AN IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY CROSSINGS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Moore Toogood and John Laybourne, both
of Newport, in the County of Monmouth, Engineers, trading as the
"Isca Foundry Company," for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
RAILWAY CROSSINGS."
Sealed the 25th September 1862, and dated the 3rd April 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Moore Toogood
and John Laybourne at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 3rd April 1862.
We, ROBERT MOORE TOOGOOD and JOHN LAYBOURNE, both of Newport, in the
County of Monmouth, Engineers, trading as "The Isca Foundry Company,"
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
RAILWAY CROSSINGS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in forming welded cast-steel crossings by welding
Bessemer or ordinary cast-steel rails from the point of the V or heart piece to
the intersection of the two rails.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Moore Toogood and John Laybourne in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 3rd October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
MOORE TOOGOOD and JOHN LAYBOUNE, both of Newport, in the County of
Monmouth, Engineers, trading as the "Isca Foundry Company," send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Robert Moore Toogood and John Laybourne, Her special licence that we,
the said Robert Moore Toogood and John Laybourne, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert Moore Toogood and
John Laybourne, our 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 IMPROVEMENT
IN RAILWAY CROSSINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Robert Moore Toogood and John Laybourne, or one of us, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our, or their,
or one of their hands 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 we, the said Robert Moore Toogood and John
Laybourne, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists in forming welded cast-steel crossings by welding
Bessemer or ordinary cast-steel rails from the point of the V or heart-piece to
the intersection of the two rails.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim, forming
welded cast-steel crossings for railways, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Moore Toogood, for myself and
on behalf of the said John Laybourne, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of October, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two.
R. M. TOOGOOD. (L.S.)