Improvements in or connected with Shafted Vehicles, applicable more especially to Hop Washers, Sulphurators, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Shafted Vehicles, applicable
more especially to Hop Washers, Sulphurators, and the like.
I, EDMUND GASCOINE Junior of Perseverance Ironworks Maidstone, in the
County of Kent Engineer, do hereby declare this nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My invention has for its object to provide an efficient attachment of the shafts to
vehicles which will obviate the necessity which at present exists when vehicles have
to turn round in a confined space for withdrawing one of the pins by which the
shafts are attached to the vehicle. According to my invention I connect the shafts
to the vehicle by a centre pin mounted at the fore end of the vehicle so that the
shafts can turn on the said pin as a centre. I also provide a device by which the
shafts can be locked in position consisting of engaging parts which are respectively
carried by the shafts and the vehicle and are preferably arranged so that they can
be engaged and disengaged from the part most convenient for the driver or
attendant for instance from the forward end of the shafts so that the man at the
head of the horse can readily effect the engagement and disengagement. A con-
venient arrangement for the purpose consists of a semicircular series of teeth fixed
to the front of the vehicle and a toothed block capable of sliding backwards and
forwards in guides in the rear part or cross bar of the shafts which block is
connected to one end of a lever centered to the shafts the other end of the said
lever being connected to a rod carried forward to near one of the forward ends of
the shafts and there connected to a handle so that by operating this handle the
block can be withdrawn from engagement with the said teeth carried by the vehicle
so that the shafts can then be turned upon the centre pin. By moving the said
handle in the reverse direction the teeth of the block are engaged with the teeth
fixed to the vehicle so that the shafts are locked to the vehicle. My invention is
intended more especially for application to hop washers, sulphurizers and the like
but can be applied to any other vehicles in which it is desired to provide for the
ready turning of the shafts relatively to the vehicle.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1892
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Shafted Vehicles, applicable
more especially to Hop Washers, Sulphurators, and the like.
I, EDMUND GASCOINE Junior of Perseverence Iron Works, Maidstone in the
County of Kent Engineer 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 provide an efficient attachment of the shafts to
vehicles which attachment will obviate the necessity which at present exists when
vehicles have to turn round in a confined space, for withdrawing one of the pins by
which the shafts are attached to the vehicle. According to my invention I connect
the shafts to the vehicle by a centre-pin mounted at the fore end of the vehicle so
that the shafts can turn on the said pin as a centre. I also provide a device by
which the shafts can be locked in position the said device consisting of engaging
parts which are respectively carried by the shafts and by the vehicle and are

page_text: preferably arranged so that they can be engaged and disengaged from the part of
the shafts or of the vehicle most convenient for the driver, or attendant, for instance,
from the forward end of the shafts so that the man at the head of the horse or
horses can readily effect the engagement and disengagement.
A convenient arrangement for the purpose is illustrated by the accompanying
drawing in which
Figure
is a plan and Figure 2 a side elevation.
A is part of the body of the vehicle and B are the shafts. C is a semicircular
series of teeth fixed to the front of the vehicle and D is a toothed block capable of
sliding backwards and forwards in guides in the rear part, cross bar or bracket b
of the shafts which rear part, cross bar, or bracket serves to attach the shafts to
the vehicle by the centre-pin E.
The said block D is connected to one end of a lever f centred to the shafts at f²
the other end of the said lever being connected to a rod y carried forward through
the guide g² to near one of the forward ends of the shafts and there connected to a
handle turning on the centre h² so that by operating this handle the block D can
be withdrawn from engagement with the said teeth C carried by the vehicle and
the shafts can then be turned upon the centre-pin E.
By moving the said handle in the reverse direction the teeth of the block D
are engaged with the teeth C fixed to the vehicle and then by this engagement the
shafts are locked to the vehicle. My invention is intended more especially for
application to hop washers, sulphurizers and the like but can be applied to any
other vehicles in which it is desired to provide for the ready turning of the shafts
relatively to the vehicle.
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 :-
:-
1. The combination with shafted vehicles of a centre pin by which the shafts are
connected to the vehicle and a device consisting of engaging parts carried by the
shafts and the vehicle respectively and capable of being engaged to secure the
shafts in position relatively to the vehicle and of being released to allow the shafts
to be turned relatively to the vehicle as substantially as herein before described.
2. The combination with shafted vehicles of a centre pin by which the shafts are
connected to the vehicle and a device by which the shafts can be secured in position
relatively to the vehicle and released so that they can turn upon the centre pin and
an operating lever or equivalent device carried to a convenient point of the shafts
or vehicle so that the shafts can from that point be secured in position and released
for turning all substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The arrangement and combin..tion of parts for securing shafts in position
relatively to the vehicle and releasing them so that they can be turned relatively
to the vehicle substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 4th day of Sentem. r 1893
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.