Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 16th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Aug., 1887.
I, HUGH MUIR, of 16 Killermont Street in the City of Glasgow, Cartwright, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
As a protection against tear and wear in loading and unloading heavy packages
the sides of lorries and waggons are usually provided with cope irons which consist of
flat strips or bars of metal attached to the upper or both the upper and lower edges and
with beads or half round strips separately fixed around the outer faces of the lorry
or wagon sides. Such copings and beadings are frequently broken and torn off and•
considerable expense is incurred in their renewal. To obviate these inconveniences
and obtain a maximum of strength and rigidity conjoined with lightness I provide a
combined cope iron and bead in the form of angle or ✓ iron or of similar section to
fit the top or bottom edge and extend slightly over the vertical outer edge of the
lorry side, the combined cope iron and bead being rounded externally so that when
secured in place it resembles the separate coping and beading which it is designed to
replace.
The improved cope iron may be formed by rolling in a mill whose rollers are
suitably cut to produce the desired section of angle bar.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.

page_text: I, HUGH MUIR of 16 Killermont Street, in the City of Glasgow, Cartwright, 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:
As a protection against tear and wear in loading and unloading heavy packages the
sides of lorries and waggons are usually provided with cope irons which consist of flat
strips or bars of metal attached to the upper or both the upper and the lower edges and
with beads or half round strips separately fixed around the outer faces of the lorry or
waggon sides. Such copings and headings are frequently broken and torn off and con-
siderable expense is incurred in their renewal. To obviate these inconveniences and obtain
a maximum of strength and rigidity conjoined with lightness, I provide a combined cope
iron and bead in the form of angle or L iron or of similar section to fit the top or
bottom edge and extend slightly over the vertical outer edge of the lorry side, the
combined cope iron and bead being rounded externally so that when secured in place
it resembles the separate coping and beading which it is designed to replace.
The improved cope iron may be formed by rolling in a mill whose rollers are
suitably cut to produce the desired section of angle bar.
In the accompanying drawing figure 1 is a transverse vertical section and figure 2
a side elevation of part of the side of a lorry as fitted at top and bottom with a
modification of the improved combined cope iron and bead of which the part A
corresponds to the ordinary cope iron and the part A¹ to the bead usually fixed upon
the lorry side B. The cope irons on the top and bottom of the lorry side Bare
secured by bolts C passed down through the side B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
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A cope iron for the sides of lorries and waggons constructed substantially as herein
described.
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