1894 Patent No. 19,518 rail-joints, Reginald Henry Pierce, Rajputana, East India

Patent No. 19,518 A.D.1894 Improvements in Rail-joints

"I, Reginald Henry Pierce, of Aba Road in the Province of Rajputana, East India, Permanent-way Inspector on the Rajputana Railway, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: As is wlel known much trouble is caused with the ordinary fish-plates by which the rails of permanent ways are joined together, owing to the working loose of the bolts and nuts by which they are secured, and the various devices that have been proposed for preventing the nuts from becoming slack, have only partially obviated this trouble..."

4 pages of text + 2 drawings which have been disbound from a larger volume.

.