A NEW APPLICATION OF RAILWAYS AND THE MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED THEREON
Year: 1825

page_text: FISHER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JACOB
JEDDERE FISHER, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of April, 1825, in the sixth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Jacob Jeddere Fisher, His especial licence that I, the said Jacob Jeddere
Fisher, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jacob
Jeddere Fisher, 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 Invention
of "A NEW APPLICATION OF RAILWAYS AND THE MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED
THEREON;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Jacob Jeddere Fisher, 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 samo is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso; I, the said
Jacob. Jeddore Fisher, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say) :-
E, A, E, Fig. 1st., is a section or end view of my new-invented suspended
railway. B, the carriage or machine to be employed thereon, having two or
more wheels C, C, mounted on a strong frame D. These wheels run or roll
upon
the two projecting sides E, E, of the rail A. Fig. 2 is a sido view of
these parts, indicated by similar letters of reference. This railway may be
fixed or suspended from the upper side of its vertical bars in various modes;
for example, to the rafters of a warehouse, to scaffolding of any description,
or to standards, angular shear poles, piers or vertical piles, or other supporters;
also to chains, wires, or bars strained tight or nearly so, or forming a cate-
narian curve, as shewn in Fig. 3, so as to cross rivers, ravines, or the spaces
between hills, or over irregular or swampy ground where the common railways
cannot be laid. Its utility in bringing or removing timber out of woods is
obvious, as it may be suspended from or between the trees. It may also be
employed for removing wine, sugar, hogsheads or other loads in warehouses
or stores in the King's yards, or other suitable situations. In the construction
of this railway I cause the vertical plate or rail to oversail or project at one
end only beyond the horizontal one, for the purpose of breaking the joints and
giving greater steadiness and strength to the railway, as shewn in Fig. 2; but
no particular directions are necessary as to the manner of joining the pieces
together, as that will be sufficiently obvious to every mechanic, and must
'depend upon the nature of the material of which the railway is formed, but
it will be necessary to make the joints quite flat, smooth, or flush on the
surfaces upon which the wheels run, and the whole must be fixed and kept
as level as possible, for which purpose screw or wedge adjustments should bo
introduced into the suspending bars, links, or other bearers, by which the said
railway is fixed and suspended. The herein-before described form and con-
struction of railway and carriage, and its applications, I claim as my aforesaid
Invention, but I do not bind myself to that particular mode of construction.
Thus I also claim the application of a differently formed railway and carriage
on the same principle of suspension which is represented in section in Fig. 4,
and a side view of it in Fig. 5. Here the two or more wheels C, C, run or
roll upon the two inner projecting surfaces E, E, of a kind of frame, trunk,
or square tube F, having a slut or groove G made along the centre of its
lower part to allow the part H of the carriage B to pass along or within it,
and to which said part H the bodies to be carried are to be suspended. This
railway and carriage I mean or intend to apply in a similar manner to that

page_text: already described in the references to Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The principle of my
aforesaid Invention it will appear from the above description is that of a
railway of suspension, which can be hung or supported from the upper part
of the same to any proper means of suspension instead of being supported
from below; and I therefore claim as parts of my Invention any construction
of railway and carriage to run upon them which will admit of the bodies to
be carried being suspended immediately underneath the railway, while such
railway is supported from above, and its two side plates upon which the
carriage wheels run are not independent of each other, but are fixed to the
stock plate or frame from which the suspension takes place, so that the said
two side plates shall not be independent of each other, and thereby liable to
get out of adjustment to each other. I do not, however, mean or intend
hereby to limit myself to the particular forms of construction or suspension
here shewn or enumerated, as they may be varied to suit the different purposes
to which they may be applied; still, however, preserving the principles herein-
before described of suspending the railway from above, while the bodies to be
carried are hung immediately underneath, and so connecting the bottom
plates together that they may not be independent of each other, or liable to
get out of adjustment. Neither do I mean to confine myself to the use of
any particular material or materials in the construction of the railways and
carriages, but to avail myself of the use of any which may be fit and proper
for the purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jacob Jeddere Fisher, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
J. JEDDERE (L.S.) FISHER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid Jacob Jeddere Fisher came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
O aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenure of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the First day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-five.