Improvements in the Construction of Tip-wagons or Trucks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept. 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Tip-wagons or Trucks.
I, ROBERT HUDSON, of Gildersome Foundry, near Leeds, in the County of
York, Engineer and Iron Founder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention of Improvements in the Construction of Tip-wagons or Trucks has
for its objects to increase the bases and consequent stability of the standards or
uprights used to support the wagon or truck bodies, to simplify their attachment to
the underframes, and to reduce the number of parts. Each standard or upright is
formed of a bar of metal such as steel of suitable cross section which bar is bent to
approximate a V or semi-circular form and at points intermediate between this
part and the free ends, the two legs are bent so that the portions constituting the
base or feet form a right angle, or approximately so, with the portions forming
the standard or upright. Suitable bearings are provided to receive and support the
wagon body pivots; and holes are or may be formed through the base or feet which
are adapted to rest horizontally upon and are bolted to the underframe, thus the
whole forms a much stronger structure than such as are ordinarily employed for the
purpose. If desired the two standards necessary for each wagon (one at each end)
can be connected at their bases, and for this purpose can either be made of one bar
in such wise as to combine both standards and underframe and so dispense with the
ordinary underframing and the attendant bolts and parts necessary to secure them
to each other; or as a modification two bars can be employed each bar being bent
to form one side of the base or underframe and one side of each standard, the two
bars being joined at the upper parts of the standards.
Dated this 13th day of September 1893.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per W. Cross,
46. Lincoln's Inn Fields. London. W.C.. Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Tip-wagons or Trucks.
I, ROBERT HUDSON, of Gildersome Foundry, near Leeds, in the County of
York, Engineer and Iron Founder, 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 :-
My invention of Improvements in the Construction of Tip-wagons or Trucks has
for its objects to increase the bases and consequent stability of the standards or
uprights used to support the wagon or truck bodies, to simplify their attachment to
the underframes, and to reduce the number of parts. Each standard or upright is
formed of a bar of metal such as steel of suitable cross section which bar is bent to
approximately a V or semi-circular form and at points intermediate between this
part and the free ends, the two legs are bent so that the portions constituting the
base or feet form a right angle, or approximately so, with the portions forming
the standard or upright. Suitable bearings are provided to receive and support the
wagon body pivots; and holes are or may be formed through the base or feet which
Price 8d.1

page_text: are adapted to rest horizontally upon and are bolted to the underframe, thus the
whole forms a much stronger structure than such as are ordinarily employed for the
purpose. If desired the two standards necessary for each wagon (one at each end)
can be connected at their bases, and for this purpose can either be made of one bar
in suchwise as to combine both standards and underframe and so dispense with the
ordinary underframing and the attendant bolts and parts necessary to secure them
to each other; or as a modification two bars can be employed each bar being bent
to form one side of the base or underframe and one side of each standard, the two
bars being joined at the upper parts of the standards.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Figs. 1 and 2 shew respectively in end elevation and central longitudinal section
one construction of tip-wagon or truck according to my invention.
a, a are standards one arranged at each end of the wagon, and each formed of
metal such as steel, of approximately V shape, the free ends a' a' being bent so as
to form a right angle with the portions forming the standard or upright. b, b, and
c, c are bearings for the wagon body pivots d these bearings being formed by suitably
shaped metal pieces fastened in any convenient way to the standards a a'. The
ends as a rest upon the underframe e to. which they are fastened by bolts and nuts
as shewn.
Fig. 3 shews a modified arrangement wherein there is no separate underframe
this being replaced by the horizontal portions of the bars composing the standards a, a¹.
The horizontal portions of the respective standards a a' may be lengthened to such
an extent that they meet, the ends being jointed together in any convenient manner,
or the two standards and the horizontal bases forming the underframe may be
formed of one suitably bent bar.
As will be evident in either arrangement two bars might be employed to form
a standard and its horizontal bases, the bars being jointed at the upper part of the
standard.
In some cases the upper part of each standard may, as shewn in Fig. 4, be of
semi-circular form instead of V shape, and the section of the metal may be different
to that shewn when desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A tip-wagon or truck constructed with standards or uprights formed of bars
of metal bent to approximately V or semicircular form and having their lower ends
bent to a right angle or approximately so and fastened to the underframe of the
wagon or truck substantially as described.
2. Tip-wagons or trucks constructed substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 13th day of June 1894.
аррисано
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.