IMPROVED WHEELS AND RAILS FOR RAILWAY PURPOSES
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ONIONS, of 16, High Street, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I did by petition represent to Her most Excellent Majesty
Queen Victoria that I had invented "IMPROVED WHEELS AND RAILS FOR
RAILWAY PURPOSES," and Her said Majesty, being willing to encourage all
useful Inventions, did issue Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of July, in the fifth
year of Her reign, whereby Her said Majesty did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Onions, Her special
licence that I, the said George Onions, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as T, the said George Onions, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my said Invention; in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said George Onions, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Onions, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in
manner following, that is to say:-
My process for improving wheels for railway purposes consists in casting
such wheels of iron made from Cumberland or Lancashire ore, which are
afterwards made malleable by annealing, and are subsequently case-hardened;
and I claim as my proper and peculiar Invention the casting of such wheels o
iron made from Cumberland or Lancashire ore, the rendering the same
malleable by annealing, and the case-hardening of the same.
And my
improvement of rails for railway purposes consists of an arched base manu-
factured of common cast iron, with a groove running along the centre thereof,
and into which groove a rail, made either of iron cast from Cumberland or
Lancashire ore, and afterwards rendered malleable by annealing or made of
wrought iron, is affixed. The base of such rail I cast singly or doubly; if
doubly, by means of connecting substances of iron. And I claim, as my proper
and peculiar Invention, as well the mode of construction of such single or
double base, as of the casting of the rail of iron cast from Cumberland or
Lancashire ore and afterwards rendered malleable by annealing.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Onions, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand nicht h
Inrolled the Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-two.