IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY CARRIAGES, FOR THE SECURITY AND CONVENIENCE OF THE PUBLIC
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, the said
ROBERT WILLIAM BRANDLING, of Low Gosforth, in the County of Northum-
berland, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Thirty-first day of October, in the ninth year of Her reign, did give and grant
unto me, the said Robert William Brandling, my exors, adññors, and assigns,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Robert William Brandling, my exors, admors, and assigns, and such others
as I, the said Robert William Brandling, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times hereafter, 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, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY CARRIAGES, FOR THE SECURITY AND CONVENIENCE OF THE
PUBLIC;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I,
the said Robert William Brandling, shall cause a particular description of 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, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert William Brandling, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters 5
marked thereon (that is to say):
My Invention consists in a mode of keeping the wheels of railway carriages
constantly upon the rails, by the application of counteracting pressures in
opposite directions, and by means that do not cause any violent shock.; in
resisting any deviation from that position of the train where the weight is 1
equally distributed on the two rails; in constructing a machine by which
the railway trains are firmly, attached to or easily liberated from the rope
which draws them; in causing the trains to pass upon the surface without
any obstruction to the usual traffic along the public highways; in confining
the machine and rope below the surface; and in a new mode of communicating
the tractive power to ropes used on railways.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
a, a,
Fig. 1 is a section through the centre of the axle and wheels of a truck or
carriage across the railway and through the posts along the sides of it.
posts with projecting rectangular heads, to the under side of which the segment
of an inverted rail is attached; b, b, bars firmly joined to the frame c, c,
of the carriage, the distance of which from the axle is invariable; d, d, a long
wooden or metal rail, the distance between the upper surface of which and
the inverted segments under the post heads must not exceed the depth of
the flange of the wheel, and the distance between the outside of the same
rail and the post themselves must not exceed the width of the tyre minus
the width of the flange; e, a square case to contain part of the machinery
appertaining to this Invention; h, h, is a compressing board for a brake to
be worked by the same means as the rope compresser.
Fig. 2, section of a rectangular case, containing a machine that can be
firmly attached to and liberated from ropes used in trains on railways.
a, a, a, a, are friction rollers; b, b, ditto; c, c, compressing boards for fixing
the rope; d upright shafts which turn the cross piece that acts upon the
boards c, c, to compress the rope, as shewn in Figure; e, e, e, e, rails within
the case on and between which the machine travels, two on the top and two
at the bottom; f, the endless rope; 9, the opening in the case thro' which
the train is connected with the machine, which is at the top, the side, or botton
of the case, according to the purpose to which the machine is used: at th

page_text: top in drawing trains on the surface of the ground, at the side in drawing
boats along rivers and canals, and at the bottom where the case is a little
below or a little above the bed of the river.
Figure 3, compressing machine. c, c, compressing boards; b, b, cross
heads or arms moved by the upright shaft d; e, e, rectangular projections from
the cross heads, which act upon the boards to be compressed; f, the rope,
and the red lines shew the position of, the compressing boards when moved by
the arms.
Figure 4. a, a, the endless rope to be acted upon; b, b, b, b, wheels or
cylinders round which the flat rope is wound; c, c, wheels or cylinders inserted
in the same frame, and moving in the same direction above and below, as
shewn by the arrows d, d. The whole of these wheels or cylinders are fixed
in two distinct frames, and compressed with sufficient force, so as to cause
the endless flatt rope to carry forward the main endless one.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert William Brandling, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
ROB. W BRANDLING. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Robert William Brandling came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her 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.
Enrolled the Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.