Improvements in Transport Wagons or Trucks for Slag.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Transport Wagons or Trucks for Slag.
I, CONSTANTIN BOCHOLTZ, of Weilerbach, near Echternacherbruck, German
Empire, 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: -
My invention relates to improvements in transport wagons or trucks for slag,
in which the wagon or truck can be tilted to either side; the object of my invention
being to provide the said tipping wagon or, truck with an upright end (or upright
wall) either at one or both ends of the said wagon or truck, for the purpose of
allowing of the attachment of buffers, at the same height and distance apart, as
the buffers of the normal-gauge railway-trucks.
In transport wagons or trucks for slag, as at present employed, the buffers are,
as known, usually considerably below the level of the buffers of normal gauge rail-
road trucks, from which it will be apparent, that such trucks could seldom be
coupled up to an ordinary goods-train.
In order to make my invention more clear, I refer to the accompanying drawing,
in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the different views, and
in which:
Figure 1 shows in elevation an upright buffer-wall or plate,
Figure 2 is a plan of the same,
Figure 3 is a plan showing my improved slag wagon or truck tipped to one side,
Figure is a plan view showing the arrangement of the platform.
As hereinbefore indicated Figures 1 & 2 show a method of attaching the upright-
end buffer-wall or buffer-plate, which method I will proceed to describe.
I attach to the longitudinal girders a of the lower frame of the wagon or truck.
a solid or perforated metal plate or plates 6 of sufficient strength, and securely
attach the said plates 6 by any suitable means to the before mentioned longitudinal
under frame girders of the wagon or truck. These plates b, where extra strength
is desired, may be of steel and may be stiffened by stays c and angle-pieces, though
this may not prove to be necessary in each instance.
The buffers are subsequently attached in any suitable manner to the before men-
tioned upright metal plates b and at any optional height, this being an important
feature of my invention.
My improved slag wagon or truck can thus be quickly and conveniently coupled
up with any other rail-road car or truck, and as hereinbefore indicated the height
of the buffers can, where necessary, be altered to suit any kind of railroad car or
truck, which may at the time be in use.
For the sake of clearness and to show the general construction of my improved
wagon or truck for the transport of liquid and solid slag I will here show one
possible arrangement of the tipping or tilting device for tipping to either side.
This tipping mechanism does not constitute, however the chief feature of my
improvenient nor the subject of the claim, and it will therefore, be clear that the
said undermentioned description of the tipping device is given for the purpose of
more clearly showing the object and general arrangement of the carts.

page_text: In the drawing (Figure 3) the tipping device is shown only on one side, the same
arrangement for tipping or tilting the platform to the opposite side and the mech-
anism necessary thereto is similar in construction to the said tilting mechanism
shown on the one side in Fig. 3. I will proceed to describe the mechanism and
operation of the said tilting-device.
C
The support c Figure 3, is pinioned to the shaft r and is held in position by the
arm D having a nose or projection q.
As soon as the arm D is lifted, the support e will become free and will either
by itself or by any suitable means be brought to lie in the inverted position shown
in dotted lines in Figure 3.
Hereby, as will be clear, the arm D can be lowered until the same also reaches
the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 3, the lowering of this arm also effect-
ing by suitable connection of the under portion of the platform the tipping or
tilting to one side of the platform of the wagon or truck. The cooled and hardened
slag can now slide off the platform and any portion of the same remaining upon
the platform can be of course removed by the workmen in charge. The platform
is now raised by lifting the arm D and the support c, the beforesaid projection q
holding the parts c and I securely in position in the manner hereinbefore indi-
cated. For liquid slag the platform is not tipped.
I may provide or arrange my improved slag wagon or truck as hereinbefore
indicated for tipping or tilting to either side or also for end-tipping, and I abstain
from giving any further description of the tilting-mechanism for the indicated
reason, that the same does not form the chief-feature of my present invention.
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;
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1. In a railway transport tilting wagon or truck for liquid and solid slag and
the like, having a tilting device, by means of which, the same may be tilted to
either side, or, at its front end, the arrangement upon the under frame of the
said cart, of an upright wall (or of upright plates) at one end of the said wagon or
truck, upon which upright wall or plates, the buffers and coupling parts are
attached at any optional height, for the purpose and substantially as described.
2. In a railway transport tilting wagon or truck for liquid and solid slag and
the like, baving a tilting device, by means of which, the same may be tilted to
either side, or, at its front end, the arrangement upon the under frame of the said
wagon or truck of upright walls (or of upright plates) at both ends of the said
wagon or truck, upon which upright walls or plates, the buffers and coupling parts
are attached at any optional height, for the purpose and substantially as described.
Day 11: 201 day of Manch 1000
CONSTANTIN BOCHKOLTZ,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
No. 1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.