IMPROVEMENTS IN JOURNAL BOX BEARINGS OR LININGS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN JOURNAL BOX BEARINGS OR LININGS."
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- A communication from abroad by William A. Hathaway,
Benjamin F. Snow, William Gregory, and John Maglone, all of the
United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd December 1875.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
3 Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JOURNAL BOX BEARINGS
OR LININGS," a communication, to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in making a bearing or lining for boxes for
journals of raw hide set in such a position as to present the edge of the
O hide to the running surface of the bearing on the shaft or axle,

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I use a metallic case or box, like those used on railway carriage axles
and other journals usually lined with "Babbett" metal or other soft metal,
but in place of the metallic lining I put pieces of raw hide cut in proper
shape to fit a cross section of the box and the bearing; on the axle I place
a sufficient number of these pieces on edge in the box to fill it when the
end is put on, and the whole is secured together by rivets which extend
through the box from end to end; or the inner side of the box may be
widest made at the bottom, and the pieces cut in a dovetail form to
prevent their coming out.
In a modification of this Ïnvention I use å bearing or box lining made
up of pieces of hide cut into proper shape, and fastened together side by
side by rivets and intended to be used instead of brass linings for cast-
iron hangers; there are various other forms in which it may be made
up. Raw hide used in this way, that is to say, with the edge of the
hide presented to receive the friction of the bearing makes a very durable
bearing requiring but little oil; it also causes very little, friction and
will not heat, having been used to great advantage in boxes where
Babbett" metal linings had been heated, melted, and run out.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said William
Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special licence,
that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors,
ádministrators, and assigns, should at any timé 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,

page_text: by rivets a, a, and intended to be used instead of brass linings for
cast-iron hangers; there are various forms in which it may be made
up. Raw hide used in this way, that is to say, with the edge of
the hide presented to receive the friction of the bearing, forms a very
durable bearing requiring but little oil; it also causes very little friction
and will not heat, and may be used to great advantage in boxes where
"Babett" metal linings would be heated, melted, and run out.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim, a bearing or lining for journal
-boxes for railway carriage axles or other bearings made of raw hide, so
arranged as to present the edge of the hide to the running surface of the
bearing on the shaft or axle, as above set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
Witness,
JA. EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
W. ROB. LAKE. (L.S.)