IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY AND OTHER LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES
Year: 1836

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
JOHN MASSEY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Watchmaker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by. His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date:at
Westminster, the Twenty-third day of. April, in the sixth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, bis Heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edward John Massey, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Edward John Massey, my exors, admors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward John Massey, my exors, adiñors,
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 the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY AND OTHER
LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that I, the said Edward John Massey, shall cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His 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 appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward John Massey, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and

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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
a, b, represent two quadrangular frames constituting the main framing of
the carriage, there being one pair of wheels to each frame. These two
frames a, b, are coupled together by the bolt c, there being a washer d
between the frames to keep them apart; and e, e, are plates of metal affixed on
the frames a, b. The bolt c has a head at one end and a split cotter through
the other, or by screws & nuts, by which means the two frames though
securely held together are capable of movement in case of any inequality of
the level of the railway or other road on which the locomotive carriage runs;
thus, supposing the wheel at d to be passing over a surface higher or lower
than the wheel at e, then the wheel d could rise or fall without prejudice to
the framing, owing to the capability of movement of one frame, a being
independent of the other frame b, which could not be the case if the framing
a, b, were one frame, which is the common means of constructing the
framings for locomotive carriages; and from that circumstance when any
wheel of such carriages meet with any inequality of surface, the frame
becomes strained. If the locomotive carriage have three pair of wheels, then
there are to be three frames, connected to each other in like manner to that
shown and described to a and b. The arrangement of the carriages in other
respects may be according to any of the most approved means of construction.
Such arrangements being well known, and forming no part of my Invention,
no description of the same will be required, and my improvement will readily
bo applied by engineers acquainted with the construction of locomotive
carriages.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would wish it to be understood that what I
claim under the present Letters Patent is the constructing of the frame which
carries the locomotive carriage in such manner that cach part has movement,
in order to obviate the effects heretofore consequent on the wheels passing
over surfaces of different elevations, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward John Massey, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty- day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
EDWARD JOIN (L.S.) MASSEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1886, the aforesaid Edward John Massey came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.