IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING AND
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Barlow, of Derby, Civil Engineer,
and William Henry Woodhouse, of Parliament Street, Westminster,
Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Barlow
and William Henry Woodhouse at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 16th June 1856.
We, WILLIAM HENRY BARLOW, of Derby, Civil Engineer, and WILLIAM
HENRY WOODHOUSE, of Parliament Street, Westminster, Civil Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING
AND SECURING THE ENDS OF RAILS OF RAILWAYS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in connecting and securing
the ends of rails of railways. For these purposes the chairs employed are
each made in two parts, which is not in itself new. The interior of the chair
is formed to receive two "fish" plates in addition to the rail, and a screw bolt
passes through the two jaws of the chair, through the rail, and through the
two "fish" plates, where joint chairs are used. The chairs are made wide,
and have two holes through each of the jaws for screw bolts, so that one bolt
passes through the end of each rail as well as through the "fish" plates and
the jaws of the chair. The "fish" plates are also bolted to the rails by other

page_text: screw bolts passing through them. And we find it advantageous, when using
"fish" plates in connecting the ends of rails of railways, to employ plates with
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Henry Barlow and William Henry Woodhouse in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
HENRY BARLOW, of Derby, Civil Engineer, and WILLIAM HENRY WOODHOUSE,
of Parliament Street, Westminster, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by IIer Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Ier heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Henry Barlow and William Henry Woodhouse, Her special licence
that we, the said William Henry Barlow and William Henry Woodhouse,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
William Henry Barlow and William Henry Woodhouse, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING AND SECURING
THE ENDS OF RAILS OF RAILWAYS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
wo, the said William IIenry Barlow and William Henry Woodhouse, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and scal of one of us or them, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Henry Woodhouse, on
behalf of myself and the said William Henry Barlow, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: and it shows the way in which a plate g may be used in place of separate nuts
for the bolts c, c.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Woodhouse, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Third day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
WILLIAM HOWDEN.
WILLIAM HENRY WOODHOUSE. (L.S.)