Improvements in or applicable to Carts or Wagons for Conveying Goods.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 24th Feb., 1900-Accepted. 24th Mar. 1900.
Complete Specification Left, 24th Feb., 1900 -Accepted. 24th Mar. 1900.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Carts or Wagons for Conveying
Goods.
I, WILHELM NOSSIAN, of 152, Währinger Gürtel, Vienna XVIII, in the Empire
of Austria, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to carriages and carts provided with bodies or boxes and
designed to carry materials in loose pieces, such as coal, ore, rubbish, beet-root,
etc., and it has for its object to provide within the said bodies or boxes a device
which will allow of their rapid and easy discharge.
According to my invention, the said discharging device is formed of an
upright partition loosely inserted into the carriage or cart body and being, under
ordinary circumstances, arranged near one side of the body, the said partition
being adapted, by means of suitable mechanism, to be slid upon the bottom
of the body toward an opening in the opposite side of the car body.
The sliding partition pushes the contents of the carriage body along the
bottom of the body and causes them to drop through the opening in the side of
the body.
As, in road carts or carriages for conveying goods, the carriage body is located
between the wheels, the sliding partition, which may be replaced by one side
of the body, is arranged near the front side of the body.
In railway goods wagons, the sliding partition must be arranged near one
lateral side of the body or formed by such a side. For the purpose of opening
and closing the side of the carriage body toward which the sliding partition is to
be moved, the said side is, preferably, rigidly connected with the movable par-
tition, and the connection may be formed by both ends of the body; thus the
whole square frame formed by the four sides of the body is made movable upon
the bottom of the body.
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1000
Improvements in or applicable to Carts or Wagons for Conveying
Goods.
I, WILHELM NOSSIAN, of 152, Währinger Gürtel, Vienna XVIII, in the Empire
of Austria, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
My invention relates to carts or wagons and cars provided with bodies or
boxes and designed to carry materials in loose pieces, such as coal, ore, rubbish,
beet-root, etc., and it has for its object to provide within the said bodies or boxes
a device which will allow of their rapid and easy discharge.
According to my invention, the said discharging device is formed of an upright
partition loosely inserted into the 'car or wagon body and being under ordinary
circumstances arranged near one side of the body, the said partition being
adapted, by means of suitable mechanism, to be slid upon the bottom of the body
toward an opening in the opposite side of the car body.
The sliding partition pushes the contents of the car or wagon body along the
bottom of the body, and causes them to drop through the opening in the side
of the body..
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As, in road carts or wagons for conveying goods, the cart body is located
between the wheels, the sliding partition, which may be replaced by one side of
the body, is arranged near the front side of the body.
In railway goods cars, the sliding partition must be arranged near one lateral
side of the body or tormed by such a side. For the purpose of opening and
closing the side of the car body toward which the sliding partition is to be moved,
the said side is, preferably, rigidly connected with the movable partition, and
the connection may be formed by both ends of the body; thus the whole square
frame, formed by the four sides of the body is made movable upon the bottom
of the body.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same
in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a wagon body provided with my dis-
charging device;
Figure 2 is a rear end elevation of the said body:
Figure 3 is a horizontal section of part of a lateral side of the body and the
sliding partition :
Figure 4 is an end elevation, partly in section of a railway goods car, having
its body frame made laterally movable.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of part of the said railway car, part of the lateral
side being broken away to show the structure behind the same:
Figure 6 is a top view of the car body, drawn to a smaller scale.
It will be seen from Figures 1 and 2 that a cross partition of a shape corre-
sponding to the form of the cross-section of the wagon body a is inserted in the
front end of the said body, and is rigidly connected, by means of straps and
struts, to a plate a resting on the bottom c of the wagon body and adapted to
slide along the said bottom.
A chain runs from the plate d to a shaft g provided with a crank h. After
having removed the end side of the wagon body from the channels & formed in
the lateral sides of the said body, the cross partition can by turning the shaft g,
be caused to move toward the open end of the wagon body, and thereby to dis-
charge the contents of the said body.
For returning the cross partition b to its normal position, there is, at the front
end of the wagon body a shaft m with a crank n, a chain / being wound around
the shaft m and having one end connected with the shaft and the other end with
the discharger b, d.
In order to prevent particles of material from being jammed in between the
lateral edges of the sliding cross partition b and the lateral sides of the body,
strips of leather e are secured to the edges of the said partition, in the manner
shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
In the railway goods car, illustrated in Figures 4, 5 and 6, the whole frame o
of the car body is adapted to slide laterally upon the bottom of the body.
To admit of such displacement, the frame o, formed of the upright sides of the

page_text: car body, has secured to its under edges a number of racks q arranged crosswise
and moving in recesses in the bottom p, which is secured to the car frame r.
With the said racks q gear toothed wheels secured to longitudinal shafts s
journalled in brackets which are bolted to the longitudinal girders of the car
frame. To one end of each longitudinal shafts is keyed a worm-wheel u,. and
the two worm-wheels gear with worms fastened to a shaft w, journalled in
brackets w¹ which are bolted to the corresponding end girder of the car frame.
By means of a crank a placed on either of the squares at the ends of the shaft w,
the said shaft can be rotated in either direction in order to laterally displace
the frame of the car body.
z
The Z irons y extending over the lateral ribs of the racks
of the car body with the bottom of the said body.
q connect the frame o
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:―
1. In a cart or car for conveying goods, the combination with the body or box,
one side of which is adapted to be removed, of an upright cross partition, loosely
inserted in the cart or car body and adapted to be slid toward the removable side
and in the opposite direction, and suitable mechanism for moving the said cross
partition in both directions, substantially as shown and described and for the
purpose set forth.
2. In a cart or car for conveying goods, the combination with the body or
box, one side of which is adapted to be removed, and in which the side opposite
the removable one is adapted to be slid toward the removable side and in the
opposite direction, of suitable mechanism for moving the sliding side in both
directions, substantially as and for the purpose, described.
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3. In a cart or car for conveying goods, the combination with the body or box,
one side of which is adapted to be removed, and in which the side opposite the
removable one is adapted to be slid toward the removable side and in the opposite
direction, of a rigid connection between the said two sides of the body and suit-
able mechanism for moving the two connected sides in both directions, substan-
tially as and for the purpose described.
4. In a cart or car for conveying goods, the combination with the bottom of
the body or box of a body side-frame adapted to slide on the bottom in two
opposite lateral directions, and suitable mechanism for moving the frame in the
said directions, substantially as, and for the purpose, described.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.