A Tip Cart for the Removal of Nightsoil or any Semiliquid or Offensive Matter.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Tip Cart for the Removal of Nightsoil or any Semiliquid or
Offensive Matter.
I, GEORGE HENRY PEARSON 11 Raglan Terrace Bean Street, Hessle Road,
Hull, in the County of York Iron Driller and Cutter do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
A tip cart composed of a tank made of suitable material mounted on wheels with
shaft attached thereto. The said tank to be fitted with metal frame to suit a
moveable door.
The above named door to be fitted with a recess to recive suitable packing to
make air or water tight joint on frame work of tank.
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 :-
The object of my invention is to construct tip carts for nightscil so as to be
perfectly air and water tight, both at the top and end covers or doors.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is side view of my improved tip cart showing door in section.
Fig. 2. shows end view of cart with door held in position.
Fig. 3. is side view of door showing rim with packing inside.
Fig. 4. is side view of part of cart, showing door hinged, and quadrant arm and
pin for holding same open.
My tip cart is composed of a tank or body A, made of any suitable material,
preferably metal, the said tank or body A, may be made of one plate bent to form
the sides and bottom, so as to prevent leakage, the ends being rivitted to the sides
and bottom, or they may be in one piece with the bottom, and bent up and
rivitted to the sides, the door B, is moveable, and is formed with a double
beading C, running around it inside, in the recess between these beadings, is
placed indiarubber or any suitable packing, D, the back E, of the tank or
body A, is provided with a rim F, which fits in the recess formed by the double
beading and beds against the said packing D, the door being held in position by
means of ring bolts G, which fit over projections H, on the door in which are
slots J, to take such ring bolts G, by means of which the door can be pressed up
perfectly tight, thus forming an air and water tight door. If desired, the top
of the cart may be provided with covers, R, which can be opened by means of

page_text: hinges S, when the cart is being filled; if desired the cover may be dispensed with
and the top left open. The door B, can be hinged to lift instead of take off
altogether, as shown at K, (see Fig. 4.) and can be held open by means of a
quadrant arm L, and pin M, so as to keep it clear whilst tipping. For the
purpose of making the door strong and light, it may be corrugated. The said
doors are applicable for trucks for light railways, contractors trucks, or the like,
and may be fitted either at the sides or ends so that the trucks may be tipped
either at the ends or sides.
The apparatus for releasing the cart body when being tipped, consists of a
lever N, working in a slot O, on the shaft, this lever is pivotted at P, the pivot
being attached to a projection fixed on the front of the bed-piece of the cart, such
lever being bent down to reach this pivot, the said lever has a bent end which fits
into a hole in a plate Q on the front of the body, a pin passing though the bar
forming slot, and lever, is employed for keeping the lever in position. When the said
pin is withdrawn the lever can be moved towards the cart body, and being pivotted,
its hent end is drawn out of the hole in the plate Q, leaving the body free to be
tipped.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In tip carts for nightsoil and the like, the employment of a tank or body bent
to shape from a sheet of metal, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as
shown and described.
2. A tip cart provided with an air and water-tight door having a beading
Tunning around its inner side to form a recess, or forming a recess on the
inner side in any suitable manner to receive indiarubber or other packing, such
recess fitting over or on to a projection formed on the back of the cart, in the
manner and for the purposes substantially as shown and described.
3. Constructing tip carts with a hinged or removable door, held in position
and screwed up tight by means of eyebolts, for the purposes as shown and
.described.
Dated this Twelfth day of June 1896.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.