Improvements for Connecting Springs, Spring Ends, or other Parts to Carriages or other Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements for Connecting Springs, Spring Ends, or other Parts
to Carriages or other Wheeled Vehicles.
I HENRY WEATHERILL of 33 Beech Street Waterloo Road Cheetham
Manchester in the County of Lancaster Coach Builder do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I form a box or barrel or case in two or more parts by means of cups caps or
parts hereinafter mentioned. I form a cup cap or part at the end or ends of the
top half or part of a spring back plate. I may make this cup cap or part solid
with the back plate or I may connect it with or attach it to the back plate with a
bolt or bolts or I may braze or rivet and braze the cup cap or part to the back
plate or I may connect or attach this cup cap or part to the back plate by any
other suitable means. I form a screw either in or on the mouth or mouths or
opening or openings of this cup cap or part. I then form another cup cap or part
in part or parts to screw in or on the first named cup cap or part. I then insert
the head of a bolt or a part equivalent to a bolt head and then screw the two cups
caps or parts together which form a box or barrel or case the said bolt head or its
equivalent being first enclosed in or surrounded or partly enclosed in or surrounded
with rubber or other elastic material to cnt off the metallic connection with the
bottom half or part of the spring the said bolt screwed end is then passed through
the bottom half or part of the box or barrel or case and then through the end of
the bottom half or part of the spring back plate and screwed up tight with the
plate a collar being made with or attached to the bolt to enable the plate to be
gripped tight between the collar and the nut the bolt head or its equivalent being
enclosed in the box or barrel or case formed as before described. In lieu of using
a bolt as before described I may make the bolt or its equivalent solid with the
bottom back plate in this case I should form the bottom part of the box or barrel
or case in two parts to embrace the neck of the bolts equivalent or I may attach in
a suitable manner a part or parts to act as a bolt or bolt head or link head or part
or parts and then screw the parts into their proper position. This arrangement of
the box or barrel or case and its accessories by a variation of shapes and positions
may also be used in lieu of the old well known shackles and cross shackles to
connect the ends of cross and side springs also as a shackle or coupling to connect
the ends of grasshopper cee or other springs with scroll irons or stays or body or
seat or other parts also with cycle saddles or seat pins or other parts. [ may vary
the parts and uses of the box or barrel or case or parts as a supporter and
suspender or as a shackle or coupling. I may pass the end of a bolt or link
through one end of the box or barrel or case or parts interposing a cushion of
rubber or other elastic material between the box or barrel end or ends or between
the end or ends of case or parts and the bolt head or linkhead or the equivalent of
bolt or linkhead. Sometimes I may pass a bolt or link end through both ends of
the box or barrel or case or parts connected with or to connect with suitable parts
and then screw the parts of the box or barrel or case or parts together by the screw
formed in one part and the screw formed on the other part or parts or I may
connect the box or barrel parts or other parts with a union joint or nut or nuts or
lock nut. Sometimes instead of passing a bolt or link through the cup or cap or
part that screws in or on the other cup or cap or the other part or parts of the box

page_text: or barrel or case I may make a part solid with a cup or cap or part to enable it to
be connected with or attached to a part desired the bolt or link or their equivalent
passing into or out of the other end of the box or barrel or case. Sometimes I may
form the box or barrel or case by screwing a cap or part in or on each end of a
tube or part
and make a hole in one or both ends for a link or links to slide through
or in.
may form lugs on one end of a tube case or part to connect with other
part or parts. I may let the link head or the part attached to the link for
connection with other part or parts act as one end of the box barrel or case.
box barrel or case arrangement protects the rubber from the atmosphere and from
wet dirt and grit and also keeps the rubber well confined to the work it has to do.
The box or barrel or case may be made any length or size according to the use it is
to be put to.
Dated this Twenty-second day of April 1895.
This
Improvements for Connecting Springs, Spring Ends, or other Parts
to Carriages or other Wheeled Vehicles.
