REMOVING SNOW FROM A LINE OF RAILWAYS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Glover, of the City of Lincoln, Carpenter and
Joiner, for the Invention of "REMOVING SNOW FROM A LINE OF RAILWAYS."
Sealed the 6th June 1856, and dated the 21st December 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Glover at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
December 1855.
I, CHARLES GLOVER, of the City of Lincoln, Carpenter and Joiner, do
'hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "REMOVING SNOW FROM A LINE
. OF RAILWAYS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of constructing and applying a carriage on flanched
wheels, suitable for running on a railway. The carriage is framed strongly
together, and the fore part is constructed somewhat similarly to an ordinary
plough. There is a horizontal cutting edge of a length somewhat greater than
the space between the rails, in order that the snow may be removed not only
'from the over, space between rails, but also on either side of the two rails;
there is also an upright cutter in the nature of a coulter, and a mould board.
The two cutters divide the snow horizontally and vertically, and the mould
board turns over the snow at a distance from the rails.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Glover in the 'Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
GLOVER, of the City of Lincoln, Carpenter and Joiner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Glover, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Glover,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,. the said
Charles Glover, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "REMOVING
SNOW FROM A LINE OF RAILWAYS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Charles Glover, my executors or administrators, by an 'instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
#diately after the date of the said Letters Patent. :
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Glover, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists of constructing and applying a carriage on flanched
wheels, suitable for running on a railway. The carriage is framed strongly
together, and the fore part.. is constructed somewhat similarly to an ordinary
plough. There is a horizontal cutting edge of a length somewhat greater than
the space between the rails, in order that the snow may be removed not only
from the over space between rails, but also on either side of the two rails;
'there is also an upright cutter in the nature of a coulter, and a mould board.
The two cutters divide the snow horizontally and vertically, and the mould
board turns over the snow at a distance from the rails.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner.of-performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a plan of the framing, and part of the fore part of a snow
plough constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 shows a vertical
section of the parts shown at Figure 1; Figure 3 shows a plan of snow plough
complete; and Figures 4 and 5 show cross sections. The object of the
Invention is to form a railway carriage on wheels, of such form, that by the use
of a horizontal cutter or share a, two side cutters or coulters b, b, and mould
board c, that snow across a railway may be raised from off the two rails of a
line of railway, and from the space between and to some extent beyond the
rails on either side, and be thrown or turned over off from such line of railway:
The shape and framing of the parts of the carriage for this purpose, and the
mode of putting the parts together may be greatly varied, so long as the
requisite strength be obtained. The carriage is shown to run on four wheels,
but the number of wheels used may be varied.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Glover, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
ROBERT MARSHALL FISHER,
Lincoln.
CHARLES GLOVER (L.S.)