Improvements in or relating to Cased Cart Hames.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cased Cart Hames.
We, THE CO-OPERATIVE PADLOCK SOCIETY, LIMITED, of Neale Street,
Walsall in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers, and THOMAS WRIGHT, of
4 Butts Road, Walsall, aforesaid, Hame Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improved means of fixing in place the mountings
of cased cart hames, that is to say, the eyes or cheeks which carry the draught
plates, or the staples to which the traces are directly attached, and also the eyes
for carrying the rein rings and the top staples; whereby the holes usually formed
through the wooden cores of the hames, for the passage of the rivets by means of
which the fixture of the mountings is effected, are dispensed with, as are also the
holes usually formed for such purpose through the fronts of the cases, with the
consequent advantage that the hames are much stronger than when the mountings
are fixed in the ordinary manner.
According to this invention, the rivets by which the mountings are fixed in place,
are made quite short and the heads are riveted against, or into countersunk holes
formed in, the backs of metal stiffeners, preferably of considerable length, or of
washers, placed inside the cases against the backs thereof. For additional strength,
stiffeners or washers may be placed also at the outer faces of the backs of the cases,
and the rivets be passed through them as well as through the backs of the cases
and through the inside stiffeners or washers; or such outside stiffeners or washers
may be formed with the mountings, in which case the rivets start from the faces of
such stiffeners, or washers (which in such case become collars), which are intended
to bed against the cases.
By means of this invention, the rivets are not carried through the hame cores or
through the fronts of the cases, but are held entirely by the backs of the cases,
which are stiffened for the purpose as above described; and the stiffeners may be
formed of any convenient length and any desired strength, so that the pressure
inside the cases may be equally distributed over a considerable area of the sheet
metal.
Dated thin 15th date of December 1901
Improvements in or relating to Cased Oart Hames.
We, THE CO-OPERATIVE PADLOCK SOCIETY, LIMITED, of Neale Street,
Walsall in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers, and THOMAS WRIGHT, of
4 Butts Road, Walsall, aforesaid, Hame Maker, 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 :-
This invention has for its object improved means of fixing in place the mountings

page_text: of cased cart hames, that is to say, the eyes or cheeks which carry the draught
plates, or the staples to which the traces are directly attached, and also the eyes
for carrying the rein rings and the top staples; whereby the holes usually formed
through the wooden cores of the hames, for the passage of the rivets by means of
which the fixture of the mountings is effected, are dispensed with, as are also the
holes usually formed for such purpose through the fronts of the cases, with the
consequent advantage that the hames are much stronger than when the mountings
are fixed in the ordinary manner.
According to this invention, the rivets by which the mountings are fixed in place,
are made quite short and the heads are riveted against, or into countersunk holes
formed in, the backs of metal stiffeners, preferably of considerable length, or of
washers, placed inside the cases against the backs thereof. For additional strength,
tiffeners or washers may be placed also at the outer faces of the backs of the cases,
and the rivets be passed through them as well as through the backs of the cases
and through the inside stiffeners or washers; or such outside stiffeners or washers
may be formed with the mountings, in which case the rivets start from the faces of
such stiffeners, or washers (which in such case become collars), which are intended
to bed against the cases.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood, we have illustrated by
the accompanying drawings (and by way of example) a convenient application
thereof for the purpose of fixing to a cart hame the eyes or cheeks which carry the
draught plate.
Of these drawings,
Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the hame with the draught plate
attached ;
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the hame partly in section and with a portion of
the core broken away to expose the stiffener; and
Figure 3 is a transverse section, taken on line xx of Figure 1, through the hame
and one of the eyes or cheeks.
A metal stiffener A is placed against the inside of the back a of the hame case B,
and a shorter stiffener C is placed against the outside of the back of the case.
Shoulders b, at the inner ends of the eyes or cheeks D, bear against the outer face
of the stiffener C, and portions of the cheeks, of reduced width, pass through the
thickness of the stiffener C. A rivet d projects from the inner end of each part c
of a check, and passes through the thickness of the hame case and through the
thickness of the stiffener A, and is riveted over at the back of such stiffener, or the
rivets may start from the shoulders and pass through the stiffener C. The draft
plate E is attached to the cheeks D in the usual or any convenient manner.
If preferred, the cheeks and stiffener C may be formed together in one piece of
metal.
Staples to which the traces are directly attached, and also the eyes for carrying
the rein rings and the top staples, may be similarly fixed to the hames, as will be
readily understood without need for special illustration.
It will now be seen, that, by means of this invention, the rivets are not carried
through the hame cores or through the fronts of the cases, but are held entirely by
the backs of the cases, which are stiffened for the purpose as above described; and
the stiffeners may be formed of any convenient length and any desired strength, so
that the pressure inside the cases may be equally distributed over a considerable
area of the sheet metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved means above described of fixing to cart hames the eyes or cheeks
which carry the draught plates, the staples to which the traces are directly
attached, and the eyes for carrying the rein rings and top staples, or any of such,
that is to say, by the use of stiffeners or washers placed against the inside of the

page_text: backs of the hame cases, through which the rivets of the eyes, cheeks, or staples
are passed and against which or into countersunk holes of which the ends of the
rivets are riveted, substantially as described.
Dated 13th day of September 1895.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.