Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 10th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
Additional Purpose.
I, CHARLES ATKINS NOBLE, of White House, East Ham, in the County of Essex,
Goods Manager of the London Tilbury and Southend Railway, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object to provide locomotive engines with guards or guard
irons such as will serve also as ramps, for which purpose the construction and mode of
attachment or connection to the buffer beam or engine frame are such that in the
event of a vehicle or vehicles leaving the line of railway the combined guard irons
and ramps can be readily detached or disconnected from the buffer beam or frame
and be applied to the rails to enable the displaced vehicle or vehicles to be returned
thereto.
Guards or guard irons adapted to serve also as ramps according to my invention
can be constructed in various forms.
Dated this 9th
day of November 1887.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Locomotive Engine Guards or Guard Irons Adapted to Serve an
Additional Purpose.
I, CHARLES ATKINS NOBLE, of White House, East Ham in the County of Essex
Goods Manager of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, 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 :-
This invention has for object to provide locomotive engines with guards or guard
irons such as will serve also as ramps, for which purpose the construction and mode
of attachment or connection to the buffer beam or engine frame are such that in the
event of a vehicle or vehicles leaving the line of railway the combined guard irons
and ramps can be readily detached or disconnected from the buffer beam or frame
and be applied to the rail to enable the displaced vehicle or vehicles to be returned
thereto.
Guards or guard irons adapted to serve also as ramps according to my invention
can be constructed in various forms.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively
a side and a front elevation of a small part of a locomotive engine with my com-
bined guard irons and ramps applied to the buffer beam to serve as guards or guard
irons. Fig. 3 shows in plan a pair of combined guard irons and ramps, detached
from the buffer beams of the locomotive engine and applied to rails to serve as
ramps.
Fig. 4 shows in side elevation a portion of rail with a combined guard iron and
ramp applied thereto as in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section on the line A A, Fig. 3,
looking in the direction of the arrow, and shewing a rail and a combined guard iron
and ramp in elevation.
Figs. 6 and 7 are sections on the lines B B, and C
combined guard iron and ramp.
respectively of fig. 3, of a
Each combined guard iron and ramp in the example shown, consists of a plate 1,
one face of which is provided at one side with a short flange like projection 2 and at
the other side with a flange 3. The opposite face is furnished with a pair of pro-
jections or jaws 4 and with pins or projections ». In the projection 2 and one of the
projections or jaws 4, are holes to enable the combined guard iron and ramp to be
readily secured by bolts and nuts to the buffer beam of a locomotive engine for use
as a guard or guard iron as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or to be disconnected therefrom
for use as a ramp as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5.
The flange 3 not only strengthens the plate but also serves as a guide for the wheels
of vehicles when the appliance is used as a ramp as shown in Fig. 3.
The projections or jaws 4 serve for attaching one end of the appliance to a rail 6,
for use as a ramp and the pins or projections 5 prevent movement of its other
end by taking into the top of the wooden sleeper 6* upon which it rests as shown
in Fig. 3.

page_text: The pins or projections 5 may in some cases be dispensed with. The combined
guard irons and ramps are shown made right and left handed, and it will be
understood that corresponding appliances will be carried at each end of an engine
so as to afford two right handed and two left handed ramps for use on emergency
according to requirement.
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
claim is :-
A combined locomotive engine guard or guard iron and ramp, substantially as
described, and of which examples are illustrated in the drawings annexed.