AN IMPRAREMDA IN SPORDINA AXID SUSTAINING TUR UP RAILS OF RAILWAYS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Robert Moate, of Number 65, Old Broad
Street, in the City of London, Metal Broker, for the Invention of "AN
IMPRAREMDA IN SPORDINA AXID SUSTAINING TUR
UP RAILS OF RAILWAYS"
Sealed the 27th May 1856, and dated the 1st February 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Robert Moate
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st February 1856.
I, CHARLES ROBERT MOATE, of Number: 65, Old Broad Street, in the City
of London, Metal Broker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN SECURING AND SUSTAINING THE RAILS OF RAILWAYS,"
to consist in holding the rails by a chair rolled in two pieces, of such a form as
that each half of the chair may receive the lower flange or bottom of the
rail on either side, and the jaws of the two portions of the chair being firmly
bolted together through the middle portion of the rail, the whole. is combined
together, effectually fishing the rail at. the joint in the lower as well as in the
upper flange. Each portion of the chair is. bolted down or fastened to the
sleeper in any convenient manner, and the whole so combined affords an
improved mode of securing and sustaining the rails of a railway.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Robert Moate in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
ROBERT MOATE, of Number 65, Old Broad Street, in the City of London,
Metal Broker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Robert Moate, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Robert Moate, niy
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Robert Moate, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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, my Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN SECURING AND SUSTAINING THE RAILS OF RAILWAYS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Robert Moate, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under mine, 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 Charles Robert Moate, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed; to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement; that is to say:-
My Invention consists in holding the rails by a chair rolled in two pieces,
of such a form as that each half of the chair may, support upon a solid
bearing the lower flange or bottom of the rail, and receive or clip the same on
either side, and the jaws of the two portions of the chair being firmly bolted
through the middle portion of the rail, the whole is combined together;
effectually fishing the joint at the lower as well as at the upper flange or
head, as well as supporting that head to resist the lateral strains or shocks
from the railway engines or carriage wheels.

page_text: The accompanying Drawing, Figures 1, 2, and 3, shews the manner in
which the two parts of a wrought or malleable iron chair roller, of such a
section as to support and clip the lower head or flange of a rail, may be
combined with the rail so as to fish the joint at its upper and lower flange,
and to clip, support, and securely fix the rail at any intermediate part. The
bearing förmed by this chair affords the power of expansion of the rails
allowed by the ordinary wrought iron fish plate, with a solid bearing at and
underneath the end of each rail, and forming a roadway, having advantages
over the roadway as ordinarily constructed. Figure 4 shews the way in which
the chair would be adapted to the guard rail at crossings, by means of a block
between the two rails; Figure 5 shows the way in which the chair would be
adapted to the flange or Trail.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I hereby declare that I claim as the Invention
intended to be secured by the said Letters Patent, the securing and sustaining
the rails by a rolled iron chair in two halves, adapted to and combined with
the rails and sleepers, as above described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Robert Moate, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
C. ROBERT.MOATE. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said Charles
Robert Moate, in the presence of
JOHN BIGSBY,
Clerk to Mr. Elmslie, Sol",
47, Moorgate Street,
London.