Improvements in Brake Gear for Railway Wagons or similar Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883) as required by
the decision of the Comptroller General of the 25th day of October 1898.
Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brake Gear for Railway Wagons or similar
Vehicles.
EDWARD BROWN, Mechanical Engineer, Goosehill, near Normanton, Yorkshire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Hitherto the brakes of railway wagons or similar vehicles have only been capaple
of application from one side, and where arrangements have been made to brake
the vehicle from both sides, the gear is so placed that it cannot be applied to
wagons that are required to discharge their contents by bottom doors.
invention is designed to overcome these objections.
My
The gear consists of a shaft placed across the wagon or similar vehicle, capable
of being rotated by a handle or hand wheel from either side of the vehicle, on this
shaft is fixed near one end-or both ends in case of the brakes being required to
act on four wheels-a bevel or mitre wheel, gearing into a suitable wheel or
wheels fixed on a longitudinal shaft or shafts, said shaft or shafts being carried by
castings firmly fixed to the sole bar of the vehicle, and provided with bearings or
journals at right angles to each other, said longitudinal shafts having a thread
cut at the opposite end, engaging a nut, circular in section, held loosely in a lever,
which is solid with and forms part of a rocking lever, to which push rods are
attached from it to the brake blocks, the said rocking lever being supported by,
and free to rock, on a short shaft firmly fixed and carried by hangers from the
sole bar of the wagon or similar vehicle."
Dated this 27th day of April 1897.
Improvements in Brake Gear for Railway Wagons or similar
Vehicles.
EDWARD BROWx, Goosehill, Normanton, Yorkshire Mechanical Engineer, 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:-
The gear consists of the ordinary vee hangers A A Fig. 1 of the wagon or similar
vehicle, the rocking arm B which is carried by a pin C firmly fixed in the vee

page_text: hangers and on which the said rocking arm B is free to move-and to which are
attached the push rods D, D), which are connected to the brake blocks E, E. The
said rocking arm B.is extended at its upper end, to receive a nut F circular in
section into which engages the screw "G, carried at the opposite end by the
bracket which is attached to the sole-bar of the wagon, and also having at the
end carried by H, a bevel or mitre spur wheel I keyed on said screw G, engaging
with a suitable bevel or mitre spur wheel I, keyed on the cross shaft J Fig. 2,
which extends from side to side of the wagon, said cross shaft J is carried by said
bracket H and by a corresponding one H on the opposite side of the vehicle,
On the said cross shaft J is firmly fixed at each end a handle K, K, by which the
gear is operated.
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 I
claim is:
The improved brake gear for railway wagons and similar vehicles substantially
as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Toontuak.
R T
1000
EDWARD BROWN.