Improved Means for Conveying on Railways Railway or other Trucks and Common Road Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 7th May, 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
Improved Means for Conveying on Railways Railway or other
Trucks and Common Road Vehicles.
We, EVERARD RICHARD CALTIROP, of 56 Naylor Street, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, and JOHN CHARLES TAITE, of 63 Queen Victoria
Street, in the City of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improved means designed to enable railway or
other trucks to be readily conveyed over railways of a gauge differing from that
over which they were originally designed to run, and also to enable common road
vehicles to be conveyed on railways so as to obviate in each case the necessity of
transferring loads from one vehicle to another.
For conveying broad gauge vehicles over narrow gauge railways having rails
of lighter section than that of the rails of the broad gauge railway for which the
vehicle was originally designed, and also it may be curves of much smaller radius
than the broad gauge railway, there is substituted for each pair of broad gauge
wheels with axle at the junction of railways of different gauge a bolster (herein-
after called a transverse beam) adapted to take the place of the axle and its
bearings and carried by a bogie which is fitted with two or more pairs of narrow
gauge wheels and is connected to the transverse beam by means of a central pin
or other suitable connection so as to be capable of turning or swivelling relatively
thereto. The two ends of the transverse beam are extended so as to pass, when in
position, through the horn plates attached to the underframe of the broad gauge
vehicle, and terminate in or are provided with dummy axle boxes or parts so formed
as to their exterior surfaces and so arranged as to occupy the exact positions
vacated by the axle boxes of the displaced broad gauge axle and wheels.
dummy axle boxes may be constructed so that the bearing springs may rest upon
them, or they may be fitted with fixed or removable projections or parts so that the
sole bars of the vehicle may rest directly upon them if it is desired to remove the
bearing springs. The dummy axle boxes may also, if preferred, be fitted with
bearing springs of their own to take the place of the bearing springs belonging
to the vehicle. The dummy axle boxes may be made adjustable as to their upper
surfaces, so as to fit bearing springs of different shapes and sizes, and also adjust-
able as to their sides so that the grooves therein can be adapted to accommodate
horn plates spaced at different distances apart, of varying thicknesses, and of
varying dimensions between the horns.
The
The two ends of the transverse beam may also be shaped as journals so as to
take the weight of the wagon through the existing axle boxes and brasses and for
that purpose may be made adjustable as to the lengths centres and diameters of the
journals of the displaced wheels.
The bogies may be of any suitable construction, and the transverse beams may
be supported thereon in any convenient manner for which purpose they may be
furnished with bearing springs, links or other suitable supporting devices.

page_text: one arrangement each transverse beam is pivoted upon the top of a bolster carried
by and supported in any known or suitable way in the bogie, the ends of the trans-
verse beam being bent downward and outward and adapted to carry the bearing
springs of the broad gauge vehicle with which it is to be used and to fit the horn
plates of such vehicle.
The bogies may be each provided at one or both ends with central or any other
description of couplings and buffers arranged to project beyond the buffers of the
broad gauge vehicle carried thereby, so that they can be coupled to the bogies of
adjacent vehicles or with narrow gauge vehicles provided with similar buffing
and coupling arrangements, or the broad gauge vehicles whilst being carried by
bogies as described may be coupled together by means of their own couplings.
The substitution of narrow gauge bogies for broad gauge wheels and axles and
vice versa, can be readily accomplished by means of hydraulic or mechanical jacks
operating simultaneously to raise the broad gauge vehicle. When the vehicle is
sufficiently raised, the broad gauge wheels with axles, or the narrow gauge bogies,
as the case may be, are rolled away and replaced respectively by the bogies with
transverse beams, or the ordinary wheels and axles, upon which the vehicle is then
lowered.
For transferring railway or other trucks or ordinary road vehicles, of narrow
gauge over a broad-gauge railway, the carrying vehicle is according to one con-
struction provided with longitudinal ways, or with a longitudinal trough, arranged
between the carrying wheels and supported by the framing of the vehicle so that
the ways, or the bottom of the trough, as the case may be, are at a level just above
the axles of the carrying vehicle which is provided at the ends, with removable
or displaceable transverse draw-beams, the arrangement being such that a narrow
gauge railway truck, or an ordinary narrow gauge road vehicle, can, after, the
draw-beam at one end of the vehicle has been moved out of the way, be readily
run from
raised platform, or by inclined ways, on to the longitudinal ways,
ot into the trough of the carrying vehicle so as to be supported thereby with its
centre of gravity low down, and after replacing the draw-beam will be ready to be
conveyed by the carrying vehicle to any desired place.
