IMPROVED MEANS FOR SUPPORTING AND HOLDING, FOR PURPOSES OF EXAMINATION AND REPAIR, AUTOMATIC BRAKE HOSE COUPLINGS AND OTHER APPARATUS ATTACHED RY FLEXIBLE
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Saunders Paterson, of the Locomotive Department,
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, London Bridge Station, in the
County of Surrey, for an Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS FOR SUPPORTING
AND HOLDING, FOR PURPOSES OF EXAMINATION AND REPAIR, AUTOMATIC
BRAKE HOSE COUPLINGS AND OTHER APPARATUS ATTACHED RY FLEXIBLE
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Saunders Paterson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th February 1881.
WALTER SAUNDERS PATERSON, of the Locomotive Department, London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway, London Bridge Station, in the County of Surrey.
"IMPROVED MEANS FOR SUPPORTING AND HOLDING, FOR PURPOSES OF EXAMINATION
AND REPAIR, AUTOMATIC BRAKE HOSE COUPLINGS AND OTHER APPARATUS
ATTACHED BY FLEXIBLE CONNECTIONS TO RAILWAY VEHICLES."
According to my Invention the hose couplings of brakes, steam heating, or other.
similar apparatus attached by flexible connections to railway vehicles, may be
examined or repaired without disconnection of the hose or flexible connection from
the vehicle, or detachment of the main body of the coupling from its hose or flexible
connection. For this purpose I use an attachment to the draw hook or lamp iron
of the vehicle. This attachment is constructed to receive and hold as in a fixed
spanner or vice the couplings or apparatus to be examined or operated upon, and
as applied to draw hooks is made with an eye, so formed that it can be slipped
over the point of a draw hook, and will take a bearing on such hook so as to be
firmly held thereby.
On some railways the draw hooks used on the rolling stock vary considerably
in size and shape. To meet such cases I provide my apparatus with means, such as
a wedge or set screw, to facilitate firmly securing it to the draw hooks; also set
screws, wedges, jaws, or other fastenings may be used to facilitate the fixing in my
apparatus of couplings or other articles to be examined or operated upon.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Walter Saunders Paterson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th August 1881.
"
WALTER SAUNDERS PATERSON, of the Locomotive Department, London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway, London Bridge Station, in the County of Surrey.
IMPROVED MEANS FOR SUPPORTING AND HOLDING, FOR PURPOSES OF EXAMINATION
AND REPAIR, AUTOMATIC BRAKE HOSE COUPLINGS AND OTHER APPARATUS
ATTACHED BY FLEXIBLE CONNECTIONS TO RAILWAY VEHICLES."
According to my Invention the hose couplings of brakes, steam heating, or other
similar apparatus attached by flexible connections to railway vehicles, may be
examined or repaired without disconnection of the hose or flexible connection from
the vehicle, or detachment of the main body of the coupling from its hose or
flexible connection. For this purpose I use an attachment to the draw hook or
lamp iron of the vehicle. This attachment is constructed to receive and hold
as in a fixed spanner or vice the couplings or apparatus to be examined or operated
upon, and as applied to draw hooks is made with an eye so formed that it can be
slipped over the point of a draw hook, and will take a bearing on such hook so
as to be firmly held thereby.
On some railways the draw hooks used on the rolling stock vary considerably
in size and shape. To meet such cases I provide my apparatus with means, such
as a wedge or set screw, to facilitate firmly securing it to the draw hooks; also
set screws, wedges, jaws, or other fastenings may be used to facilitate the fixing
in my apparatus of couplings or other articles to be examined or operated upon.
Referring to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, Fig. 1 is a vertical longitudinal
section, Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 an end view of an apparatus, according to
my Invention, capable of attachment to either a draw hook or a lamp iron, and
designed to support and hold the couplings of the flexible hose of fluid brake
apparatus, the form shewn being designed to suit the well known Westinghouse
brake coupling.
A is a recess to receive the coupling, which is embraced and supported by A¹, A²;
B is an eye so formed that it can be slipped over the point of the draw hook of a
carriage, and will take a firm bearing on such hook; C is an eye or slot that will
fit a lamp iron as an alternative means of support.
In use the apparatus is attached to the carriage by either of the eyes B or C,
and the hose coupling or other article to be examined is dropped into A so as to
be supported by A¹, A²; D, D, are set screws for use in cases where the draw
hooks vary in size. In lieu of these wedges of different sizes may when requisite
be employed in B between B¹ and the drawhook. Similar set screws or wedges
may be used in A between A¹ and the coupling to be held in the apparatus and
operated upon.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which
it is to be or may be carried into practical effect, I would have it understood that
what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as secured to me
under the Letters Patent hereinbefore in part recited is,―
The use for supporting and holding, for the purposes of examination and repair,
automatic brake hose couplings and other apparatus attached by flexible con-
nections to railway vehicles, of an attachment constructed to receive and hold as
in a vice or spanner the coupling or apparatus to be examined or operated on, and

page_text: provided with an eye or eyes that can be slipped over and take a bearing upon a
draw hook or lamp iron attached to the said vehicle, substantially as described and
illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Saunders Paterson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
WALTER S. PATERSON. (L.S.)