Improvements in Anti-vibratory Devices for Locomotives, Cycles, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 5th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Anti-vibratory Devices for Locomotives, Cycles,
and other Vehicles. .
WILLIAM MCDONNELL Kyleglas Limerick Merchant HENRY VEREKER
MORONY Eagle Lodge Limerick Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention is intended to relieve the vibratory or oscillatory motion
experienced on the footplates of locomotives or other vehicles.
We propose to inflate tubes or cushions either with air water or other convenient
fluid and having attached thereto a platform we thereby form our footplate.
Like tubes or cushions may be adapted to act as springs between the frames &
body of railway or other road carriages or they may be placed between the springs.
and axle blocks of same. They may be also adapted to cycles in this case the
spring may be coiled.
Dated this 7th day of June 1896.
WM. MCDONNELL,
Kyleglas, Limerick.
H. V. MORONY,
Eagle Lodge, Limerick.
Improvements in Anti-vibratory Devices for Locomotives, Cycles,
and other Vehicles.
We, WILLIAM MCDONNELL of Kyleglas, Limerick, Merchant, and HENRY.
VEREKER MORONY of Eagle Lodge, Limerick, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide improved or novel means whereby foot
plates of locomotives, or equivalent parts of other vehicles, may be effectually
insulated from vibration or oscillatory motion common thereto.
With this object in view we provide tubes or cushions inflated or filled with air,
which when suitably mounted are interposed between the said foot plates or
equivalent parts and the body or frame, or springs of the locomotive or other
carriage or vehicle.
In order that our said invention may be readily understood we will now describe,
by way of example, certain applications of same as follows.
Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional elevation of a fout-plate, say of a locomotive or
other carriage or vehicle, having anti-vibratory appliances fitted thereto as
hereinbefore stated.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of same.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section drawn to a larger scale than the previous figures
shewing a construction of one of the anti-vibratory supports, and Fig. 4 is a half.
sectional plan of same

page_text: the like carried in a seating, and located between the part to be insulated from
vibration, and the supporting part or member, substantially as described.
2. The anti-vibratory supports composed of elastic inflated balls or rings or the
like, a top plate or disc in contact therewith, a seating below same, and a connecting
bolt or the like between the top plate and the seating, such parts composing an
anti-vibratory pedestal adapted to be located between a carrying frame or bed, and
the foot plate or equivalent parts of a locomotive or other vehicle, substantially as
described and illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3. The anti-vibratory supports applicable to velocipede saddles or seats, either
in combination with a spring frame or not, substantially as and for the purposes.
described and illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings.
4. The anti-vibratory supports applicable to the axles of vehicles, arranged and
acting, substantially as and for the purposes shewn and described with reference to.
Figs. 7 and 8 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of March 1897
BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds, Agents for the Applicants..