I HENRY WEATHERILL of 33 Beech Street Waterloo Road Cheetham
Manchester in the County of, Lancaster Coach 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 relates to improvements for connecting springs spring ends or
other parts to carriages or other wheeled vehicles by arrangements of cups cases or
parts enclosing rubber or other suitable elastic material and bolt heads or link ends
for the purpose of cutting off metallic connection and checking vibration and to
protect the rubber or other suitable elastic material from wet dirt and grit and to
confine the rubber or its equivalent to its work in case of over-weighting when
supporting or suspending.
In order that my invention may be well understood I have attached hereunto a
sheet of drawings illustrative of the same the said drawings being marked with
letters of reference.
Fig. 1. shows top and bottom back plates of a carriage spring connected with
cups such cups forming cases as shown in Figure 2. B. B. B. show flat parts on
the cups for a wrench to engage with for screwing up purposes.
.
Fig. 2. A. A. shows a cup made solid with the top back plate. B shows the
bottom cup screwed on at Cto cup A. A. D is a shouldered bolt showing the
head enclosed in the cups with the end passed through the bottom back plate G.
Eis the put. F. F. F. is rubber or other suitable elastic material in top and bottom
cups enclosing the bolt head.
Fig. 3. shows cup O riveted to top back plate A. A. A bolt may be used in lieu
of a rivet. More than one bolt or rivet may be used. The other parts are
arranged similar to those in Figure 2.. P is the rivet. F F F is rubber. This
arrangement can be applied to any suitable part or parts of wheeled vehicles.
Fig. 4. AA shows a cup made solid with a spring back plate with a bottom
cup B screwed to it similar to Figure 2 with one end of link N passed through the
cup the rubber and washer and screwed up with the nut E. The cups A. A. and B
are then screwed together at C. The other end of link N shows a barrel eye K
which may be used to work on the pin of a scroll iron or stay or in the open end of
a spring or in lieu of a barrel eye as shown an open head similar to the one shown
in Figure 5 (letter L) may be used. The barrel eye or open head may be made
solid with the link N or screwed on in a similar manner to barrel eye M and open
head L as shown in Figure 5. Figure 4. with various arrangements before

page_text: described may be used to connect grasshopper or other side springs with scroll
irons or stays or to connect the ends of side and cross springs to act the part of
cross shackles.
Fig. 5. shows an arrangement for suspending carriage bodies or seats or other
parts by connecting open head L and barrel eye M with suitable parts. B. B. are
cups screwed together at C. C. The two cross lines show an elastic washer
between the bolt heads D. D. E shows the bolt or pin hole through the barrel
eye. F. F. F. F. show the rubber. G shows the bolt through the open head.
Fig. 6. shows an arrangement applied to a cycle pedal. A. A. shows the foot.
rest. G shows the top cup made solid with or brazed on a socket or bearing
part C which covers the pedal pin. D. D. are pins riveted or bolted to foot A. A.
and the washer or plate E. Fis rubber. B is the bottom cup either screwed on G
as shown or it may be screwed inside of G. H is the hole for pedal pin. When
the foot is pressed on the foot rest A. A. it presses the washer or plate E on the
rubber F and checks vibration to the foot. Or the socket or bearing part C can
be attached to a cycle saddle pin or other suitable part or parts and the part A A
in lieu of being used as a foot rest may be made in a suitable form to attach to the
saddle or saddle parts or seats. Dotted lines show rubber round pins D. D.
The beforementioned drawings are not made to any scale as the articles will
vary in size according to the purposes for which they are used.
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 I
claim is
The arrangements for connecting springs spring ends or other parts to carriages
or other wheeled vehicles by cups cases or parts enclosing rubber or other suitable
elastic material and bolt heads or link ends for the purpose of cutting off metallic
connection and checking vibration and to protect the rubber or other suitable
elastic material from wet dirt and grit and to confine the rubber or its equivalent
to its work in case of overweighting when supporting or suspending substantially as
set forth and indicated hereinbefore with reference to Figures 1 to 6 of the accom-.
panying drawings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of January 1896.