Facilitating the Loading and Unloading of the same.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 27th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Nov., 1887
[Communicated from abroad by AUGUSTIN CHARLES MAURICE AUQUIN, of Raincy,
near Paris, France, Clerk to the Justice of the Peace of the District of
Raincy.]
Facilitating the Loading and Unloading of the same.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to enable the bodies or superstructures of railway
wagons to be displaced in either direction laterally of the line, and to this end it
comprises the engaging apparatus hereinafter described.
A wagon provided with the improvements referred to is chiefly applicable for the
transport of ballast, sand, earth, coke, stone, pyrites, minerals and the like, it is
however applicable for carrying other kinds of goods and materials and also for the
transport of artillery, horses, cattle, and ammunitions of war, the loading and un-
loading of which may be effected on the open line without having to improvise
inclined planes or bridges.
My invention can be readily applied to existing railway plant.
To enable my invention to be understood, I have represented it by way of example
only, in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 shows the body of a wagon for goods, ballast, earth, minerals, and the
like, the engaging apparatus being in position to lock the body.
Figure 2 is a view of the same, the disengaging apparatus being in its unlocked
position.
Figure 3 shows the actuating mechanism for causing the inclination of the body.
Figure 4 shows the body tilted.
Figure 5 is a view illustrating the arrangement of hooks for retaining the movable

page_text: body or superstructure of a wagon designed for the discharge of goods, ballast, earth,
coal, minerals, sand and the like.
Figure 6 shows the arrangement of the body of a truck, designed for the transport
of artillery material, and in an inclined position.
Figure 7 represents the body or superstructure resting completely upon the
ground.
Figure 8 is a plan of this arrangement.
In the arrangement, shown in Figures 1 to 4 a single lever is sufficient to release
the body of the wagon to permit it to be inclined. This is effected by means of a
worm a engaging with a rack and actuated by a crank which is placed either
directly upon
the head of the worm shaft or below the wagon by means of two bevel
pinions in the latter case the crank is fixed.
A shaft of the said worm extends to the middle of each side of the wagon, the
rotation of which causes the displacement of the wagon as far as its tilting axis either
on one side or on the other.
Under these conditions the superstructure, when moved to its tilting axis, projects
about 110 meters beyond the line, there is consequently no danger of obstructing the
line.
The superstructure of the wagon is provided at intervals with slides designed to
bear upon fixed rollers attached to the truck, or carriage, of the wagon.
On each side and at each extremity of the superstructure is fixed one end of a chain,
the other end of which is secured to the truck. These chains are designed to reduce
the shock which the truck would otherwise have to sustain at the moment when the
superstructure is inclined. They allow the proper inclination of the body for ensuring
the discharge of the load, which inclination can be reduced according to the nature of
the material to be unloaded.
The aforesaid rollers are mounted on the cross beams of the truck by means of steel
axles which themselves turn in bearings.
The sides of the superstructure of the wagon are movable upon hinges and fixed by
hooks or the like.
As already stated a single motion is sufficient for the engagement and disengage-
ment of the body.
The engaging and disengaging apparatus is actuated by levers which are placed at
the two ends of the wagon, but diagonally opposite to each other.
Each of these levers is provided with a counterweight designed to ensure the safety
of the engagement as well as to indicate whether the mechanism is in the engaged or
disengaged position. It is sufficient to lift or lower either of these levers to effect the
engagement or disengagement of the apparatus.
Each extremity of the wagon carries this apparatus and a shaft actuates both scis
of apparatus simultaneously, by means of levers hereinafter described. The engage-
ment is indicated by the position of the lever a' in Figure 1; the disengagement by
the position in Figure 2. In the latter case the lever a' is lifted to the vertical
position as shown in Figure 2.
In its movements it acts upon the connecting rods 61, 62, 63 and the intermediate
lever connected at d¹ and causes the hooks c' to swing downwards.
The hooks c engage with pins or gudgeons e¹ which are fixed at their two
extremities to the cross beams of the superstructure as illustrated in Figure 4. This
part serves to ensure the stability of the hooks c¹ which rest upon the gudgeons el.
