IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ADAPTATION OF STANCHIONS TO RAILWAY Trucks and Road VEHICLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sampson Chapman, of Stratford New Town, in
the County of Essex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION AND ADAPTATION OF STANCHIONS TO RAILWAY Trucks and Road
VEHICLES."
Sealed the 6th April 1875, and dated the 7th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sampson Chapman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 7th October 1874.
I, SAMPSON CHAPMAN, of Stratford New Town, in the County of
Essex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ADAPTATION OF STANCHIONS TO RAILWAY TRUCKS
AND ROAD VEHICLES," to be as follows :—
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction and
adaptation of stanchions to railway trucks and road vehicles to ensure
the safety of deals, battens, and other description of goods con-
veyed by rail or road, and which I propose to construct and adapt to
such trucks and vehicles as follows:-The stanchions consist of straight
bars of iron or other suitable material having a slot cut in them at about
one-third of their length, through which passes a pin or bolt attached to

page_text: the sides or ends of the truck or vehicle. When in use the the said
stanchions are held in a vertical position by having their shortest ends
(that is to say the ends nearest to the slot aforesaid), resting in sockets
provided for that purpose on the sides or ends of the truck or vehicle,
and the longer ends will extend above the sides thereof.
When the stanchions are not required to be used it is simply necessary
to lift them a little in order to free them from the sockets aforesaid,
after which they can be turned down and held in a horizontal position to
the sides or ends of the truck or vehicle by means of brackets provided
for that purpose. The stanchions are furnished at their longest ends 1
with rings through which ropes or chains may be passed from one side
or end of the truck to the other.
·SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sampson Chapman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th April 1875.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMPSON
CHAPMAN, of Stratford New Town, in the County of Essex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Sampson Chapman, Her special
licence that I, the said Sampson Chapman, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Sampson Chapman,
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 THE CONSTRUCTION AND ADAPTATION OF STANCHIONS TO
RAILWAY TRUCKS AND ROAD VEHICLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Sampson Chapman, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands

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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 Sampson Chapman, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction and
adaptation of stanchions to railway trucks and road vehicles to ensure
the safety of deals, battens, and other description of goods conveyed
by rail or road, and which I propose to construct and adapt to such
trucks and vehicles as follows:-The stanchions consist of straight
bars of iron or other suitable material having a slot cut in them at about
one-third of their length, through which passes a pin or bolt attached to
the sides or ends of the truck or vehicle. When in use the said stanchions
are held in a vertical position by having their shortest ends (that is to
say the end nearest to the slot aforesaid) resting in sockets. provided for
that purpose on the sides or ends of the truck or vehicle, and the longer
ends will extend above the sides thereof.
When the stanchions are not required to be used it is simply necessary
to lift them a little in order to free them from the sockets aforesaid, after
which they can be turned down and held in a horizontal position to the
sides or ends of the truck or vehicle by means of brackets provided for
that purpose. The stanchions are furnished at their longest ends with
rings through which ropes or chains may be passed from one side or end
of the truck to the other.
And in order to explain my said Invention more fully I now proceed
to describe the means by which it may be carried into practical effect,
reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawing accompanying
these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference
marked thereon, respectively as follows:---

page_text: through the line A, B, of Figure 1. In each of these Figures similar
letters are used to denote corresponding parts.
A, A¹, are the stanchions, one of which A is shown ready for use, and
the other A¹ turned down at the side of the truck when not required for
use; these stanchions are furnished with slots B, B¹, cut in them at
about one-third of their length, through which pass bolts C, C¹, attached
to the sides or ends of the truck and passing through plates D, D¹;
when in use the stanchions are held in a vertical position, as shown at A,
by having their shortest ends a, a¹, resting in sockets E, E', provided for
that purpose on the plates D, D', and their longer ends kept steady by
∙means of the guards e, e¹; they are further secured in position by means
of drop catches F, F¹, to prevent their coming out of the sockets E, E',
by vibration or otherwise.
When the stanchions are not required to be used the catches F, F",
are raised, the said stanchions are then lifted out of the sockets E, E¹,
`turned down and held in a horizontal position at the sides of the truck by
means of brackets G, G+, provided for that purpose, as shown at A¹;
the said stanchions have eyelets H, H³, for ropes or chains to pass
through, and may also be furnished with staples K, K², for passing the
ropes or chains through in order to better secure the load.
For road vehicles the said stanchions may be constructed and adapted
thereto as above described for railway trucks.
Having now described and set forth the nature and object of this
Invention for "Improvements in the Construction and Adaptation of
Stanchions to Railway Trucks and Road Vehicles " I would remark in
conclusion that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in and I claim,
.constructing and adapting stanchions to railway trucks and road vehicles
substantially as described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sampson Chapman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of April, in 1
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-