AN IMPROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE LABELS OF TRUCKS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS AND INVOICES OF GOODS CONVEYED ON RAILWAYS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin William Collier, of the Bishopsgate Railway
Station, in the County of Middlesex, Clerk, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE LABELS OF TRUCKS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin William Collier at.
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the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
-21st September 1865. ..
I, EDWIN WILLIAM COLLIER, of the Bishopsgate Railway Station, in the
County of Middlesex, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OP AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE
LABELS OF TRUCKS AND INVOICES OF GOODS CONVEYED ON RAILWAYS," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the delay which frequently occurs
in the delivery of goods sent by railways, owing either to the loss of the
invoice of the goods contained in the trucks, or by the detachment during the
journey of the labels affixed to the trucks containing the goods. It is usual
to deliver to the guard invoices of the goods contained in the trucks or
carriages forming the train under his care, and the labels are in general fixed

page_text: on the trucks or carriages by tacks. The invoices the guards are very liable
to lose, and the labels when soaked by the rain are liable to be displaced by.
a touch. Instead of this arrangement. I propose to apply a box or closed
receptacle to each side of every truck or goods carriage for receiving the
invoice of the goods contained therein. These boxes may be closed by a hinged
lid which I prefer to secure by a hinged clamping frame. On the lid of each
box is fitted a pin to receive the direction label, which when so placed is
secured by the hinged clamping frame. This frame is fitted with pins on its
inner_face, which pierce_the_label, and it is arranged to overlap_the_lid_of_the_
box and serve the purpose of a hasp. When the hasp is made fast by a
wedge or key the lid of the box containing the invoice will be secured. The
box may be let into the side of the truck or attached thereto by screws or
other fastenings.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
..
by the said Edwin. William Collier in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL, COME,.. I, EDWIN
WILLIAM COLLIER,, of the Bishopsgate Railway, Station, in the County of
Middlesex, Clerk, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand 'eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself; Her heirs and successors; give and, grant unto me
the said Edwin William Collier, Her special licence that I, the said Edwin
William Collier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
1, the, said, Edwin William Collier, 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 "AN IM
PROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE LABELS OF TRUCKS AND INVOICES
OF GOODS CONVEYED ON RAILWAYS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Edwin William Collier, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under: my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly 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
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page_text: 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 Edwin William Collier, 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto ánnexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the delay which frequently occurs
in the delivery of goods sent by railways, owing either to the loss of the
invoice of the goods contained in the trucks or by the accidental detachment
during the journey of the labels affixed to 'the trucks containing the goods.
'It is usual to deliver to the guard invoices of the goods contained in the trucks
or carriages forming the train under his care, and the labels are in general
fixed on the trucks or carriages by tacks. These invoices the guards are
very liable to lose, and the attached labels when soaked by the rain are liable
to be displaced by a touch. Instead of this arrangement I propose to apply
to each side of every truck or goods carriage a box or closed receptacle for
"the deposit therein of the invoice of the goods contained in the truck or
carriage. These boxes may be closed by a hinged lid, which I prefer to secure
by a hinged clamping frame. The direction label is attached to the lid by
projecting pins which pierce the label, and is then secured by the hinged
clamping frame. This frame overlaps the lid of the box and serves the
purpose of a hasp, and it is made fast by a wedge or key after the invoice has
been inserted in the box.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. I shews in front view, and Fig. 2 in.
cross section the improved invoice box and label clamp which may either.
be let into the side of the truck or attached thereto by screws or other
fastenings,
A, A, is the box, formed for convenience of cast iron, and having hinged to
its lower side the lid B. The box I form of any convenient size to receive the
folded invoices of the goods; and the lid for convenience extends the whole
length of the box, and has a ring 6 for facilitating the opening of the box.
C is the clamping frame which is made of suitable proportious to cover or
overlap the margin of the direction label, and expose the direction to view.
It is hinged to the box like the lid, the hinge being cranked to allow of its
overlapping the box-lid, and yet turning with it on the same hinge pin. The
lid is fitted with pins 6', which pierce the label when it is applied to the lid,
and serve to hold it in the position for being secured by the clamping frame.
These pins, when the frame C is pressed upon the label, enter holes made to

page_text: receive them in the sides of the frame, the label cannot therefore escape even
if the frame C should fail to clamp the label until it was torn away from the
pins, which is very unlikely to happen considering the protection from the
weather and accidents afforded by the overlying frame. The box A is provided
on its top side with a fixed pin: a, which receives the hasp c of the frame C,
when the box is to be closed. This pin has a transverse slot in which is inserted
a split key d, attached by a chain e to the frame C. This arrangement there-
fore.it will be seen is self contained, as the label may be attached to and
detached from the truck without any extraneous appliance, as hammer and
tacks, or their equivalents. Moreover the guard, may have access to any
invoice of his train as readily as if he carried them in a bundle about his
person. The facility of attaching and detaching the labels will also effect-an-
economy in the time of making up and starting goods trains.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An Improved Mode
of and Apparatus for Securing the Labels of Trucks and Invoices. of Goods
Conveyed on Railways," and explained the manner of carrying the same into
effect, I wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters
Patent, I claim the application to railway goods, trucks, or carriages, of
an invoice box and label clamp, constructed and operating as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin William Collier, have hereunto
set my band and seal,; the Twenty-first day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
EDWIN WILLIAM COLLIER.; (L.S.)
Witness,
WILLIAM BINT,
of Whalebone House,,
West Ham,
Essex.