In one arrangement of this kind, the framing of the carrying vehicle comprises
two sole bars or side members each stamped, pressed or built up to an inverted
trough shape to receive the carrying wheels, and provided on its inner side with
a horizontal lateral extension to form a longitudinal way, which may carry
a rail, the two sole bars with longitudinal ways being connected by
headstocks and intermediate cross hearers that are of U or channel shape as seen
when looking endways at the vehicle, and the said sole bars being adapted in any
suitable way to be mounted upon the axles of two or more pairs of carrying wheels.
Or such vehicles may in some cases be mounted on bogie trucks. The draw-
beams, which are carried by the U or channel shaped headstocks, may be of pressed
metal or other suitable material, and be made entirely removable, or be pivoted
so as to be capable of turning in a horizontal or vertical plane, or so as to be moved
vertically or endways to permit of their being moved into a position to admit, of
vehicle being run on or off the carrying vehicle.
a
In another construction suitable for conveying railway, or other vehicles, whether
of narrow or broad gauge on a railway that may be either of broad or narrow gauge
the carrying vehicle is constructed with its intermediate portion at a lower level
than its end portions which are adapted to be mounted upon the axles' of a pair of
carrying wheels or upon bogie trucks, and the intermediate portion of the vehicle
is provided with a pivoted or rotary floor or platform that can be turned to an
angle with the longitudinal axis of the carrying vehicle to admit of a railway
or other vehicle being run on or off such pivoted floor or platform.
For the purpose of stiffening the pivoted or rotary floor or platform it may be
constructed of two longitudinal trough shaped ways connected at intervals by
transverse beams or connections. Suitable means are provided whereby the plat
form can be held, when necessary, in line with the carrying vehicle.

page_text: As will be obvious the details of construction of carrying vehicles according to
this invention can be variously modified.
Suitable means are or may be provided where necessary for securing the wheels
of the carried vehicle to prevent end and side movement thereof; also for pre-
venting oscillations of the body of the carried vehicle on its springs during
transport. This can be effected by bracing the common road vehicle to the
carrying vehicle in such a way as to compress the springs of the former and render
them inoperative, for example by means of blocks adjusted by screws or otherwise,
or by clamps, so that the body of the carried vehicle will be supported rigidly on
blocks.
Improved Means for Conveying on Railways Railway or other
Trucks and Common Road Vehicles.
We, EVERARD RICHARD CALTHROP, of 56 Naylor Street, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, and JonN CHARLES TAITE, of 63 Queen Victoria
Street, in the City of London, 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:-
This invention has reference to improved means designed to enable railway or
other trucks to be readily conveyed over railways of a gauge differing from that
over which they were originally designed to run, and also to enable common road
vehicles to be conveyed on railways so as to obviate in each case the necessity of
transferring loads from one vehicle to another..
For conveying broad gauge vehicles over narrow gauge raiiways having rails
of lighter section than that of the rails of the broad gauge railway for which the
vehicle was originally designed, and also it may be curves of much smaller radius
than the broad gauge railway, there is substituted for each pair of broad gauge
wheels with axle, at the junction of railways of different, gauge, a bolster (herein-
after called a transverse beam) adapted to take the place of the 'said axle and its
bearings and carried by a bogie which is fitted with two or more pairs of narrow
gauge wheels and is connected to the transverse beam by means of a central pin
or other suitable connection so as to be capable of turning or swivelling relatively
thereto. The two ends of the transverse beam are extended so as to pass, when in
position, through the horn plates attached to the underframe of the broad gauge
vehicle, and terminate in or are provided with dummy axle boxes or parts so formed
as to their exterior surfaces and so arranged as to occupy the exact positions
vacated by the axle boxes of the displaced broad gauge axle and wheels.
