IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF VANS, WAGGONS, OR CARTS EMPLOYED FOR TRANSPORTING FURNITURE AND OTHER GOODS ON COMMON ROADS AND RAILWAYS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Hazeldine, of Lant Street, Borough, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON-
STRUCTION OF VANS, WAGGONS, OR CARTS EMPLOYED FOR TRANSPORTING
FURNITURE AND OTHER GOODS ON COMMON ROADS AND RAILWAYS."
Sealed the 23rd February 1866, and dated the 26th August 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Hazeldine
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th August 1865.
1, FREDERICK HAZELDINE, of Lant Street, Borough, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VANS, WAGGONS, OR CARTS EMPLOYED FOR TRANSPORTING
FURNITURE AND OTHER GOODS ON COMMON ROADS AND RAILWAYS," to be as
follows:
This Invention consists in substituting wrought-iron latticework or a
combination of iron and woodwork on the girder and tension principles, in
place of the ordinary wooden framing at present employed in the construction
of vans, waggons, or carts, and in covering the whole or part with corrugated
metal (zine, by preference), mahogany or other wood pannelling arranged

page_text: diagonally instead of longitudinally, as commonly practised, also tarpaulin,
Macintosh, or other suitable material; and further, in arranging or disposing
the rods employed to form the sides of the vans, waggons, or carts, either in
parallel lines to each other, or diagonally, upon the tension principle, to the
bottom sides of the vans, waggons, or carts.
By the above improvements the vans, waggons, or carts may be made very
considerably lighter, much more durable, and can be more easily repaired than,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Hazeldine in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th February 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
HAZELDINE, of Lant Street, Borough, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters,
Patent, bearing. date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Frederick Hazeldine, Her special licence that I, the said
Frederick Hazeldine, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Frederick Hazeldine, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter 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 In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VANS, WAGGONS, OR CARTS
EMPLOYED FOR TRANSPORTING FURNITURE AND OTHER GOODS ON COMMON ROADS AND
RAILWAYS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick
Hazeldine, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Hazeldine, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per:

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-.
This Invention consists in substituting wrought-iron latticework or a
combination of iron and woodwork on the girder and tension principles, in
place of the ordinary wooden framing at present employed in the construction
of vans, waggons, or carts, and in covering the roof thereof with corrugated
metal (zinc, by preference), also tarpauling, Macintosh, or other suitable
material, and the sides, back, and front with mahogany or other wood
panelling or boarding, arranged diagonally instead of longitudinally, as
commonly practised; and further, in arranging or disposing the rods
employed to form the sides of the vans, waggons, or carts, either in parallel
lines to each other, or diagonally, upon the tension principle, to the bottom
sides of the vans, waggons, or carts.
'
By the above improvements the vans, waggons, or carts may be made very
considerably lighter, much more durable, and can be more easily repaired, than
heretofore.
And in order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the Drawing accompanying.
these Presents and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
At Fig. 1 the. Drawing. represents an elevation of one side of a van
constructed according to my said Invention, looking at the inside thereof.
Fig. 2 shews a top plan view of the framework of such said side. The
same letters of reference are employed to denote corresponding parts at both
of such said Figures..
:
A, A', mark the wooden uprights of the framework of the side of the van;
B, longitudinal timbers; C, C, battens; D, D, tension rods of wrought iron;
E, wood panelling. The tension rods D, D, pass through holes formed in the
uprights A, A, and the said rods are placed out of a straight line (as repre-
sented by the Drawing), both in a vertical and horizontal direction, so that
the expansion of the wood shall operate so as to pull the middle portion of
the sides of the van inwards, and the bottom thereof upwards; the ends of
each of the tension rods are secured to the outer uprights A, A, by nuts at 1, 1,
screwed tightly on to the ends of the said rods. The battens C, C, have each
a groove cut therein to fit over and conceal the tension rods from view. The
Drawing shews the battens removed from the uppermost and lowermost
tension rods the lowermost tension rod is formed in two parts, to accom-
;

page_text: modate it to the curved piece H at the bottom of the van, formed to receive
the hindermost wheels thereof. a, a, are the points at which the bottom
tension rods are securely fixed to the curved piece of timber H. . The top,
bottom, and ends of the van are framed together in the ordinary way. The
framework of the sides of the van is covered with wood panelling fixed
diagonally to the outside of the framework, as represented by the Drawing at
Figure 1.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention for improvements in the construction of vans, waggons, or carts
employed for transporting furniture and other goods on common roads and
railways, together with the best means I am acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, I would. remark in conclusion that I hereby
declare my Invention to consist in, and I. claim, a, combination of wrought
iron and woodwork, arranged on the girder and tension principles, in the
construction of vans, waggons, or carts, in lieu of the ordinary wooden
framing heretofore employed in the construction of such said vehicles, and in
covering such said. framing with wood panelling, arranged diagonally instead
of longitudinally, as commonly practised, as above described with reference to
the accompanying Drawing.
i In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Hazeldine, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
FRED. HAZELDINE. (L.S.)