Improvements in Fitting or Supporting Lorry, Dray, or other Vehicle Springs on the Axles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 30th July, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fitting or Supporting Lorry, Dray, or other
Vehicle Springs on the Axles.
I, HUGH MCPHERSON of Broughton Market Edinburgh, Lorry Builder, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to make a spring support that will obviate the
necessity for using the large block or beam of wood generally used in supporting
the back springs of drays, lorries and similar vehicles and also to provide a
support for either front or back springs that can be easily and readily fitted in
position on the axles.
The invention consists in making a metal sleeve or cap which can be fitted in
position on the axle and be held securely in place by bolts or equivalent passed
through holes in lugs or projections on the lower sides of the cap or through the
cap itself. The caps are preferably made of rectangular shape so as to fit firmly
on the axle.
In the case of the back springs of a lorry, dray, van or similar vehicle the
sleeves or caps have each two upwardly projecting arms or one arm with two
branches. These arms or branches are so made or bent as to form a support or
seat for the springs. In the case of the sleeves or caps for the fore springs they
have merely a seat made or cast on them for the reception of the springs.
The arms or branches of the back sleeves are of a height sufficient to support
the springs in proper position, so that no wood beam or blocks is or are required.
The bolts for securing the sleeves in place on the axles are so passed through
the lugs on the sleeve itself and under the axles so as not to penetrate and thus
weaken them.
Dated this 29th day of October 1900.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fitting or Supporting Lorry, Dray, or other
Vehicle Springs on the Axles.
I, HUGH MCPHERSON, of Broughton Market, Edinburgh, Lorry Builder, 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 :-
My invention has for its object to make a spring support that will obviate the
necessity for using the large block or beam of wood generally used in supporting
the back springs of drays, lorries and similar vehicles and also to provide a
support for either the front or back springs that can be easily and readily fitted in
position on the axles.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood, I have here-
unto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon ;-
Fig. 1 shows the caps in side elevation and as fitted on a lorry axle.
Fig. 2 shows an end elevation of one of the caps, the lorry wheel being broken
away to allow of the cap being seen.
Referring to the drawings:-
The invention consists in making a metal sleeve or cap a which can be fitted in
position on the axle of the lorry and be held securely in place by bolts e or

page_text: equivalent passed through holes in lugs or projections d on the lower sides of the
cap or through the cap itself. The two caps a are preferably made of rectangular
shape, as shown, at Fig. 2, so as to fit firmly on the axle b. In the case of the
back spring of a lorry, dray, van, or similar vehicle, the sleeves or caps a have
a single arm with two
each two separate upwardly projecting arms, or
branches, 2. The branches ff (or the arms) are so made or bent, as
shown, as to form a support or seat for the springs g, h. In the case of the
sleeves or caps for the fore springs g, they have merely a seat i made or cast on
them for the reception of the said springs g.
The arms or branches of the back sleeves are raised sufficiently high to support
the springs in proper position so that no wood beam or blocks is or are required.
The bolts for securing the sleeves in place on the axles are so passed through
the lugs or the sleeve itself and under the axles as not to penetrate and thus weaken
them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is
A spring support for vehicles constructed substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.