The bogies may be of any suitable construction, and the transverse beams may
be supported thereon in any convenient manner for which purpose they may be
furnished with bearing springs, links or other suitable supporting devices.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 shows in side elevation and Fig. 2 partly
in cross section and partly in end elevation, one of the end portions of a broad
gauge vehicle carried by a narrow gauge bogie and transverse beam according to
this invention.....
In this arrangement each transverse beam 1 which may be built up of metal
bars of channel section, is pivoted at 2 upon the top of a bolster 3 carried by and

page_text: supported in any known or suitable way in the narrow gauge bogie 4, the ends
of the transverse beam being bent downward and outward so as to carry the
dummy axle boxes 1" which are suitably secured to the beam and are adapted as
shown to carry the bearing springs 5 of the broad gauge vehicle 6 with which the
transverse beam is to be used, and to fit the horn plates 7 of such vehicle. Each
end of the beam may be stiffened by an inverted bar 1* of channel section secured
between the vertical flanges of the channel bars of which the beam is built up.
Each bogie may be provided with a suitable construction of coupling and buffer,
as for example with a central coupling and buffer 8, arranged to project beyond
the buffers 9 of the broad gauge vehicle 6 carried by the bogies, so
that the latter can be coupled to the bogies of adjacent vehicles, or
with narrow gauge vehicles provided with similar buffing and coupling
arrangements ; or the broad gauge vehicles whilst being carried by bogies as
described, may be coupled together by means of their own couplings.
The substitution of narrow gauge bogies 4 for broad gauge wheels and axles and
vtce versa, can be readily accomplished by the aid of suitable lifting apparatus
such as hydraulic or mechanical jacks operating simultaneously to raise
the broad gauge vehicle. When the vehicle is sufficiently raised, the broad gauge
wheels with axles, or the narrow gauge bogies, as the case may be, are rolled away
and replaced respectively by the bogies with transverse beams, or the ordinary
wheels and axles, upon which the broad gauge vehicle is then lowered.
The dummy axle boxes 1" can be constructed and arranged in various ways.
Thus instead of being adapted, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to carry the ordinary
bearing springs 5 of the vehicle they may be fitted with fixed or reniovable pro-
jections or parts 10, as shown in side and end view in Figs. 3 and 4 respectively,.
so that the sole bars 6 of the vehicle may rest directly upon them when it is
desired to remove the said bearing springs. The dummy axle boxes 1" may also,
if preferred, be each fitted with a bearing spring 5 of their own' as shown in Figs. 5
and 5, to take the place of the bearing spring 5 belonging to the vehicle. The
dummy axle boxes may be made adjustable as to their upper surfaces, so as to fit
bearing springs of different shapes and sizes. Figs. 6 and 64 show one construction for
this purpose wherein the top of the dummy axle box is provided with a plate 11
that is capable of being adjusted vertically by two wedges 11ª and a right and left-
handed screw 11b and carries two jaws 11 that are capable of being adjusted.
toward and from each other, to fit the buckle 5" of the bearing spring 5, by another a
right and left handed screw 11d. Each dummy axle box may also be made
adjustable as to its sides so that the horn plate grooves therein can be adapted to
accommodate horn plates spaced at different distances apart, of varying thick..
nesses, and of varying dimensions between the horns.
Fig. 7 is a side view, Fig. 7 a cross section, and Fig. 7" a plan to a larger scale 4
than Figs. 7 and 7, showing one construction for this purpose.
thereto the dummy axle box 1" is provided with two E or channelled shaped
According
parts 12, 12" the horizontal. members 12b of which are arranged to slide between
one another so that the distance apart of the horn plate grooves 12° in the vertical
members can be varied to suit the distance apart of the horns, after which the said 4
two parts are fixed together by bolts 12d. To adapt the grooves 12° to horn plates.
of different thickness, each of them may be fitted with a laterally adjustable
vertical angle piece 12° (Fig. 7"). To accommodate horn plates spaced at different
distances apart, the dummy axle boxes 1" may be each made laterally adjustable
on its end of the transverse beam 1 by an adjusting screw 12.
