CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TRANSMITTING INTELLIGENCE DON RAILWAYS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Gotch, Mechanist, of King's Street
Terrace, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, for the In-
vention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TRANSMITTING INTELLIGENCE
DON RAILWAYS"
Sealed the 19th April 1858, and dated the 19th October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Gotch at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th October 1852.
I, GEORGE GOTCH, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TRANSMITTING INTELLIGENCE UPON RAIL-
WAYS" to be as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention has reference to the application of certain mechanical
arrangements upon railways, to be employed within given parts of the
line, the object of which is to give and maintain additional security to
railway travelling by diminishing the danger of one train being over-
taken or run into by another; that is to say, I cause at the most
suitable parts of the line (such. as junctions, tunnels, or otherwise,) an
apparatus to be fixed.or secured to the line of rails in such a position

page_text: relatively to the course of the trains that any 'communications properly
left or deposited thereon from any one train may be taken up and
transmitted to the guard; engine driver, or any other person or persons
in charge of a subsequent train, whereby the latter may receive intelli-
gence necessary to prevent their running into danger, or any other
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Gotch in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE GOTCH, Mechanist, of King's Street Terrace, Islington, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said George Gotch, Her special
licence that I, the said George Gotch, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Gotch,
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
*CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TRANSMITTING INTELLIGENCE UPON RAILWAYS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Gotch,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should parti-
cularly 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 George Gotch, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say:
My Invention has reference to the application of certain mechanical
arrangements upon railways, to be employed within given parts of the
line, the object of which is to give and maintain an additional security
to railway travelling by diminishing the danger of one train being
overtaken or run into by another; that is to say, I cause at the most
suitable parts of the line (such as junctions, tunnels, or otherwise,) an
apparatus to be fixed or secured to the line of rails in such a position
relatively to the course of the trains that any communications properly
left or deposited thereon from any one train may be taken up and
transmitted to the guard, engine driver, or any other person or persons
in charge of a subsequent train, whereby the latter may receive intelli-
gence necessary to prevent their running into danger, or any other
useful notices such as circumstances may render expedient.
The accompanying Drawings represent at letter A, the travelling
standard, fixed to the engine, to which is attached by spring at B, the
cross arms C, C. E, E, are the receiving spikes for the parchment
messengers F, F. The fixed arch G, supports the receiver H, con-
taining the receiving spikes I, I. The standard is lowered as occasion
may require by the telescope joint at K.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Gotch, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.