IMPROVED SYSTEM OF TRANSPORTING GOODS BY ROAD AND TRAMWAY OR RAILWAY, AND APPARATtus therefor
Year: 1884

page_text: I, DAVID ACKMAN JARDINE of Great Brunswick Street Dublin in the County
of Dublin Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
IMPROVED SYSTEM OF TRANSPORTING GOODS BY ROAD AND TRAMWAY OR RAILWAY,
AND APPARATtus therefor," to be as follows:-
"
In the transhipment of goods from rail to road, and from road to tramway, or
vice versa, considerable loss is at present incurred through breakage of bulk.
Now my invention is designed to avoid this evil, and to enable the farmer's
wagon to be placed on the rail or tramway and carried to the railway station
nearest its destination, then set down and driven on the road, and all without the
use of crane, hoist, or heavy lifting.
It is especially applicable to the narrow gauge railways of Ireland.
To run on these railways or tramways, I construct a low car or wagon capable
of running under the axles of the road wagon hereafter described, and on this
I place elevating gear such as hydraulic or screw jacks. The road wagon I form
similar in all respects to an ordinary wagon, but arrange the lower surface of the
axles upon places formed to fit the heads of the screw jacks, or of other elevating
apparatus. The elevating gear when the wagons to be carried are all of one size
and provided with axles a uniform distance apart, can be simple screw jacks
working in nuts or screw bearings in the wagon frame. Where the axles vary in
their distance apart, it can be a rail with sliding heads on it raised by screw jacks
near each end, or by inclined planes, screws, and wedges, or by small hydraulic
presses, worm rack and pinion, or other well known elevating gear, or the
elevating gear can be made to slide or travel longitudinally on the truck to fit
different wagons. I prefer however to have a standard size of road wagon and
simple screw jacks on the truck.
In this case I construct the wagon with ordinary square framing and corner
brackets between the sole plates and front and back beams, these corner brackets
are the bodies or sockets of the jacks. The platform of the truck can be below or
above the axles; if below, a flooring must be made level with, or above the upper
part of the axles. Where the height of the road wagons and their freight and of
their axles will allow it, I prefer to carry the framing of the trucks above the
axles.
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page_text: I, DAVID ACKMAN JARDINE of Great Brunswick Street Dublin in the County
of Dublin, Contractor do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
IMPROVED SYSTEM OF TRANSPORTING GOODS BY ROAD AND TRAMWAY OR RAILWAY,
AND APPARATUS THEREFOR and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
In the transhipment of goods from rail to road, and from road to tramway, or
vice versa, considerable loss is at present incurred through breakage of bulk.
Now my invention is designed to avoid this evil, and to enable the farmer's
wagon to be placed on the rail or tramway and carried to the railway station
nearest its destination, then set down and driven on the road, and all without the
use of crane, hoist, or heavy lifting.
It is especially applicable to the narrow gauge railways of Ireland.
It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 is
a side elevation of truck and road wagon with wagon raised on truck Figure 2 a
plan of railway truck and Figure 3 an end elevation of the wagon and truck with
wagon on the ground.
In these A is the body of a truck so low that it can run under the axles of thé
road wagon, B B brackets on same having a tapped or threaded hole C therein in
which a jack D Figure 3 is screwed. The brackets in the drawing are shown fixed
to the wagon, this is the best plan when only required for wagons of standard size
and all wagons for use in this way should be of standard size. But in rare cases
where numerous different dimensioned wagons have to be accomodated use a
bracket capable of sliding longitudinally on the truck, so that the distance apart of
the fore and aft jacks can be adjusted. E is the ordinary road wagon so long as
the axles are a uniform distance apart, almost any kind of four wheeled road
wagon will suit my truck, and as there is nothing new in the construction of the
wagon I need not further describe it. Broad guage railway wagons can in this
manner be transported over hairow guage lines without transhipment of cargo.
I construct the jack heads and the lower surfaces of the axles in the case of road
wagons, or the turned axles themselves in railway wagons of such shape that the
two shall be complementary to and fit each other. It is not absolutely necessary
to use screw jacks or hydraulic jacks for elevating as pairs of sliding wedges
actuated by screws. or other power, so as to slide towards each other under the
axles of the road wagons, would do as well, and indeed where variously dimensioned
road wagons are to be arranged for, this plan is perhaps better than that of sliding
jacks
Having how 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
1st. The improved system of transporting goods by road and tram or road and
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page_text: railway or tramway truck running under their axles between their wheels and
when they arrive at a railway placing such wagons over such a truck armed with
elevating gear and by said elevating gear raising the wagon wheels clear of the
ground, and then transporting wagon and all on the railway or tramway without
breaking bulk.
2nd. The apparatus for transporting goods by road and rail or tramway, which
consists in a four wheeled wagon in which the goods are packed, and a railway or
tramway truck, fitting in between the wheels of the wagon and armed with
elevating gear capable of raising and holding the wagon from the ground, sub-
stantially as described.
WP. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and
323, High Holborn, London,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.