Improvements in Carriages."
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1897-Accepted 18th Dec., 1897
"Improvements in Carriages."
We, ERNEST JOHN CLUBBE and ALFRED WILLIAM SOUTHEY both of 16 Elm Street,
Gray's Inn Road in the County of London, Electrical Engineers, and THE ELECTRIC
MOTIVE POWER COMPANY LIMITED of 3 Salter's Hall Court, Cannon Street in the
City of London, Motor Carriage Builders, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in carriages and more particularly to the
use of aluminium or alloys thereof or of other suitable light metals or alloys in the
construction of carriage bodies, and it has more especially for its object to provide
an extremely light type of carriage, which shall be capable of being simply and easily
manufactured.
According to our arrangement each side of the carriage body may consist of a
complete casting of the light metal or alloy, the casting being of such shape and so
cored with slots as to allow of the insertion therein of slips of wood or other suitable
material to which the panels may be pinned or otherwise fastened on the outside and
the lining fitted on the inside.
The doors and other parts of the carriage body may each be cast complete and
fitted with a similar system of wood slips.
The panels are preferably made of wood or papier mâché, but rolled sheets of the
light metal or alloy may also be used and fitted on in a similar manner.
The beams or girder pieces and other parts of the framing which serve to connect
the two sides of the carriage body are preferably of rolled metal.
Strips or insertions of rubber, leather or other suitable material may be fitted
between the wood slips and the castings with the object of holding the wood slips
firmly in the slots, compensating for shrinkage and thus preventing vibration.
The various portions of the metal framework are fitted together with flexible
insertions between the metal-to-metal joints as described in Specification of Letters
Patent No. 15693 of 1895.
Improvements in Carriages.
We, ERNEST JOHN CLUBBE and ALFRED WILLIAM SOUTHEY both of 16 Elm Street,
Gray's Inn Road in the County of London, Electrical Engineers, and THE ELECTRIC
5 MOTIVE POWER COMPANY LIMITED of 3 Salter's Hall Court, Cannon Street in the City
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page_text: as shown. The panel D is secured to the wood B by screws or pins e¹. C is the
insertion.
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 :-
1. In a carriage body, a framework or framing comprising slotted or cored castings
of aluminium or other suitable light metal or alloy, slips of wood or the like inserted
in the slots or cores of said castings and panelling fastened to said slips, substantially
as and for the purpose herein before described.
2. In carriage bodies of the kind specified in the preceding Claim, the interposition
of strips, insertions or compositions of leather, rubber or the like between the metal
castings and the wood slips, substantially as and for the purposes herein before
described.
3. The methods, as described and shewn in the drawings, of fixing flush, sunk and
external panels respectively to slotted metal frameworks for the purposes described.
4. Carriage bodies constructed substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 16th day of November 1897
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London. Chartered Patent Agents.