Improved Arrangement for Securing the Movable Partitions in Cattle Wagons.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1898-Accepted, 2nd July, 1898
Improved Arrangement for Securing the Movable Partitions in
Cattle Wagons.
LEWIS RICHARD THOMAS, of Eastcourt Lodge, New Swindon, in the County of
Wiltshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to cattle wagons in which vertical movable partitions
are used for the purpose of dividing large wagons into what are termed small
or "medium" size.
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The partition used to divide the cattle wagons into what are termed "small"
"medium or other sizes, is provided on its upper edge with a plate of oval,
oblong, semicircular or similar section. This plate extends beyond the
ends of the partition forming ledges so as to drop into a notch or groove on the
rail piece on each side of the wagon. To secure the partition from being tampered
with, while the cattle are in the wagon, I form the notches or grooves dovetail
shape, the opening being narrower at the top than at the bottom, so that when
the partition is raised to an angle, and slid or moved along the rail piece on its
ledges, the ledge on each side of the partition, which is wider in cross section
than the narrow part of the groove, slips or drops into the dovetail notch or groove,
the partition dropping and assuming a vertical position and resting against
stops provided in the part of wagon which would be unused.
To prevent the partition oscillating it is secured to the wagon by sliding bolts.
To remove the partition into another position it has to be lifted at an angle
while resting on its ledges, towards the space to be used, or that part of the
wagon which is to contain the cattle, before the ledges are in position to pass
out of the dovetail notches or grooves.
The dovetail notch may be vertical on one side instead of the two sides receding
at an angle from the narrowest point.
Instead of a dovetail shaped notch or groove, in some cases I make a circular,
oval, or other similar shaped notch or groove with a narrow opening to allow the
ledge of the partition to enter or to be removed.
Dated this 31st day of July 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Arrangement for Securing the Movable Partitions in
Cattle Wagons.
I, LEWIS RICHARD THOMAS, of Eastcourt Lodge, New Swindon, in the County of
Wiltshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:—
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This invention relates to cattle wagons in which vertical movable partitions
are used for the purpose of dividing large wagons into what are termed small
"medium" size.
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The partition used to divide the cattle wagons into what are termed "small"
"medium" or other sizes, is provided on its upper edge with a plate of oval,
oblong, semicircular, or other suitable section. This plate extends beyond the
ends of the partition forming ledges so as to drop into a notch or groove on the
rail piece on cach side of the wagon. To secure the partition from being tampered
with, while the cattle are in the wagon I form the notches or grooves dovetail
shape, the opening being narrower at the top than at the bottom, so that when
the partition is raised to an angle, and slid or moved along the rail piece on its
ledges, the ledge on each side of the partition, which is wider in cross section
than the narrow part of the groove, drops into the dovetail notch or groove,
the partition dropping and assuming a vertical position and resting against
stops provided in the part of wagon which would be unused.
To prevent the partition oscillating, it is secured to the wagon by sliding bolts.
To remove the partition into another position it has to be lifted at an angle
while resting on its ledges, towards the space to be used; or that part of the
wagon which is to contain the cattle, before the ledges are in position to pass
out of the dovetail notches or grooves.
The dovetail notch may be vertical on one side instead of the two sides receding
at an angle from the narrowest point.
Instead of a dovetail shaped notch or groove, in some cases I make a circular,
oval, or other suitable shaped notch or groove with a narrow opening to allow the
ledge of the partition to enter or to be removed.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of cattle wagon with
the partition in position.
Fig. 2 shews a section of a portion of cattle wagon with the partition raised at
an angle, so that the partition may be removed into another position.
The dotted lines shew the method of sliding the partition along its ledges
prior to its being placed into its new position represented by the dovetail groove g¹.
Figs. 3 & 4 are detailed drawings of the method of securing the ledge of
partition in the dovetail groove.
Figs. 5 & 6 are modifications of the groove in which the ledge of the partition
may be secured.
In Fig. 1, a represents the usual groove in which the ledges of the partition
rest, when the wagon is being used as large size, b, the rail of the wagon which
may be of wood covered with iron, on which the ledges e of the partition f slide
when it is being moved into a new position.
The ledges of the partition should be made slightly narrower in vertical section
and preferably of semicircular shape, for convenience of passing in and out of
the dovetail groove 9, g' in the rail piece. The width of the ledges e must also
be wider than the narrow opening of the groove, SO as to prevent the
partition being lifted out vertically, the ledges should also be slightly narrower
than the widest part of the dovetail groove so as to prevent the possibility of the
ledge of the partition becoming jammed in the groove.
The stop or stops h, h, provided in the unused part of the wagon prevent the
partition being moved towards the unused portion of the wagon, sliding bolts are
fitted in the position marked i on the partition for the purpose of preventing the
partition oscillating when the wagon is in motion, as if the partition were not
secured, it would be liable to oscillate when the wagon was shunted or in motion,
and come in contact with the cattle.
To place the partition into a new position to divide the wagon, from what is
termed small size, into what is termed medium size, or vice versa, the partition is

page_text: lifted at an angle (see Fig. 2) so as to admit of its ledges passing out of the dove-
tailed grooves g, when the partition is slid along on the rail piece b, in the direction
of the next groove until the ledges e of the partition reach the dovetail grooves g¹,
when the ledges of the partition will fall into the grooves or dovetails.
The partition is then allowed to assume a vertical position, one side resting
against the stops h¹ when the bolt or bolts shewn at f are shot into apertures in the
sides of the wagon.
It will be seen that it will now be impossible to place the partition into a new
position when the cattle are placed in the wagon, as before doing so it will be
necessary to move the partition at an angle towards the cattle before the ledges
are in position to pass out of the dovetail grooves, and as this cannot be done,
without the cattle are removed, it will be obvious that this method of securing
the movable partition will prevent the partitions being tampered with while the
cattle are in transit.
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;
1. In wagons for conveying cattle on railways, the combination of a dovetailed
or similar shaped groove on the rail piece, a partition, the ledges of which rest
in the grooves, stop or stops in the floor or side of wagon, so as to necessitate
the partition being moved at an angle towards the used portion of the wagon
before the partition can be removed from one position to another substantially
as described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and for the purpose
set forth.
2. In cattle wagons as set forth in Claim 1, the combination of a dovetailed
groove or grooves or similar aperture in the rail piece so as to necessitate the
partition with its ledges being placed at an angle before the ledges can enter or
leave the groove substantially as described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 20th dow of April 1908