A NEW OR IMPROVED CONTINUOUS ACTION STEAM BREAK
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Fred. Broughton, of Hanover House, Hanover
Cottages, Regent's Park, and Robert Stephens, of 18, Green Street,
Paddington Green, both in the County of Middlesex, for the In-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Fred Broughton and
Robert Stephens at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
* with their Petition, on the 6th April 1874.
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We, FRED. BROUGHTON, of Hanover House, Hanover Cottages, Regent's
Park, and ROBERT STEPHENS, of 18, Green Street, Paddington Green,
both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED CONTINUOUS ACTION STEAM BREAK,"
to be as follows:-
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This Invention consists of a break worked by steam power by means
of a small cylinder or donkey engine beneath the foot plate of the
engineman, which can be placed in a horizontal or vertical position, so
that the longitudinal buffer-shaped rod running beneath the bottom of

page_text: cach carriage comes in contact with the piston rod, and is forced in a
horizontal position; or this rod can be made to revolve, the break gearing
being so arranged that the blocks are applied to the wheels of these
carriages the tender of the engine momentarily, and that the break
can be applied whichever way the carriage may be placed in the train,
as the break gearing is double action, and that any carriage can be
attached or detached as quick as in the ordinary way, as the said break
rod or longitudinal rod that runs beneath the bottom of the carriages
meets between each carriage in the same manner as the buffers, and can
be made to work into a hollow square-ended rod when required to
revolve. The revolving rod can be made to connect in several different
forms and to be self acting, so that it requires no assistance whatever
when attaching or detaching the carriages. In cases where the train
breaks loose the guard has the same power to apply the break as the
engineman, it being so arranged that the break can be applied to the
remaining portion of the train as in the ordinary manner, and that the
said continuous steam break can be worked by the engineman or the
nd hath at come time

page_text: same as ff, but having reverse movement; h, arm for coupling break
irons; i is an upright bar with curved piece at top, with deeply cut teeth
for working a longitudinal bar j, which has a worm cut in the same for
revolving; k, k, a rest or bearing for longitudinal bar; (Figure 4) is
the coupling arrangement adopted between each carriage to allow for
shunting purposes and for compression of buffers, applicable to the
revolving.rod principle.
In Figure 1 is shewn steam pipe m leading to cylinder n, o being the
regulator.
In Figure 2 is shewn a break van to allow the guard to have command
over the break by means of the apparatus p, consisting of wheels worked
by a handle in guard's van, operating and controlling the movement of
the longitudinal rod for putting on the break.
In Figure 1 is also shewn a controlling movement q in the tender,
consisting of break handle having a horizontal toothed wheel to work
into rod j.
In the case of twin carriages having short buffers the horizontal rod j
can be arranged for meeting on the same principle as the carriage buffers,
and for the ordinary spring buffered carriages we may adopt a telescopic
motion consisting of a set screw nut on the hoizontal rod j, which may
be set up to the proper working and action of the break before starting,
and when the train is not working the nuts are set back again to allow of
the telescopic action and compression of buffers when shunting and
providing for the safety of the break gearing.
25 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Fred. Broughton and Robert Stephens in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FRED.
BROUGHTON, of Hanover House, Hanover Cottages, Regent's Park, and
30 ROBERT STEPHENS, of 18, Green Street, Paddington Green, both in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
25 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Fred. Broughton and Robert Stephens in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FRED!
BROUGHTON, of Hanover House, Hanover Cottages, Regent's Park, and
30 ROBERT STEPHENS, of 18, Green Street, Paddington Green, both in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of April, in the year of

page_text: our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Fred. Broughton and Robert Stephens,. Her
special licence that we, the said Fred. Broughton and Robert Stephens, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Fred. Broughton and Robert Stephens, our 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 Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED CONTINUOUS ACTION STEAM
BREAK," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Fred:
Broughton and Robert Stephens, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or one of onr, 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 per-
formed, 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, tho said Fred. Broughton, on behalf of
myself and the said Robert Stephens, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
This Invention consists of a break worked by steam power by means
of a small cylinder or donkey engine beneath or above the foot plate of
the engineman, which can be placed in a horizontal or vertical position,
so that the longitudinal buffer-shaped rod running beneath the bottom of
each carriage comes in contact with the piston rod and is forced in a
horizontal position; or this rod can be made to revolve, the break gearing
being so arranged that, the blocks are applied to the wheels of the
carriages and the tender of the engine momentarily, and that the break
can be applied whichever way the carriage may be placed in the train,
as the break gearing is double action, and that any carriage can be
attached or detached as quick as in the ordinary way, as the said break
rod or longitudinal rod that runs beneath the bottom of the carriages
meets between each carriage in the same manner as the buffers, and can
be made to work into a hollow square-ended rod when required to

page_text: change of position of the engine to either end of the train; and that
double rods may be used in lieu of single under carriage if found
necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said Fred. Broughton, on behalf of myself
and the said Robert Stephens, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
FRED. BROUGHTON. (L.S.)