Improvements in or relating to Railroads, and Sleepers therefor.
Year: 1894

page_text: .Date of Application. 5th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Railroads, and Sleepers therefor.
I, AUGUSTE HENRY of 34 Rue Ferrandière Lyons in the Republic of France
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to prevent displacement of sleepers in railroads
by a method of connecting the sleepers together.
For this purpose wooden or metal sleepers may be used, the same being made or
cut so that each sleeper may be placed crosswise over one or more other sleepers
so that they fit together and form a crossed or trellis-like construction which may
be indefinitely extended in the direction of the railroad and serve for support of
the rails spiked direct thereto or held in chairs thereon.
By this construction each sleeper will usually be in contact with and may be
bolted to three others and where the sleepers are made with recesses reducing
them to half their thickness these recesses will usually be placed one at each end
and one at the middle of the same face of the sleeper so that the lower sleepers
being placed with recesses opening above will receive the upper sleepers with
recesses on their lower sides.
Dated this 5th day of November 1894.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
I AUGUSTE HENRY of 34 Rue Ferrandière, Lyons, in the Republic of France,
Manufacturer 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 :-
The object of this invention is to prevent displacement of sleepers in railroads
by a method of connecting the sleepers together.
For this purpose wooden or metal sleepers may be used the same being made or
cut so that each sleeper may be placed crosswise over one or more other sleepers so
that they fit together and form a crossed or trellis-like construction which may be
made of indefinite extent in the direction of the railroad and serve for support of
the rails spiked direct thereto or held in chairs thereon.
By this construction each sleeper will usually be in contact with and may be
bolted to three others and where the sleepers are made with recesses reducing them
to half their thickness, these recesses will usually be placed one at each end and
one at the middle of the same face of the sleeper so that the lower sleepers being
placed with recesses opening above will. receive the upper sleepers with recesses on
their lower sides.
In the annexed drawing Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan showing the
arrangement of sleepers, T, hereinbefore described. R are the rails which if of
Vignolles section may be spiked direct to the sleepers or if double-headed supported
by chairs in the usual manner.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved construction of a railroad consisting in supporting the rails upon
sleepers arranged obliquely in contrary direction so as to cross each other and
connected together at such crossing places substantially as set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.