CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OILING THE AXLES OF WAGONS USED IN COLLIERIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Halliday, of Worsley, in the County of
Lancaster, Colliery Manager, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OILING THE AXLES OF WAGONS USED IN COLLIERIES,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 9th April 1869, and dated the 11th November 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Halliday at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th November 1868.
I, RICHARD HALLIDAY, of Worsley, in the County of Lancaster,
Colliery Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OILING THE AXLES OF WAGONS USED
IN COLLIERIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention is intended principally for the purpose of oiling all four
of the axles or axle boxes of a colliery wagon at once, but it is also
equally applicable to oiling the axles or axle boxes of wagons used upon
ordinary railways, and for other similar purposes.
The Invention consists principally in placing a trough or receptacle
containing oil between the rails and below the level of the same, such

page_text: trough or vessel being provided with a small force pump and four branch
pipes extending upwards and outwards, and having at their ends small
mouthpieces or jets which convey the oil to all four axles at once. The
piston of the force pump is connected to a lever or treadle, and the
whole apparatus is placed on the bank near the pit mouth or at any
other convenient place. The wagon being on the rails is scotched, held,
or otherwise stopped in such a position over the apparatus that the four
jets just touch (or nearly so) the four axles close to the axle boxes; a
smart blow on the treadle or lever acts on the piston of the force pump
and throws a small jet of oil simultaneously through the four branch
pipes on to cach axle box just when it passes through the axle and thus
lubricates the four axles at one operation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Halliday in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th May 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HALLIDAY, of Worsley, in the County of Lancaster, Colliery Manager,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-cight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Halliday, Her special license that I,
the said Richard Halliday, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Halliday, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercisc, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
OILING THE AXLES OF WAGONS USED IN COLLIERIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Halliday,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Halliday, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
:-
This Invention is intended principally for the purpose of oiling all four
of the axles or axle boxes of a colliery wagon at once, but it is also
equally applicable to oiling the axles or axle boxes of wagons used upon
ordinary railways, and for other similar purposes.
The Invention consists principally in placing a trough or receptacle
containing oil between the rails and below the level of the same, such
trough or vessel being provided with a small force pump and four branch
pipes extending upwards and outwards, and having at their ends small
mouthpieces or jets which convey the oil to all four axle boxes at once.
The piston of the force pump is connected to a lever or treadle, and the
whole apparatus is placed on the bank near the pit mouth or at any
other convenient place. The wagon being on the rails is scotched, held,
or otherwise stopped in such a position over the apparatus that the four
jets just touch (or nearly so) the four axles close to the axle boxes; a
smart blow or pressure of the hand or foot on the treadle or lever acts
on the piston of the force pump and throws a small jet of oil simul-
taneously through the four branch pipes on to each axle just when
it passes through the axle box, and thus lubricates the four axles at one
operation.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention for "Certain
Improvements in Apparatus for Oiling the Axles of Wagons used in
Collieries and for other Purposes," I will now proceed to describe more
in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be carried into
practical effect; and in order that the same may be clearly understood I
have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and
have marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding
with those in the following explanation thereof.
In the annexed Drawing Fig. 1 is a side view (seen partly in section),
Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 a plan view, showing the application of
my Invention to oiling the axles of a tub wagon such as are used in
collieries.

page_text: a, a, is the cistern or receptacle for containing the oil placed between
the rails b, b, and below the level of the same. c, c, is a small force
pump or syringe provided with clack valves to prevent the oil returning,
and four branch pipes extending upwards and outwards, and having
at their extremities small mouthpieces or jets d, d, for conveying the
oil from the cistern or tank a, a, to all four bearings of the axles e, e, of
the wagon ff, simultaneously. The piston of the force pump c, c, is
shown in the Drawing as connected with a treadle g, g, by placing the
foot on which the oil is forced through all four jets at once; but it
will be evident that a hand lever or rod may be readily substituted for
the treadle, or the treadle or lever may be self-acting. Beneath the jet
pipes and inside the rails are placed two troughs h, h, provided with
cans i, i, by means of which the superfluous oil as it drips from the
axle boxes is caught and returned to the tank, whilst any dirt or other
extraneous matter is arrested by the perforated cans and prevented from
passing with the oil into the cistern or tank a, a.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I
claim as my Invention, the use of an oil cistern provided with a small
force pump or syringe and four branch pipes or jets for the purpose of
oiling all the axle bearings simultaneously by means of a treadle or
lever, substantially as herein-before described and shown on the annexed
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Halliday, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witnessed by
GEORGE DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
RICHARD HALLIDAY. (L.S.)