Year: 1886

page_text: I GEORGE WEARING of Carter's Green Foundry West Bromwich in the County
of Stafford Iron-founder do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements in carriage steps hereinafter described
whereby great additional strength in the connection of the step with the vehicle
with reduction in weight is secured.
In the ordinary method of making carriage steps the tread consists of a cast or
wrought iron grating of bars parallel to the side of the vehicle with a middle bar
at right angles. A horizontal arm fixed by a screw and screw nut to the " ' gravel"
iron or vertical arm connected with the vehicle is secured by riveting to the middle
bar of the tread.
In making a carriage step according to my invention I make the parallel bars of
the tread at right angles to the side of the carriage that is at right angles to the
longer sides of the tread At the middle of one of the longer sides of the tread
I cast a tubular socket having in it a square axial hole extending through the
whole length of the socket and through the side of the tread to which the socket is
attached take a square headed bolt of a size and shape suitable for fitting closely
in the hole in the socket. This beaded bolt terminates in a screw. The said
headed bolt is passed from the middle of the tread into the hole in the socket
the head of the bolt bearing against the inner side of the tread the screwed end
of the said bolt and part of the square body of the bolt projecting from the end of
the socket which end terminates in a strong flange.
When the protruding end of the bolt is passed into the square hole in the gravel
iron or vertical arm connecting the step with the vehicle the square part fills the
said square hole the flange on the socket bearing against the front of the gravel
iron or vertical arm and the screwed end of the bolt projecting at the back of the
said iron or arm. By now screwing a screw nut on the screwed end of the bolt at
the back of the gravel iron or vertical arm the tread is firmly secured to the gravel
iron or vertical arm and the step of the vehicle is complete.
In addition to the lightness and strength of carriage steps made according to
my Invention they possess the advantage that if the tread or bolt is fractured
by accident it can be readily replaced by another without the aid of a skilled
workman.

page_text: I GEORGE WEARING of Carter's Green Foundry, West Bromwich in the County
of Stafford, Ironfounder do hereby declare the nature of the 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 consists of the improvements in carriage steps hereinafter
described, whereby great additional strength in the connection of the step with
the vehicle, with reduction in weight is secured.
In the ordinary method of making carriage steps the tread consists of a cast or
wrought iron grating of bars parallel to the side of the vehicle with a middle bar
at right angles. A horizontal arm fixed by a screw and screw nut to the "gravel"
iron or vertical arm connected with the vehicle is secured by riveting to the
middle bar of the tread.
In making a carriage step according to my invention I make the parallel bars of
the tread at right angles to the side of the carriage, that is, at right angles to the
longer sides of the tread. At the middle of one of the longer sides of the tread
I cast a tubular socket having in it a square axial hole extending through the
whole length of the socket and through the side of the tread to which the socket
is attached. I take a square headed bolt of a size and shape suitable for fitting
closely in the hole in the socket. This headed bolt terminates in a screw.
said headed bolt is passed from the middle of the tread into the hole in the socket,
the head of the bolt bearing against the inner side of the tread, the screwed end
of the said bolt and part of the square body of the bolt projecting from the end of
the socket, which end terminates in a strong flange.
The
When the protruding end of the bolt is passed into the square hole in the gravel
iron or vertical arm connecting the step with the vehicle the square part fills the
said square hole, the flange on the socket bearing against the front of the gravel
iron or vertical arm and the screwed end of the bolt projecting at the back of the
said iron or arm. By now screwing a screw nut on the screwed end of the bolt at
the back of the gravel iron or vertical arm the tread is firmly secured to the gravel
iron or vertical arm and the step of the vehicle is complete.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation; Figure 2
in plan and Figure 3 partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section a
carriage step constructed and connected to the gravel iron on the carriage according
to my invention; Figure 4 represents in front elevation a portion of the gravel
iron; Figure 5 represents in plau and end elevation the carriage step and fastening
bolt of the same.
The same letters indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the Drawing.
a is the gravel iron or vertical arm to which the step is connected, the said
gravel iron being secured to the carriage by the horizontal plate a² at top; bis
the square eye in the middle of the gravel iron a through which the square bolt 4
is passed as hereinafter explained; c is the tread of the carriage step made of
parallel bars situated at right angles to the longer sides of the said tread; d is a

page_text: tubular socket on one of the longer sides of the tread c the said socket & being cast
in one piece with the tread. The axial hole e in the socket d is square (see Figure 5)
and extends through the whole length of the socket and also through the side of
the frame of the tread c to which the socket is attached as seen in the section
Figure 3; is a headed bolt for attaching the tread to the gravel iron. The said
bolt has a square stem to fit closely in the square hole e in the socket d. The end
of the socket d is provided with a strong flange d. The head of the bolt f is flat
on opposite sides to permit it to fit closely between the middle pair of cross bars
of the step tread c (see Figures 2 and 5). The opposite end of the bolt is screwed
for a short distance for receiving a screw-nut.
In fastening the carriage step to the gravel iron or vertical arm a fixed on the
carriage, the bolt f is depressed between the middle cross bars in the tread c and
passed through and made to fill the square hole e in the hollow socket d, the
screwed end of the bolt protruding from the flanged end of the socket and its flat
sided head fitting between the middle cross bars of the tread as illustrated in
Figure 5. The protruding end of the bolt is now passed through the square hole
or eye b in the gravel iron a and the flange d of the tubular socket d made
to bear against the front of the gravel iron as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3.
A screw nut g is next screwed on the projecting screwed end of the bolt f at
the back of the gravel iron a and the tread c is thereby securely fixed to the said
gravel iron as illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Although I prefer to use with my invention a step tread having the whole of
the bars parallel to the shorter ends of the tread as described and represented yet
the step tread may be provided with two middle parallel bars only of the kind
represented to permit of the fastening bolt being passed through the tubular
socket, the said middle parallel bars being used in combination with longitudinal
bars between them and the ends of the tread.
In addition to the lightness and strength of carriage steps made according to
my invention, they possess the advantage that if the tread or bolt is fractured
by accident it can be readily replaced by another without the aid of a skilled
workman.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in carriage steps"
The combination with the tread of a carriage step having parallel bars at right
angles to the longer sides of the tread, or two middle parallel bars in the direction
described, of a tubular socket having a square axial hole in it for receiving a square
shanked screw bolt by which the step tread is fastened to the gravel iron on the
carriage, the said tubular socket being arranged with respect to the middle cross
bars of the tread and the said tread being fastened to the gravel iron substantially
as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this Twenty ninth day of September 1886.