· Improved Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Railway Carriages, Waggons, and other similar Vehicles.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.·
Improved Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Railway
Carriages, Waggons, and other similar Vehicles.
I, LEOPOLD Pix, of 36 and 37 Leadenhall Street, in the City of London,
Agent 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 enable railway vehicles to be readily and easily
coupled or uncoupled without the necessity of the person whose duty it is to
connect or disconnect the said vehicles stepping between them.
Now according to this invention I provide a means whereby the coupling links
or chains may be raised held in position for coupling and dropped over the draw
hook of the next vehicle by one man standing at the side of the vehicle out of
danger the coupling being performed from either side of the vehicle. I prefer to
fit the apparatus to each end of railway vans waggons and the like.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood I will proceed to explain
the same with reference to the accompanying drawing which shews one end of a
railway waggon body fitted with an apparatus for coupling and uncoupling the
same constructed according to this invention.
Figure 1 being elevation, Figure 2 plan Figure 3 side view, Figures 4 and 5
being details to a larger scale hereinafter referred to.
a is the railway waggon, b b the buffers, c the draw hook, ff links attached to
the hook c, g is the coupling link provided with projections hh on the eyes ii,
shewn to an enlarged scale at Figures 4 and 5, which projections engage with the
links ff, and allow the links and g to be raised together and the same to be
held in the position shewn, j is a bent bar attached to the truck a to keep the
link g steady when raised.
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The links and 9 are raised and lowered by means of the bent levers k k
attached to rods terminating in handles m m¹ one at each side of the truck
nnn' n¹ are bearings in which the rods ll rotate.
The coupling is held in the position shewn on the drawing by means of the
hooks o o secured to the rod p which rod rotates in bearings and terminates in
handles y one at each side of the vehicle, the hooks o o engaging with projections
or lugs ss on the links ff. tt are stops, preferably forming part of the hooks o 0,
to prevent the said hooks dropping too far.
To couple one vehicle to another the operator takes hold of the handle m (or m¹)
and 7 one in each hand and turns the handle m (or m¹) in the direction shewn by
the arrow till the horizontal portion of the lever k (or k¹) touches the links ff he
then turns the handle g in the direction shewn by the arrow whereby the hooks o o
are disengaged from the lugs & s' and on turning the handle m (or m¹) downwards
the link g is lowered over the draw hook of the next vehicle.
To uncouple, the handle m (or m¹) is turned in the direction of the arrow until
the link g
disengaged from the draw hook and on continuing to turn the handle
in the same direction the coupling will assume the position shewn by the drawing
and be held by the hooks oo which are so shaped as to engage with the lugs
automatically.
are projections on the levers k¹ to guide the links ƒƒ
laterally when coupling or uncoupling.
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 :-
I. In an apparatus for coupling and uncoupling railway vehicles, the jointed

page_text: II. In an apparatus for coupling and uncoupling railway vehicles the bent
levers k k attached to rotating rods and operated by handles m m' substantially
as described and for the purpose stated.
III. In an apparatus for coupling and uncoupling railway vehicles, the rod p
having hooks oo thereon the said rod being adapted to be rotated by the handles 99 5
substantially as described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 1th dor of Mar 1902
B. J. WILDBORE,
Agent.