AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CAPPING OLD AND NEW RAILS USED PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Frederick Lee Meakin, of No. 4,
...Martin's Lane, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Surveyor, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CAPPING OLD AND NEW RAILS USED
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Frederick Lee
Meakin, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 26th October 1866.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK LEE MEAKIN, of No. 4, Martin's Lane, Cannon
Street. in the City of London, Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CAPPING OLD AND NEW RAILS
USED ON RAILWAYS AND OTHER WAYS." to be as follows;-
'This Invention consists in the peculiar method of capping_with_steel or
other hard metal or material, screwed, plugged, wedged, or otherwise fixed
to the top of all rails in use on railways or other ways.
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page_text: The mode in which I propose applying my Invention is more particularly
shewn by the accompanying Drawing, and the great advantage of it consists
in the parts being separate, and therefore simple and easy in its application
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Frederick Lee Meakin in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th March 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREDERICK LEE MEAKIN, of Number 4, Martin's Lane, Cannon Street, in the
City of London, Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Frederick Lee. Meakin, Her special licence that I, the said
George Frederick Lee Meakin, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Frederick Lee Meakin, 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 ex-
pressed, 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 CAPPING OLD
AND NEW RAILS USED ON RAILWAYS AND OTHER WAYS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Frederick Lee Meakin, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, 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 Frederick Lee Meakin, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This Invention consists in the peculiar method of forming a head or capping
with steel or other hard metal, material, or substance, to the rails now in use
.

page_text: on railways and other ways, and is also applicable to new rails, the said head
or capping being screwed, bolted, rivetted, or otherwise fixed.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate more clearly the peculiarity of my
Invention and the mode in which it may be applied.
The Figures numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, shew my Invention applied to
old or existing rails.
The Figures 'numbered 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, shew the modes in which I
propose constructing new rails with the head or capping fixed to angle, tee,
bar, plate, or other iron by means of screws, bolts, rivets, &c., as before
described, and secured to the sleepers by means of spikes or bolts or any other
convenient manner.
I also propose using, if expedient, any of the forms shewn, either with
single or double heads, fitted on both sides with angle, bar, plate, or other
iron, either alternately. continuously, or at intervals, or any other convenient
manner, and screwed. bolted, rivetted, or otherwise secured together and
supported by angle iron or other convenient form of chair fixed to the sleepers
by means of spikes, bolts, &c.
I also further propose to reverse the old bridge rail, such as is in use on the
Great Western Railway, and when so reversed to insert the head or capping
in same, as shewn by the dotted lines in Figure Number 3, and fixing it by
means of screws, bolts, rivets, &c., as before described, and supporting it by
sinking or grooving the sleepers to receive the head of the old rail, and spiking,
bolting or otherwise fixing it to the sleepers or supporting it at intervals in
wrought or cast-iron chairs made for the purpose, and spiking, bolting,
or otherwise fixing them to the sleepers.
I also propose, if necessary, introducing pieces of felt, india-rubber, gutta
percha, or any other convenient substance, so as to form a bed for the head or
capping.
Having now described and shewn the peculiarity of my Invention and
the manner in which it may be applied, I beg to have it understood that I do
not confine myself to any particular form or mode of construction or appli-
cation as my Invention admits of numerous modifications, but what I claim is.
the method of forming a head or capping with steel or other hard metal,
material, or substance, to any of the rails now in use on railways and other
ways.
.
Also the method of adapting the head or capping to angle, tee, bar, plate,
or other iron, the composition or combination formning a new rail.
-And-also-the-method-of-adapting-the-head-or-capping-to-the
reversed
bridge rail, all as shewn, described, or intended; the great advantage and

page_text: peculiarity of my Invention being that the head or capping is separate from
and forms part of the rail or permanent way.
I also claim the right of adapting my Invention to switches, crossings, &c.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Lee Meakin, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
GEO. F. L. MEAKIN. (L.S.)