AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON HURDLES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hallen Cottam and Henry Richard Cottam,.
of St. Pancras Iron Works, Old St. Pancras Road, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON HURDLES.": I
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hallen Cottam_
and Henry Richard Cottam at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 9th October 1856.
We, GEORGE HALLEN COTTAM and HENRY RICHARD COTTAM, of St. Pancras
Iron Works, Old St. Pancras Road, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON HURDLES," to be
as follows:
.This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of iron
hurdles. For which purpose the horizontal rods or bars are formed with
shoulders, collars, or enlargements, which (in putting the parts of a hurdle
together) come against the uprights, and give stability to the hurdle when
finished. Each horizontal rod or bar is made with two collars, shoulders, or
enlargements, the one to come against one of the outer uprights of a hurdle,
the other coming against the middle or central upright; and by alternating the
positions of such collars, shoulders, or enlargements, in respect to the outer
uprights, great stability is obtained. The horizontal bars or rods for these
purposes. it is preferred should be rolled with enlargements at the required

page_text: distances apart, or they may be applied to or formed thereon by other suitable
means. In making the feet of hurdles, the projecting portions, in place of
being welded to the uprights, and in place of their passing through the
uprights, such projecting pieces are fixed to the uprights by means of angular
pieces, and the whole are fixed by rivets. The outer foot or spike may be
formed to the projecting piece, or it may be fixed thereto in like manner to
that in which the projecting piece is fixed to the upright or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Hallen Cottam and Henry Richard Cottam in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
HALLEN COTTAM and HENRY RICHARD COTTAM, of St. Pancras Iron Works,
Old St. Pancras Road, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Ier Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Hallen Cottam and Henry Richard Cottam, Her special licence that
we, the said George Hallen Cottam and Henry Richard Cottam, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George Hallen
Cottam and Henry Richard Cottam, 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
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON HURDLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said George Hallen Cottam and Henry Richard
Cottam, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them,
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 we, the said George Hallen Cottam and Henry
Richard Cottam, do hereby, declare the nature of the said Invention, and in

page_text: ¡In place of producing the enlargements in this manner, they may be rolled on
the horizontal bars, or otherwise produced thereon as may be considered
desirable.
The Drawing also shows our improved method of constructing the feet of
hurdles; c, c, are projecting pieces, which are fixed to the uprights b, b, by
means of the angle plates d, d, rivetted to the uprights, and to the projecting
pieces; the outer feet or spikes e, e, are rivetted to the pieces c.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Hallen Cottam and Henry
Richard Cottam, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth
day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and 1
fifty-seven.
Witness,
W. CARPMAEL, Jun.
GEORGE HALLEN COTTAM. (L.S.)
HENRY RICHARD COTTAM. (L.S.)