improvements in wagons.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1900
improvements in wagons.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM BRAMPTON, of Brockencote Hall, Chaddesley Corbett,
Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Justice of the Peace, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:
My invention has for its object improvements in wagons and refers in particular
to that class of wagons which are used in shops for moving about goods and
heavy weight by hand though the invention is applicable to those moved by
horses and the like and by which considerable saving in the cost of construction
is effected.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which examples of my improvements are illustrated and which I will now
proceed to explain.
Figure 1 is a plan of a hand wagon in its inverted condition but broken off
as regards its length shewing the pivoted fore carriage or bogey with its handle
as my invention refers only to that part of the wagon though the back axle
and wheels are also shewn for the sake of clearness.
Figure is a cross sectional elevation on the line 1-2.
Figure 3 is a cross sectional elevation through the fore carriage or bogey at
right angles to the section shewn by Figure 2.
Figure 4 shews the strap or band S separated from the fore carriage and
Figure 5 is a side view of the strap or band S.
Figure 6 shews a modification of the strap or band S as it would be made
when shafts or tackle for a horse or horses are applied thereto.
The wagon shewn upon the accompanying drawings to which my invention
is shewn as applied is a flat topped hand wagon such as are useful in shops
warehouses and the like and is drawn pushed or steered by the handle Ĥ.
This handle H is attached by a pin h¹ to the strap or band $ which forms an
important part of my present invention.. Complicated and expensive forgings
have usually been used for the under carriage of such wagons but by my present
invention there is scarcely any forging or skilled workmanship required. The
strap S is made from a bar or strip of steel iron or other metal and is simply
bent round into a such like shape as clearly shewn at Figures 45 and 6 and
is provided with a hole s on either side thereof as also with the two holes s2 §²
through the straight portions of the strap ss which serve as a jaw to receive
the eye end 2 of the handle H. The axle E is a round rod of steel iron or other
material simply passed through the holes st of the strap the shoulders between
which the wheels W W run being formed by sleeves or washers el e² at each
end. A flat disc of metal M is secured to the wood or other square block Y
with the intermediate piece P mounted in a recessed portion of the block Y
the reduced part p¹ passing through a perforation in the plate M in which the
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page_text: intermediate piece P turns freely. The axle E is bound down to this inter-
mediate piece P by a gland N as shewn at Figures 1 and 2 or by a simple U
bolt as shewn at Figure 3. It will be seen from the plan Figure 1 that the
square block Y is bolted to the flat top T of the wagon by four bolts y', y', y', y¹.
It will thus be observed that the strap S in the production of which no skilled
labour is required takes hold of the fore carriage axle near each end or wheel
at the best point of leverage so that the fore carriage may be steered with the
greatest ease an easy and firm and stable action being secured by the edge of
the strap S bearing under the plate M. The back axle A carries the wheels W
which may be mounted in any convenient manner as usual.
At Figure 6 is shown a modification of the steering strap S with the parts 353
turned outwards to fasten to a cross piece K to which traces or shafts may be
added to receive a horse or other animal. In this modification the two
pieces S S¹ may come together as shewn and a rivet or rivets may be passed
through to stiffen them.
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:
CLAIMS.
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First: The improvements in wagons herein set forth consisting of the fore
carriage or bogey constructed with a circular strap S connected to the handle H
and carrying the axle E and secured to an intermediate piece P in the plate M
and mounted under the block Y substantially as shewn upon the accompanying
drawings.
Second-In the construction of wagons the use of the axle carrying strap S
bent from a bar or strip of metal substantially as herein set forth and as shewn
by Figures 4, 5 and 6 in detail and as applied and shewn by l'igures 12 and 3
upon the accompanying drawings.
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1000
FREDERICK WILLIAM BRAMPTON,
By George Barker,
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicant, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.