Improvements in the Manufacture of Axle Clips and Railway Wagon Door Clips, and Droppers for the said Door Clips.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1897-Accepted, 19th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Axle Clips and Railway
Wagon Door Clips, and Droppers for the said Door Clips.
We, JABEZ LONES, and EDWARD HOLDEN trading as Lones Vernon and
Holden of Sandwell Iron and Axle Works, Smethwick in the County of Stafford
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be.as follows:-
Our invention consists in manufacturing axle clips and railway wagon door clips
and droppers for the said door clips by the process or combination of processes
bereinafter described instead of by the forging or stamping process ordinarily
employed.
Axle clips and railway wagon door clips consist of plates of wrought iron having
at their middles an arch or open loop, the ends of the said plates constituting flaps
or wings in the same plane. The flaps or wings in the case of axle clips receive
the carriage springs and in the case of door clips are attached to the door frame.
Droppers to be used with these door clips consist of bars of wrought iron sliding
within the open loop of the clip and having at one end a hook shaped head or
catch for engaging with the loop of the clip and at the other end a stop or
projection for limiting the sliding motion of the dropper within the loop.
In manufacturing axle clips and railway wagon door clips according to our
invention we proceed as follows:-We take a thick heated slab of wrought iron or
steel and by a series of rolling operations effected in rolls having grooves of the
required size and figure, we produce a long plate or bar having in cross section the
figure of the clip to be made; that is to say, we produce along the middle of
the plate or bar a hollow projecting part from which the arch or open loop of the
finished clip is made, leaving at the sides of the arched or looped part and at a
lower level than the said arched or looped part, the flaps or wings of the clip..
The long rolled plate or bar of the sectional figure described is divided transversely
by sawing or otherwise into strips each cut off strip constituting a clip which is
finished in the ordinary way.
The rolled bar from which the axle clips are to be made slightly differs from
that from which door clips are to be made; that is, the rolled bar for axle clips
has at the outer ends of its flaps or wings projecting ribs and along the middle of
the concave side of the arch or open loop another rib. From this middle rib the
peg for preventing the slipping of the clip on the axle is made by a machining or
cutting operation.
In making the droppers of door clips we proceed substantially in the manner
described with respect to axle and door clips; that is to say we take a thick
heated slab of wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling operations we
produce a long plate er bar of a width equal to the length of the droppers to be
made; the said plate or bar having along the edge of one of its faces a curved
projection and along the other edge of the same face an angular projection. By
cutting the plate or bar transversely into strips or pieces droppers of the kind
described are made.
Dated this Second day of Sentember 1896
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Axle Clips and Railway
Wagon Door Clips, and Droppers for the said Door Clips.
We JABEZ LONES and EDWARD HOLDEN, trading as Lones, Vernon and
Holden of Sandwell Iron and Axle Works, Smethwick, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Our invention consists in manufacturing axle clips and railway wagon door clips
and droppers for the said door clips by the process or combination of processes
hereinafter described instead of by the forging or stamping process ordinarily
employed.
Axle clips and railway wagon door clips consist of plates of wrought iron having
at their middles, an arch or open loop, the ends of the said plates constituting flaps
or wings in the same plane. The flaps or wings in the case of axle clips receive
the carriage springs and in the case of door clips are attached to the door frame.
Droppers to be used with these door clips consist of bars of wrought iron sliding
within the open loop of the clip and having at one end a hook shaped head or
catch for engaging with the loop of the clip and at the other end a stop or
projection for limiting the sliding notion of the dropper within the loop.
In manufacturing axle clips and railway wagon door clips according to our
invention we proceed as follows;
We take a thick heated slab of wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling
operations effected in rolls having grooves of the required size and figure, we
produce a long plate or bar having in cross section, the figure of the clip to be
made; that is to say, we produce along the middle of the plate or bar, a hollow
projecting part from which the arch or open loop of the finished clip is made,
leaving at the sides of the arched or looped part and at a lower level than the said
arched or looped part; the flaps or wings of the clip. The long rolled plate or bar
of the sectional figure described is divided transversely by sawing or otherwise
into strips, each cut off strip constituting a clip which is finished in the ordinary
way.
