Coupling for Railway Wagons and other Vehicles Operated from the side.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Coupling for Railway Wagons and other Vehicles Operated from
the side.
I, KANUT KARL MESZAROS, Priest of the Franciscan Order, of Maria-Radna,
Austria, 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:-
The present invention is a coupling for railway wagons and other vehicles
which is operated from the side.
Figure 1 is a side view of the same coupled, with one of the sides of the frame j
removed.
Figure 2 is a side view of the same uncoupled, with one of the sides of the
frame j removed.
Figure 3 is a top view of one side A of the coupling.
Figure 4 is a section from ac in Figure 3.
The coupling pieces, each of which is similarly attached to the wagon end,
consist of the coupling A A' and the reserve coupling B B₁. The latter being
worked simultaneously with the former. The coupling consists of a bar b on
either end provided with a loop c on the fore end, a coupling hook a and an
axle d on the hinder end to which axle two levers e e are movably attached.
These two levers are rotably attached to a bolt h which is retained in the trac-
tion hook f by two slotted bars 9 g. This bolt h has on either extremity a
lever i which is rotably attached to a pin k fixed in the frame j.
On the bolt h there is also movably attached by means of a fork the reserve
coupling B and B¹. The coupling consists of the bars 6 which have the reserve
coupling hooks a¹ and also the loops c¹ rotably attached at m.
The bars b b are stopped by rollers n n¹ mounted in the frame ; while the
frame is fixed to the traction hook by means of screws and a casing o.
In order to loose the coupling as shewn in Figure 1. The coupling hook a
is freed from the loop c and the other coupling piece A¹ attached to it, while
the loop c is freed from the coupling hook a¹ by means of a hand wheel p at the
side. This is effected in the following way.
By the revolution of the hand wheel pan axle r, controlled by a spring 9 and
attached to the wagon end, is revolved. This axle r has two slotted bars g g
affixed to it which enclose the bolt h. Accordingly when the slotted bars g
revolve the bolt h is freed and now slides downwards along the slots and reaches
the dotted position I.
By this means the levers e, e and i, i revolve around d and k respectively in
the dotted position Figure 1 whereupon the levers e e come to rest on a projec-
tions of the bar b.
Simultaneously the bar 61 of the reserve coupling which is attached to the
bolt h by means of the fork 1, is raised as it slides over the roller n' and travels
over it into the dotted position I Figure 1.
If now the revolution of the hand wheel is continued the slotted bars reach
position II. The levers e e by means of the projections on the bar 6 pushes

page_text: the bar somewhat forward, and make it travel over the roller n and thus raises
it out of the loop c of the coupling picce A¹ (Fig. 2). The wagon can now be
pushed away and the hand wheel released thereby bringing the coupling parts
again into the original position.
The same process is gone through in coupling. The wagon is brought up the
hand wheel is revolved to position II and the coupling is effected by releasing it.
Coupling may also be effected automatically since when the ends of the
coupling parts come together the loop c of the part A¹ raises the coupling hook a
of the part A a guiding roller t being provided which passes under a nose u of
the coupling hook a raising this until it engages the loop c. Similarly the loop c¹
of the reserve coupling with its guiding roller t passes along u¹ until it engages
the coupling hook.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
CLAIMS.
First A coupling for railway wagons and other vehicles operated from the
side, characterised by an arrangement of a coupling hook a on a bar 6 which
latter on the one side lies freely on a roller n attached to a frame which is affixed
to the traction hook and on the other side is by means of two levers rotably
attached to the bar axle d in connection with a bolt h retained in the traction
hook while this bolt h is attached to two levers which can be rotated on pins
of the frame j: further characterised by the arrangement of a second bar b',
supporting a loop cl which bar lies freely on a roller n of the frame j and by
means of the fork is rotably attached to the pins h.
Second: In a coupling according to Claim 1 the uncoupling and coupling
of the coupling hook a and the loop c¹ from and with the coupling parts corre-
sponding to them, characterised by two slotted bars g g affixed to a spring-con-
trolled axle worked with a hand wheel which slotted bars on being revolved
force the bolt h downwards and release the loop c¹³ from the coupling hook a¹ and
the hook a from the loop c.
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1000
KANUT KARL MESZAROS,
By George Barker,
Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicant, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.