The stability of the superstructure upon its truck in the lateral direction is
secured partly by the abutment with which engage the arms gl actuated by
the lever at which gives motion to a hinged catch and partly by the hooks c'.
The superstructure is further supported in the lateral direction of the line, by
slides in which the extreme ends of the cross beams of the superstructure rest at fou
points.
The disengaging mechanism illustrated in Figure 2 having disengaged the super
structure from the truck, the said superstructure, in order to leave its normal position
and to incline, requires to be moved laterally by the worm shown in figure 3. Thi

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shaft carrying the worm a¹ is fixed in bearings y¹ on the truck, and the rack
secured to the cross beam at the centre of the superstructure and upon one of the
sides of this cross beam.
The worm which to a certain extent increases the solidity of the truck is designed,
either when actuated from either one side or the other side of the wagon, to cause
first the lateral displacement and afterwards the inclination of the superstructure.
At the moment when the superstructure arrives at its tilting axis it encounters at
its extremities the hooks fixed upon the truck and at the same moment the super-
structure presents the gudgeons m' which take into the hooks l'.
As above stated the chains which are provided on each side of the wagon are
designed to reduce the shock which would otherwise act upon the hooks at the
moment of the inclination.
The superstructure is brought back to its place by pulling with the hand upon one
of the chains hereinbefore mentioned when the load has been discharged, the least
force being sufficient to bring the superstructure back to its original position. At
this instant the lever of the locking mechanism must be lowered.
The arms g' which bear against the abutment are designed to ensure the certain
return of the superstructure to the centre of the truck, so that the locking hooks c¹
can engage properly.
Without this abutment the worm could place the superstructure at one side or the
other of the centre of the truck and prevent the engagement.
The connecting rod carries at its upper end a tappet operated by the lever a
which tappet encounters, in its course, the hinged lever, which lifts the arms g'.
When this takes place the hook n' engages with the arms gl and keeps them suspended
and out of engagement with the abutment as represented in figure 2. The super-
structure is then absolutely free.
Shortly after the displacement of the superstructure the hook n' encounters two
triangular abutments ', which displacing the hook allow the arms g' to fall back
into their original position figure 1: On the return of the superstructure after the
inclination these parts g', by reason of their shape, are lifted by the abutment and
fall of themselves back to their position at the precise moment when the super-
structure returns to its central position.
Then by lowering the lever a¹ the superstructure is fixed to its truck by means of
the apparatus above described. Each of the latter parts described performs its
various motions by reason of its gravity.
The hooks instead of being fixed to the frame of the wagon, as shown in
figure 4, with the superstructure can move and hold to the truck itself as shown in
figure 5. In their motion in the two directions they encounter at the extremities of
their lateral movements gudgeons & fixed to the frame of the truck, and with which
they engage prior to the inclination.
The arrangement of the wagon for the transport of artillery horses, cattle and
ammunitions of war is also capable of moving in a lateral direction relatively the line,
and the superstructure of the wagon is provided with engaging and disengaging
apparatus. In this case however the superstructure must pass completely to the
ground and preserve its horizontal position during the time necessary to load or
unload it.
For this purpose each side of the wagon is provided with jointed frames upon
which the superstructure is designed to run, in descending to the ground and in
being raised again on to the truck.
These jointed frames are arranged as follows that is to say :-They are articulated
to the wagon frame by the axles of rollers k which axles are in the form of bent
pins O and ensure the stability of the frames.
These frames are normally carried one upon the other below the superstructure
upon the wagon truck or one on each side of the wagon their weight rendering the
movement easy. They are maintained in this position by two supports having movable
stops and counterweights, and are composed of plates having rollers c between them

page_text: upon which the superstructure runs as far as the stops F. These frames or arms
are jointed as represented in figure 7.
Chains or cables represented in the drawing are provided to enable, by means of
windlasses hereinafter described, the bending of the said frames upon their joints to
conduct the superstructure to the ground and cause the jointed frames to assume
their original inclination again as shown in figure 6, and to draw the superstructure
back onto the truck.
wagon
The said chains are attached at m to staples n or the like in the middle of the
superstructure. The jointed frames are connected by a cross piece B forming a tie
and serving to support the jointed frames figure 7 as well as to raise the latter.