5
The two ends of each transverse beam may as shown in Figs. 8 and 8* be shaped
as shown to serve as journals so as to take the weight of the waggon through the
existing axle boxes 13 and brasses 13 and for that purpose may be made adjustable.
to correspond to the lengths, centres and diameters of the journals of the displaced
wheels. In the example shown in Figs. 8 & 8 the outer end of the beam is 5
formed with a flange 1b and collar 1° between which the brass 13" of the axle
box 13 fits.

page_text: Bogies provided with two or more pairs of wheels and a pivoted transverse beam
such as herein before described, whether of narrow or broad gauge, may advan-
tageously be used to replace single axles with pairs of wheels in cases where the
load on each axle is excessive for the particular rails employed and it is desired
to distribute the load over a greater number of axles and wheels, or in cases where
it is desired to increase the load carried by a vehicle travelling over rails of the
same weight.
For transferring railway or other trucks or ordinary road vehicles of narrow
gauge over a broad-gauge railway, the carrying vehicle is according to one con-
struction provided with longitudinal ways, or with a longitudinal trough, arranged
between the carrying wheels and supported by the framing of the vehicle so that
the ways, or the bottom of the trough, as the case may be, are at a level just above
the axles of the carrying vehicle which is provided at the ends with removable or
displacable transverse draw-beams, the arrangement being such that a narrow
gauge railway truck, or an ordinary narrow gauge road vehicle, can, after the
draw beam at one end of the vehicle has been moved out of the way, be readily
run from a raised platform, or by inclined ways, on to the longitudinal ways, or
into the trough of the carrying vehicle so as to be supported thereby with its centre
cf gravity low down, and after replacing the draw-beam will be ready to be
conveyed by the carrying vehicle to any desired place.
Fig. 9 shows in side elevation, Fig. 10 partly in cross section and partly in end
elevation, and Fig. 11 in plan one arrangement of this kind. The framing of the
carrying vehicle comprises two solebars or side members 14 each stamped, pressed
cr built up to form inverted trough shaped parts 14" above the wheels and
horizontal lateral extensions 14b to form longitudinal ways apon which are secured
rails 14 and which are connected by a bottom plate 14d, the two sole bars with
longitudinal ways being connected by headstocks 16 and intermediate cross
bearers 17 that are of U or channel shape as seen when looking endways at the
vehicle, the said sole bars being provided with horn plates 7 cr otherwise adapted
in any suitable way to be mounted upon the axles 18 of two or more pairs of carry-
ing wheels 15. Or the carrying vehicles may in some cases be mounted on bogie
trucks. To enable the bottom of the longitudinal trough formed by and between
the side bars, lateral extensions, and bottom plate to be brought low down, holes 14°
may, as shown, be formed in the inner inclined portions of the sole bars 14 through
which the upper portions of the carrying wheels 15 project, the portions of the
rails 14 adjacent to these holes being in such case arched, as shown in 14'
(Fig. 9), for the purpose of raising the vehicle 20 to be carried, when running the
same on or off the carrying vehicle, so that its axle boxes 20" shall not foul the
upper parts of the carrying wheels. The draw-beams 19, may be of pressed metal
or other suitable material, and be made entirely removable, or be pivoted so as to
he capable of turning in a horizontal or vertical plane, or so as to be moved verti-
cally or endways to permit of their being moved into a position to admit of. a
vehicle 20 being run on or off the carrying vehicle. In the example shown in
Figs. 9, 10 and 11, each draw beam 19 is shown pivoted at its ends by vertical
pins 19" to jaws 19b fixed to the top and bottoin of the sole bars 14, and also by
horizontal hinge pins 19° to lugs 19d fixed to the ends of the sole bars. As will
be seen the arrangement is such that by removing the horizontal pins 19° and one
the vertical pins of either draw bar, such bar can be turned horizontally and
that by removing both of the vertical pins the draw beam can be turned downward
about the horizontal hinge pins 19°, to suit requirement.
Fig. 12 is a side elevation and Fig. 13 a plan showing another construction
i carrying vehicle suitable for conveying railway or other vehicles, whether of
arrow or broad gauge on a railway that may be either of broad or narrow gauge.
n this case the carving vehicle is constructed with its intermediate portion 2.1
a lower level than its end portions 22 which are each adapted to be mounted
pon a bogie truck 23, or it may be upon the axle of a pair of carrying wheels.
