IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Robert Moate, of No. 65, Old Broad Street,
in the City of London, Broker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS."
Sealed the 1st September 1858, and dated the 6th March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Robert Moate
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th March 1858.
I, CHARLES ROBERT MOATE, of No. 65, Old Broad Street, in the City of
London, Broker, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention has reference to that description of permanent way in which
longitudinal bridge or saddle metal rails are laid directly upon the ballast (as
in the case of the well-known "Barlow" rail), and consists in filling up or
partly filling up the hollow space or under side of such rails, or in covering
over or partly covering over such under side or surface, or in-partly filling up
and partly covering over such under side or surface, or in filling up and
covering over such under side or surface, so as to facilitate the packing of the
ballast when being laid, repaired, or packed up, and in the application to or
adaptation of short tie rods or plates to the under side of said rails, and across
the hollow or open space, so as to prevent the rails from opening or spreading
or becoming flattened, or so as to hold the substance or material employed for
filling up the hollow space, as before set forth.

page_text: The manner in which I purpose performing my Invention is as follows:-
The rail to be employed may be an ordinary "Barlow" rail, but for con-
venience I prefer so to modify the sectional form of the under side or surface
as that the hollow space may present the shape of an inverted V, in order that
pieces of wood or other material of triangular section) may be employed for
packing or filling up the hollow or angular space, but which space does
not extend to the full breadth of the rail. Instead of filling up such space it
may be covered over with wrought-iron plates, either bent up at the ends or
rivetted or bolted to the rail, and when these are used with my improved form
of rail, they need not extend to the full breadth, but only so far beyond the
hollow space as to afford sufficient lap for rivetting or bolting, and the edges
of such plates (or slitted tongues, or portions of such edges) may be bent up
and passed through holes punched or formed in the rail, and may be caulked
down or upset, instead of rivetting with rivets. The plates will thus form ties
across the rail, and prevent its opening or spreading or becoming flattened.
For this purpose, however, tie rods may be substituted. The triangular or
other packing pieces, instead of being continuous, may be placed at intervals,
the spaces being covered with tie plates, or left uncovered. And the tie plates
may sometimes be only narrow strips, and either tie plates or rods may afford
the means of holding or supporting the triangular packing pieces in position.
It is to be understood that concrete, cement, or other material may be used
as packing for the purposes of my Invention.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Robert Moate in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
ROBERT MOATE, of No. 65, Old Broad Street, in the City of London, Broker,
send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
l'atent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Robert Moate, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Robert Moate, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Charles Robert Moate, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all

page_text: 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 PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Robert Moate, my executors and
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 Charles Robert Moate, 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:-
My Invention has reference to that description of permanent way in which
longitudinal bridge or saddle metal rails are laid directly upon the ballast, as
in the case of the well-known "Barlow" rail, and consists in filling up or
partly filling up the 'hollow space or under side of such rails, or in covering
over or partly covering over such under side or surface, or in partly filling up
and partly covering over such under side or surface, or in filling up and
covering over such under, side or surface, so as to facilitate the packing of the
ballast when being laid, repaired, or packed up.
And in the application to or
adaptation of short tie rods or plates to the under side of said rails, and across,
the hollow or open space, so as to prevent the rails from opening or spreading
or becoming flattened, or so as to hold the substance or material employed for
filling up the hollow space, as before set forth.
"
The manner in which I purpose performing my Invention is as follows:-
The rail to be employed may be an ordinary "Barlow" rail, but for con-
venience I prefer so to modify the sectional form of the under side or. surface
as that the hollow space may present the shape of an inverted V, in order that
pieces of wood or other. material of triangular section may be employed for
packing or filling up the hollow or angular space, but which space does not
extend to the full, breadth of the rail. Instead of filling up such space it. may
be covered over with wrought-iron plates, either bent up at the ends or
rivetted or bolted to the rail, and when these are used. with my improved form
of rail: they need: not. extend. to the full breadth, but only so far beyond the
hollow space as to. afford sufficient. lap for rivetting or bolting, and the edges
of such plates (or slitted tongues or portions of such edges) may be bent up:
and passed through holes punched or formed in the rail, and may be caulked

