A MEANS OF PREVENTING INJURIES TO PERSONS AND PROPERTY FROM THE SUDDEN STOPPAGE OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WILLCOCKS SLEIGH, formerly of Stamford House, Chiswick, in the County of
Middlesex, and now of London, Doctor of Medicine, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date it
Westminster, the Eighth day of February, in the twelfth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Willcocks Sleigh, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and such others as I, the
said William Willcocks Sleigh, 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 mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man,
and in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention for
"A MEANS OF PREVENTING INJURIES TO PERSONS AND PROPERTY FROM THE SUDDEN
STOPPAGE OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
& proviso that I, the said William Willcocks Sleigh, shall particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be
enrolled 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 appear.

page_text: of the said wheels as to greatly retard or totally stop them, when desirable, for
the purpose of checking the velocity of a carriage or carriages as aforesaid.
Having now described in detail the various parts of my said Invention, I
would have it understood that I claim the applying pressure to the rails or to
the wheels of railroad carriages, or to both the rails and the wheels, by means
of a toggle or hinged joint, as herein-before described, and thereby produce a
diminution of the velocity or a stoppage of the carriage or carriages, irrespective
of any particular modification of the shape or form of said apparatus or of
kind of lever or other contrivance that may be deemed most suitable to
act on said joint.
any
In witness whereof, I, the said William Willcocks Sleigh, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
WILLIAM WILLCOCKS (L.S.) SLEIGH.
WILLIAM WILLCOCKS (L.S.) SLEIGH.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixth day of August, in year of
our Lord 1849, the aforesaid William Willcocks Sleigh 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 Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine.