Improvements in Safety Coupling Apparatus for Railway Vehicles and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1894-Accepted, 7th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Coupling Apparatus for Railway Vehicles
and the like.
I, HENRI VAN LAUN, Examiner of Accounts, Cape Government Railways,
Capetown, Cape of Good Hope, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
This invention for Improvements in Safety Coupling Apparatus for Railway
Vehicles and the like, has for its object to provide means for raising the coupling
link so that the operation of coupling can be performed without risk of injury to
the operator from the link, and consists essentially of an open frame pivoted at its
back to the draw bar and having its front end passing under the link and provided
near its front end with handles by which it can be raised by the operator to raise
the link when desired to couple.
In one arrangement the link is pivoted within a hollow buffer and the open
frame is pivoted at its back to the drawer or buffer bar; its front end passes
through openings in the side of the buffer and under the link which is pivoted in
the hollow buffer head.
Dated this 21st day of August 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Coupling Apparatus for Railway Vehicles
and the like.
I HENRI VAN LAUN, Examiner of Accounts, Cape Government Railways,
Capetown, Cape of Good Hope, 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 :-
This invention for Improvements in Safety Coupling Apparatus for Railway
Vehicles and the like has for its object to provide means for raising the coupling
link so that the operation of coupling can be performed without risk of injury to
the operator and consists essentially of an open frame pivoted at its back to the
draw bar and having its front end passing under the link and provided near its
front end with handles by which it can be raised by the operator to raise the link
when desired to couple.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:-Fig. 1 is a sectional
elevation of a safety coupling apparatus constructed according to this invention,
and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same.
The link a is pivoted within a hollow buffer b and the open frame c is pivoted at
its back d to the draw or buffer bar e. Its front end passes under the link and.it
is provided with side projections of passing through openings in the side of the
buffer and by which the front end of the frame is raised and raises with it the link
to couple or uncouple it from the hook on the opposite carriage.
C

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A safety coupling consisting of a link, a pin passing vertically through the
said link and secured in the draw bar, a frame pivoted at its back to the draw bar
and having its front end passing under the link in frout of the said pin, and of
handles projecting sideways from the frame for operating the same, substantially as
described.
2. The Improvements in Safety Coupling Apparatus for Railway Vehicles and
the like substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 18th dex of Max 1894
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.