A Combined Locomotive Gas Engine with Car.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
A Combined Locomotive Gas Engine with Car.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the County of London, Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the combination of a locomotive gas engine or vehicle
propelled by a gas motor engine, and a car attached thereto, wherein the wheels
under that end of the car which is next the locomotive are done away with, the
said end of the car being supported by the locomotive to which it is attached by
a swivelling connection. By this means a very free articulation of the combined
locomotive and car is obtained when running on curves, and the additional weight
put upon the engine will increase the frictional contact of the driving wheels, while
at the same time the considerable space formerly occupied under the car by the
front wheels and axle is rendered available for placing gas reservoirs.
utilisation of the said space constitutes a characteristic difference between this
construction and similar arrangements employed in connection with steam loco-
motives, and as compared with the ordinary constructions of locomotive gas engines
with coupled car, this arrangement offers the advantage of enabling a much larger
quantity of compressed gas to be carried, so that the engine can run correspond-
ingly greater distances without requiring renewed charging.
This
The locomotive carries a gas motor engine which runs continuously in the same
direction, the motion being communicated through any suitable known arrangements
of gearing and couplings to the running wheels so that the locomotive can run
either forward or backward and either fast or slow. The car body is carried on
strong longitudinal bearers which are extended beyond the body at the front end
and are provided at their end with a spherical bearing surface and a swivel pin, a
corresponding spherical bearing surface being provided on the end of the loco-
motive frame, through which the swivel pin passes. The rear end of the car is
supported either on a single pair of wheels or preferably on a bogy truck.
Dated this 30th day of May 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the County of London, Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent,
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 :-
This invention relates to the combination of a locomotive gas engine or vehicle

page_text: propelled by a gas motor engine, and a car attached thereto, wherein the wheels
under that end of the car which is next the locomotive are done away with, the
said end of the car being supported by the locomotive to which it is attached by a
swivelling connection. By this means a very free articulation of the combined
locomotive and car is obtained when running on curves, and the additional weight
put upon the engine will increase the frictional contact of the driving wheels, while
at the same time the considerable space formerly occupied under the car by the
front wheels and axle is rendered available for placing gas reservoirs. This
utilisation of the said space constitutes a characteristic difference between this
construction and similar arrangements employed in connection with steam loco-
motives, and as compared with the ordinary constructions of locomotive gas engines
with coupled car, this arrangement offers the advantage of enabling a much larger
quantity of compressed gas to be carried, so that the engine can run correspond-
ingly greater distances without requiring renewed charging.
The locomotive carries a gas motor engine which runs continuously in the same
direction, the motion being communicated through any suitable known arrangements
of gearing and couplings to the running wheels so that the locomotive can run
either forward or backward and either fast or slow. The car body is carried on
strong longitudinal bearers which are extended beyond the body at the front end
and provided at their end with a spherical bearing surface and a swivel pin, a
corresponding spherical bearing surface being provided on the end of the loco-
motive frame, through which the swivel pin passes.
The rear end of the car is
supported either on a single pair of wheels or preferably on a bogy truck.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shews a side elevation partly in section,
and
Fig. 2 a plan partly in section of a combined car and locomotive gas engine
constructed according to the above described invention.
A is the locomotive gas engine constructed according to any suitable known
arrangement, and B is the passenger car.
The front wheels of the latter are done away with, and their place is occupied
by large gas reservoirs i, the car body is supported on strong longitudinal bearers c,
that have a cranked front extension terminating in a bearing block d which rests
with a spherical surface upon the corresponding spherical surface of the bearing
block e carried by the framing of the locomotive. A swivel bolt a passes centrally
through the bearing blocks d and e with a certain amount of play, the bolt being
pivoted to a pin carried by the upper block, thus forming a spherical coupling that
will allow of the requisite amount of relative motion between the car and the
locomotive. The rear end of the car is carried by a truck b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A combined locomotive gas engine and car wherein the car is supported at its
rear end upon a truck while the front end is supported upon the locomotive engine
by means of an articulated coupling one part of which is fixed to an extension of
the longitudinal hearers of the car, the space under the front end of the car
produced by the absence of the front wheels being occupied by gas reservoirs so
that the weight of these produce increased adhesion of the locomotive wheels,
substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of February 1896
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.