Improvements in Covers for Wagons, Carts, and other Road or Railway Vehicles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1893—Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers for Wagons, Carts, and other Road or
Railway Vehicles.
We, ALFRED GEORGE MARGETSON of Lawrence Hill in the City of Bristol
Engineer, and WILLIAM STUDLEY HEк of the same place, Foreman Wheelwright,.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to covers for wagons, carts and other road or railway
vehicles and its chief object is to construct the covers in such manner that they can
be easily opened and closed without the use of any sliding grooves, frames or friction
rollers.
According to our invention we fit to each cover a crank which is actuated by a
lever or handle, so that by turning the crank in the one direction the cover is lifted
up and opened, whilst the reverse action lowers and closes the cover.
The covers
may either be connected to the vehicle only by the cranks, or if found more con-
venient for particular requirements the covers may be hinged to the vehicle and
opened and closed by a lever or handle connected with a spindle passing through.
and attached to the hinges of the cover.
Each cover may be either in one piece or in two or more sections, and when
made in sections each section will be made to open and close separately.
The covers are made preferably of sheet iron or steel, but they may be made of
wood or other suitable material and they may be curved or flat and be vertical,.
inclined or horizontal as may be thought best for different purposes. Although we
have described them as made to open on both sides of the vehicle they may be
made to open on one side only.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1802
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers for Wagons, Carts, and other Road or
Railway Vehicles.
We, ALFRED George MargetsON of Lawrence Hill in the City of Bristol,
Engineer, and WILLIAM STUDLEY HEк of the same place, Foreman Wheelwright,
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 has reference to covers for wagous, carts, and other road or railway
vehicles and its chief object is to construct the covers in such manner that they can
be easily opened and closed without the use of any sliding grooves, frames or friction
rollers.
According to our invention we fit to each cover a crank rod which is actuated by
a lever or handle so that by turning the crank rod in the one direction the cover is
lifted up and opened, whilst the reverse action lowers and closes the cover.
Each cover may be either in one piece or in two or more sections, and when
made in sections each section will be made to open and close separately.
Our invention will be fully understood on reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a rear elevation of a four wheel wagon

page_text: having each cover divided into a front section and a rear section these two figures
showing all the cover sections closed.
Figure 3 is a side elevation and Figure 4 a rear elevation of the same wagon but
with the rear cover section on the near or left side open.
Figure 5 is a plan of the underside and Figure 6 an end view of one of the cover
sections on a larger scale.
Figure 7 is a side elevation and Figure 8 a rear elevation of a two wheel cart
with its covers closed.
Figure 9 is a side elevation and Figure 10 a rear elevation of the same cart with
the near or left cover open; the covers in this cart are not divided into sections.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
a is the wagon or cart body. bb represent the centre longitudinal frame of the
roof. cc are stay bars or bolts which pass transversely through the frame b b and
have eyes at d d. ee are the covers or cover sections. is the crank rod of each
cover; it is connected to the cover by being passed through loose bearings at y g
forming parts of straps h h which are screwed or fixed to the inside of the cover;
the crank rod f has also bearings in the eyes d d and one of its ends extends to the
outside of the wagon where it is fitted with a handle for turning it; this handle
when at the rear of the wagon is preferably a crank handle as seen at i, but when
at the front of the wagon and therefore just behind the horse it is preferably made
longer and of the form seen at k.
The covers are made preferably of sheet iron or steel but they may be made of
wood or other suitable material and they may be curved as shown or flat and be
vertical, inclined or horizontal as may be thought best for different purposes.
Although we have described and shown them as made to open on both sides of the
vehicle they may be made to open on one side only.
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 we do not
claim, broadly, the arranging of the covers of wagons, carts and other road or
railway vehicles so that they can be lifted and moved back by means of levers
without tilting, nor do we claim, broadly, the use of levers for lifting and moving
back the covers, but what we claim is :-
:-
Fitting to a wagon, cart or other vehicle cover, a crank rod actuated by a lever
or handle the said crank rod being so attached to the cover that when turned in
the one direction it lifts and opens the cover, whilst the reverse action lowers and
closes the cover, substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of November 1802
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.