Carriages, or Turning Apparatus for Wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1885

page_text: Carriages, or Turning Apparatus for Wheeled Vehicles.
I, JOHN GEORGE HARRISON N° 11, Noel Road, Edgbaston Birmingham Manager
of Works do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PARTS OF FORE, AND UNDER CARRIAGES, OR TURNING APPARATUS
FOR WHEELED VEHICLES to be as follows:―
My improvements apply to those parts of the fore carriage, or under carriage, or
turning apparatus, of a wheeled vehicle which are called by the makers of such
fore carriages, the bed plates, the futchell cross flaps & inside futchells, the wheel
plate crosses, the horn bar centres and flaps, and the wheel plate back and flap,
and also the roller bolts for splintre bar, and end roller bolt heads for splintre bars,
and futchell angle box at front of carriage, and consists of my method of preparing
the iron bars and shaping them up under a drop stamp, in which proper and
suitable dies are placed and set-To explain my improvement I will describe how
I propose preparing the iron for a bed plate-A bed plate is generally made when
finished as a half round, or oval plate, with an enlarged centre, which is called a
boss, and is at the boss, both wider, and deeper-to prepare the iron for a bed plate
I have a pair of dies which I will call "balling" dies, that is, dies having their
meeting faces cut or sunk so that when at work they will form a ball or knob on a
piece of iron, the end or ends of which will be of a less diameter when so worked-
To make the bed plate, I place the piece of iron, which has already been in the
pair of balling dies, in the finishing dies, which have the bossed, and halfround or
oval parts cut or sunk therein, at a proper heat and by means of the drop stamp
I force the metal from the ball into the boss, while the part that was of a smaller
diameter than the ball is driven out, either halfround or oval as the dies are
fashioned-In making a wheel plate cross I ball up a piece of iron as for a bed
plate, only with a larger ball and thereby a second process, as in the bed plates,
I drive the sides, and top, and bottom of the ball, into the cross flaps, while the
part of a less diameter forms the other two ends of the cross, which are finaly
welded to the thimble bed plate-When making the futchell cross flap and inside
futchells I proceed as described in making a wheel plate cross, only the finishing
dies would have to be a different shape, and suitable for inside futchells with cross
flaps The horn bar centre and flaps, and the wheel plate back and flap, would be

page_text: balled up in a similar manner to the bed plates or wheel plate crosses, only, before
the prepared balled iron is placed in the finishing dies, the ball, or knob, must be
thrown on one side of the smaller part, or that part described herein as of a less
diameter than the balled part so that the metal in the ball will under pressure of
the stamp force out on one side only, and form a T shaped piece, instead of a cross
or four ended piece-To form the futchell angle box for front of carriage I should
make a much longer ball than before mentioned and set it on one side as for horn
bár centres and flaps, so that the metal would, under pressure, force on one side,
and form the angle when placed in the second pair, or finishing dies,―To make
the roller bolt or roller bolt treads for splintre bars I should form the ball at the
end of the iron, and when applying the second process I should pass the part of a
less diameter down into, or through, the bottom die, and force the head of such
roller bolt, or tread for splintre bar, into a proper shape by means of the top die,
whether round, square, oval, or oblong, or other design-1 claim as new my
arrangement of balling the iron before placing it in the finishing dies, together
with the stamping process, and also that the parts being made of balled iron, and
having no welds, or joints, or joining of parts, and each piece being of one piece
of iron only, the possibility of fracture, or breakage, is reduced to a minimum.
Dated this 10th day of November 1885.

