Improvements in Railway Goods-trucks.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 31st May, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Railway Goods-trucks.
A communication from GEORGE TALBOT, of the Firm of Gustav Talbot & Co., of
Aix-la-Chapelle, in the Empire of Germany, Railway-carriage Builders.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I. Mech. E. and Chartered Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This railway-truck is intended to serve for the transport of coal, ores, etc., on
railway lines of any gauge and consists of a lower frame, a body or receptacle
having inclined walls and intermediate pieces, preferably of wood, whereby the
frame and body are connected; these pieces at the same time serve to support
sliding plates the object of which is to discharge the contents of the truck as far as
possible beyond the rails of the line on either side. In order to quickly unload a
funnel-shaped truck of this description each of the inclined walls is provided with
Bay four doors and a lever is arranged to operate each pair of these doors so as to
open them two at a time when required, the lever being itself operated from the
outside of the truck. To close the doors it is only necessary to push them to, when
they will of their own accord be locked by a spring or other bolt or catch. The
delivery plates may be provided with hinges and while the truck is travelling are
turned down, pivotted brackets or supports being turned to one side for the
purpose.
Dated this 1st day of December 1892
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Railway Goods-trucks.
A communication from GEORGE TALBOT, of the Firm of Gustav Talbot & Co., of
Aix-la-Chapelle, in the Empire of Germany, Railway-carriage Builders.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 railway truck is intended to serve for the transport of coal, ores, etc. on
railway lines of any gauge and consists of a lower frame a and a body or receptacle b
having inclined walls. The lower frame a supports inclined delivering plates d the
object of which is to discharge the contents of the truck as far as possible beyond
the rails of the line on either side.
In order to quickly unload a funnel-shaped truck of this description each of the
inclined walls is provided with several doors f, and shafts k are longitudinally
arranged, which shafts when turned by means of crank handles e provided at their
ends by means of cams / release the bolts or catches from the doors f so that the
doors open; the doors may be retained open by hooks n.
To close the doors it is only necessary to push them to, when they will of their
own accord be locked by the catches h provided with a spring 9. The delivering
plates d are provided with hinges i and while the truck is travelling are turned up
and retained in their closed position by the hooks m.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion 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 ;-
1. A railway goods truck in which the contents are discharged by their own
weight as they in consequence of the inclined arrangement of the side walls open the
doors therein being delivered by delivering plates beyond the rails of the track
substantially as described.
2. The combination in a railway goods truck of inclined sides having doors f
therein and inclined delivering plates such as di whereby the contents are delivered
or dumped clear of the track substantially as described."
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the railway goods
truck substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of May 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.