IMPROVE- MENTS IN TROLLIES OR TIPPING WAGGONS FOR DISCHARGING COAL, EARTH, AND OTHER SIMILAR BODIES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustine Styles, junior, of Lamb Wharf,
Greenhithe, in the County of Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TROLLIES OR TIPPING WAGGONS FOR DISCHARGING COAL, EARTH,
AND OTHER SIMILAR BODIES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustine Styles at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,.on the
11th June 1874.
I, AUGUSTINE STYLES, junior, of Lamb Wharf, Greenhithe, in the
County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TROLLIES OR TIPPING WAGGONS FOR DISCHARGING COAL,
EARTH, AND OTHER SIMILAR BODIES," to be as follows:-
The object of this, Invention is to construct a trolly or tipping waggon
which can be tilted at any angle for discharging the contents therefrom.
In carrying the Invention into effect I mount a ring plate or rail upon
a lower frame, and I pin an upper frame upon the lower one, so that it
may turn upon the pin as upon a pivot, to enable the contents to be

page_text: shot out from the trolly proper, which is held to the upper frame in the
usual manner. I fit small rollers or wheels to the under side of the
upper frame to bear upon the ring plate or rail, and these serve to guide
and steady the upper frame and the trolly while being turned to permit
of the contents being shot at the back, the front, or at the sides of the
line upon which the trolly or vehicle may be placed. I arrange a bolt
to the upper frame, which bolt can be caused to drop into one or other
of a series of apertures in the ring plate to hold it firmly, when the
angle or proper position of the trolly is obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Augustine Styles in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTINE
STYLES, junior, of Lamb Wharf, Greenhithe, in the County of Kent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of Junc, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Augustine Styles, Her
special licence that I, the said Augustine Styles, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Augustine
Styles, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TROLLIES OR TIPPING WAGGONS FOR DIS-
CHARGING COAL, EARTH, AND OTHER SIMILAR BODIES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Augustine Styles, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain tho
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent

page_text: Office within six calendar month's next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Augustine Styles, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to construct a trolly or tipping waggon
which can be tilted at any angle for discharging the contents therefrom,
or can be loaded from one of the sides or ends of the frame with less
labour on the part of the workmen, because when the body is swivelled
and the tail board down, they have not to lift the material so high as
they are compelled to do with existing trollies or tip waggons. .
In carrying the Invention into effect I mount a ring plate or rail
upon a lower frame, and I pin an upper frame upon the lower one, so
that it may turn upon
the pin as upon a pivot, to enable the contents
to be shot out from the trolly proper which is held to the upper frame in
the usual manner. I fit small rollers or wheels to the under side of
the upper frame to bear upon the ring plate or rail, and these serve to
guide and steady the upper frame and the trolly while being turned to
permit of the contents being shot at the back, the front, or at the sides
of the line upon which the trolly or vehicle may be placed. I arrange
a bolt to the upper frame, which bolt can be caused to drop into one or
other of a series of apertures in the ring plate to hold it firmly when
the angle or proper position of the trolly is obtained.
The Invention will be well understood by the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, in which Figure 1 shows in perspective a trolly or tip waggon
of my improved construction with the body canted or. tilted for the end
tip, Figure 2 being a similar view for the side tip, so that the contents
can be shot out of the vehicle over the side of the rail on which the
wheels run, like an ordinary railway or tramway truck, such as is
necessary when forming or dressing an embankment, shooting coal,
gravel, or other mineral or goods at the side for filling up gaps and pits
alongside a line of rails, or for running or moving heavy material into or
from the vehicle and other vehicles brought alongside, a feature of great
; advantage in some situations where sidings or loop lines are much used,
the loading and unloading being materially expedited by the use of my
Invention.
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page_text: The body A. is composed of three sides and a bottom, the tailboard
being hinged to it like to the body of an ordinary trolly or tip waggon.
The body is supported upon bearings and axles B, B, and is kept in a
horizontal position by a slight preponderance of weight on one half over
that on the other, and by a locking bolt C, as in Figures 3 and 4, which
are respectively a section fore and aft and an end view of a vehicle, the
locking bolt C terminating in a hand lover that can be slid sideways
and be shifted out of its notch D, when a slight lift at that end will
cause the lever to be disengaged from the vertical slot E, and the body
to tilt or tip upon its bearings. The bearings are upon a lower frame F,
which is held to the wheel or main frame G by a perch or centre bolt H.
The frame F after the removal of the catch bolt I from the slot J of the
main frame permits of the body A and lower frame F being moved
round to set the body at any angle with the line of rails K, K, upon
which the trolly or tip waggon is borne. The catch bolt I has a lever L
pivotted at M to its own frame F, and terminates in a handle N, by
which the bolt can be lifted for disengagement at any moment. The
main or wheel frame G is provided with a circular plate P, Figure 5,
upon its upper surface, the diameter of which corresponds with the
radius of a series of rollers Q, Q, upon the bottom of the lower frame F,
so that they may run thereon and maintain an equal pressure of the
body A at all times upon the main frame, the weight being so distributed
over the wheel base that jumping while the vehicle is being moved from
place to place is avoided. The circular plate P is provided with a
number of holes or slots J, into any one of which the catch bolt I can
drop to retain the body at the desired horizontal angle with the main
frame after it is moved round as desired, the vehicle being still upon the
metals K, K, so that it can be moved along bodily upon them, such as
is often required while a railway or river embankment is being dressed,
the angle at which the body is set being such that a gradual discharge
of the content can take place while the vehicle is moving. I propose
to fit extra draught chains and hooks R to the bodies, so that when a
number of such vehicles forming a train are being drawn along upon the
rails K, K, the load can thereby be pulled direct instead of from or
through the main or wheel frame. The usual draught chains and hooks
may however be used for the purpose of haulage.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in

page_text: special construction and arrangement of parts composing a trolly or tip
waggon, the body and lower frame of which can be turned and swivelled
round to any angle horizontally upon the main frame, and the lower
frame be locked in that position, while the body can be tipped for
discharging the contents therefrom, as described and as shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustine Styles, junior, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Second day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
AUGUSTINE STYLES, JUN. (L.S.)