Improvements in and Additions to Luggage Vans or Goods Cupboards in Trains for Facilitating the Loading and Unloading of Luggage.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 24th June,
1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Luggage Vans or Goods
Cupboards in Trains for Facilitating the Loading and
Unloading of Luggage.
We GEORGE NOEL ARCULUS and JOSEPH WARRY of Etna Works 295 Broad
Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Glass Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates as hereinafter described to improvements in and additions
to luggage vans or goods cupboards in trains, for facilitating the loading and
unloading of luggage.
Our invention consists essentially in the arrangement of a luggage van con-
structed and combined in such a manner that passenger and other luggage may be
expeditiously loaded or unloaded from or to the platform.
In carrying our invention into effect we construct a light truck or car of iron or
part iron and wood, and of such a size and shape as to fit the inside of a passenger
luggage van. The said truck or car is mounted on wheels which work on rails
placed on the floor of the van, the said van being made with moveable sides so as
to enable the said truck or car to pass therein or thereout.
A truck or car thus constructed, when placed on the platform, may be filled or
partly filled with passenger luggage intended for one destination, and the car may
then be removed to the van cither by wheeling it along the platform or by aid of
a low trolly of ordinary construction, upon which it is placed previous to loading.
When the car is brought to the edge of the van the wheels are placed opposite
the rails on the van aforesaid and it is thus pushed into the van.
To remove the luggage from the van to the platform, the truck or car is run on
to a low trolly, or it may be run upon rails, the outward ends being hinged to the
van and capable of being folded up or withdrawn, the other ends resting on the
platform.
Two or more trucks or cars similar to the one before described may be used in
connection with the luggage van as hereinbefore described.
Our invention may be modified in any detail which may be necessary to carry
the same into effect.
Dated this 28th day of July 1892.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Luggage Vans or Goods
Cupboards in Trains for Facilitating the Loading and
Unloading of Luggage.
We, GEORGE NOEL ARCULUS, and JOSEPH WARRY, of Etna Works,
295 Broad Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Glass Manufacturers,
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 :-
Our invention relates as hereinafter described to improvements in and additions
to luggage vans or goods cupboards in trains for facilitating the loading and
unloading of luggage, mails, parcels post, hampers and parcels, fish, meat, gaine,

page_text: milk, vegetables, fruit and light merchandise generally, and their transfer to
vessels, vehicles or platforms and the like.
Our invention consists essentially in the arrangement of a luggage van con-
structed in such a manner that passenger and other luggage or merchandise of any
description may be expeditiously loaded or unloaded from or outo platforms,
vessels, vehicles and the like.
In carrying our invention into effect we construct a light car or cage of iron or
iron and wood and of such a size and shape as to fit the inside of a passenger
luggage van or other goods receptacle.
The said car or cage is mounted on wheels which work on rails placed on the
floor of the van, the said van being made with movable sides or doors, so as to
enable the said car or cage to pass therein or thereout.
A car or cage thus constructed when placed on the platform, may be filled or
partly filled with luggage or merchandise intended for one destination, and the car
may then be removed to the van either by wheeling it along the platform or by
aid of a low trolley of ordinary construction, upon which it is placed previous to
loading.
When the car is brought to the edge of the van the wheels are placed opposite
the rails on the van aforesaid and it is then pushed into the van. To remove the
luggage from the van to the platform, the car or cage is run on to a low trolly or
it may be run upon rails or a rail plate, the outward ends being hinged to the van
and capable of being folded up or withdrawn, the other ends resting on the platform,
or on the edge of a trolly.
Two or more cars or cages similar to the one before described may be used in
connection with the luggage van or other goods receptacle as hereinbefore
described.
Our invention may be modified in any detail which may be necessary to carry
the same into effect.
We will describe our invention in reference to the accompanying drawings, the
same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figures 1, 2 and 3, are respectively a side elevation, a plan, and a front elevation
of an iron car or cage constructed in accordance with our invention.
Figure 4, is an elevation of a railway carriage showing a goods cupboard
containing the car or cage, with the sides or doors open.
Figures 5 and 6 are respectively a transverse section through a platform and a
goods cupboard, and a plan showing the trolly in position on the platform, to receive
the car or cage.
Figures 7, 7 and 8, are detail views of our invention.
Our invention consists of a rectangular shaped car or cage A for holding luggage
or merchandise, constructed of angle or other suitable iron or steel, braced together.
The floor E consists of boards mortised and resting on the lower part of the
frame A The swing bar F pivoted at H, H, the lower part resting in the hooked
brackets I, I, forms a guard for the purpose of keeping the luggage in position in
the car or cage, and serves the purpose of a draw bar for drawing the cage from
the goods cupboard. The car or cage is mounted on six wheels B, one being
shewn more plainly at Figures 7 and 74, which are free to rotate on their axes,
attached to the lower part of the frame A2 partly enclosed in angle brackets C and
fitted with rings and plates Y, Y, at the upper part for convenience in craning from
train to vessels, steamers, vehicles and the like, when necessary, or vice versa.
In Figures 4, 5 and 6, the car or cage is shown in position in the goods cupboard K,
of a passenger train, the wheels B resting on the rails L, fixed to the floor of the
goods cupboard.
The rail plate or hinged gangway M, being jointed to the rails L at N, may be
lowered from the position shown at M2, the angle part O forming a guide for the
wheels to the rail.
The trolly P, Figures 5, 6 and 8 rests on the platform Q, having two rails W, W,
turned up at their extremities into the curved part W2, W2. "The trolly being

page_text: pushed forward, near the opening of the goods cupboard, the rail plate or hinged
gangway M is lowered and slides up the inclined part R at the fore end of the
trolly the hooked end S falling into the cavity T.
The conical studs U, U, on the fore end of the trolly engage in the conical
recesses VV, of the rail plate or gangway M, thereby guiding it into a position
square with the carriage, and locking them together.
Should the carriage however be moved, while the trolly is thus attached, the
conical recesses of the gangway engaging the taper studs of the trolly, would cause
the latter to be repelled clear of the moving carriage, proportionally to the blow
given by the sliding of the conical recesses up the conical studs.
The car or cage may be drawn out of the goods cupboard K by the draw bar F
on to the rails W, W, of the trolly P, as shewn in dotted lines, at Figure 5, the
wheels running against the stops Wa WV2
When the rail plate M is raised into the position shown at M2, the trolly carrying
the car or cage containing the luggage may be drawn away to other parts of the
platform for distribution.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
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1. The combination of the luggage van or goods cupboard, with a portable car
or cage provided with wheels running on rails fixed to the floor of the van, for
holding passenger luggage, merchandise and the like, substantially as described and
illustrated in the drawings, and for the purpose set forth.
2. The construction of the improved iron or wood, or part iron and wood, car or
cage mentioned in the above claim substantially as described and illustrated and for
the purpose set forth.
3. The hinged rail plate or gangway M, constructed in the manner substantially
as described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 28th day of April 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.