Improved Railway Coupling.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th June, 1898-Accepted, 3rd Dec.,
1898
PROVISIONAL DEMOL
Improved Railway Coupling.
WALTER JOHN Cooк, 77, Rushmore Road, Clapton Park, N.E., Compositor, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A coupling to entirely dispense with the necessity for men to go between rail-
way trucks in order to couple them together. The T shaped arm (A) slides into
Figure (B) and is then turned by the handle (C) on each truck to be coupled. By
this arrangement the trucks can be securely coupled by a person at the side, and
also from inside a guards van or engine by turning the handle at the top of the
upright rod (D). The spring (E) on the side of the truck pressing on rod (F) is
intended to prevent the coupling becoming unfastened by vibration, as it presses
on the flat side of rod (F) and prevents it turning round unless intended to do
80. The handles (C) on the rod (F) both turn with the rod (F) thereby enabling
the coupling to be fastened or unfastened from either side.
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Improved Ranway Couping.
WALTER JOHN Cook, 77, Rushmore Road, Clapton Park, London, N.E., Com-
positor, 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:-
An improved coupling for railway engines, guards' vans, carriages, trucks and
the like which can be connected or disconnected from either side of the vehicle.
In order that the said invention may be more fully understood and readily carried
into effect reference will be had to the drawings accompanying the Provisional
Specification, in which,
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show-
Figure 1 is a plan of base of truck showing the coupling attached.
Figure 2 is a diagram of drawhead and hollow cylinder with vertical
ing how drawhead is intended to turn in cylinder, the dotted lines indicate the
position of drawhead inside the cylinder.
Figure 3 shows ends of trucks fitted with the complete coupling.
Figure 2 is drawn to scale larger than Figures 1 and 3.
The invention consists of a hollow cylinder (B) with vertical groove at face, and
drawhead (A) fixed on each end of the truck, between the buffers, to be worked as
follows: When the trucks are pushed together the drawhead (A) being in a

page_text: vertical position enters the vertical groove in the hollow cylinder (B) and, being
turned to a horizontal position by the handle (C) at either side being turned a
half circle, effects the connection and is kept in place by the spring (E) bearing
on the flat portion of square rod. connecting handles, and marked (F)."
The handles (C) are connected from side to side by a square rod (F) on which
is a gear wheel half the circumference of the similar wheel at inner end of draw-
head, thus the handle (C) at either side being turned a half circle causes the draw-
head (A) to turn a quarter of a circle, from vertical to horizontal or horizontal
to vertical.
The upright handle marked (D) is to be used from inside the guards van in the
same manner as handle (C) at the side.
To uncouple the trucks the drawhead is turned by the handle (C) at either side,
from a horizontal to a vertical position and will thus easily pass out of vertical
groove in cylinder (B).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The invention substantially as described and illustrated herein.