IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING RAILWAYS AND IN PROPELLING CARRIAGES THEREON, WHICH IMPROVENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND LOWERING WEIGHTS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
SCOTT, of Great Bowden, near Market Harborough, in the County of Leicester,
Timber Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighth day of February, in the fourth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Scott, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Joseph Scott, my exors, admors; and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Joseph Scott, my exors, adñors, or 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, and also in
all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my. Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING RAILWAYS AND IN PROPELLING CARRIAGES THEREON,
WHICH IMPROVENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND LOWERING WEIGHTS;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Joseph Scott,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said 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
Joseph Scott, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing

page_text: to retain the carriages on the rails when running, and they act as friction
surfaces when it is desired to stop the carriages. j, j, arc rods to resist the
strain of the endless chains which drive the cog wheels c. The Drawing shews
the various parts, and the manner of applying them; and it need only be further
remarked, that the construction of the railway carriages may be similar to those
now in use; and I prefer that the carriage, to which the toothed rack is applied,
should be a luggage carriage, together with convenience for carrying two persons
to attend to the conducting the train, by raising the toothed rack out of action
and applying the guide planks to retard or stop the train when desirable. It
will readily be understood that by such an arrangement of machinery to railways
and railway carriages, and as the propelling of carriages does not depend on
the adhesion of the wheels, the railway may follow the undulating surface
of the country through which it passes, and the cutting and embanking, now
so costly, may be dispensed with.
Having thus described the Invention as applied to railways and carriages,
I would remark that it will be evident that a similar arrangement of means
may be applied on inclines to raise weights from one level to another. And
I would have it understood that what I claim as my Invention is, the mode of
applying cog wheels and requisite gearing to railways, such cog wheels taking
toothed racks applied to railway carriages. And I also claim the application
of similar means to the raising of weights up inclined surfaces, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Scott, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One