IMPROVE- AD DAZE BAD DATE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Llewellyn Roberts, of Stockton-on-Tees, in the
County of Durham, Mill Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
AD DAZE BAD DATE"
Scaled the 4th July 1873, and dated the 9th January 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Llewellyn Roberts at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th January 1873.
I, LLEWELLYN ROBERTS, of Stockton-on-Tees, in the County of
Durhani, Mill Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILS FOR RAILWAYS,"
to be as follows:-
The improvements consist in rolling and splitting the crop ends from
rails into shoulder or angle pieces, and using such picces in making up
the pile, thereby securing more perfect weld, and a rail freer from
defects than heretofore..

page_text: The improvements may conveniently be performed by using rolls of
the shapes shown in the Drawing, or other shapes may be used, and the
piles may be formed as shown, or other formations may be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Llewellyn Roberts in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LLEWELLYN
ROBERTS, of Stockton-on-Tees, in the County of Durham, Mill
Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Llewellyn Roberts, Her special licence that
I, the said Llewellyn Roberts, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Llewellyn Roberts, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thercafter 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 THE
MANUFACTURE OF RAILS FOR RAILWAYS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Llewellyn Roberts, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, 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 immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Llewellyn Roberts, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The improvements consist in rolling and splitting the crop ends from
rails into shoulder or angle pieces, and using such pieces in making up
the pile, thereby securing more perfect weld, and a rail frcer from defects
than heretofore.
The improvements may be performed by using rolls of any desired
shape, but preferably of such a shape that little or no labor is necessary
afterwards to separate or split the pieces.
The accompanying Drawing will serve to illustrate a mode or modes
of carrying out the Invention, but I do not bind myself to the mode or
modes therein set forth, as the same may be varied without departing
from the nature of my Invention.
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 show varios arrangements of pile, the picces
rolled and split from the crop ends of rails being shown in said Figures
cross hatched; Figurès 5, 6, and 7 show sections of rolled picces on a
larger scale; Figure 8 shows rolls for rolling the above sections.
In witness whereof, I, the said Llewellyn Roberts, havo hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fifth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
LLEWELLYN ROBERTS. (L.S.)