The intermediate portion 21 of the vehicle is provided with a pivoted or rotary:

page_text: floor or platform 24 that can be turned, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 13,
about the centre 24" to an angle with the longitudinal axis of the carrying vehicle
to admit of a railway or other vehicle 20 being run on or off such pivoted floor or
atform. The floor or platform can be turned completely or partly around the
centre 24" to suit requirements. To facilitate the turning movement, antifriction
wheels or rollers 25 may be provided on the intermediate portion 21 of the carrying.
vehicle, or it may be on the pivoted floor or platform, to facilitate the turning of
the latter. Also a ball bearing 25 or other suitable bearing, may, for a like
purpose, be provided around the pivot 24".
For the purpose of obtaining a stiff pivoted or rotary floor or platform 24, it may
be constructed of two longitudinal trough shaped ways 24b connected at intervals
by transverse beams or connections or as shown by a flat bottom plate. Suitable.
means such as pins 26 are provided whereby the platform can be held, when
necessary, either in line with the carrying vehicle, or at an angle thereto, as may
be desired.
As will be obvious the details of construction of carrying vehicles according to
this invention can be variously modified.
Suitable means are or may be provided where necessary for securing the wheels
of the carried vehicle to prevent end and side movement thereof; also for pre-
venting oscillations of the body of the carried vehicle on its springs during
tiansport. Various means suitable for this purpose are described and shown in
the specification of our Patent No. 1066 of 1896. Also any suitable means, such
for example as those described in our said former specification may be provided
for preventing the carrying vehicle from tipping when being loaded or unloaded.
In the case of a carrying vehicle of the kind shown in Figs. 12, and 13, that end of
the pivoted floor or platform over which the vehicle to be carried is to pass when
entering or leaving the carrying vehicle, may, when turned into the angular-
Tosition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 13, he carried by a suitable fixed support at
the side of the track
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. For carrying on railways, railway vehicles originally designed to run upon
pairs of wheels carried by separate axles mounted in the underframe of the said
vehicles, bogies substantially such as herein before described with reference to
Figs. 1 to 8 inclusive of the drawings, such a bogie being constructed with two
or more pairs of wheels and having pivotted to it a transverse beam adapted to
take the place of one of the ordinary axles with pair of wheels, the arrangement
being such that by the use of two or more of such bogies with transverse beams, the
weight of the vehicle carried can be distributed over a greater number of wheels
and axles and so that a broad gauge vehicle can, if necessary, be conveyed over a
narrow gauge line, as set forth.
2. For conveying railway or other trucks or ordinary road vehicles of narrow
gauge over a broad gauge railway, vehicles substantially as heremabove described
with reference to Figs. 9 to 11 inclusive of the drawings, such a vehicle being
constructed with longitudinal ways, or with a longitudinal trough, arranged
between the carrying wheels and supported by the framing of the vehicle so that
the ways, or the bottom of the trough, as the case may be, are or is at a level just
above the axles of the carrying vehicle which is provided at the ends with removable
er displacaile transverse draw-beams, the arrangement being such that a narrow
gauge railway truck, or an ordinary narrow gauge road vehicle, can, after the
draw beam at one end of the carrying vehicle has been moved out of the way, be
run on to the longitudinal ways or into the trough of the carrying vehicle so as to
be supported thereby with its centre of gravity low down, and after replacing the
draw beam, can be conveyed by the carrying vehicle to
any desired place as
set forth...
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9.

page_text: 3. For conveying railway or other vehicles whether narrow. or broad gauge
over a railway that may be either of broad or narrow gauge, a carrying vehicle
constructed substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figs. 12
and 13 of the drawings with its intermediate portion at a lower level than its end
1ertions which are mounted upon the axles of pairs of carrying wheels or upon
begie tru ks, and the said intermediate portion of the vehicle is provided with a
pivotted or otary floor or platform that can be turned to an angle with the
lengitudinal axis of the carrying vehicle to admit of a railway or other vehicle
being run on or off such floor or platform as set forth.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.