Improvements in Endless Plateways for Wheeled Vehicles, Instruments, and Machines.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 20th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 25th Oct., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Endless Plateways for Wheeled Vehicles,
Instruments, and Machines.
I HENRY GARTSIDE TIPPING of the Royal St. George Club, Kingstown, Ireland,
Lieutenant Royal Navy, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
My Invention has reference to what are known as "self laying" plateways of the
endless form which are proposed for use more particularly for wheeled vehicles,
instruments and machines which have to travel, or are drawn, or propelled over soft
surfaces, such as soft roads, sands, shingle, fields and such like places. Examples of
vehicles, instruments and machines to which my Invention is particularly applicable
are Life Boat carriages, Artillery carriages, traction engines and wheeled Agricultural
Machinery and the like.
An endless self laying plateway applied with improvements according to my Inven-
tion is constructed as follows. It is made in the form of an endless articulated way
or track having suitable joints which takes over the periphery of each of the wheels of
the object to which it is applied. The width of the plateway is considerably in excess
of that of the periphery of the wheel. To the interior surface of the plates which
form the bearing surfaces of the way there are provided projecting guides, or cheeks,
which serve to fit over the wheel and keep the wheel in position in the way and from
getting out of the way. These cheeks, or projecting guides or cheeks are preferably
Hared outward between the joints, but at these points are vertical with the plates.
The spaces between the joints of the plates are made as small as possible say from
to inch.
The combined length of the plates forming the endless way is greater than that of
the circumference of the wheel and is such as will permit of one, or two of the plates
to bear upon the surface of the ground according to the position of the plates.
Dated this 18th day of December 1886.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Endless Plateways for Wheeled Vehicles,
Instruments, and Machines.
I, HENRY GARTSIDE TIPPING, of the Royal St. George Club, Kingstown, Ireland,
Lieutenant Royal Navy, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has reference to what are known as solf laying" plateways of the
endless form which are proposed for use, more particularly for wheeled vehicles,
instruments and machines which have to travel, or are drawn, or propelled over soft.
surfaces, such as soft roads, sands, shingle, fields and such like places. Examples of
vehicles, instruments and machines to which my Invention is particularly applicable
are Life boat carriages, Artillery carriages, traction engines and wheeled Agricultural
Machinery and the like.
An endless self laying plateway with improvements applied according to my Inven-
tion is constructed as follows. It is made in the form of an endless articulated way,
or track having suitable joints, which takes over the periphery of each of the wheels of
the object to which it is applied. The width of the platoway is considerably in excess
of that of the periphery of the wheel. To the interior surface of the plates which
form the bearing surfaces of the way, there are provided projecting guides, or cheeks,
which serve to fit over the wheel and keep the wheel in position in the way-and from
getting out of the way. These chooks, or projecting guides, or checks are preferably
flared outward between the joints. The spaces between the joints of the plates are
made as small as possible, say from to inch.
The combined length of the plates forming the endless way is greater than that of
the circumference of the wheel and is such as will permit of one, or two of the plates.
to bear upon the surface of the ground according to the position of the plates.
In order that my Invention may be clearly understood, I have hereunto annexed a
sheet of Drawings which illustrate the application of an endless plateway according to
my Invention as applied to a Life boat carriage. The Drawings make a part of this
Specification and are marked with figures and letters of reference corresponding with
those used in the following explanation, and like letters of reference are used to denote
like parts throughout the several figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.

page_text: Figure 4 is an end section of the plateway taken through xx Figure 3.
In the Drawings I have only shown one wheel with its plateway, but I would have
it understood that a similar plateway is applied to the other large wheel and if desired
to all the wheels of the carriage.
The endless plateway is constructed as follows:-It consists of a series of plates a
which are connected by hinges b as to form an endless articulated way, or track which
takes over the periphery of the wheel c. The plates a are considerably wider than the
wheel c at its periphery and the interior surfaces of the plates a which form the
bearing surfaces of the way are provided with projecting flanges, or guides d which
fit over the periphery of the wheel c and keep the wheel c in position in the way
formed by the guides d. The guides dare preferably flared outwards as shown at
Figure 4. The plates a at their joints or hinges bare kept as close together as possible
say from to inch apart so as to prevent stones or other matter from hindering the
proper working of the endless plateway. The combined length of the plates a forming
the endless way is greater than that of the circumference of the wheel c and is such as
will permit of one, or two of the plates a always bearing upon the surface of the
ground, according to the position of the plates as the wheel c revolves, for example in
the position shown at Figure 1, there are two plates bearing on the ground; in the
next position as the wheel revolves there will be one plate on the ground, and in the
next two, and so on, the back plate lifting as the front plate is laid and the plateway
being self laying as the wheels revolve.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the saine is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
First. A plateway for wheeled vehicles formed of a series of flanged plates hinged
together and placed round the periphery of the wheel, so as to form an endless
articulated self laying way as set forth.
Second. In a self laying endless plateway the
connecting hinges 6 and forming an articulated
set forth.
plates a having flanges d and
way, as and for the purposes
ca
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