IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARTS WAGONS AND OTHER SIMILAR VEHICLES AND IN THE MECHANISM CONNECTED THEREWITH FOR COLLECTING THE REFUSE FROM STREETS ROAD- WAYS AND OTHER PLACES " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William March of No 32 Saint Mary Axe in the City of
London Merchant for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF CARTS WAGONS AND OTHER SIMILAR VEHICLES AND IN THE
MECHANISM
CONNECTED THEREWITH FOR COLLECTING THE REFUSE FROM STREETS ROAD-
WAYS AND OTHER PLACES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William March at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st June 1882.
WILLIAM MARCH of No 32 Saint Mary Axe in the City of London Merchant
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARTS WAGONS AND OTHER SIMILAR
VEHICLES AND IN THE MECHANISM CONNECTED THEREWITH FOR COLLECTING THE
REFUSE FROM STREETS ROADWAYS AND OTHER PLACES."
A revolving brush operated on by one of the hind wheels is placed under a
Wagon and sweeps into an elevator the slop or other material requiring removal.
The Elevator consists of endless chains or steel bands with buckets attached and
revolving on pulleys inside a base and is driven by the hind wheel or by a pulley
attached to the intermediate brushing machine The Elevator is placed in front of
the body of the wagon whereby the body can be tipped end ways without any
obstruction behind
Or this combined sweeping and elevating machine can be mounted on wheels
and made to attach temporarily to the hinder part of any wagon or cart for the
purpose of filling the same the only alterations necessary in such case being to
reverse the revolution of the elevator to carry the handle of the brush lever behind
instead of in front and to place under the elevator a pair of sinall wheels and axle
with ordinary locking arrangement.
The tipping of the aforesaid wagon may be facilitated and the wagon reduced
in weight by dispensing with the hind axle and constructing the hinder ends of
the side of the frame upon which the body rests of iron or steel which if required
to make the wagon higher may be bent downwards forming two spurs To the
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page_text: ends of these spurs whether bent or straight are fastened axle arms
The fastening
may be effected by a plate fat or angular forged or otherwise on to the collar of the
arm and bolted to the spur Or the arm may be fastened to the spur by extending
the collar part of the arm so as to go through the spur
Should the wagon be required to have springs this plate or extended collar may
be fastened to the end of the spring in a similar manner as it would be to the spur
Or if a hind axle be preferred with springs resting upon it and supporting the
body the axle can then become the centre of tip and the fixed frame be jointed to
the body like shafts to a cart
In order further to reduce the weight of the wagon and cheapen its construction
the fore carriage as well as one of the front wheels may be dispensed with_by
substituting an iron or steel arched pedestal with locking arrangement on the Top
The wheel and its axle will then revolve inside the pedestal Should the wagon be
mounted on springs the axle will work in a pair of sliding blocks which will press
up against the springs
The tipping of the wagon may be made to open the hind door or tail board
automatically by a crank and connecting rods part of which is fastened to the
fixed frame of the wagon and the other parts to the tipping body and tail board
of the same

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Willian March in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th December 1882.
SIMILAR
WILLIAM MARCH of 32 Saint Mary Axe in the City of London Merchant
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARTS WAGONS AND OTHER
VEHICLES AND IN THE MECHANISM CONNECTED THEREWITH FOR COLLECTING THE
REFUSE FROM STREETS ROADWAYS AND OTHER PLACES
A revolving brush or a chain of revolving brushes is placed under the wagon body
and between the front and hind wheels and is operated on by spur or friction
wheels one of which is fastened to the hind road wheel and the other to the end of
a rocking bracket Motion is imparted to the brushes by means of a chain working
upon two chain wheels one of which is keyed on to the same shaft as the bracket
spur wheel or bracket friction wheel and the other on to the front shaft of the
brushes There are two rocking brackets one on each side of the machine and are
both keyed on to one and the same shaft A lever handle fastened to either of the
brackets or to the shaft carrying the brackets connects or disconnects the spur or
friction wheels and at the same time lowers or raises the brushes and the inclined
trough
The two shafts of the revolving brushes are kept at the requisite distance apart
by means of two pairs of right and left threaded eye-screws and elongated nuts
the shafts revolving in the eyes of these eye screws
The brush chains are likewise
thus kept at their requisite tension Two more pairs of right and left threaded
eye screws and elongated nuts connect the lower or hind shaft of the revolving
brushes to the inclined trough so that the brushes can be lowered to the trough in
proportion as they wear away Both ends of the upper or front shaft of the brushes
run in sliding blocks which are secured in their places by pins passing through
them and the brackets A series of pin holes in these brackets enable the sliding
blocks and the front shaft of the brushes to be lowered as the brushes wear
inclined trough is hinged at its upper part or front end to an elevator case and is
further suspended on each side by a chain fastened to the rocking brackets
The
When the machine is at work the brushes sweep the dust mud or other material
requiring removal up the inclined trough and into the foot of the elevator case.
