An Improved Luggage or Goods Trolley.
Year: 1899

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An Improved Luggage or Goods Trolley.
DAVID FLEMING, Engineer, Alton Street, Ross, Herefordshire, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows.-
Hand-driving gear is fitted to, an ordinary luggage trolley by means of which
motion can be conveyed to one of the axles. The trolley wheels are fitted with
ratchet arrangement in such a way that when the axle is driven round by the
hand-driving gear in a forward direction, the wheels are driven round also,
but when the trolley is pushed forward in the usual way the wheels are free to
run forward independent of the driving gear and are at the same time unable to
move backwards without turning the driving gear backwards.
A hand brake is fitted to act upon the wheels.
DAVID FLEMING, Engineer, of Alton Street, Ross, in the County of Hereford-
shire, 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:
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An ordinary luggage trolley A in Figs. 1 and 2 with end rails B B and front
Swiviling wheel D is fitted with hand driving gear consisting of flywheel E with
handle attached to boss of wheel E is a sproket wheel S both working on a fixed
stud pin as shown The chain R communicates the motion from S to another
sproket wheel F fixed beneath it to a short shaft working in the bracket G at
the other end of which is fixed a bevil toothed wheel H which gears into another
bevil toothed wheel J fixed on the axle N of trolley. The axle runs in the
brackets L L The motion of the axle is given to the traveling wheels C C by
a ratchet arrangement at K shown in detail at Fig. 5 where K is a recess cast
in the boss of C with teeth Q, Q, Q, on inside; a sliding peice l' passes through a
slot in N the axle. O is a loose collar or cap. Any other suitable ratchet arrange-
ment can be employed. Also toothed or worm gearing can be used instead of
the chain R to convey motion from the flywheel to axle
To operate the trolley the flywheel is rotated when the peice P falls and engages
with one of the teeth Q, Fig. 5, causing the wheel C to turn with it and driving
the trolley forward, but when it is desired, the trolley can be pushed forward in
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page_text: the usual way; the wheels being free to move independently of the gearing and
the teeth QQQ pushing the sliding peice P backwards and forwards as they
pass it.
At Figs. 3, 4 and 6 is shown brake which consists of an eccentrical block T pre-
ferebly of hardwood fixed behind wheels, loose on rod V the ends of which work
in brackets U, U. A lever W Fig. 6 is keyed to V and fixed to T with bolt &
nut Z. The slot in W allows wear in T to be taken up. W is connected to the
lever Y by the rod X.
When the trolley is in use the left hand of the operator rests on the top rail
of trolley and on the lever Y at y, and while in this position the eccentric block
remains clear of the wheel as shown in Fig. 3, but when the hand is removed, the
block T falls and brakes the wheel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim 18:-
(1) An improved luggage or goods trolley with hand driving gear, substantialy
as hereintobefore described and indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 5
(2) An improved luggage or goods trolley with hand driving gear and brake
substantialy as herein before described and indicated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Dated this 9th day of November 1899.
DAVID FLEMING.