IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDING APPARATUS TO BE USED IN WORKING MINES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Jones, of Spring Vale Iron Works, in the
Parish of Sedgley, in the County of Stafford, Ironmaster, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDING APPARATUS TO BE USED IN WORKING
MINES."
Sealed the 25th July 1854, and dated the 20th April 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th
April 1854.
I, GEORGE JONES, of Spring Vale Iron Works, in the Parish of Sedgley, in
the County of Stafford, Ironmaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDING APPARATUS TO BE USED IN WORKING
MINES" to be as follows:-
A square frame is erected around the mouth of a pit or shaft, to which frame
are attached two lids or doors, which are connected by two cranks and a rod or
rods. These parts are put in action by a lever, which may be either worked
by hand or machinery; the motion of the lever causes the lids or doors simul-
taneously to open or shut over the pit's mouth, as may be required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
October 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
JONES, of Spring Vale Iron Works, in the Parish of Sedgley, in the County of
Stafford, Iron master, send greeting...
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Jones,, Her special licence, that I, the said George Jones, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Jones, my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDING APPA-
RATUS TO BE USED IN WORKING MINES," upon the condition (amongst others) 'that
I, the said George Jones, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Jones, 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 following state-
ment thereof (that is to say):-
A square frame is erected around the mouth of a pit or shaft, to which frame
are attached two lids or doors, which are connected by two cranks and a rod
or rods. These parts are put in action by a lever, which may be either worked
by hand or machinery; the motion of the lever causes the lids or doors simul-
taneously to open or shut over the pit's mouth, as may be required.
Having-thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a side view; Figure 2, a transverse section; and Figure 3,
a plan of apparatus applied to the mouth of a pit or shaft according to my
Invention.
a, a, is a strong square frame, firmly bolted to beams, as shown

page_text: above the mouth of the pit or shaft of a mine; b, b, are lids or doors hinged to
the frame a, a, on each side; and c, c, are cranks on the axes or hinges of the
doors, which are connected by the rod d, so that when the lever e is moved into
the position shown by dotted lines, the lids or doors b, b, will be simultaneously
opened, and retained in that position by the weighted levers f, f, until the lever
e is moved back into its original position, to close the lids or doors over the
mouth of the pit or shaft; and thus may great security be afforded in the
landing of persons or materials from a mine or pit, by effectually closing
the same when raised above the pit's mouth.
. Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not intend to confine
myself to the precise details herein described, so long as the peculiar character
of my Invention be retained; but what I claim is, the application of landing
apparatus in the working of mines, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of
THO. BOLTON,
GEORGE JONES. (L.S.)
Solicitor, Wolverhampton.