IMPROVEMENTS IN BARROWS, TRUCKS, CARTS, AND OTHER VEHICLES."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hezekiah Thomas Fryer Clifton, of Hampton Wick, in the
County of Middlesex, Smith, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BARROWS,
TRUCKS, CARTS, AND OTHER VEHICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hezekiah Thomas Fryer
Clifton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd November
1876.
HEZEKIAH THOMAS FRYER CLIFTON, of Hampton Wick, in the County of
Middlesex, Smith. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BARROWS, TRUCKS, -CARTS, AND OTHER
VEHICLES."
My Invention relates to that class of vehicles in which the body or containing
portion is tipped for the discharge of its contents, and consists of a peculiar arrange-
ment of the body and combination of the same with the tailboard or its equivalent
forming the rear portion of the body, whereby such tailboard or rear portion is
operated simultaneously with the body, and caused to open so as to facilitate the
discharge of the load.
In carrying out my Invention the body is pivotted on the axletree, and the
tailboard or rear portion is pivotted to the upper end of the fixed frame of the
vehicle, but connected to the body by side links or levers in such a manner that
when the body is tipped the tailboard or rear portion will by means of the said
links or levers be caused to turn up, so as to leave a free opening at the back for
the discharge of the contents of the vehicle. A handle is provided in front for the
facility of tipping the body, and a catch is employed for retaining the body when
in its tipped position by automatically engaging with the handle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Hezekiah Thomas Fryer Clifton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd May 1877.
HEZEKIAH THOMAS FRYER CLIFTON, of Hampton Wick, in the County of
Middlesex, Sinith. IMPROVEMENTS IN BARROWS, TRUCKS, CARTS, AND OTHER
VEHICLES."
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My said Invention relates to that class of vehicles in which the body or containing
portion is tipped for the discharge of its contents, and consists of a peculiar arrange-
ment of the body and combination of the same with the tailboard or its equivalent
forming the rear or end portion of the body, whereby such tailboard or rear or end
portion is operated simultaneously with the body, and caused to open upwards so as
to facilitate the discharge of the load.
In carrying out my said Invention the body is pivotted on the axletree, and the
tailboard or rear or end portion is pivotted to the upper end of the fixed frame of
the vehicle, but connected to the body by side links or levers in such a manner that
when the body is tipped the tailboard or rear or end portion will by means of the
said links or levers be caused to turn up, so as to leave a free opening at the back
or end for the discharge of the contents of the vehicle. A handle is provided at the
front or opposite end for the facility of tipping the body, and a catch may be
employed for retaining the body when in its tipped position by automatically
engaging with the handle, the body and its tailboard or rear or end portion
returning simultaneously by gravitation to their normal position on the release of
the handle from such retaining catch.
My said Invention is applicable to all classes of vehicles, the body containing
portion of which is tipped for the discharge of the load or contents of the vehicle.
In the two Figures of the accompanying Drawing which I shall now proceed to
describe, I have shewn by way of example the application of the Invention to a
tipping truck intended more particularly for the conveyance of coke from retorts,
Figure 1 being an elevation (with the near wheel removed) of the truck with the
movable parts in their normal position, and Figure 2 a similar view with the
movable parts in their tipped and open position for the discharge of the load.
A is the body containing portion of the truck which is pivotted on the axle-
tree B, so as to be capable of being tipped or tilted, and is the tailboard or
movable end portion which is attached to the framing D by a pivot a so as to be
capable of turning thereon, and is also connected to the body A by links or levers E
arranged one on each side of the body A, in such a manner that when the body is
tipped, as shewn in Figure 2, the movable end portion C will by means of the
links or levers E be caused to turn upwards into the position shewn in that Figure,
so as to leave a free opening at b for the discharge of the contents of the vehicle.
A handle F is provided for the facility of tipping the body A, and a catch G is
employed for retaining the body when in its tipped position by automatically
engaging with the portion c of the handle, the body A and its movable end portion
subsequently returning simultaneously by gravitation to their normal position
indicated in Figure 1, on the release of the portion c of the handle F from the
catch G.
When the Invention is applied to carts, and in other cases if necessary, a spring
or springs may be employed in front for retaining the body in its normal position.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect, I
would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the combination with the body or containing portion of a tipping
vehicle of a tailboard or rear or end portion arranged in connection therewith in
such a manner that when the body or containing portion is tipped the tailboard or
rear or end portion shall be simultaneously caused to open upwards for the purpose

page_text: of facilitating the discharge of the load or contents of the vehicle, such movable
portions subsequently returning simultaneously and automatically to their normal
position, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hezekiah Thomas Fryer Clifton, have to this
my Specification set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
H. T. F. CLIFTON. (L.S.)