Improvements in the Manufacture of Axle-guards for Rolling Stock.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Axle-guards for Rolling
Stock.
1, BERNAL BAGSHAWE, of Leeds Forge, Leeds, in the County of York,
Manager of Steel Works do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to improvements in the construction of axle guards
for rolling stock by manufacturing them from strips of rolled plate or rolled bar
iron or steel having a section suitable to the particular form of axle guard or guards
intended to be produced.
For this purpose I take a strip of rolled plate or rolled bar iron or steel of the
required section and thickness and preferably of considerable length (say about
25 feet) and having a flange or flanges or a rib or ribs, or both, on either or both
sides of the plate or bar manufactured in a similar manner to that in which channel
bars, or other section bars, are manufactured and by shearing or punching such
strips of plate or bar at right angles to their length and diagonally, I form one side
of an axle guard, and by punching or shearing similar bars in such manner I produce
right or left hand sides of axle guards as required.
If necessary the axle guards may be made in one piece by punching or shearing
strips of metal of the required section, but I prefer to manufacture them in two
pieces as before described.
Dated this 4th law of Jul. 1901
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Axle-guards for Rolling
Stock.
I, BERNAL BAGSHAWE, of Leeds Forge, Leeds, in the County of York,
Manager of Steel Works, 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 :—
This invention has reference to improvements in the manufacture of axle-guards
for rolling stock.
Hereunto annexed are two sheets of illustrative drawings.
Referring to these drawings
Fig. 1 shews a strip of plate rolled to the section represented in Fig. 3.
Fig. 2 shews a pair of axle guards produced according to my invention from such
a strip of metal as they appear when finished.
Fig. 3 is a cross section of Fig. 1 to a larger scale.
Figs. 4 and 5 shew other suitable sections to which plates .can be rolled in
carrying out my invention.
For
My object is the economical production of axle guards for rolling stock.
this purpose I manufacture them as I will now explain. I first by rolling produce
strips of plate bar iron or steel having a section appropriate to the particular form
of axle guard or guards intended to be produced. Suitable sections for this purpose
are those illustrated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 of these drawings. These rolled strips may
advantageously be of considerable length (say about 25 feet) and are manufactured

page_text: in a manner similar to that in which channel bars, or other section bars, are
manufactured. Then by shearing or punching such strips of plate or bar at right
angles to their length as represented by the dotted lines a a¹ in Fig. 1 of the
drawings, and also diagonally as represented by the dotted lines bb, I produce
according to requirement right or left handed sides of axle guards as represented
in Fig. 2; the holes for the rivets whereby they are to be attached to the under
frame being produced by drilling as at cc. Where desired the right and left hand
axle guards may be made both in one common piece by shearing or punching strips
of metal previously rolled to the required section, but I prefer to manufacture
them in two pieces as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
The hereinabove described improved manufacture of axle guards for rolling
stock produced by rolling metallic strips of appropriate section, shearing or
punching the same diagonally and at right angles to their lengths, and drilling or
forming the required rivet holes, as set forth with reference to and illustrated by
the drawings hereto annexed.
D
f Noah 1902
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.