Improvements in the Manufacture of Double and Single Lugged Hoops for Railway Buffing or other Springs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1895
Improvements in the Manufacture of Double and Single Lugged
Hoops for Railway Buffing or other Springs.
We, GEORGE WILLIAM WILLFORD, and FRANK COCKING, trading as
Willford & Cocking, of Park House Works, Effingham Road, Sheffield, in the
County of York, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention
to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to effect improvements in the manufacture of
double and single lugged hoops.
We form our improved hoops of mild rolled steel, each bar being of a suitable
section to form portions of the hoops, and (preferably) in lengths of from 10 to
12 feet.
The bars are rolled in suitable sectional forms, so that, when cut transversely
into blocks of a suitable width, two or more of such blocks, when welded together,
either longitudinally or transversely, form a complete double or single lugged hoop,
for railway buffing or other springs, with the groove to receive the central portion
of the spring.
Dated 10th Annil 1804
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Double and Single Lugged
Hoops for Railway Buffing or other Springs.
We, GEORGE WILLIAM WILLFORD, and FRANK COCKING, trading as
Willford & Cocking, of Park House Works, Effingham Road, Sheffield, in the
County of York, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of our invention is to effect improvements in the manufacture of
double and single lugged hoops, for railway buffing or other springs.
We form our improved hoops (preferably) of mild rolled steel, or of rolled iron,
each bar when rolled being of a suitable section to form portious of the hoops, and
(preferably) in lengths of from ten to twelve feet.
The bars are rolled in suitable sectional forms, so that, when cut transversely
into blocks of a suitable width, two or more of such blocks, when welded together,
either longitudinally or transversely, form a complete double or single lugged hoop,

page_text: for railway buffing or other springs, with the box of the hoop to receive the central
portion of the spring.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
figures of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate one method of carrying out our invention in the
manufacture of double lugged hoops, the plates being rolled to the sections shown
in Fig. 1, preferably in lengths of from ten to twelve feet. The plates are cut
transversely into blocks of a suitable width, and united by welding in the manner
shown in Fig. 2, the welded joints being shown at 8, 8.
Fig. 3 is a section and Fig. 4 a plan, showing one method of manufacturing single
lugged hoops for buffing or engine springs; and Fig. 5 shows one method of
manufacturing hoops for engines, carriages, and wagon bearing springs.
Our invention is applicable to the manufacture of many other forms of hoops
for springs. The number of parts and forms of the meeting ends may also be
varied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improvements in the manufacture of double and single lugged hoops for
railway buffing or other springs, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the drawings.
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.