IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING MILD DERMANENT WAYS OF RAILWAYS.” MILD DERMANENT WAVE OR RAILWAYS."
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Theodore Anthony Rochussen, of Abchurch Lane, in
the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING
MILD DERMANENT WAYS OF RAILWAYS.”
MILD DERMANENT WAVE OR RAILWAYS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Theodore Anthony
Rochussen at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 21st September 1866.
I, THEODORE ANTHONY ROCHUSSEN, of Abchurch Lane, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONSTRUCTING THE PERMANENT WAYS OF RAILWAYS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in constructing the per-
manent ways of railways, and is applicable in constructing railways where the
rails are supported longitudinally by means of longitudinal bearers or supports
formed of angle or L iron placed on either side of each rail.
According to the present Invention the screw or key bolts which fasten
the pair of angle iron bearers or supports to each other and to the rail which
they support do not pass through the under web or rib of the rail but only
through the angle iron bearers or supports which are placed on each side of

page_text: the railway bar. The edges of the angle irons where they come next to and
under the head of the rail are formed with ribs or projectious at or near their
upper edges on the sides or surfaces which come next the web or rib under
the head of the rail, and such web or rib is formed with a groove or recess
on each side corresponding with the rib or projection formed on the angle
irons, hence when the screw or keyed bolts have been passed through the two
lengths of angle iron forming the longitudinal bearer, and fixed securely on
either side of the rail by screw nuts or by keys, the rail will be securely
nipped and held between the lengths of angle iron, and the rail will be pre-
vented from rising by reason of the ribs or projections formed along the upper
edges of the angle iron entering the grooves or recesses on each side of the
web or under rib of the railway bar. The rails and the longitudinal angle
iron bearers or supports are fixed together so as to break joint, and stops are
applied at the ends of the rails to prevent their moving endways between their
longitudinal angle iron bearers or supports, the ends of which are fished. The
gauge of the rails and of the longitudinal supports or bearers is as heretofore
insured by transverse bars of. angle iron, or bridge iron, or T iron, or by bars
of other suitable section.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Theodore Anthony Rochussen in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st March 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THEodore
ANTHONY ROCHUSSEN, of Abchurch Lane, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Theodore Anthony Rochussen, Her special licence that I, the said Theodore
Anthony Rochussen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Theodore Anthony Rochussen, 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 Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING THE PERMANENT WAYS OF RAILWAYS," upon

page_text: the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Theodore Anthony Rochussen,
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 Theodore Anthony Rochussen, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:―
.
This Invention has for its object improvements in constructing the per-
manent ways of railways, and is applicable in constructing railways where
the rails are supported longitudinally by means of longitudinal bearers
or supports formed of angle or L iron placed on either side of each rail.
According to the present Invention the screw or key bolts which fasten the
pair of angle iron bearers or supports to each other and to the rail which they
support do not pass through the under web or rib of the rail but only through
the angle iron bearers or supports which are placed on each side of the
railway bar. The edges of the angle irons where they come next to and
under the head of the rail, are formed with ribs or projections at or near
their upper edges on the sides or surfaces which come next the web or rib
under the head of the rail, and such web or rib is formed with a groove or
recess on each side corresponding with the rib or projection formed on the
angle irons, hence when the screw or keyed bolts have been passed through
the two lengths of angle iron forming the longitudinal bearer and fixed.
securely on either side of the rail by screw nuts or by keys the rail will be
securely nipped and held between the lengths of angle iron, and the rail will
be prevented from rising by reason of the ribs or projections formed along
the upper edges of the angle iron entering the grooves or recesses on each
side of the web or under rib of the railway bar. The rails and the longi-
tudinal angle iron bearers or supports are fixed together so as to break joint,
and stops are applied at the ends of the rails to prevent their moving end-
ways between their longitudinal angle iron bearers or supports, the ends of
which are fished. The gauge of the rails and of the longitudinal supports
or bearers is as heretofore insured by transverse bars of angle iron, or bridge
iron, or T iron, or by bars of other suitable section.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a vertical transverse section of a rail and of the longitudinal
bearers which support the same taken at the point where a screw bolt or
a key bolt is applied, by which the two parts of the longitudinal bearer are
bolted together and are made to hold the rail between them.
Figure 2 shows another vertical transverse section of the rail and bearers
taken at the point where the ends of the bearers are fish jointed and the
distance tie bar is fixed.
A is the rail, in the under web of which are formed two longitudinal
recesses or grooves a, a, to receive the longitudinal ribs or projections b, b,
formed on the longitudinal bearers B, B, hence when a rail A is placed
between the two angle irons B, B, of which the longitudinal bearer is formed,
and the two parts are drawn tightly together by screw bolts C, C, (or it may
be bolts with slots through them to receive keys) applied at suitable intervals
apart the rail A will be prevented rising. In order to prevent the rails
moving in a longitudinal direction a stop D, Figure 3, is put across at the
ends of the bars A, for which purpose the under parts of the rails at the ends
are notched out for the passage of such stop D, which is placed across the
space between the two parts B of the longitudinal bearer. E, E, are fish
plates fixed by screw bolts and nuts to the longitudinal bearers B, where the
ends of two angle bars come and butt together; F is part of a tie bar by
which the rails A and longitudinal bearers B, B, are kept to the proper gauge
or distance apart.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to
the use of bars of angle iron in the construction of longitudinal bearers of
railway bars; but what I claim is the fixing railway bars A carried by
longitudinal bearers B by means of the parts a, a, and b, b, together with
screw or key bolts C, as herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Theodore Anthony Rochussen, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
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T. A. ROCHUSSEN. (L.C.)