Apparatus for Ballasting Sleepers in Permanent Way of Railways.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1895
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Ballasting Sleepers in Permanent Way of Railways.
CHARLES HENRY SADLER Bradford Place, Penarth near Cardiff, Clerk do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:―
To provide an apparatus to enable platelayers to pack sleepers of any width in
a safer and more expeditious manner than can be done with ordinary beater
packing.
I provide a metal frame with a handle at the end. The frame is made of a size
and shape to suit the sleeper to be packed. At the bottom of the frame narrow
metal strips are placed longitudinally or transversely. These strips are hinged or
pivotted at the ends. A plate is fastened at one end of all the strips. To this
plate is attached a crank at the end of which is a rod rising above the frame.
A spring attached to the rod or crank keeps all the parts in the desired position for
receiving the ballast.
The operation of packing is carried out as follows:-
The sleeper is lifted in the usual way and the apparatus on which the requisite
amount of ballast has been dropped is pushed under the sleeper until the rod which
rises above the frame comes in contact with the end of the sleeper. This pulls
back the crank which moves the end plate and causes the plates forming the
bottom of the apparatus to revolve and thereby deposit the ballast in the required
position.
Immediately this is done the plates are brought back by the spring to their
normal position ready to receive further ballast.
Dated this Fourteenth day of December 1895.
CHARLES HENRY SADLER of Bradford Place, Penarth, near Cardiff, Clerk
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 :-
To provide an apparatus to enable platelayers to pack sleepers of any width in
a safer and more expeditious manner than can be done with ordinary beater
packing.
Figure 1 shews a plan for transverse sleepers and Figure 2 a side elevation of
same.
provide a metal frame 1. with a handle 2. The frame is made of a size and
shape to suit the sleepers to be packed. At the bottom of the frame narrow
metal strips 3. are placed longitudinally. These strips are hinged or pivotted at
the ends where bearers 4. are fixed which are carried through corresponding holes
in the frame. At the end of these bearers studs 5. are fixed. To these studs a
plate 6. is attached. A push rod 7. connected to plate 6. is attached to a crank 8.
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page_text: At the end of this crank is a rod 9. rising above the frame. A spring 10.
attached to the crank keeps all the parts in the desired position for receiving the
ballast.
The operation of packing is carried out as follows:―.
The sleeper is lifted in the usual way and the apparatus on which the requisite
amount of ballast has been placed is pushed under the sleeper until the rod which
rises above the frame comes in contact with the sleeper which actuates the working
parts in such a manner as to cause the plates to revolve and thereby deposit the
ballast in the required position. Immediately this is done the plates are brought
back by the spring to their normal position ready to receive further ballast.
An alternative arrangement is shewn in plan Figure 3. a side elevation Figure 4.
longitudinal sections Figures 5 and 6. cross section Figure 7. This arrangement is
the same in principle except that the plate or rod attached to the revolving plates
is pushed back when it comes in contact with the sleeper. This rod can be fixed,
if desired, in the centre as shewn in dotted lines plan Figure 3.
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 :
1. An apparatus for depositing ballast under railway sleepers by means of
revolving plates.
2. An automatic action in relation thereto..
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1896.
CHARLES HENRY SADLER.