Load Carried by Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 13th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 21st June, 1887.
Load Carried by Wheeled Vehicles.
I, GEORGE CAPPER, of Granville Road, St. Alban's, Herts, Contractor, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved means of ascertaining and indicating the weight
of the load carried by any wheeled vehicle at any moment by means adapted to the
vehicle and without necessitating that the vehicle should be taken to a weighing
platform.
In carrying the Invention into effect I adapt the weight indicating contrivance to
an axle of the vehicle in such a manner as to occupy a fixed position in relation
thereto; and provide the same with a graduated dial upon which the measurement of
the load is indicated and may be at any time conveniently read off.
The indicator is so adapted to such device as to be actuated by the rise and fall of
the spring supported body of the vehicle in accordance with the load it contains, and
its indications are consequently dependent upon and are caused to accord with the
relative distance apart of the body of the vehicle and of the axle.
The indicator is also combined or adapted with a spring which has a constant.
tendency to return the indicator to zero, and does so when the load is wholly
removed.
It will thus be seen that such improved means will correctly indicate the weight of
the load, and its variations as it is added to or lessened.
Dated this 13th day of July 1886.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, GEORGE CAPPER, of Granville Road, St. Alban's, Herts, Contractor, do hereby
declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This Invention relates to improved means of ascertaining and indicating the weight
of the load carried by any wheeled vehicle at any moment by means adapted to the
vehicle as hereinafter described, and without necessitating that the vehicle should be
taken to a weighbridge or weighing platform.
On the accompanying drawings:-Fig. 1, represents one modification of the
Invention in front elevation, part of the dial plate being shown as broken away in
order to more clearly show the working parts. Fig. 2, represents a method of
applying the apparatus to a vehicle, and Fig. 3, represents another modification of the
Invention.
In carrying the Invention into effect, the weight indicating contrivance is partly
adapted to an axle of the vehicle in such a manner as to occupy a fixed position in
relation thereto, and is partly adapted to the spring-supported body of the vehicle in
such a manner as to be actuated thereby in accordance with the load it contains..
The part, 4, which is adapted to the axle, 5, of the vehicle, may be so adapted in
any convenient manner, and is provided with a dial-plate, 6, graduated in accordance
with the desired measurements, and in accordance with the strength of the springs, 7,
supporting the body, 8, of the vehicle.
The part, 9, which is adapted to the body of the vehicle, and which also may be so
adapted in any convenient manner, is provided with an indicator, 10, vide, Fig. 3, or
is so adapted as to actuate an indicator, 10, vide Figs. 1, & 2, in accordance with the
rise and fall of the body of the vehicle as it is unloaded or loaded, the indications
given being consequently dependent upon the relative distance apart of the body of
the vehicle and of the axle.
In the modification represented in Fig. 3, the said part, 9, is directly connected to
the body of the vehicle, and to the indicator, 10, which has a vertical rise and fall in a
slotted dial-plate, 6, which is supported by the part, 4, which is secured to the axle in
any suitable manner.
In the modification represented in Fig. 1, the said part, 9, is guided by a case, 11,
and is toothed at, 12, and gears with a toothed pinion, 13, on the indicator spindle, 14,
and so causes the indicator to receive a circular movement about the dial-plate, 6, and
give the indications thereon. In this modification the return movements of the
indicator towards or to zero are caused by a spring or springs, 15, which causes or
cause the part, 9, to be kept in working contact with the body of the vehicle.

page_text: In other modifications the body of the vehicle may be caused to actuate the said
part, 9, by means of an intermediate lever.
It will be obvious that the said co-acting parts, 4-9, may be reversely arranged
(or otherwise arranged) than as hereinbefore described, in such a manner for example
as that the dial instead of the indicator is connected to the body of the vehicle.
It will thus be seen that such improved means, when applied to wheeled vehicles
will correctly indicate the weight of the load therein, and its variations as it is added
to or lessened, and that the indications given can be conveniently read off.
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 application to wheeled vehicles of weight-indicating apparatus constructed
and operating substantially in the manner herein before described.
2. The construction of weight-indicating apparatus to be applied to wheeled vehicles,
in such a manner as that a part thereof is adapted to an axle of the vehicle, and a part
thereof is adapted to or operated by the spring supported body thereof, in such a
manner as that the indications of the contained weight are dependent upon and caused
to be effected by the relative distance apart of the body of the vehicle and the axle
thereof, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The peculiar constructions of such weight indicating apparatus as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.