IMPROVEMENTS IN IRON RAILS FOR FENCING, AND THE MODE OF FIXING THE SAME.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Joseph Franks, of Strond, in the County
of Gloucester, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN IRON RAILS FOR FENCING, AND THE MODE OF FIXING THE SAME.'
"
Scaled the 12th December 1871, and dated the 14th June 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Joseph Franks
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 14th June 1871.
I, JOHN JOSEPH FRANKS, of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN IRON RAILS FOR FENCING, AND THE MODE OF FIXING THE
SAME," to be as follows:-
Iron rails being in section a kind of angle iron, the base of the
triangle being against the fence, and the right angle flattened for
convenience in rivetting, are cut into lengths of six feet; in the middle
of these rails, at such distances as it is desirable to fix the pales, holes
are made, and upon these rails the pales are laid, and are then rivetted

page_text: to the iron rails. The bay or length of fencing thus formed is attached
to the wood fence posts by means of irons which fit the ends of the iron
rails and are then fixed to the wood posts by common screws.
By the use of these iron rails it is conceived that a fence of much
neater appearance is produced, that it may be easily fixed to any curve 5
on plan even to a radius of ten feet, and that the facility of fixing is
very great, for of course thesc bays or lengths of fencing would be
so made that any and every bay or length would fit any and every
post.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Joseph Franks in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th December 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JOSEPH FRANKS, of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, Civil Engincer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Joseph Franks, Her special
licence that I, the said John Joseph Franks, my executors, adminis-
rators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Joseph
Franks, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN IRON RAILS FOR FENCING, AND THE MODE OF FIXING THE
SAME," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Joseph Franks, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Joseph Franks, 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 :-
Iron rails in section a kind of angle iron, the base of the triangular
being against the fence and the right angle flattened for convenience in
rivetting, are cut into lengths of six feet; in the middle of the rail, at
such distances as it is desirable to fix the pales, holes are made, and
upon these rails the pales are laid, and are then rivetted to the iron rails.
The bay or length of fencing thus formed is attached to the wood fence
posts by means of iron which fit the ends of the iron rails and are
themselves fixed to the posts by common screws.
By the use of the iron rails A is conceived that a fence of much
ncater appearance is produced, that it may be easily fixed to any curve
on plan, even to a radius of five feet, and that the facility of fixing is
very great, for of course these bays or lengths of fencing would be so
made that any and every bay or length would fit any and every
post.
And I claim as of this Invention the use of iron rails for fencing of
this kind of any other than this particular section, together with the
method of connecting the rails with the posts whether their be as usual
of wood or made altogether of iron.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Joseph Franks, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.

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