IMPROVEMENTS IN. GAMBO AND THE QUID DARMO
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustus Lea Bricknell, of Stratford-upon-Avon,
in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN.
GAMBO AND THE QUID DARMO
دو
Sealed the 15th February 1870, and dated the 8th December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustus Lea Bricknell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 8th December 1869.
I, AUGUSTUS LEA BRICKNELL, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the County
of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GATES AND IN THE POSTS OR SUPPORTS FOR THE SAME," to
be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in gates and in the
posts or supports for the same.
Field or farm gates as at present constructed are very liable to drop,
and then will not swing freely; this arises both from the gate changing
its form in consequence of want of stiffness in the joints, and also from

page_text: the gate post on which the gate hangs being drawn out of the upright
by the weight of the gate upon it.
According to my Invention I connect the two gate posts together
by a ground cr an underground girder or beam firmly and rigidly
fixed to each of them. The posts I make by preference in cast iron,
and the connerting girder or beam may be of the same material, and
bolted or rivetted to them; but it is better to cast the two posts and the
connecting girder or beam together and as one casting.
In order to obtain the requisite strength and to facilitate the moulding
I form the posts concave on one face and convex on the other. I make
the gate partly of iron and partly of wood. At the end at which it is
hung two side frames of cast iron are used, each of the depth of the gate,
and of about half its length. The timber bars or rails of the gate are
arranged between these frames and secured by through bolts binding
the two frames together with the bars or rails between them. Each of
these side frames has upon it two hooks or lugs, and these, when the
frames are fixed together as already described, form eyes to receive the
pins on which the gate is hung. The upper edge of each frame is
concave, so as the more firmly to embrace the top bar or rail of the
gate. The ends of the bars or rails which project beyond the frames arc
held together at suitable distances by cast-iron plates or bars applied on
either side of them and bolted through; these plates or bars are also
hollowed at their upper ends to embrace the top bar or rail of the gate,
and similarly, if desired, they may be made to embrace all the bars or
rails from the top to the bottom of the gate.
substituted for cast iron.
Wrought iron may be
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Augustus Lea Bricknell in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTUS 30
LEA BRICKNELL, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the County of Warwick,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Augustus Lea Bricknell, Her special
licence that I, the said Augustus Lea Bricknell, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Augustus Lea
Bricknell, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN GATES AND IN THE POSTS OR SUPPORTS FOR THE SAME," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Augustus Lea Bricknell,
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 Augustus Lea Bricknell, 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 gates and in the
posts or supports for the same.
Field and farm gates as at present constructed are very liable to
drop, and then will not swing freely; this arises both from the gate
changing its form in consquence of want of stiffness in the joints, and
also from the gate post on which the gate hangs being drawn out of the
upright by the weight of the gate upon it.
According to my Invention I connect the two gate posts together by
a ground or an underground girder or girders or beam or beams, firmly
and rigidly fixed to each of them. The posts I make by preference in
cast iron, and the connecting girder or girders or beam or beams may
be of the same material, and held, retained, bolted, or rivetted to them,
or the two posts and the connecting girder or girders, or beam or beams,
may be cast together and as one casting. Or each post may be cast in
one piece with one portion of the girder, and the girder may be joined

page_text: For double gates, or where a gate is hung on each gate post, and
where the gates meet together in the centre, it is convenient to make
the girder in two pieces bolted together under the middle of the gate-
way in the same way as the Drawing represents for the connection of
the post and girder. For casting the side frames c of the gate I mould
the top and bottom bars curved slightly inwards or towards each other.
As the casting contracts in cooling they draw straight.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I
claim, the combination of parts forming my improved gate and gate
posts constructed and arranged as herein described.
Second. I claim the combining together the posts of gates by means
of rigid metal girders or beams, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustus Lea Bricknell, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy.
A. L. BRICKNELL. (L.S.)