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що manufacture of Parts of Fore and Under
Carriages, or Turning Apparatus for Wheeled Vehicles.
I, JOHN GEORGE HARRISON No 11 Noel Road, Edgbaston Birmingham Manager
of Works do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PARTS OF FORE AND UNDER CARRIAGES OR TURNING APPARATUS
FOR WHEELED VEHICLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My improvements apply to those parts of the fore-carriage, or under-carriage
which are called by makers of such carriages or turning apparatus, the bed plates,
the futchell cross flaps, and inside futchells, the wheel plate crosses, the horn bar
centres and flaps, the wheel plate back and flap, the roller bolts for splinter bars,
and also the end roller bolt treads for splinter bars, and futchell angle box for
front of carriage, and consist of my method of preparing the iron bars, and shaping
them up under a drop stamp in which proper and suitable dies are placed and
set-To explain my improvements I will describe how I propose preparing the
iron for a bed plate-A bed plate is generally made when finished as a halfround
or oval plate, with an enlarged centre, which is called a boss, and is at the boss
both wider and deeper-To prepare the iron for a bed plate I have a pair of metal
dies which I will call "balling" dies, that is dies having their meeting faces cut or
sunk so that when at work they will form a ball or knob on a piece of iron the
end or ends of which shall be of a less diameter than the knob or ball when so
worked To make the bed plate, I place the piece of iron which has already been
prepared as above described by the "balling" dies in a pair of finishing dies, which
have the bossed, halfround, or oval parts cut or sunk therein, at a proper heat, and
by means of the drop stamp I force the metal from the ball or knob into the boss,
while the part that was of a smaller diameter than the ball is driven out either
halfround or oval as the dies are fashioned-In making a wheelplate cross, I ball
up a piece of iron as for a bed plate, only with a larger ball or knob, and then by
a second process, as in the bed plates, I drive the sides, and top, and bottom, of the
ball, into the cross flaps, while the part of a less diameter forms the other two
ends of the cross, which are finaly welded to the thimble bed plate-When making
the futchell cross flaps and inside futchells I proceed as described in making a
wheel plate cross, only the finishing dies would have to be a different shape, and
suitable for inside futchells with cross flaps The horn bar centres and flaps, and
the wheel plate back and flap, would be balled up in a similar manner as the bed
plates or wheel plate crosses, only, before the prepared balled iron is placed in the
finishing dies, the ball or knob must be thrown on one side of the smaller part, or
that part described before herein as of a less diameter than the balled part, so that
the metal in the ball will under pressure of the drop stamp force out on one side
only and form a T shaped piece, instead of a cross or four ended piece of iron-
To form the futchell angle box for front of carriage I make a much longer ball or
enlarged part than before mentioned, and set it on one side of the bar of iron, as
for the horn bar centres and flaps, so that the metal would under pressure force on
one side only and form the angle box when placed in the second pair, or finishing

page_text: dies To make the roller bolts, or roller bolt treads for splinter bars I should form
the ball at the end of the iron, and when applying the second process I
pass the
part of a less diameter down into, or through, the bottom die, and force the ball to
take the desired shape, whether round, oval, square, or oblong, by means of the top
die, in which I cut or sink the pattern suitable to my purpose.
Fig. 1. in accompanying drawings shows a balled piece of iron, or first process in
making a bed plate, Fig. 2. is a top view of a halfround bed plate when finished,
Fig. 3. is an edgeway view of Fig. 2., and Fig. 4 is an edgeway view of an oval
bed plate when finished-Fig. 5. represents Fig. 1. with the ball or knob thrown or
diverted to the one side so as readily to take the form of Fig. 6. which is a top
view of a back of wheel plate and flap, Fig. 7. is an end view of Fig. 6. when
finished, and Fig. 8. shows top view of a horn bar centre and flap when finished.
Fig. 9. shows a prepared blank for making an inside futchell with cross flaps,
bottom view of which is shown in Fig. 10. and end view of cross flaps in Fig. 11.,
and is the same as Fig. 1. only the ball or knob is larger than in Fig. 1.
Fig. 12. and Fig. 14. show the prepared blanks for making roller bolts for
splinter bars as Fig. 13. and roller bolt treads as shown in Fig. 15. a top view of
which I represent in Fig. 16.
The wheel plate crosses I make from a ball as Fig. 9 and the angle boxes for
front of carriage from a prepared ball as Fig. 1. but longer, and diverted to the one
side as shown in Fig. 5.
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
First. My arrangement of balling the iron before placing it in the finishing dies,
together with the stamping process for producing these parts of Fore or under
carriages for wheeled vehicles.
Secondly That the parts being made of balled iron, and having no struts or
welds, or joints, or joining of parts, and each piece being of one piece of iron only,
the possibility of fracture or breakage is reduced to a minimum when in use.
Dated this 9th day of August 1886.