page_text: down or upset instead of rivetting with rivets. The plates will thus form ties
across the rail, and prevent its opening or spreading or becoming flattened.
For this purpose, however, tie rods may be substituted. The triangular or
other packing pieces instead of being continuous may be placed at intervals,
the spaces being covered with tie plates, or left uncovered. And the tie plates
may sometimes be only narrow strips, and either tie plates or. rods may afford
the means of holding or supporting the triangular packing pieces in position.
In further illustration of the manner in which my said Invention is to be
and may be performed, I have prepared the accompanying Sheet of Drawings
marked Nos. 1 and 2 respectively, and of which the following is a succinct
explanation:-
In Drawing No. 1, Figure 1 is a transverse section of the ordinary. Barlow
rail; Figure 2 a similar view of the modification of the same which I
consider is preferable to employ for the purposes of my Invention; and Figure
3 a corresponding similar view, shewing the wooden packing inserted in the
hollow space and secured therein by a plate underneath. In these Figures a
is the ordinary Barlow rail; b is the improved or modified rail; c is the
wooden packing; and d the plate, shewn as rivetted to the rail. This plate
instead of being plain may be rolled with a rib or keel, as shewn at Figure
3, or may be curved in either of the modes shewn in Figure 3b, and Figure
3°, or in any other manner that may be preferred. Figure 4 is a. side elevation
(partly in section); and Figure 5 an inverted plan view (both on a smaller
scale) of the rail b with the wooden packing c continuous, and plates dat
intervals rivetted to the rail as before:
Figure 15, in Drawing No. 2, gives a more comprehensive view of a
railway constructed in accordance with the detail represented at Figures 2'to
5. In this Figure Z, Z, Z, are tie bars for preserving the guage of the rails,
and bent up at the ends for convenience of laying the rails; these bars are
represented as occupying the places of plates d, d, and bolts are shewn instead
of rivets, also for convenience in connecting them to the rails...
In laying this railway the lengths of rail and packing should be arranged to
break joint with each other, and if this be carefully attended to I believe that
no additional means will be necessary for fishing or connecting the ends of the
rails together. Any other suitable form of tie bar may be employed, or wooden
tie bars may be made use of, if preferred, the tie bars of themselves forming
no part of this Invention. The Figure 6, in Drawing No. 1, is an inverted
plan view, shewing the wooden packing c, not continuous, but in short lengths
disposed at intervals, and the plates & wide instead of narrow, for the purpose
of covering over the intervals between the separate lengths.

page_text: Figure 7 is another inverted plan view shewing the wood packing con-
tinuous, and supported at intervals by short rods or round bars c, e, with the
ends rivetted or caulked down on to the rail in the manner shewn on the
large scale in the transverse section Figure 8, in Drawing No. 2. Figure 9
is a detached view of a bar e, shewing the position of and shape of the ends
previously to caulking down the ends.
Figure 10 represents three views of a plate d, such as shewn in Figures
3 to 5, but having tongues or portions f. f, at the ends bent up for caulking
down, instead of securing to the rail by separate rivets, as shewn in the said
Figures.
Figure 11 is a transverse section of the ordinary Barlow rail a, adapted to
the purposes of my Invention by simply rivetting a plate d thereto by separate
rivets, in the manner shewn.
Figures 12 and 13 are a transverse section and plan view respectively of a
modification of the last Figure, the plate being furnished with slitted tongues
ff, for connecting it to the rail, instead of employing rivets.
Figure 14 is a detached transverse section through the plate, shewing the
position and shape of the tongues, previously to their being bent down.
d
It is to be understood, with reference to the Figures 12 to 15, that the
plates & may either be continuous or disposed at intervals. It is also to be
understood generally that concrete, cement, or other similar or analogous
material may be employed for the purposes of my Invention.
The Figures 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 are drawn to a scale of
about one-quarter of the actual lineal dimensions; the Figures 4, 5, 6, and
7, to a scale of about one-eighth of the actual linear dimensions; and the
Figure 15 to a scale of about one-sixteenth of the actual linear dimensions.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Robert Moate, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight.
C.. R. MOATE. (L.S.)