апа other Matter from Road to Rail and vice-versa.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 15th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 15th June, 1888
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other Matter from Road to Rail and vice-versa.
I ALFRED DICKINSON of Tramway Depot. Darlaston in the County of Stafford,
Tramway Manager do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
In the transit of material from one place to another it is often necessary to
unload from one class of vehicle to another such as from a road vehicle to a wagon
on rails or vice versa which is costly and occupies much time being a disadvantage in
other respects.
To meet this difficulty I Patented my road and rail carriage No. 6164 in 1885
which has proved very successful especially where a number of these vehicles may
be connected one behind the other when drawn on rails by steam power so as
to more fully economize the power of the engine but there are cases where only
one such vehicle can be allowed behind the engine and then the cost of transit is not
so economical. My present invention is for the purpose of meeting this difficulty
which I do as follows:-
According to my present invention I make special wagon bodies capable of being
mounted upon two road wheels or upon two pair of road wheels and which may
by a special arrangement hereafter to be set forth be lifted bodily off the road
wheels and lowered upon a special underframe mounted upon a double bogie upon
the rails and which is capable of receiving one, two, three or more of such special
bodies placed one above the other on the centre of the rail vehicle under frame
thus constituting one vehicle when loaded up though there may be quite a number
of road vehicle bodies thereon. If the road vehicles are long such as those suited
for two pair of wheels the bodies thereof would be piled upon the centre of the
underframe of the rail carriage but if short bodies such as would be carried like
carts upon two road wheels they would be piled in two piles one pile above each
bogie. For the road vehicle in case two pair of wheels are used I mount over the
xle a stiff cross beam which with provision for receiving two diagonal rods with
Ushaped ends inverted to drop over the cross beams thus uniting the two pairs
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page_text: together and the front pair has the usual pivot arrangement under the cross beam.
Upon each end of these beams I fix a vertical pin or spigot piece carrying a
spiral or other spring and the special bodies now to be described have four
projecting horns with holes for dropping over these said pins. The bodies are
built from planks and iron work alone i.e. from the linings and a little iron work
without any special or even the usual framework being required as following:-
I run my bottom planks lengthwise of the vehicle the front length thereof and the
side planks also and these are firinly screwed between an inner and outer iron or
steel U piece. The inner U piece is simply a plain or channel or T or L or
other section of iron bent round into the U shape and supplied with holes to
receive bolts. The outer U piece is formed from say a channel section of iron or
steel or otherwise cast so that the flat face shall receive the planking both bottom
external chamber which becomes the
and sides and the flanges thereof form an
sockets in piling one body above another. The ends of the outer Ụ pieces are
supplied with shoulders or horns each of which carries a hole to drop over the
pins upon the springs which have been previously explained. One inner and one
outer piece so made with horns are arranged to be immediately above the axle of
the vehicle opposite each other and with the bolts passing through both as well as
the planking between and besides these there may be an intermediate outer U
piece without horns and an inner U piece to match or even several of them
according to the length and strength of the vehicle. The outer end U pieces project
above the sides of the bodies and are a little narrower than between the flanges of
the outer pieces so that the one falls over the other when piled upon each other.
The ends or centres of the horns or outer Ụ pieces are filled up to prevent side
movement. The frame of the rail vehicle with its double bogie is made from U or
girder iron or other sections may be used and pins are fitted thereto at such portions
as to receive the body first placed thereon when the sockets and spigots are naturally
formed for each succeeding one.
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f Anonat 1887
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: other Matter from Road to Rail and vice-versa.
I, ALFRED DICKINSON, of Tramway Depot, Darlaston, in the county of Stafford,
Tramway Manager 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 :-
In the transit of material from one place to another it is often necessary to unload
from one class of vehicle to another such as from a road vehicle to a wagon on
rails or
vice-versa which is costly and occupies much time besides being a
disadvantage in other respects.
To meet this difficulty 1 Patented my road and rail carriage No. 6164 in 1885
which has proved very successful especially where a number of these vehicles may
be connected one behind the other when drawn on rails by steam power so as to
more fully economize the power of the engine but there are cases where only one
such vehicle can be allowed behind the engine and then the cost of transit is not
so economical. My present invention is for the purpose of meeting this difficulty
which I do as follows :-
According to my present invention I make special wagon bodies capable of being
mounted upon two road wheels or upon two pair of road wheels and which may,
by a special arrangement hereafter to be set forth be lifted bodily off the road
wheels and lowered upon a special under frame mounted upon a double bogie upon
the rails and which is capable of receiving one, two, three or more of such special
bodies placed one above the other on the centre of the rail vehicle under frame
thus constituting one vehicle when loaded up though there may be quite a number of
road vehicle bodies thereon. If the road vehicles are long such as those suited for
two pair of wheels the bodies thereof would be piled upon the centre of the under
frame of the rail carriage but if short bodies such as would be carried like carts
upon two road wheels they would be piled in two piles one pile above each bogie.
