IMPROVEMENTS IN SCAFFOLDING OR FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING PURPOSES
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BUCKWELL, of Trinity Street, Borough, in the County of Surrey, Civil Engi-
neer, 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 Sixteenth day of December, in the fifth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Buckwell, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Buckwell, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William Buckwell, my exors, admors, 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, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCAFFOLDING OR
FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that I, the said William Buckwell, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: 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
William Buckwell, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon; that is to say :-
My improvements in scaffolding and framework composed of wood and
metal, or either, offer greater facility in construction and safety for all tempo-
rary erections for every purpose to which scaffolding or framework can be
adapted, and for permanent erections also in like manner, where dispatch,
stability, and strength are required. Facility of construction, safety, strength,
and other advantages over the several descriptions of scaffolding and frame-
work hitherto adopted, are obtained by the materials used and the arrangement
of those materials; and the same consist in using the materials ready wrought
to the dimensions, and in the quantity necessary for the intended support to be
given thereby, each piece of material being not heavier than can with ease and
facility be brought to and fixed in its place or portion of the construction; the
whole of the materials being in scantlings ready manufactured, or to be manu-
factured, without detriment to their being afterwards used for other purposes,
connected one with the other by means of ledgers or rails, or one, or other, or
both, of the same materials used for the standards, the ledgers going quite
through one or two standards, according to the distance they are apart, and
meeting in one standard in one tier or height of ledgers or rails, and in the
next tier the meeting of two ledgers being in another standard, the junctions
of any two pieces in the standard being at the ledgers; and where the
scaffolding or framework required is extensive, the meeting of two ledgers in a
standard at every twenty to eighty feet in height may be connected by a
cramp, the several pieces (the number of pieces being regulated by the
strength required) composing the standards being bound together by metallic
bands, the connection at angles being by the ledgers notching one into the
other, and bound together if necessary. The whole being a complete frame-
work, as it were, morticed and tenoned together, without injury or cutting the
materials, and with boarding between the standards, may be adapted for closed
buildings, to prevent lateral flexure, diagonal braces being used, as occasion

page_text: may require, of wood and iron, or either, as will be more fully understood
by reference to the accompanying Drawings and the followings description
thereof.
Figures 1, 2, and 3, are elevations of a piece of scaffolding or framework
for the purpose of erecting a building of masonry.
Figures 3 and 4 are cross sections through A, B, shewing the construction
above the intended height for first using the carriage.for setting the masonry.
Figure 5 is a sectional plan through C, D.
Figure 6 is a sectional plan through E, F.
Figure 7, a portion of a standard or style to a larger scale, showing the
construction. Figure 8 is an elevation of same.
Figures 9 and 10 are elevations of close framework.
sections of same. Figures 18 and 14, plans of same.
Figures 11 and 12,
Figure 15, metal connection of timbers oblique and parallel to each other.
Figure 16, metallic compensator.
Figures 17, 18, 19, and 20, metal bands.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that what I claim is,
the adaptation and construction of material in scantling to acquire a morticed
and tenoned framework, without morticing or tenoning otherwise than in the
construction or combination of the said several scantlings of one or more
material.
I claim the construction or combination of the said several materials
by scarfing, such scarfing being formed in the construction or combination
of the said materials without detriment to the same being used for other
purposes.
I claim the adaptation of a metallic compensator in the construction where
metal is used, being exposed to varying temperatures, so that any metallic rod
used may not alter its extreme points by any change of temperature.
Lastly, I claim in framework for the scarfing, splicing, or connecting of
scantlings of wood, a metallic connection, by which the strength of a greater
length of the fibres of wood is obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Buckwell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
WILLIAM (L.S.) BUCKWELL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1842, aforesaid William Buckwell came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose. .
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-two