An Improved Break Pan or Shoe for Holding Break Blocks of Road Vehicles, Engines, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
TPISATION.
An Improved Break Pan or Shoe for Holding Break Blocks of Road
Vehicles, Engines, and the like.
WILLIAM HAMILTON MARCHANT Coach Builder, 5 Westbourne Park
Crescent, Ilarrow Road, Paddington Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an iron pan or shoe having two ends & one side for
holding the break block in position.
The ends have a small caulking which fit into two grooves in the ends of the
block thereby retaining it firmly against the inner sole of the pan or shoe. On the
outside is a small metal button-the object of which is to hold the block in the pan
when inserted from the side.
The object of my invention is to make it an easy matter to remove worn out
break blocks & replace them by new ones by inserting them from the side-& I
claim the break shoe having two ends with caulkings & one side and the manner of
inserting the break block into the shoe from the side.
Dated this 20th day of March 1893.
WILLIAM HAMILTON MARCHANT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Break Pan or Shoe for Holding Break Blocks of Road
Vehicles, Engines, and the like.
I, WILLIAM HAMILTON MARCHANT, of 5 Westbourne Park Crescent, Harrow
Road, in the County of London, Carriage Builder, 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:-
My invention relates to an improved break pan or shoe for holding break blocks
of road vehicles engines and the like.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a side clevation.
Fig. 2, is a plan of the top.
Fig. 3, is a section on line A. B.
My invention consists of an iron pan or shoe a having two ends and one side e
for holding the break block d in position. The ends have a small caulking which
fit into two grooves in the ends of the block d thereby retaining it firmly against
the inner side of the pan or shoe a. On the outside is a small inetal button g and
a bolt, the object of which is to hold the block in the pan or shoe when inserted
from the side. The button 7 and bolt h may be fixed in any suitable position along
the side of the iron pan or shoe.
Holes are provided at the top of the pan or shoe a as in Fig. 2, for the purpose
of attaching the said pan or shoe to the movable lever or other break apparatus
fixed on a carriage or the like.
The object of my invention is to make it an easy matter to remove worn out
break blocks and replace them by new ones by inserting them from the side.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. The combination of the break pan or shoe a having two ends & with caulkings e
and one side to receive the break block d from the side, substantially as herein
described and according to the accompanying drawing.
2. The combination of the break pan or shoa and caulkings e, with the button g
and bolt & placed in any position on the side of shoe a, substantially as herein
described and for the purpose specified.
3. A break pan or shoe for holding break blocks of road vehicles engines and the
like, substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 16th day of December 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.