A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF BUILDING VEHICLES AND CARRIAGES OF ALL SORTS IN GENERAL
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Raphael Sunyó at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1883.
RAPHAEL SUNYÉ, of Fitzroy Street, Saint Pancras in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF BUILDING VEHICLES AND CARRIAGES
OF ALL SORTS IN GENERAL
"
The object of my invention is the production and building of Vehicles and
Carriages of all sorts in general, by forming them of thin strips or battens of
wood, combined with and secured to thin plates or slips of iron, or steel or other
metal, flat, or flanged, or both according to requirements.
In building my new or improved Vehicles and Carriages of all sorts in general
I cut any usual and suitable Vehicle and Carriage building timber into any required
number of thin strips or battens, to the required dimensions and patterns in thick-
nesses properly adapted to the requirements of each particular case, and I take a
batten or strip of thin wood and I place thereon a thin plate or slip or flitch of
iron or steel or other metal, of a pattern similar to the patterns of the aforesaid
batten or strip of wood and of a thickness suitable to requirements, and on this
metallic plate, or flitch, I place another wooden batten or slip, and on this wooden
batten another metallic plate is laid, and so on, alternately adding a batten or strip
of wood and a plate or flitch of metal, until a proper and convenient scantling or
thickness is attained.
Then, I either totally encase or enclose the whole with thin plates of iron, or
steel, or other metal, flat or flanged, or both as required for each case, the whole
being then properly secured and fastened together by flat or other rivets, or screws,
or by any other convenient or efficient contrivance for fastening or securing, or
either I only partially enclose or encase the said whole, securely fastening it
together as aforesaid, and I leave a small portion uncovered with metal where it
may be required to nail or otherwise fasten timber thereto, according to the
particular requirements of Vehicle and Carriage building.
By this my new or improved method of building Vehicles and Carriages of all
sorts in general I obtain the requisite strength and lateral stiffness with the
minimum quantity of materials and as experiments show, that frames and other
parts of Vehicles and Carriages of all sorts in general constructed of a given kind of

page_text: wood, combined together with a convenient metal as specified above, and presenting
a given strength and lateral stiffness, weigh or contain a quantity of matter inferior
or less in a notable percentage to the weight or amount of matter required to be
given to any similar frame or other part of Vehicles and Carriages when constructed
solid of the same given kind of wood, so as to present the same given strength
and lateral stiffness, it follows that the use of my new or improved Vehicles and
Carriages of all sorts in general allows, with the same actual traction expenses, of
an increase or a corresponding notable percentage, of the actual quantity or weight
of passenger or goods transported or carried by the existing solid wood Vehicles
and Carriages of all sorts in general.
In addition to allowing the above stated increase in the actual amount of traffic
returns without any modification of the actual amount of traffic expenses, my new
.or improved method of combined wood and metal Vehicles and Carriages of all
Borts in general effectually renders practically fire proof the aforesaid Vehicles and
Carriages of all sorts in general as it prevents through the presence of the metallic
plates, the supply of oxygen requisite to support combustion to reach the wooden
portions thereof.