IMPROVEMENTS IN BUFFERS FOR RAILWAY ENGINES, CARRIAGES, TRUCKS, AND STATION BUFFERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Charles Stone, of 77, Cannon Street,
in the City London, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BUFFERS FOR RAILWAY ENGINES, CARRIAGES, TRUCKS, AND STATION
BUFFERS
"
Sealed the 6th October 1875, and dated the 30th July 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Charles
Stone at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 30th July 1875.
I, RICHARD CHARLES STONE, of 77, Cannon Street, in the City
of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the naturo of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUFFERS FOR RAILWAY ENGINES, CARRIAGES, TRUCKS,
AND STATION BUFFERS," to be as follows:—
My improvements in buffers for railway engines, carriages, trucks,
and station buffers, consist, first, in a mode or modes of applying blocks
of vulcanised india-rubber or other suitable material to the ends of
the timbers forming the side soles of trucks or carriages; secondly, in

page_text: applying such blocks of india-rubber or other suitable material to
supports of wood or metal, which are to be placed on the ends, cross
timbers, or headstocks of the engine, cariage, or truck, or station buffer,
where the buffers are usually placed, and thirdly, in applying such
blocks of india-rubber or other suitable material to the heads of buffers
as now in use
The blocks of india-rubber or other suitable material are made of
suitable form and thickness, and are or may be connected to a thickness
of hard india-rubber or vulcanite, or other suitable material, attached
or cemented to a plate or portion of iron or other suitable metal, the
whole being secured in position on the blocks or supports by convenient
and suitable means, or the block of india-rubber may be secured or
cemented to the plate or portion of iron, brass, copper, or iron plate
coated with copper or brass, without the intervention of the hard india-
rubber or vulcanite or other suitable material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Charles Stone in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 29th January 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
CILARLES STONE, of No. 77, Cannon Strect, in the City of London,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, hearing date the Thntieth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth ycar of er eign, did, for Herself, Пer heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Charles Stone, Her special license
that I, the said Richard Charles Stone, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Charles Stone, 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
"IMPROVMENTS IN BUFFERS FOR RAILWAY ENGINES, CARRIAGES, TRUCKS, and

page_text: Station Buffers," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Richard Charles Stone, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Charles Stone, 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 tlicreof, that is to say
-
This Invention has for its object improvements in buffers for rail-
way engines, carriages, trucks, and station buffers, and consists, first,
in a mode or modes of applying blocks of vulcanised india-rubber or
other suitable material or combination of the same to the ends of the
timbers forming the side solcs of trucks or carriages, secondly, in
applying such blocks of india-rubber or other suitable material or com-
bination of the same to supports of wood or metal which arc to bo
placed on the ends, cross timbers, or headstocks of the engine, carriage,
or truck, or station buffer, where the buffers are usually placed,
thirdly, in applying such blocks of india-rubber or other suitable
material or combination of the same to the heads of buffers as now
in usc.
and
The blocks of india-rubber or other suitable material or combination
of the same are made of a suitable form and thickness, and are cemented,
connected, or attached to a thickness of hard india-rubber or vulcanite,
or other suitable material attached or cemented to a plate or portion of
ion or other suitable metal, the whole being secured in position on the
blocks or supports by convenient and suitable means, or the block of
india-rubber may be connected or attached by cement to the plate or
portion of iron, brass, copper, or iron plate coated with copper or brass
without the intervention of the hard india-rubber, vulcanite, or other
suitable material.
An iron or suitable metal plate may be cemented or attached to the
face of the block of rubber to avoid injury to the same by fiction, if
desired.

page_text: RICHARD CHARLES STONE. (L.S.)