IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY CHAIRS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Frederick Morrell; of Fleet Street, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF RAILWAY CHAIRS."
Sealed the 17th June 1856, and dated the 9th April 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Frederick Morrell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th April 1856.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK MORRELL, of Fleet Street, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY CHAIRS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of railway
chairs; and the Invention consists of cutting sheet iron into suitable shapes,
and in bending up the sides to form the jaws of the chairs. For this purpose
sheet iron is rolled or formed to the proper thickness, and two pieces are cut
or punched out, each piece having towards one end lateral projections, which
when bent upwards produce one of the jaws of the chair, whilst the central
part of the sheet iron forms the base or lower part of the chair on which the
rail rests. This central portion or base is not formed of the same width in
both the two parts of a chair, but one is somewhat narrower than the other,
so that it may pass between the upright sides of the other. The rail is held

page_text: secure between the upright parts or jaws of a chair thus formed by the two
base plates or central portions being fixed to each other and to a sleeper or.
bearer by pins or bolts, which pass through both of the base plates into the
sleeper or bearer, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Frederick Morrell in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREDERICK MORRELL, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of April, 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
George Frederick Morrell, Her special licence that I, the said George
Frederick Morrell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Frederick Morrell, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY CHAIRS," upon the condition
(amongst others), that I, the said George Frederick Morrell, my executors or
adminstrators, 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 George Frederick Morrell, 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 the manufacture of railway
chairs; and the Invention consists of cutting sheet iron into suitable shapes,
and in bending up the sides to form the jaws of the chairs. For this purpose

page_text: sheet iron is rolled or formed to the proper thickness, and two pieces are cut
or punched out, each piece having towards one end lateral projections, which
when bent upwards produce one of the jaws of the chair, whilst the central
part of the sheet iron forms the base or lower part of the chair on which the
rail rests. The central portion or base is not formed of the same width in
both the two parts of a chair, but one is somewhat narrower than the other,
so that it may pass between the upright sides of the other. The rail is held
secure between the upright parts or jaws of a chair thus formed by the two
base plates or central portions being fixed to each other and to a sleeper or
bearer by pins or bolts, which pass through both of the base plates into the
sleeper or bearer, or otherwise.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a plan of one of the plates of sheet iron; and Figure 2
shows a plan of the other plate of sheet iron, which when bent or shaped into
form constitute a railway chair according to my Invention; Figure 3 shows a
side view, Figure 4 an end view, and Figure 5 a plan, of a chair suitable for
the ordinary double-headed rail; and I would state that the shape or form of
the jaws and parts of a chair according to my Invention may be varied to suit
different forms of rails.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Morrell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of October, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
GEORGE FREDERICK MORRELL. (L.S.)