Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1887
Complete Specification Left, 19th Apr, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 24th Aug., 1888
We THOMAS BOWSKILL Engineer Rawmarsh Road Rotherham, JOHN ABSON
Building Surveyor Moorgate Street Rotherham and GEORGE DAWSON Saw Mill
Proprietor Fitzwilliam Road Rotherham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to a cheap and simple construction for the conveyance of
passengers for amusement down a Jenny plane as aforesaid.
Our Invention consists of an inclined plane constructed of timber or iron at any
elevation for that purpose thereto.
The attachments consisting of Two Cars with Seats, a Rope, (hemp or wire) a
grooved wheel with single or double action brake attached.
The inclined plane is constructed with up and down lines with guides attached to
allow the said cars to pass & repass at a proper and uniform distance.
The inclined plane can be constructed any length on the surface of the ground or at
a raised elevation as may be required. By the descent of the loaded car with passengers
the empty car is drawn up by the said rope & wheel attached thereto The cars may
be constructed of wood or iron, with hard wood or iron rollers or iron wheels.
Dated this 25th day of July 1887.

page_text: We, THOMAS BOWSKILL Engineer Rotherham in the County of York, JOHN ABSON
Surveyor Rotherham aforesaid and GEORGE DAWSON Timber Merchant of Rotherham
aforesaid do hereby declare the nature of our invention for A GRAVITY RAILWAY
FOR AMUSEMENT and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our Invention relates to a cheap and simple construction for the conveyance of
passengers for amusement down an inclined plane-and
Our Invention consists of an inclined plane constructed of timber or iron at any
elevation for that purpose thereto.
The attachments consisting of two cars with seats, a rope (Hemp, Iron or Steel
wire) a grooved wheel with single or double action brake attached.
The inclined plane is constructed with up and down lines with guides attached to
allow the said cars to pass and repass at a proper and uniform distance.
The inclined plane may be constructed any length on the surface of the ground or
at a raised elevation as may be required.
By the descent of the loaded car with passengers the empty car is drawn by the said
rope attached thereto.
The cars may be constructed of wood or iron with hard wood or iron rollers on iron
wheels.
In order to make our invention fully understood both with respect to the con-
struction also with the working thereof we will proceed further to describe the
same.
The railway is constructed in the following manner, A suitable stage is erected at
one end, at an elevation, the said stage is reached by means of steps or other suitable
means. The said platform may have a canvas or other suitable covering, as will
be well understood.
Commencing at the level of the said elevated platform we orect an inclined plane
which is supported by means of suitable pillars and crosstays. The said inclined
plane may be arranged with varying gradients and may be constructed any suitable
length.
On the said plane are fixed an up line and a down line of rails having guides
attached so as to allow the cars to clearly pass each other.
On the herein before, described elevated platform is suitably fixed or secured a
grooved wheel working horizontally on a vertical shaft running in suitable bearings.
The said grooved wheel has a double or single action brake attached to or connected
with it, which is constructed in any ordinary way so as to be manipulated by a
person standing on the platform who is able thereby to controll the movement of the
said wheel.
The cars we employ are constructed in any ordinary way and arranged to seat any
suitable number of passengers, they run on wheels gauged to suit the rails, upon the

page_text: inclined plane. A rope composed of hemp, iron, or steel wire, or other suitable
material is passed round the grooved pulley once or twice or any number of times
preferred according to the grooves formed on periphery of said pulley, and one end of
said rope is attached by a suitable and satisfactory method to one car and the other
end of the said rope is similarly attached to the other car.
A suitable landing place is preferably arranged at the bottom of the inclined plane
for passengers to alight after having travelled down the inclined plane on the car.
Our present invention is worked in the following manner
When one car is at the top of the inclined plane or close up to the elevated plat-
form, the other car is at the bottom of the inclined plane at the landing place.
Passengers having ascended to the top of platform step into the car which is there
near and the said car is prevented descending the inclined plane by means of a man or
person who is on the said platform and who inanipulates the brake which controlls the
grooved pulley and therefore the rope and likewise the car. When the car is full or
a satisfactory number of persons are seated therein, the person at the brake allows the
said car to proceed down the inclined plane and simultaneously the empty car which
has been at the bottom of the incline is drawn up at the same speed as the descending
car, and when the full car lands at the bottom the empty one simultaneously lands at
the top as will be well understood, and during the time persons are alighting at the
landing stage at the bottom of the inclined plane, passengers proceed to seat themselves
in the car at the top or near the elevated platform.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is performed we declare that what we
claim is,
1st. A Gravity railway for amusement having two cars controlled by a brake
substantially as described.
2nd. A Gravity railway for amusement having two lines of rails running on the
same plane with two cars the full one pulling up the empty one arranged substantially as
described and for the purpose specified.
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