IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILS FOR RAILWAYS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MOSES
POOLE; of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 Sixth day of October, in the ninth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Moses
Poole, my exors,, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, or such others as I, ther said Moses Poole, my exors, adñiors, 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 expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILS FOR
RAILWAYS," communicated to me by a certain foreigner residing abroad; in
which, said Letters Patent is contained a. proviso, that I, the said Moses
Poole, shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled.in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after 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
acneer

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Moses Poole, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, to be fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-
The Invention consists of so constructing rails-for railways-that the wheels
of the locomotive engines may run on wood, and the wheels of the railway
carriages may run on metal. And in order that the Invention may be fully
understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the best
arrangement I am acquainted with for performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
"The Drawing represents transverse sections of rails of a railway, they being
arranged and constructed according to the Invention. a, a, are rails of wood
on which the wheels b, b, of the locomotive engine run, whereby the increased
adhesion between wood rails and such wheels may be obtained; c, c, are rails
of iron on which the wheels d, d, of the carriages run, and by having metal
rails for the wheels of the railway carriages, the same resistance only will be
presented as now occurs with edge rails in ordinary use. The wheels of the
locomotive engine being thus removed from off the metal rail will not be so
liable to slip, particularly in damp weather, as has been heretofore the case
when the locomotive engines and railway carriages of the train all run on the
same metal rails. The metal rails c, c, are fixed by screws or other convenient
means to the top inner angles of the wooden rails a, a, and in the event of
guide wheels being used in place of flanches to the wheels for guiding and
retaining the locomotive engines or the railway carriages on their rails, such
guide wheels may come in contact with the metal rails c, c.
I would remark that although I have shewn the best arrangements I am
acquainted with for performing the Invention, I do not confine myself to the
details shown, so long as the peculiar character of the Invention be retained,
whereby wood and métal rails are so combined with reference to the axles of
the locomotive engines and of the railway carriages, that the wheels of the
locomotive engines may run on wood rails, and the wheels of the railway
carriages may run on metal rails.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
MOSES (L.S.) POOLE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-six.