IMPROVEMENTS IN CON- NECTING THE RAILS OF RAILWAYS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Milner, of Stratford, in the County of
Essex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CON-
NECTING THE RAILS OF RAILWAYS."
Scaled the 16th June 1854, and dated the 31st December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Milner at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 31st December 1858.
I, JOIN MILNER, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING THE RAILS OF RAILWAYS" to
be as follows:-
I connect the rails by inserting one or more short pins or dowels into
holes drilled in the abutting ends of the rails. The vertical and lateral
motion of the rails with regard to each other is thus prevented. The
rails may be fixed in chairs or otherwise in the ordinary or any suitable
manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Milner in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th June 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN MILNER, late of Stratford, in the County of Essex, but now of
Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Milner, Fler special
licence that I, the said John Milner, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Milner, 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 CONNECTING THE RAILS OF RAILWAYS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Milner, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Soal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Milner, 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, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawing, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say :-
I connect the rails by inserting one or more short pins or dowels into
holes drilled in the abutting ends of the rails. The vertical and lateral
motion of the rails with regard to each other is thus prevented.

page_text: Figure 1 is a side view of one rail and a section of another, shewing
my improved mode of connecting rails; Figure 2 is an end view of one
of the rails. The same letters refer to similar parts in each Figure.
A and B are the rails, and C and D are the dowels, which may be of
steel or iron or other suitable material. The rails may be fixed in
chairs in the ordinary or any suitable manner. 1 have shewn tho
ordinary double heated rails in the Drawing, but other forms of rails
may be connected in a similar manner.
Having now described the nature of the Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
what I claim is, the connecting the rails of railways by means of one or
more short pins or dowels inserted into holes drilled in the ends of the
rails, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Milner, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four
Witness,
CHARLES COWPER,
20, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
London.
JOHN MILNER. (L.B.)