Railway Wagons and other similar Vehicles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Railway Wagons and other similar Vehicles.
WILLIAM HILL, Engineer, No C Shepherd Street, Stoke, THOMAS HILL;
Engineer, No 9 Albert Road, Fenton, Staffre., FREDERICK THOMAS TURNER,
Brewer, No. 17 Copeland Street, Stoke, do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR COUPLING AND UNCOUPLING
RAILWAY WAGONS AND OTHER SIMILIAR VEHICLES, to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in appliances for coupling and
uncoupling railway wagons and other similiar vehicles, said appliances being easily
attached to existing coupling chains..
For the purpose of our invention we use apparatus constructed and operated in the
following manner. At each end of a railway wagon or similiar vehicle we attach a
spindle of any convenient section and which is free to revolve in its bearings, said
spindle we form preferably of a square or hexagonal cross section for about two thirds
of its length, the remainder being round. Upon the square or hexagonal part of said
spindle, we fix two levers parallel to each other, the other ends of said levers being
connected to the short ends of two more levers whose long ends are connected to
each side of end link of an ordinary coupling chain, the fulcrums of said levers
being at the other ends and connected with two more levers the other, ends' of
which are connected to an arm or lever which also acts as a balance weight, and
is loosely fitted upon the round part of before named spindle. The other end of
said arm or balance weight works in a loop attached to under side of wagon or.
similiar vehicle, which only allows it to move a given distance. The mode of
operating is as follows. By means of a handle or lever keyed upon one or both
sides, but preferably to the right hand end of each side of each vehicle, and upon
the before named spindle, we partly revolve said spindle;, which moves the levers
attached to the short ends of levers which are attached to the end link of coupling
chain, and which gives said coupling chain a vertical motion so long as the
fulcrums of said levers move, but when the balance arm or lever comes into
contact with the end of the loop in which it works, causes the fulcrums to be
stationary, and when the spindle is further revolved gives coupling chain a lateral
movement, whereby the end link of coupling chain will hook upon opposite draw
hook. To uncouple two vehicles, the handle or lever is moved; in the same
direction as before, when the coupling chain is first lifted and when the handle is
loosed falls under its own draw hook.
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page_text: Railway Wagons and other similar Vehicles.
WILLIAM HILL, Engineer, N° 6 Shepherd Street, Stoke, THOMAS HILL,
N° 9 Albert Road, Fenton, Staffre., FREDERICK THOMAS TURNER, Brewer,
N° 17 Copeland Street, Stoke, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR COUPLING AND UNCOUPLING RAILWAY WAGONS
AND OTHER SIMILIAR VEHICLES and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
I
Our invention has for its object improvements in appliances for coupling and
uncoupling railway wagons and other similiar vehicles, said appliances being easily
attached to existing coupling chains.
For the purpose of our invention we use apparatus constructed and operated in
the following manner. At each end of a railway wagon or similiar vehicle we
attach a spindle of any convenient section and which is free to revolve in its
bearings, said spindle we form preferably of a square or hexagonal cross section for
about two thirds of its length, the remainder being round. Upon the square or
hexagonal part of said spindle we fix two levers parallel to each other, the other
ends of said levers being connected to the short ends of two more levers whose
long ends are connected to each side of end link of an ordinary coupling chain, the
fulcrums of said levers being at the other ends, and connected with two more
levers the other ends of which are connected to an arm or lever which also acts as
a balance weight, and is loosely fitted upon the round part of before named
spindle. The other end of said arm or balance weight works in a loop attached to
under side of wagon or similiar vehicle which only allows it to move a given
distance.
The mode of operating is as follows:-By means of a handle or lever keyed
upon one or both sides, but preferably to the right hand end of each side of each
vehicle and upon the before named spindle, we partly revolve said spindle which
moves the levers attached to the short ends of levers which are attached to the end
link of coupling chain, and which gives said coupling chain a vertical motion so
long as the fulcrums of said levers move, but when the balance arm or lever
comes into contact with the end of loop in which it works, causes the fulcrums to
be stationary, and when the spindle is further revolved gives coupling chain a
lateral movement, whereby the end link of coupling chain will hook upon opposite
draw hook. To uncouple two vehicles the handle or lever is moved in the same
direction as before, when the coupling chain is first lifted, and when the handle is
loosed falls under its own draw hook.
Accompanying drawings show our invention as applied to an ordinary railway
wagon. Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing position of appliances when coupled
and uncoupled. Fig. 2 is a front elevation when uncoupled.
The same letters réfer to the same parts in each figure.
The square or hexagonal spindle A to which one end of levers B and B¹ and
arm or balance weight C are attached is supported by means of brackets D., D¹

page_text: secured to frame of wagon. The loop E is also attached to frame of wagon and is
provided with blocks of wood or other suitable material K. K¹ at top and bottom,
for the arm or balance weight C to rest against when it has travelled the required
distance. The end links of coupling chains L. L¹ are attached to levers F. F' by
means of a clip attached to each side of said links as shown at E. H¹ and consisting
of and iron or steel band encircling straight sides of end link and gripped upon it
by means of a screwed nut, the round part being split and screwed taper. The
said levers F. F' are connected with spindle A and balance weight C by levers B. B¹
and I. I. J and J' are the handles or levers for operating with, and are held
upon spindle A by means of nuts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
:-
A combination of levers and the mode of operating same, substantially as herein
described and illustrated by accompanying drawings, for coupling and uncoupling
railway wagons and other similiar vehicles.
BILLINGTON & NEWTON,
Agents to the before named.