Movable supports C, each provided with rollers and stops and placed under the
frame and between the wheels, assist in connection with the cross piece B, in lowering
or raising the jointed frames, as represented in figure 7. The stops are movable,
and ensure the replacement and securing of the supports C below the wagon
figure 6.
The windlasses D are placed at the centre of the wagon in order to permit the
superstructure to be moved to the ground on either side of the line, as well as to
regulate at will the inclination and replacement of the superstructure upon its frame,
which without them would take place suddenly. The said windlasses are provided
with toothed wheels and worms. The chains or cords pass over auxiliary cylinders E
to ensure their being wound around the windlasses D.
By locating jointed frames below the superstructure of the wagon, they do not
interfere with the motion of the same nor with the inclination of the superstructure
for discharging earth, coal, minerals or the like.
When the superstructure of the wagon is to be lowered to the ground, the said
superstructure is conveyed by the worm represented as far as its tilting axis, the
movable hooks being rendered immovable by a key. Then by the aid of the wind-
lasses D the tipping of the superstructure is effected. The superstructure is then
conveyed to the extremity of the jointed frames, the keys P are removed, and by
means of the windlasses the jointed bars are allowed to bend and place themselves
horizontally with the superstructure upon them as shown in figure 7.
To raise the superstructure again the windlasses bring the jointed frames back to
the angle at which they were placed for the descent, after which traction is brought
to bear directly upon the superstructure which is moved back to its place upon the
frame.
TL JC Tana1007
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements relating to Railway wagons and to means for
Facilitating the Loading and Unloading of the same.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co., Patents Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 for its object to enable the bodies or superstructures of railway
wagons to be displaced in either direction laterally of the line, and to this end it
comprises the engaging, disengaging and displacing apparatus hereinafter described.
A wagon provided with the improvements referred to is chiefly applicable for the
transport of ballast, sand, earth, coke, stone, pyrites, minerals and the like, it is how-
ever applicable for carrying other kinds of goods and materials and also for the
transport of artillery, horses, cattle and ammunitions of war, the loading and unloading
of which may be effected on the open line without having to improvise inclined planes
or bridges.
The said invention can be readily applied to existing railway-plant.
Referring to the drawings left with the Provisional Specification.
Figure 1 shows the body of a wagon for goods, ballast, earth, minerals, and the like,
the engaging apparatus being in position to lock the body.
Figure 2 is a view of the same, the disengaging apparatus being. in its unlocked
position.
Figure 3 shows the actuating mechanism for causing the inclination of the body.
Figure 4 shows the body tilted.
Figure 5 is a view illustrating the arrangement of hooks for retaining the movable
body or superstructure, of a wagon designed for the discharge of goods, ballast, earth,
coal, minerals, sand, and the like.
Figure 6 shows the arrangement of the body of a track designed for the transport
of artillery material, and in an inclined position.
Figure 7 represents the body or superstructure resting completely upon the
ground.
Figure 8 is a plan of this arrangement.
In the arrangement shown in Figures 1 to 4 a single lever is sufficient to release
the body of the wagon to permit it to be inclined. This is effected by means of a
worm a engaging with a rack and actuated by a crank which is placed, either
directly upon the head of the worm shaft or below the wagon by means of two bevel
pinions in the latter case the crank is fixed.
The shaft of the said worm extends to the middle of each side of the wagon, the
rotation of which causes the displacement of the superstructure of the wagon as far as
its tilting axis either on one side or on the other.
Under these conditions the superstructure when moved to its tilting axis projects
about 110 meter beyond the line, there is consequently no danger of obstructing the
line.

page_text: The superstructure of the wagon is provided at intervals with slides designed to
bear upon fixed rollers attached to the truck or carriage of the wagon.
On each side and at each extremity of the superstructure is fixed one end of a chain
the other end of which is secured to the truck. These chains are designed to reduce
the shock which the truck would otherwise have to sustain at the moment when the
superstructure is inclined. The said chains allow the proper inclination of the body
for ensuring the discharge of the load which inclination can be reduced according to
the nature of the material to be unloaded.
