Improvements in Apparatus for Distributing Ballast and similar Material.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 17th May, 1889-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1889
Improvements in Apparatus for Distributing Ballast and similar
Material.
We, CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND, Traffic Superintendant and CHARLES POLYBLANK
Engineer both of the Harbour, Offices, Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to distribute or level ballast refuse or the like on the
edge of a bank or tip ground for instance in the making or repairing of a rail-
road.
To this end we provide a suitable truck or vehicle with lateral inclined frames or wings
or we construct such wings or frames that they may be attached to a railway truck
of the usual kind so as to project therefrom on one or each side at an angle thereto
so that when such truck is drawn over the railroad or other place by a locomotive
engine or other power, the said wings may drive against and spread evenly over the
sides of the track heaps of ballast or the like previously tipped at intervals along the
track, the said wings or frames are suitably constructed of wood or iron or both and
strongly supported upon the side or sides of their truck.
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HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Distributing Ballast and similar
Material.
We CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND, Traffic Superintendent and CHARLES POLYBLANK,
Engineer both of the Harbour Offices, Swansea in the County of Glamorgan, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of this invention is to distribute or level ballast, refuse or the like on
the edge of a bank or tip ground for instance in the making or repairing of a rail-
road. To this end we provide a suitable truck or vehicle with lateral or inclined
frames or wings, or we construct such wings or frames, that they may may be
attached to a railway truck of the usual kind so as to project therefrom one on each
side at an angle thereto so that when such truck is drawn over the railroad or other
place by a locomotive engine or other power the said wings may drive against and
spread evenly over the sides of the track, heaps of ballast or the like previously tipped
at intervals along the track; the said wings or frames are suitably constructed of
wood or iron or both and strongly supported upon the side or sides of their
truck.
The accompanying drawings illustrate a truck or wagon provided with the said
wings or frames. Fig. 1 being a side elevation thereof. Fig. 2 showing on the
left half a front end view and on the right a rear end view, and Fig. 3 being a plan
view of a truck with one wing only.
A is the truck, B one of the frames or wings.
This frame is preferably made of timber supported by beams and strutts and
faced with iron at C.
The facing may be gradually inclined to the vertical as it extends from its entering
end D to its trailing end E. The truck should be heavily ballasted. The wings
may be made adjustable to cover any width or to fold against the side of the
wagon.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is.
1. The combination with a railroad truck or vehicle A of a laterally extending
oblique wing or frame B on one or each side of said truck or vehicle substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
2. The method of distributing ballast upon the sides of a railroad track by tipping
ballast at intervals in heaps along the side of the track and moving a truck having
a laterally extending oblique wing or frame fixed thereto upon said track so as to
distribute the ballast in the manner set forth.
Dated this th
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., Agents to Applicants.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., Agents to Applicants.