Improvements in Spring Clips and Axle Flaps for Carriages and other Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th June, 1895-Accepted, 27th July. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spring Clips and Axle Flaps for Carriages
and other Vehicles.
1, JAMES FARR of Chapel Street, Ormskirk in the County of Lancaster,
Carriage Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
One great difficulty of carriage spring clips at the present time is their great
liability to shift or rather the springs to shift in them, while if the spring be notched
so that they can hold in it, the spring is seriously weakened.
Now my invention is designed so that without notching the spring, the clip shall
be held absolutely firmly in position.
The invention consists in uniting the two clips of each axle by a centre bar, and
passing the spring bolt which is always used at the present time through this
bridge piece instead of through the spring alone. The two clips pass through
the axle flap and are fastened with nut and check nut.
I also put projection on axle flap so as to be imbedded in the block.
This check nut is a great improvement, as the nuts are very apt otherwise to
come off.
Dated the 7th don of Dacomb 1001
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Spring Clips and Axle Fraps for Carriages
and other Vehicles.
I, JAMES FARR of Chapel Street, Ormskirk in the County of Lancaster,
Carriage Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
mauner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
One great difficulty of carriage spring clips at the present time is their great
liability to shift or rather the springs to shift in them, while if the spring be
notched so that they can hold in it, the spring is seriously weakened.
Now my invention is designed so that without notching the spring, the clip shall
be held absolutely firmly in position.
It will be understood from the following description, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings in which―
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of the carriage spring with my improved
clip applied thereto;
Figures 2 and 3 a side and end view respectively of the clip detached from the
spring;
Figure 4 a plan view; and

page_text: A is the carriage spring, B the spring clips that fasten the spring to the axle,
C the axle with axle flaps c, D the ash block located between the axle flaps and
the spring, and E the bolt that unites the leaves or plates composing the spring.
The invention consists in uniting the two clips B by a centre bar or bridge-piece b,
and passing the centre bolt E which is always used at the present time through
this bridge-piece and the spring, instead of through the spring alone. The
screwed ends of the clips B pass down cach side of the spring and axle flaps and
are fastened by the cross-plate F and nuts F¹. For further security the axle
flaps c may have studs c' engaging in the block D whereby all danger of the latter
shifting is avoided.
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. The improvement in spring clips for carriages or other vehicles, which
consists in uniting the two clips of each spring by a centre-bar or bridge piece, and
passing the centre bolt through this bridge piece as well as through the spring,
whereby all danger of the clips shifting on the spring is avoided and the clips are
held absolutely firmly in position, substantially as described.
2. The manufacture of spring clips substantially as herein set forth.
AL
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.