The aforesaid rollers are mounted on the cross beams of the truck by means of steel
axles which themselves turn in bearings.
The sides of the superstructure of the wagon are movable upon hinges and fixed by
hooks or the like.
As already stated a single motion is sufficient for the engagement and disengage-
ment of the body.
The engaging and disengaging apparatus is actuated by levers which are placed at
the two ends of the wagon but diagonally opposite to each other.
Each of these levers is provided with a counterweight designed to ensure the safety
of the engagement as well as to indicate whether the mechanism is in the engaged or
disengaged position. It is sufficient to lift or lower either of these levers to effect the
engagement or disengagement of the apparatus.
Each extremity of the wagon carries the apparatus and a shaft actuates both sets of
apparatus simultaneously by means of levers hereinafter described. The engagement
is indicated by the position of the lever a in Figure 1, the disengagement by the
position in Figure 2. In the latter case the lever a¹ is lifted to the vertical position
as shown in Figure 2.
In its movements it acts upon the connecting rods 616263 and the intermediate
lever connected at d¹ and causes the hooks c¹ to swing downwards.
This
The hooks engage with pins or gudgeons e¹ which are fixed at their two
extremities to the cross beams of the superstructure as illustrated in Figure 4.
part serves to ensure the stability of the hooks c which rest upon the gudgeons e¹.
The stability of superstructure upon its truck in the lateral direction is secured
partly by the abutment with which engage the arms actuated by the lever a¹
which gives motion to a hinged catch and partly by the hooks c¹.
The superstructure is further supported in the lateral direction of the line by slides
in which the extreme ends of the cross beams of the superstructure rest at four
points.
The disengaging mechanism illustrated in Figure 2 having disengaged the super-
structure from the truck, the said superstructure, in order to leave its normal position
and to incline, requires to he moved laterally by the worm shown in Figure 3. This
shaft carrying the worm is fixed in bearings y' on the truck and the rack a¹ is
secured to the cross beam v³ at the centre of the superstructure and upon one of the
sides of this cross beam.
The worm, which to a certain extent increases the solidity of the truck, is designed,
either when actuated from either one side or the other of the wagon, to cause first the
lateral displacement and afterwards the inclination of the superstructure.
At the moment when the superstructure arrives at its tilting axis it encounters at
its extremities the hooks fixed upon the truck and at the same moment the super-
structure presents the gudgeons m³ which take into the hooks l.
As above stated the chains which are provided on each side of the wagon are
designed to reduce the shock which would otherwise act upon the hooks at the moment
of the inclination.
The superstructure is brought back to its place by pulling with the hand upon one
of the chains herein before mentioned; when the load has been discharged the super-
structure swings and the least force is sufficient to bring the superstructure back to
its original position. At this instant the lever of the locking mechanism must be
lowered.
The arms which bear against the abutment are designed to ensure the certain

page_text: return of the superstructure to the centre of the truck so that the locking hooks c' can
engage properly. Without this abutment the worm could place the superstructure at
one side or the other of the centre of the truck and prevent the engagement.
The connecting rod carries at its upper end a tappet operated by the lever a¹
which tappet encounters in its course, the hinged lever which lifts the arms g².
When this takes place the hook n¹ engages with the arms g¹ and keeps them suspended
and out of engagement with the abutment as represented in Figure 2.
The super-
structure is then absolutely free.
Shortly after the displacement of the superstructure the hook n' encounters two
triangular abutments which displacing the hook n' allow the arms g' to fall back
into their original position Figure 1. On the return of the superstructure after the
inclination these parts g' by reason of their shape, are lifted by the abutment i, and
fall of themselves back to their position at the precise moment when the superstructure
returns to its central position.
Then by lowering the lever a' the superstructure is fixed to its truck, by means of
the apparatus above described each of the latter parts described performs its various
motions by reason of its gravity.
The hooks instead of being fixed to the frame of the wagon as shown in Figure 4
can move with the superstructure and hold to the truck itself as shown in Figure 5.
In their motion in the two directions they encounter, at the extremities of their lateral
movements gudgeons b fixed to the frame of the truck, and with which they engage
prior to the inclination.