The elevator is placed in front of the wagon body whereby the body can be tipped
end ways without any obstruction behind
The elevator consists of an endless chain of buckets revolving on pulleys inside
the case and is worked either by one of the hind road wheels or by a pulley or
chain wheel keyed on to the shaft of the revolving brushes
case
The buckets are made to discharge their contents by a jerking motion imparted
by the falling of a weighted lever keyed on to one of the shafts of the elevator the
extent of fall of the lever and consequent jerk of the bucket being regulated by
the length of a circular slot cut in the face of the driven pulley or chain wheel
such wheel not being keyed but revolving loosely on the elevator shaft outside tho
This circular slot receives the pin of a crank such crank being keyed rigid
on to the shaft between the elevator case and the chain wheel so that the crank
pin projects outside and beyond the face or plain of the chain wheel This wheel
being set in motion by the chain revolves on the shaft till the end of the circular
slot comes in contact with the crank pin when it carries it and the shaft and
elevator buckets round with it and raises the weighted lever till it arrives over the
centre of the shaft when it suddenly falls to the extent allowed by the length of
the slot in the wheel The jerk so given suffices to discharge at a tangent the

page_text: contents of the buckets as they arrive in turn at the top of the elevator Instead
of a weighted lever it may in some cases be preferable to substitute a spring the
unsecured end of which is connected by means of a chain or link to that end of
the crank pin which projects outside the slot of the wheel The wheel in revolving
carries the crank pin with it and thus bends the spring till the pin passes on the
dead-centre when the spring suddenly recoils and acting on the crank pin produces
the same effect as that of the weighted lever. The accompanying drawing clearly
illustrates the mechanism
In order to reduce the weight of the machine the fore carriage may be dispensed
with as well as one of the front wheels by substituting an iron or steel arched
pedestal with locking arrangement on the top The wheel and its axle will then
revolve inside the pedestal Should the wagon be mounted on springs the axle can
work in a pair of sliding blocks which will press up against the springs The
action of tipping the wagon body opens the hind door or tail board by means of a
crank and two connecting rods one of the latter of which is fastened to the fixed
frame of the wagon and the other to the tail board: as shown in the accompanying
drawing. Or the latter connecting rod may have a rack at the end on its upper
edge which will gear into a spur wheel segment keyed on to the ends of the
trunnions on which the tail board swings
The tipping joint of the body being placed a little to the rear of the centre of
the body enables the latter to fall with sufficient force to open a spring catch fixed
to each side of the frame and which keeps the body in position until released
This combined sweeping and clevating machine can be made to hook on behind
any ordinary cart or wagon for the purpose of filling the same the only alterations
necessary in such case being to reverse the revolution of the elevator and to carry
the lever handle behind instead of in front
In making wagons for this or other purposes I propose to facilitate the tipping
and reduce the weight by dispensing with the hind axle and constructing the hinder
ends of the frame upon which the body rests of iron or steel which if required to
make the wagon higher may be bent downwards forming two spurs To the ends
of these spurs whether bent or straight are fastened axle arms
The fastening may
be effected by a plate flat or angular forged or otherwise on to the collar of the
arm and bolted to the spur Or the arm may be fastened to the spur by extending
the collar part of the arm so as to go through the spur Should the wagon be
required to have springs this plate or extended collar may be fastened to the end
of the springs in a similar manner as it would be to the spur If an axle be
preferred to arms the axle can then become the centre of tip and the fixed or front
wheel frame be jointed to the body like shafts to a cart the front ends of the two
side springs being fastened to the body at a point inside the line of the front wheel
frame so as not to come in contact with such frame The accompanying drawing
shows my manner of constructing such wagon The fore carriage of this wagon
may be made in the usual way or by an iron pedestal with axle bolted thereto or
by an arched pedestal with one wheel and a short axle revolving thereon
In witness whereof 1 the said William March have hereunto set ny hand and
seal this twelfth day of December Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred
and eighty two.