The rolled bar from which the axle clips are to be made slightly differs from
that from which the door clips are to be made; that is, the rolled bar for axle clips
has at the outer ends of its flaps or wings projecting ribs and along the middle of
the concave side of the arch or open loop, another rib. From this middle rib, the
peg for preventing the slipping of the clip on the axle is made by a machining or
cutting operation.
In making the droppers of door clips we proceed substantially in the manner
described with respect to axle and door clips; that is to say, we take a thick
heated slab of wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling operations we
produce a long plate or bar of a width equal to the length of the droppers to be
made; the said plate or bar having along the edge of one of its faces, a curved
projection and along the other edge of the same face, an angular projection. By
cutting the plate or bar transversely into strips or pieces, droppers of the kind
described are made.
We will first describe in detail, the manufacture according to our invention of
railway wagon door clips with reference to the pair of preparing grooved rolls
represented in Figure I and the finishing pair of rolls represented in Figure 2 of
the accompanying drawings, and the plates or bars produced by the said rolls.
In Figures 1 and 2 we have only shown the meeting grooves of the pairs of rolls.
We take a thick heated slab of wrought iron or steel and pass it through the

page_text: groove a of the pair of preparing rolls Figure 1 so as to give to the said slab,
the sectional form represented in Figure 3. The bar Figure 3 is flat on one face
and has a projecting part or broad rib running along the middle of the other
face as represented. The bar Figure 3 is next passed in an inverted position
through the groove b of the rolls Figure 1 and shaped thereby of the sectional
form shown in Figure 4. The bar Figure 4 is again inverted and passed through
the groove c of the rolls Figure 1 so as to give it the sectional form represented in
Figure 5. The bar Figure 5 is next passed in succession, without inverting it,.
through the grooves d and e of the rolls Figure 1, so as, first, to produce the bar
represented in Figure 6 and afterwards that represented in Figure 7. There is
thus produced a long plate or bar having in cross section the general figure of the
door clip to be made; that is to say, the said bar or plate has along its middle
the hollow angular part from which the arch or open loop of the finished door
clip is made, leaving at the sides of the arched or looped part and at a lower
plane, the flaps or wings g, g of the clip. The partially made arch shaped plate
or bar Figure 7 is finished by reducing the thickness of the metal of the said
plate or har by passing it in succession through the grooves h, i, k in the pair of
finishing rolls Figure 2, so as to produce, first, the plate or bar represented in
Figure 8, next the plate or bar represented in Figure 9 and finally the plate or bar
represented in Figure 10.
The long rolled plate or bar Figure 10 is next divided transversely at the dotte t
lines 1, 1, so as to produce short strips of the kind represented in Figure 11, each
cut off strip Figure 11 constituting a railway wagon door clip which is finished in
the ordinary way.
In making axle clips according to our invention we proceed in the following
manner and use either the pair of grooved rolls represented in Figure 12 for the
rolling operations or a pair of preparing rolls and a pair of finishing rolls. We
first pass the heated slab of iron or steel through the groove m in the rolls and
thereby produce a plate or bar having the sectional form represented in Figure 13..
The bar Figure 13, in a vertical position, is next passed through the groove n in
the rolls and the bar Figure 14 thereby produced. By passing the bar Figure 14
in a horizontal position through the grooves. p, q and in the rolls, the bar first
has the shape represented in Figure 15 given to it; next the shape-represented in
Figure 16 and finally the shape represented in Figure 17. By the operation of
the groove p the arch or loop and flap or wing parts of the axle clip are fashioned
from the bar as well as projecting ribs formed along the outer ends of the flap or
wing parts of the bar: by the operation of the groove q another projecting rib is
made along the middle of the concave side of the arch or clip part of the bar and
by the operation of the last groover of the rolls, the metal of the bar is reduced to.
the required thickness.
