Improved Check Plates for Fixing Shafts to Fore, or Undercarriage, of Carriages.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Check Plates for Fixing Shafts to Fore, or Undercarriage,
of Carriages.
GEORGE JAMES SCAMMELL, Hot Water Engineer and Shoeing Smith, Lyndhurst,
Hants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Plate No. 1. On one side of this plate there is a solid barrel drilled and which
may be made to take any size bolt or trace bolt, this is fixed on the shaft near
the end, the barrel or tube passing through the shaft to the other side.
Plate No. 2 has a hole in it which receives the end of the tube, when fixed on the
other side of the shaft. After the plates are fitted to the side ends of the shafts
properly and of the correct width to fit closely into the futchels of the fore carriage
it will be impossible for the shafts to sway about as when fitted with plain iron
plates without the barrel or tube as now in use. The plates as now in use after
a little wear get loose and the continued friction enlarges the bolt holes and
eventually cuts the bolts or trace bolts so that they break off, & this cutting of
the bolt causes the shaft to fall, consequently endangering life & limb.
It is claimed that my invention which consists chiefly of the barrel or tube that
there is scarcely any friction or strain on the bolt which is held in the barrel or tube.
It is much superior to anything now in use and a great increase of strength and
security is obtained at a small additional cost. A small hole is drilled in the
barrel or tube by which oiling may be done when required.
GEORGE JAMES SCAMMELL,
Laurel Cottage, Lyndhurst, Hants.
Improved Check Plates for Fixing Shafts to Fore, or Undercarriage,
of Carriages.
GEORGE JAMES SCAMMELL, Hot Water Engineer and Shoeing Smith, Lyndhurst,
Hants, 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:.
1
A metal barrel or tube for passing through the shaft into which the bolt or
trace bolt is to pass instead of through the wood only.
Plate No. 1. On one side of this plate there is a solid barrel drilled and which
may be made to take any size bolt or trace bolt, this is fixed on the shaft near
the end, the barrel or tube passing through the shaft to the other side.

page_text: Plate No. 2, has a hole in it which receives the end of the tube when fixed on the
other side of the shaft. After the plates are fitted to the side ends of the shafts
properly and of the correct width to fit closely into the futchells of the fore-carriage
it will be impossible for the shafts to sway about as when fitted with plain iron
plates without the barrel or tube as now in use. The plates as now in use, after
a little wear, get loose, and the continual friction enlarges the bolt hole &
eventually cuts the bolt or trace bolt so that they break off & this cutting of
the bolt causes the shaft to fall, consequently endangering life & limb.
It is claimed that my invention which consists chiefly of the barrel or tube that
there is scarcely any friction or strain on the bolt which is held in the barrel or tube.
It is much superior to anything now in use & a great increase of strength &
security is obtained at a small additional cost.
A small hole is drilled in the barrel or tube by which oiling may be done when
required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what. I
claim is:-
Novelty & improvement in the mode of attaching shafts to vehicles consisting
of a barrel or tube as before described connected with plates as shown in drawings
sent.
Dated this 4th day of January 1898