An Improved Locking Hinge for Attaching Shafts to Waggons, Drays, and other suitable Vehicles, also applicable for Hanging Gates, Doors, French Windows, or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: An Improved Locking Hinge for Attaching Shafts to Waggons, Drays,
and other suitable Vehicles, also applicable for Hanging Gates,
Doors, French Windows, or the like.
I, ROBERT HARE, of 172, Ashley's Villas, Hawthorne Avenue, Hull, in the
County of Yorkshire, Wheelwright, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide an improved locking hinge for attaching
shafts to waggons, drays and other suitable vehicles, to allow of such shafts being
more easily fixed and removed and allowing of vehicles being turned into single
or double horse vehicles without the necessity for using the ordinary shaft bolts
or pins and cotters now employed, my invention being also applicable to the hinges
or supports of doors, gates, French windows or the like.
For the purpose of my invention, I employ a locking hinge consisting preferably
of a rod having its end bent at right angles, such end has a lug or key formed
on it, in the case of waggons or the like vehicles, this rod is attached to the under-
carriage. I employ a second rod provided with an eye, this eye is recessed internally
to form a slot or key way to take the lug or key on the rod connected to the under-
carriage, this eye rod is connected to the shafts."
The eye connected on the shafts is slid on the bent end of the rod attached to the
undercarriage, the slot in the eye allowing of it passing the lug aforesaid, when it
gets past such lug it is locked, and can only be withdrawn by getting the slot in
the eye opposite to the lug, the lug being fitted on the bent rod so that the
shafts would not come off when they were in the three most common positions
namely, when attached to the horse, when at rest in an upright position, and when
at rest with the ends on the ground.
In place of the lug the bent piece may have a vertical hole through it to take
a cotter, such cotter being always in a vertical position when used for shafts cannot
work out, and if used for gates or the like, it cannot work out, as the bent piece
is a fixture.
When used for gates, doors, French windows or the like, the bent piece with the
Jug is attached to the door or the like, and the eye with slot to the post or its
equivalent, or vice versa as desired, the eye being slid on the bent piece by bringing
the slot in it opposite to the lug on such bent piece.
30
1000
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street. Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant,

page_text: An Improved Locking Hinge for Attaching Shafts to Waggons, Drays,
and other suitable Vehicles, also applicable for Hanging Gates,
Doors, French Windows, or the like.
I, ROBERT HARE, of 172, Ashley's Villas, Hawthorne Avenue, Hull, in the
County of Yorkshire, Wheelwright, 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 my invention is to provide an improved locking hinge or support
for attaching shafts to waggons, drays and other suitable vehicles, to allow of such
shafts being more easily fixed and removed and allowing of vehicles being turned
into single or double horse vehicles without the necessity for using the ordinary
shaft bolts or pins and cotters now employed, my invention being also applicable
to the hinges or supports of doors, gates, French windows or the like.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. Represents a side view of one of my improved locking hinges with
the two parts together.
Fig. 2 Represents a plan view.
Fig. 3 Represents a sectional side view of the undercarriage and shaft board of a
dray having one of my improved hinges.
Fig. 4. Is the side view of a gate post and part of a gate with my improved hinge
applied.
Fig. 5 Shows the side view of a hinge having a hole through the bent piece
to take a cotter or pin, instead of a key on such bent piece and a slot in the
eye.
For the purpose of my invention, I employ a locking hinge consisting preferably
of a rod A, having its end B bent at right angles, or instead of the end being bent,
it may be a separate piece or pin welded, forged or otherwise attached to the rod A
at right angles such end or pin B has a lug or key C formed on it; in the case of
wagons or the like vehicles this rod is attached to the undercarriage D).
I employ a second rod E, provided with an eye F, this eye is recessed internally
to form a slot or key way G to take the lug or key C on the rod A connected to the
undercarriage, this eye rod is connected to the shafts or shaft board H.
The eye connected on the shafts H is slid on the bent end or pin B of the
rod A attached to the under carriage D, the slot or key way G in the eye F allowing
of it passing the lug or key C aforesaid, when it gets past such lug or key it is locked,
and can only be withdrawn by getting the slot in the eye opposite to the lug or
key, the lug or key being preferably so fitted on the bent rod or pin B. or the slot
in the eye formed in such a position, that the shafts H would not come off when
they were in the three most common positions namely:-When attached to the
animal, when at rest in an upright position; and when at rest with the ends on
the ground.
The rods A and E are fixed to the shafts and undercarriage in any suitable
manner as for instance, by passing the ends through and nipping them up tight by
means of a nut J.
In place of the lug, the bent piece may have a hole K through it to take a
cotter L, such cotter being always in a vertical position when used for shafts,
cannot work out and if used for gates or the like cannot work out as the bent piece
is a fixture.
When used for gates, doors, French windows or the like the bent piece with the

page_text: lug is attached to the door or the like, and the eye with the slot to the post or its
equivalent, or vice versa as desired, the eye being slid on the bent piece by bringing
the slot in it opposite to the lug on such bent piece, also in the
case of vehicles, it is immaterial which rod is attached to the shafts and which to
the undercarriage, as the hinge works equally well either way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. A locking hinge or support for the shafts of vehicles, or gates, doors or the
like, consisting of a rod A with a bent piece or pin B, having a lug or key C for
one part, and a rod E with an eye F having a slot or key way G in it for the other
part, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as shown and described.
2. A hinge or support for the shafts of vehicles, doors, gates or the like, consisting
of a rod A with a bent part or pin B having a hole K through it to take a cotter L
for one part; and a rod E having an eye F for another part, substantially as shown
and described.
3. The combination of parts to form a locking hinge substantially as shown and
described in the 'accompanying specification and drawings.
Dotal hinanth
SL 1000
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.