CERTAIN IMPROVED CON- STRUCTIONS OF RAILS FOR TRAMWAYS AND RAILWAYS
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CRAWSHAY
BAILEY, of Nant-y-Glo Iron Works, in the County of Monmouth, Esquire,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of January, in the sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Crawshay Bailey, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Crawshay Bailey, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and such others as I, the said Crawshay Bailey, my executors, administrators,,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVED CON-
STRUCTIONS OF RAILS FOR TRAMWAYS AND RAILWAYS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Crawshay Bailey, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after

page_text: the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Crawshay Bailey, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being
had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon, that is to say:-
My Improved Constructions of Rails for Tramways and Railways consist
in a peculiar form given to the iron rails, by which, when placed in parallel
lines in proper seats or sleepers, they are enabled to answer the double pur-
poses of conducting locomotive and other carriages having the ordinary kinds
of railway wheels with a flange on one edge, or the ordinary kinds of tram
or other
waggon wheels without flanges.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents the horizontal view of one
of my improved rails A, A, fixed in its seat or chair B, B; Fig. 2 represents
a vertical section of the same rail fixed in its seat or chair. It will be per-
ceived that the rail has two surfaces for the wheels to run upon, the one a
elevated for the flanged wheels of locomotive and ordinary railroad carriages
to pass along, the other 6 lower and flat for the wheels of tram and other
waggons without flanges to travel upon. The manner of forming these
peculiarly-shaped rails, as shewn at A in the Drawing, will be understood
by all engineers, and, therefore, need not be described, as casting and rolling
every shape of rail is well understood, and, therefore, such operations cannot
be claimed by me as new. My Invention, therefore, it is to be understood
consists merely in the novel shape of the rail, having the two surfaces described,
which combines the twofold advantages of a tramway and a railway bar. The
seats or chairs B must, of course, be made with suitable indentations to receive
the rails and constitute firm bearings for them, and the rails may be firmly
secured in each seat by a wedge c driven laterally into the notch of the seat,
as shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Crawshay Bailey, have hereunto set my
. hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
CRAWSHAY (L.S.) BAILEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of July, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Crawshay Bailey came before our Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of July, in the year above written.