The arrangement of the wagon for the transport of artillery, horses, cattle, and
ammunitions of war is also capable of moving in a lateral direction relatively to the
line, and the superstructure of the wagon is provided with engaging and disengaging
apparatus. In this case however the superstructure must pass completely to the
ground, and preserve its horizontal position during the time necessary to load or
unload it.
For this purpose each side of the wagon is provided with jointed frames upon which
the superstructure is designed to run, either in descending to the ground or in being
raised again onto the truck.
These jointed frames A are arranged as follows that is to say, they are articulated
to the wagon frame, by the axles of rollers k, which axles are in the form of bent pins O
and ensure the mobility and stability of the frames.
These frames are normally carried one upon the other below the superstructure
upon the wagon truck or one on each side of the wagon, their weight rendering the
movement easy. They are maintained in this position by two supports having movable
stops and counterweights, and are composed of plates having rollers c between them
upon which the superstructure runs as far as the stops F. These frames or arms are
jointed as represented in Figure 7.
Chains or cables, represented in the drawing, are provided to enable, by means of
windlasses hereinafter described, the bending of the said frames upon their joints; to
conduct the superstructure to the ground and cause the jointed frames to assume
their original inclination again as shown in Figure 6, and to draw the superstructure
back on to the truck. The said chains are attached at m to staples n or the like in the
middle of the superstructure. The jointed frames are connected by a cross piece B
forming a tie and serving to support the jointed frames, Figure 7, as well as to raise
the latter. Movable supports C, each provided with rollers and stops and placed
under the wagon frame and between the wheels, assist in connection with the cross
piece B, in lowering or raising the jointed frames, as represented in Figure 7. The
stops are movable, and ensure the replacement and securing of the supports C below
the wagon Figure 6.
The windlasses D are placed at the centre of the wagon, in order to permit the
superstructure to he moved to the ground on either side of the line, as well as to
regulate at will the inclination and replacement of the superstructure upon its frame,
which without them would take place suddenly. The said windlasses are provided

page_text: with toothed wheels and worms. The chains or cords pass over auxiliary cylinders E
to ensure their being wound around the windlasses D..
By locating jointed frames below the superstructure of the wagon, they do not
interfere with the motion of the same nor with the inclination of the superstructure
for discharging earth, coal, minerals or the like.
When the superstructure of the wagon is to be lowered to the ground, the said
superstructure is conveyed by the worm as far as its tilting axis the movable hooks
being rendered immovable by a key. Then by the aid of the windlasses D the tipping
of the superstructure is effected. The superstructure is then conveyed to the extremity
of the jointed frames, the keys P are removed and by means of the windlasses, the
jointed bars are allowed to bend and place themselves horizontally with the super-
structure upon them as shown in Figure 7.
To raise the superstructure again the windlasses bring the jointed frames back to the
angle at which they were placed for the descent, after which traction is brought to
bear directly upon the superstructure which is moved back to its place upon the
frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
First. A railway wagon the body or superstructure of which is capable of being
moved transversely of the truck or frame in two directions so as to bring the said
body or superstructure to the position in which it can incline under the action of its
own weight and of the materials to be discharged which it contains substantially as
described and represented in the drawings.
Second. The movable body or superstructure represented in Figures 1 and 2
especially designed for minerals stones, ballast, and the like, the said body being
mounted upon rollers and operated by a worm its position being ensured, when it
is brought back to its original place by gudgeons el fixed to the superstructure and
the hooks c which form part of an arrangement of levers articulated upon the wagon
and effecting the disengagement of the body by the operation of the weighted levers a¹
as well as of the levers g¹ which engage with the abutment as described and repre-
sented in the drawings.
Third. The arrangement of the movable superstructure represented in Figures 6, 7, 8
which arrangement is especially applicable to wagons for carrying artillery, munitions
of war and the like, the said arrangement consisting in providing the wagon with a
jointed frame A which can be displaced at any desired moment and which serves as a
track upon which the superstructure can run, the said frame being constructed in
such a manner that, when the superstructure has arrived at its extremity, it can be
caused to assume a horizontal position, as described and represented in the accompany-
ing drawings.
Dated this 26th day of October 1887.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.