AN IMPROVEMENT IN RIVETTING FISH JOINTS AND OTHER PARTS OR THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Keeling, of the King and Queen Iron
Works, Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, for the In-
vention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN RIVETTING FISH JOINTS AND OTHER PARTS
OR THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS"
Sealed the 21st April 1857, and dated the 5th November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert Keeling at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th November 1856.
I, HERBERT KEELING, of the King and Queen Iron Works, Rotherhitho, in
the County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN RIVETTING FISH JOINTS AND OTHER PARTS
OF THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in punching, drilling, or otherwise forming conical
holes, either round, polygonal or of other form, in fishing plates used for the
purpose of securing the ends of rails on railways, and inserting in such holes
rivets or pieces of iron, or it may be other suitable material, of a cylindrical or
other appropriate form, either hot or cold, and which I recommend to be
sufficiently long to project a short distance beyond the outside of the fishing
plates, and then hammering upon the ends of the rivets, until, being expanded
into the conical holes, the fishing plates are thereby tightly pressed against the
rails. In order to facilitate the removal of the fishing plates when required, I
make one of the cylindrical or other formed rivets into the shape of an ordinary
bolt or rivet head, and I then prefer to make the holes parallel in one of the
herein-
fishing plates, the other being made conical or tapering, for the purpose

page_text: before mentioned. On the removal of the projecting head the remaining
portion of the rivet may be readily driven out. Although I prefer that the
holo in the plates should be conical through the thickness, it may be so for a
portion of the thickness only.
before mentioned. On the removal of the projecting head the remaining
portion of the rivet may be readily driven out. Although I prefer that the
holo in the plates should be conical through the thickness, it may be so for a
portion of the thickness only.
Although I have described the application of my invention to the fish joints
of the permanent way, yet it will be obvious that it may be applied to such
other parts thereof as may require to be similarly joined.
holo in the plates should be conical through the thickness, it may be so for a
portion of the thickness only.
Although I have described the application of my invention to the fish joints
of the permanent way, yet it will be obvious that it may be applied to such
other parts thereof as may require to be similarly joined.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Herbert Keeling in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HERDERT
KEELING, of the King and Queen Iron Works, Rotherbithe, in the County of
Surrey, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of ller reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Herbert Keeling. Her special licenco that I, the said Herbert Keeling, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Herbert
Keeling, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any timo 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 Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN RIVETTING
FISH JOINTS AND OTHER PARTS OF THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Herbert Keeling, 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 naturo
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the samo to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the dato of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Herbert Keeling, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say-

page_text: My Invention consists in punching, drilling, or otherwise forming conical
holes, either round, polygonal, or of other form, in fishing plates used for
securing the ends of rails on railways, and inserting in such holes rivets or pieces
of iron, or other suitable material, of a cylindrical or other appropriate form,
and which I prefer to use cold. The rivets should be sufficiently long to project
beyond the outside of the fishing plates, and by hammering upon the ends of the
rivets until they are expanded into the conical holes the fishing plates become
securely fixed to each other, and hold the rails tightly between them. In order
to facilitate the removal of the fishing plates when required, I make one end of
the rivets in the shape of an ordinary bolt or rivet head, and I then prefer
to make the holes parallel in one of the fishing plates, the other being made
conical or tapering, as herein-before mentioned. On the removal of the pro-
jecting head the remaining portion of the rivet may be readily driven out.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a rail, shewing the fishing plates with
the hole in both plates made conical and secured by rivets, both ends of which
are made conical by being driven into the conical holes; Figure 2 is a side
view of the same; and Figure 3 shews the fishing plates, with a conical hole
in one plate and a cylindrical hole in the other, and secured by rivets, having
one end made conical by hammering into the conical hole, while the other end
is formed with a rivet or bolt head. A is the rail; B, B, the fishing plates;
and c, the rivets.
Although I have described the application of my Invention to the fish joints
of the permanent way, yet it will be obvious that it may be applied to such
other parts thereof as may require to be similarly joined; and although I
prefer that the hole in the plates should be conical through their thickness, yet
it may be so for a portion of the thickness only.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improvement
in rivetting fish joints and other parts of the permanent way of railways, the
forming of one or both holes for the reception of the rivets conical, and the
beating and spreading out of one end or both ends, as the case may be, of
the rivets into such conical hole or holes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert Keeling, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and for caron
HERBERT KEELING. (L.S.)