wheels of locomotive engines and carriages
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page_text: or of carriages to run on common roads; it is also applicable to the rails and
chairs of the permanent way of railways and to the axletrees of engines
and carriages whether used on railways or common roads. The same
principle for neutralizing the effects of concussion may be applied to various
parts of machinery, and to the bearings of iron bridges, and also to the armour
plating of ships or vessels. By thus interposing a soft and inelastic metal
between two hard metals or surfaces, the injurious effects of concussion will
be greatly reduced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Désiré Marchal and Adrien Carton de Wiart in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 7th November 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DÉSIRE
MARCHAL and ADRIEN CARTON DE WIART, both of Brussels, in the Kingdom
of Belgium, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Désiré Marchal and Adrien Carton de Wiart, Her special license,
that we, the said Désiré Marchal and Adrien Carton de Wiart, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Désiré Marchal
and Adrien Carton de Wiart,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 "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF VIBRATION OR JAR
ON THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS, AND ON THE WHEELS, AXLETREES, AND
OTHER PARTS OF CARRIAGES AND THE WORKING AND OTHER PARTS OF MACHINERY
LIABLE TO SHOCKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Désiré
Marchal and Adrien Carton de Wiart, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what mauner
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: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Désiré Marchal and Adrien Carton
de Wiart, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon
(that is to say):-
Our Invention of "An Improved Method of Preventing the Destructive
Effects of Vibration or Jar on the Permanent Way of Railways, and on the
Wheels, Axletrees, and other Parts of Carriages, and the Working and other
Parts of Machinery liable to Shocks," consists in the application to those
parts which are liable to shocks of a band plate, washer, or lining of lead,
tin, zinc, copper, or an alloy of these metals, or either of them.
The Invention is applicable to the wheels of locomotive engines, and
carriages, or of carriages to run on common roads; it is also applicable to
the rails and chairs of the permanent way of railways, and to the axletrees
of engines and carriages whether used on railways or common roads. The
same principle for neutralizing the effects of concussion may be applied to
various parts of machinery and to the bearings of iron bridges. By thus
interposing a soft and inelastic metal between two hard metals or surfaces,
the injurious effects of concussion will be greatly reduced.
In the accompanying Drawings Figures 1 and 2 represent side and edge
views of a flanged railway locomotive and carriage wheel which is furnished
with a leaden tyre (colored blue in the Drawing) outside the periphery. Or
the leaden tyre might be interposed between the rim of the wheels, and the
iron or steel tyre. Figures 3 and 4 represent side and edge views of a carriage
wheel for ordinary roads. This wheel is also furnished with a leaden tyre let
into the rim as shewn by blue color. These tyres are fixed to the iron of the
wheel by means of bolts, screws, or other convenient means; Figures 5, 6. 7,
S, and 9, shew the Invention applied to wrought-iron railway sleepers with
their chairs and rails. The lead is shewn also iu this instance is blue color
applied underneath the rails between the chairs and rails, and also between
the chairs and sleepers. Figures 5 and 6 are sectional views of this applica-
tion of the Invention, and Figures 7 and 8, are plan views of the same;
Figures 10, 11, 12 and 13, represent sectional and plan views of rails and
sleepers in which the lead is applied in the same manner to wooden sleepers
with their chairs and rails; Figures 14, 15 and 16, represent sectional and
plan views of a cast-iron plate with its chairs and rails provided with plates of
lead in the same manner as those above mentioned. Fig. 17 is a sectional
view shewing the Invention applied to iron beams for bridges or other

page_text: erections with a plate of lead fixed between the two iron beams as shewn
by the blue color; Fig. 18 is another sectional view shewing a wooden
beam or plank between which and an iron plate connected therewith by
bolts or otherwise is a sheet of lead for the purpose of deadening any shock
or concussion when the plate outside is struck by a blow.
Having now described our Invention of "An Improved Method of Pre-
venting the Destructive Effects of Vibration or Jar on the Permanent Way
of Railways, and on the Wheels, Axletrees, and other Parts of Carriages, and
the Working and other Parts of Machinery liable to Shocks," and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, we claim as the Inven-
tion secured to us by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the interposition between
the parts to be protected of a band plate, washer, or lining of lead, tin,
zinc, copper, or other soft metal or alloy for the purposes above mentioned.
In witness whereof, wc, the said Désiré Marchal and Adrien Carton de
Wiart, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Fifth day of
November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
DESIRE MARCHAL.
(L.S.)
ADRIEN CARTON DE WIART. (L.S.)