For the road vehicle in case two pairs of wheels are used mount over the axle
stiff cross beam which with provision for receiving two diagonal rods with U shaped
ends inverted to drop over the cross beams thus uniting the two pairs together and
he front pair has the usual pivot arrangement under the cross beam. Upon each end
of these beams I fix a vertical pin or spigot piece carrying a spiral or other spring
nd the special bodies now to be described have four projecting horns with holes for
Iropping over these said pins.
The bodies are built from planks and iron-work alone i.e. from the linings and
little iron work without any special or even the usual framework being required
s follows run my bottom planks lengthwise of the vehicle the full length
hereof and the side planks also and these are firmly screwed between an inner and

page_text: outer iron or steel U piece. The inner U piece is simply a plain or channel or
or or other section of iron bent round into the U shape and supplied with holes to
receive bolts.
The outer U piece is formed from say a channel section of iron or steel or
otherwise cast so that the flat face shall receive the planking both bottom and sides
and the flanges thereof form an external chamber which becomes the sockets in piling
one body above another. The ends of the outer U pieces are supplied with shoulders
or horns each of which carries a hole to drop over the pins upon the springs which
have been previously explained. One inner and one outer piece so made with
horns are arranged to be immediately above the axle of the vehicle opposite each
other and with the bolts passing through both as well as the planking between and
besides these there may be an intermediate outer U piece without horns and an
inner U piece to match or even several of them according to the length and
strength of the vehicle. The outer end U pieces project above the sides of the
bodies and are a little narrower than between the flanges of the outer pieces
so that the one falls over the other when piled upon each other. The ends or centres
of the horns or outer U pieces are filled up to prevent side movement. The frame
of the rail vehicle with its double bogie is made from U or girder iron or other
sections may be used and pins are fitted thereto at such positions as to receive
the body first placed thereon when the sockets and spigots are naturally formed for
each succeeding one.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more casily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto two double sized sheets of drawings upon
which is illustrated examples of a carriage arranged for both road and rail.
ON SHEET 2.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of a carriage having two pair of wheels and ready 30
for transmission by road.
Figure 4 is an end elevation of same.
Figure 5 is a plan of the road wheels with the wagon body removed.
Figure 6 is a vertical section through the wagon body on line 1. 2.
The special wagon bodies A are mounted upon the road wheels B1, B2, B3 and B
Figure 3 so as to allow of being lifted bodily off and lowered upon the underframe C
Figure 1 which is mounted upon the double bogie D and D¹ and is capable of receiving
one, two, three or more of such special bodies placed one above the other on the
centre of the rail vehicle underframe (as shown by Figure 1 thus constituting one
vehicle when loaded up.
4
In the case of road vehicles in which two pair of wheels are used as shewn, I
mount over the axles E stiff cross beams F and F which receive the diagonal rods G
having the ends shaped at g' to drop over the cross heams F and F thus uniting the
two pairs of wheels together. The front pair are provided with the usual pivot
Upon each end of the beams F and F are 4
arrangement H under the cross beam F.
the vertical pins or spigot pieces ƒ ƒ³, f and f' around which are the spiral springs K
and the special bodies A are provided with four projecting horns a¹ having the holes a²
to drop over these said pins.
The bodies A are built with the planks a³ without any special framework being
required the planks a³ being run lengthwise of the vehicle the full length thereof
and together with the side planks are firmly screwed between inner pieces a¹ and
outer pieces a which are provided with holes to receive bolts which may be of any
convenient shape a channel shape being the most suitable for the outside and arranged

page_text: so that the flat face shall receive the planking both at the bottom and sides. The
flanges a form an external chamber which becomes the socket in piling one body
above another as shown in Figure 1.
The
The inner pieces a* and outer pieces a³ are arranged to be immediately above the
axle M of the vehicle and opposite each other the bolts passing through both as well
as the planking a³ which is between and in addition an intermediate outer piece N
without horns is provided with an inner piece to match or even several of them
according to the required strength and length of the body A. The ends a² of the outer
pieces a project above the sides of the bodies A and are a little narrower than between
the flanges a so that the one falls over the other when piled as shewn in Figure 1
and the ends of the horns a¹ are filled up to prevent any side movement.
frame of the rail vehicle with its double bogie D and D' may be of channel girder
or other section of iron and fitted with the pins c¹, c², cand c to receive
the body A first placed thereon when the sockets and spigots are naturally formed
by the flanges a and ends a² as before described for securing the succeeding
The holes a are provided for facilitating the raising or lowering of the bodies.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
ones.
claim is :-
The improvements consisting of the wagon bodies A and underframes whether for
road or rail constructed so as to be readily changeable from the one to the other
substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.
D
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GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.