Improvements in Brakes for Trolleys, Trucks, Carts, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1899-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brakes for Trolleys, Trucks, Carts, and other
Vehicles.
I, RICHARD LITTLE BENSON, of Lindhurst, Wilmslow, in the County of Chester,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide railway trolleys, and other four
wheeled hand vehicles, with a brake automatically applied when the handle is
dropped or raised out of use, but the invention is also applicable if desired to
similar vehicles provided with a shaft or shafts and drawn by horses or other
animals, in which case the lowering or raising of the shaft or shafts will put on
the brake.
When applying my invention to a railway trolley such as at present in use at
stations for the conveyance of luggage and the like, I fit a rod or bar across the
front of the swivelling undercarriage so as to be able to turn or rock in suitable
brackets fixed thereto, and on this rod or bar I fix a pair of short arms or shoes
carrying brake blocks exactly opposite each front wheel.
Or the cross rod or bar may be carried by the fixed part of the handle which
is connected to the front axle or undercarriage.
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At or about the centre of the said cross rod or bar I fix, or form, a projection
or arm, and I provide a corresponding projection or arm upon the handle proper
which is carried on a hinge or pivot as usual, so that when the handle is either
allowed to drop or is pushed up out of use the projection thereon will come
against that on the cross rod or bar and in the former case the weight of the
handle will cause the short arms or shoes to bring their brake blocks hard
against the front wheels of the trolley or truck and thus prevent it from moving
when not under control.
In the latter case (in which the handle is raised out of use) I propose to pro-
vide the said handle with a catch working over a suitably formed rack of teeth,
or notches, fixed to the undercarriage or other convenient part, so as to retain
the handle in place when the brake has been applied thereby to the wheels.
In some cases may dispense with the projections on the cross rod or bar and
on the handle and fix the handle on the said rod or bar so that it will rock with
it, and thus apply the brakes to the front wheels more directly. A great advan-
tage of this invention, especially as first described, is that it can be applied with
very little expense and no alteration to existing trucks or trolleys now in use at
railway stations.
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page_text: Improvements in Brakes for Trolleys, Trucks, Carts, and other
Vehicles.
I, RICHARD LITTLE BENSON, of Lindhurst, Wilmslow, in the County of Chester,
Commercial Traveller, 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 railway trolleys, and other four-
wheeled hand vehicles, with a brake which will be automatically applied when
the handle is dropped or raised out of use, but the invention is also applicable,
if desired, to similar vehicles provided with a shaft or shafts, and drawn by horses
or other animals, in which case the lowering or raising of the shaft will put on
the brake.
The manner in which my said invention is to be performed or carried into
practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the sheet of drawings
hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
For the sake of illustration I have shown my invention as applied to the front
of an ordinary trolley or truck such as are used for the conveyance of luggage
on ordinary railway platforms, docks, wharves, and for other similar purposes.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is a partial sectional elevation and Fig. 2 a plan
showing the application of my invention to an ordinary trolley, and Figs. 3, 4,
5 and 6 are similar views illustrating slight modifications thereof.
a represents a portion of the front of the trolley, and the swivelling under
carriage to which the front axle and front wheels c are attached.
For the purposes of my invention employ a transverse rod or bar d (see
Figs. 1 and 2) which is supported so as to be able to turn or rock in or upon
suitable brackets e fixed in front of the swivelling under-carriage b, and on this
rod or bar d I fix a pair of short arms carrying brake blocks or shoes f exactly
opposite to each front wheel c.
Or the transverse rod or bar d may be attached direct to, or formed of one
piece with, the fixed part of the handle g which is connected to the front axle or
under-carriage b as shown at Figs. 3 and 4.
or
When using the arrangement shown at Figs. 1 and 2 I fix or form at or about
the centre of the transverse rod or bar d a downward projection
arm h, and I provide a corresponding projection or arm upon the
handle proper g, (or the handle itself may bear upon the projection h) so that
when the handle g is allowed to drop the projection thereon will come against
the projection h on the transverse bar or rod d, and the weight of the handle
will cause the short arms on the ends of the said bar to bring the brake blocks
or shoes hard against the front wheels c of the trolley or truck and thus prevent
it from moving when not under control.
With the arrangement shown at Figs. 3 and 4 the handle g being fast to the
rod d the action is more simple and direct.
In cases where the handle is raised up when out of use, as shown at Figs. 5
and I provide the said handle g with a catch k working over a suitably formed
rack of teeth fixed to the under carriage 6 (or other convenient part) so as to
retain the handle in place when the brake has been applied thereby to the
wheels.
A great advantage of this invention (especially the arrangement shown on
Figs. 1 and 2) is that it can be applied with very little expense and no altera-
tion to existing trucks or trolleys now in use at railway stations.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
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The combination with the swivelling under carriage of a trolley, truck, or
other similar vehicle, of a transverse rocking bar provided with arms at each
end carrying brake blocks or shoes opposite to the front wheels such rocking
bar being acted upon automatically by the lowering (or raising as the case may
be) of the handle by which the truck or trolley is drawn substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 24th day of Jul 1800
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.