Improvements s'in the Manufacture of Buffer Cases for Rolling Stock.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1891
Complete Specification "Left, 12th Mar., 1802-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements
s'in the Manufacture of Buffer Cases for Rolling
Stock.
1, SAMSON FOX of Leeds Forge, Leeds, in the County of York, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to the manufacture of buffer cases for rolling stock.
I construct such buffer cases of pressed steel plates either alone or in combination
with bushes.or other parts of some other metal as inay be necessary or convenient.
The cases may be made in any shape or form as for instance round, square,
hexagonal, or octagonal in cross section, or in a combination of two or more of
such forms, and they may be made parallel or conical or of other suitable form
longitudinally. They may also be made in two or more longitudinal.or transverse
sections that are secured together in any suitable way; thus they may be rivetted
or hooped together, or secured by hoops and bolts or rivets.
Dated this 11th day of July 1891.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Buffer Cases for Rolling
Stock.
I, SAMSON FOX, of Leeds Forge, Leeds in the County of York, Civil Engineer,
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 :-
My invention has reference to the manufacture of buffer cases for rolling stock.
I construct such buffer cases as hereinafter described of steel plates pressed to
shape either alone or in combination with bushes or other parts of some other
metal as may be necessary or convenient.
Referring to the accompanying illustrative drawings
Fig. 1 represents in side elevation a buffer case made according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a back end view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a view shewing in plan the lower half of the buffer case, and in section
the cast iron guide and ring hereinafter referred to.
Fig. 4 represents a full cross section in the line A A of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a front end view.
Two plates of steel are cut to the proper shape, then heated, then pressed in
suitable dies to the forms represented at a and a', each of the parts a a¹ being
formed with a flange extending along its two longitudinal sides as at bb' and round
its back end as at b.
In the flanges bb are formed rivet holes as at 3, and in the flanges & there are
formed bolt holes as at .
The two parts a and' a' are fastened together by rivets c. By menus of bolts or
rivets passing through the holes in the flanges the buffer case can be secured to
the underframe of any vehicle.
In the example illustrated, a guide d of cast iron is inserted in the end of the
case for the buffer spindle to work in and is kept in place by a solid metal' ring e,

page_text: this metal ring and the cast iron guide d. being fitted together before the parts a
and a'are rivetted up.'
The design may be varied according to requirement. Thus the cases may be
made round, square, or octagonal in cross section, or of a shape combining two
or more of such forms, and instead of being conical they may be made parallel
or of other suitable form longitudinally. They may also be made in more than
two longitudinal parts, each part being formed with longitudinal flanges as at bb',
and with a flange at its back end as at b, or the cases may be in two or more
separate lengths secured together by transverse joints. The parts of suitable
shape formed by pressing metallic plates to the required forms may be secured
together in any suitable way; thus instead of being rivetted they may be hooped
together, or be secured by both hoops and bolts or rivets, as will be readily
understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same. is to be performed I declare that what .I
claim is:
1. The manufacture as hereinabove described of buffer cases for rolling stock by
cutting to shape plates of metal such as steel, pressing the same to the required
form and securing the parts together as set forth.
2. My improved buffer cnse constructed as described with reference to and shewn
ip the drawinge hereuntoiannoned.
Dated this 12th day of March 1892.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London; W.C., Agent for the Applicant.