The bar Figure 17 is cut transversely at the dotted lines into short pieces of the
kind represented in Figure 18 and the axle clips thus made are finished by making
from the middle rib of the arch or loop, the pegs, for preventing the slipping of
the clip on the axle, as represented in the said Figure 18. The cutting away
of the middle rib to form the peg s of the axle clip may be effected by a machining.
or cutting operation. Instead of making the pegs of the axle clips from the middle.
rib rolled on the bar, studs or pegs at the required distances apart may be rolled
on the bar.
In making axle clips of large size, we prefer to use a pair of preparing rolls as.
well as a pair of finishing rolls as described and represented with respect to the
manufacture of railway wagon door clips.
In making the droppers of railway wagon door clips according to our invention,.
we proceed in the following manner and use the pair of groovel rolls represented
in Figure 19. We take the heated slab of iron or steel and pass it through the
groove t of the rolls and thereby produce a plate or bar having the sectional form
represented in Figure 20, that is, we produce a plate or bar fat on one face and
having along the edges of the other face, ribs or projections. By passing the bar-

page_text: Figure 20 in succession through the grooves u, v and w, inverting the bar after
each rolling operation, bars having the several forms represented in Figures 21, 22
ard 23 are produced. By the rolling operations described a long bar or plate of
the kind represented in Figure 23 is produced having a width equal to the length
of the droppers to be made, the said bar or plate having along one of its faces and
at the edge thereof. a curved projection z and along the other edge of the same
face, an angular projection y. By cutting the bar or plate Figure 23 transversely
at the dotted lines, railway wagon door clip droppers are produced as represented
in Figure 24.
Figure 25 represents in front elevation and section, a railway wagon door to
which clips and droppers made according to our invention are applied.
1 is the hinged wagon door and 2, 2 the clips fixed to the wagon above the said
door and 3, 3 are the droppers working in the loops or arches of the clips. The
hook shaped heads at the tops of the droppers engage with the loops of the clips
and the stops or projections at the bottoms of the droppers limit their motion in
the loops.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as our invention of "Improvements in the manufacture of axle clips and
railway wagon door clips and droppers for the said door clips":
First. Manufacturing railway wagon door clips hy taking a thick heated slab or
bloom of wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling operations producing a
plate or bar having in cross section, the figure of the clips to be made and dividing
the said plate or bar transversely into strips, each cut off strip constituting a railway
wagon door clip, which is finished in the ordinary way, the several rolling operations
being conducted in the manner and by the use of the grooved rolls hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 11, both inclusive, of the accompanying
drawings.
Secondly. Manufacturing axle clips by rolling the wrought iron or steel bar or
plate of the sectional figure referred to with respect to the manufacture of railway
wagon door clips, but with the addition of projecting ribs to the outer ends of the
flap or wing parts of the rolled bar or plate and also with a rib or with equi-distant
studs along the middle of the concave side of the arch or open loop of the bar or
plate; cutting the said bar or plate transversely into strips and forming from the
middle rib or studs referred to, the pegs of the axle clips, the several rolling
operations being conducted in the manner and by the use of the grooved rolls
hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 12 to 18 both inclusive of the
accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. Manufacturing the droppers of railway wagon door clips by taking a
thick heated slab or bloom of wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling
operations producing a plate or bar of a width equal to the length of the droppers
to be made, the said plate or bar having along the edge of one of its faces a curved
projection and along the other edge of the same face an angular projection, and
cutting the said plate or bar transversely into droppers, the several rolling operations
being conducted in the manner and by the use of the grooved rolls herein before
described and illustrated in Figures.19 to 24 both inclusive of the accompanying
drawings.
D11.
Ma 1907
JABEZ LONES.
EDWARD HOLDEN.