Improvements in and connected with Cash, Parcels, and Goods Carriers.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Cash, Parcels, and Goods
Carriers.
We JAMES MCFARLANE, and HAROLD WATSON, both of The Munro's
Electrical Manufacturing Company Limited, of 9 Holland Place in the County
of the City of Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a means whereby the conducting wires
of direct flight railways for conveying cash, parcels, or goods on the principle of
the direct flight cash railway may be made more durable and not liable to break at
the starting points as heretofore owing to the sharp angle produced on the wire
just before the carrier begins to traverse it. We propose to insert between the
end of the levers used for separating the wires and the ends of the wires, a short
piece of chain of suitable form which will bend into the sharp angle required to
start the carrier the movement at the links of the chain allowing this to be done
safely. In this way the wires are almost entirely relieved from all strain but that
in a longitudinal direction, and in this way are rendered more durable.
Dated this 26th day of February 1895.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.
Improvements in and connected with Cash, Parcels, and Goods
Carriers.
We, JAMES MCFARLANE and HAROLD WATSON, both of The Munro's
Electrical Manufacturing Company Limited, of 9 Holland Place in the County
of the City of Glasgow, North Britain, 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:-
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The object of this invention is to provide a means whereby the conducting wires
of direct flight railways for conveying cash, parcels, or goods on the principle of
the direct flight cash railway may be made more durable and not liable to break
at the starting points as heretofore, owing to the sharp angle produced on the wire
just before the carrier begins to traverse it. We propose to insert between the
end of the levers used for separating the wires and the ends of the wires a short
piece of chain of suitable form, which will bend into the sharp angle required to
start the carrier, the movement at the links of the chain allowing this to be done
safely. In this way the wires are almost entirely relieved from all strain but that
in a longitudinal direction, and in this way are rendered more durable.
The accompanying drawing illustrates our invention applied to the operating
lever used in the direct flight system of cash railways with its usual connections.
The chain attachments constituting our improvements are marked A and B, and
are connected at the one end to the hand lever C by the pivot links D, E. The

page_text: other end of the said chain attachments are connected to the line wires F and G by
means of the couplings f, g, as shown. The longitudinal size of the links composing
the chains A and B are such as to permit of the links at that point yielding to the
angle requisite to start the carrier.
In place of having the chain B of the length as shown in the drawing, it may be
of a shorter length, and be connected to a corresponding short length of wire
having its end connected to the pivot link E of the said lever C.
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-
In direct flight cash, parcels, and goods carriers, inserting between the end of
the levers used for separating the wires and the ends of the wires, a short piece of
chain of suitable form, which will bend into the sharp angle required to start the
carriers, substantially as and for the purposes hereiubefore described aud illustrated
on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 24th day of October 1895.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.