Improvement in Railway Chairs.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1396-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
Improvement in Railway Chairs.
ROBERT ATKINSON Joiner and Builder 29 Wycliffe Road Shipley JOHN
EARNSHAW LEACH Woodman Inn Saltaire Road Shipley Yorkshire do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement consists of making the chair in two seperate parts, which is
fastoned together by a wedge or cotter the end being bored for split pin or tapped
to receive a nut. Thus doing away with wood key, and fish plate and fastening
end of rails.
1
1000
ROBERT ATKINSON.
JOHN EARNSHAW LEACH.
Improvement in Railway Chairs.
We, ROBERT ATKINSON, 29 Wycliffe Road Shipley, Joiner, and JOHN
EARNSHAW LEACHI, "The Woodman Inn," Saltaire Road, Shipley, Innkeeper, both
in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The improvement consists in making the chair in two separate parts which are
fastened together by a wedge or cotter, the end of the cotter being bored for a
split pin or tapped to receive a nut.
By this means we are able to dispense with the wood keys in the intermediate
chairs & the fish plates & bolts at the joints of the rails-as our chairs may be
used for fastening the ends of the rails & giving them a solid bearing.
In order that our invention may be more fully understood, reference is made to
the accompanying sheets of drawings, in which
Fig. 1. is an elevation of our improved chair with rail fixed in position.
Fig. 2. is a plan of same.
Fig. 3. is an elevation showing the chair open to receive the rail.
Fig. 4. is a plan of the same.
Similar letters indicate similar parts where they appear.
The chair is made up of the two parts A & B which are secured in position by
a wrought iron or steel cotter or wedge C, which may have a series of small
holes D, bored to receive a split pin as in Figs. 1 & 2, or may be tapped to receive
a nut: this is done in order to prevent the wedge from falling out.
The part B is first fixed to the sleeper in the ordinary way then the rail E is
placed on the rail bed F.
The part A. is then drawn up & fixed in position by means of a cotter C, as
shewn. The rail is then firmly held between the jaws & cannot move until the
spikes & plugs G, are cut & drawn & the cotter or wedge C driven out.
It will be seen that by this method no wood keys are required between the jaws.
& rail as is at present the case in railway chairs & the like, consequently there.
is a great saving in time seeing that these wood keys are in position.

page_text: For the joints of the rails the jaws are made wider, & the chair slightly
heavier.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
CLAIM 1.
A chair composed of two parts A & B, & secured together by means of a
cotter C substantially for the purpose as herein before set forth & shewn.
Dated this 6th day of January 1896.
ROBERT ATKINSON,
JOHN EARNSHAW LEACH,
Applicants.
ROBERT ATKINSON,
JOHN EARNSHAW LEACH,
Applicants.