A self Loading Troпеу аnd аррагати тог in Carts and Wagons on Tramways by Animal Power.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1886
Complete Left, 25th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 25th Mar., 1887.
A self Loading Troпеу аnd аррагати
тог
in Carts and Wagons on Tramways by Animal Power.
I GERARD COKE MEYNELL of 20 Whitehall Place in the City of Westminster Esquire
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The trolley is constructed sufficiently narrow to admit of the cart or wagon wheels
passing outside it and sufficiently low to admit of the axletrees to pass over it.
The trolley is provided with a support or bolster which can be raised and lowered
by suitable mechanism all contained in the trolley and actuated from the front or
rear of the trolley; this support being raised raises and sustains the cart or wagon
by its axle tree. The support or bolster is arranged to swivel on the frame of the
trolley to allow curves to be passed over when carrying a four wheeled wagon on
two trollies and to allow the shafts of the cart to swing out of line with the frame of
the trolley.
To raise the trolley off the rails (to allow another vehicle to pass along the
line &c.) the support or bolster can be clamped or secured to the axletree of the cart
or wagon. Then on turning the handle by which the bolster is raised in the direction
opposite to that required for raising the cart; the cart is lowered, and by continuing the
motion the trolley is lifted off the rails and nangs to the axle tree of the cart.
DL: 21st dow of Na 1886
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: in Carts and Wagons on Tramways by Animal Power.
I, GERARD COKE MEYNELL of 20 Whitehall Place in the City of Westminster,
Esquire, 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 trolley is constructed sufficiently narrow to admit of the cart or wagon wheels
passing outside it and sufficiently low to admit of the axletrees to pass over it.
The trolley is provided with a support or bolster which can be raised and lowered
by suitable mechanism all contained in the trolley and actuated from the front
or rear of the trolley; this support being raised raises and sustains the cart or wagon
by its axle tree. The support or bolster is arranged to swivel on the frame of the
trolley to allow curves to be passed over when carrying a four wheeled wagon on
two trollies and to allow the shafts of the cart to. swing out of line with the frame
of the trolley.
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To raise the trolly off the rails (to allow another vehicle to pass along the line &c.)
the support or bolster can be clamped or secured to the axle tree of the cart or wagon.
Then on turning the handle by which the bolster is raised in the direction opposite to
that required for raising the cart, the cart is lowered, and by continuing the motion the
trolley is lifted off the rails and hangs to the axle tree of the cart.
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The drawing annexed 'shews two examples of trollies constructed as above described.
Figure is a vertical longitudinal section.
Figure 2 a vertical cross section, and
Figure 3 a plan of a trolley the main frame of which is formed of wood.
Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal section..
Figure 5 a vertical transverse section, and
Figure 6 a plan partly in section of a trolley the frame of which is entirely of iron.
In Figures 1, 2 and 3. A A are two longitudinal wooden, bars at a distance apart
and connected by cross-bars.B. CC are the bearings for the axles of the trolley wheels.
―these are secured to the longitudinal bars A. The cross-bars B at their.centre have
secured to them a longitudinal iron D this carries a bearing for the vertical axis of
a toothed wheel or pinion E and also bearings F for a long horizontal axis G on
which is a bevil pinion G¹ gearing with a bevil wheel E' which is fast with the
toothed wheel or pinion E.
On the two opposite sides of the wheel or pinion E and gearing with it are two
toothed wheels H. Each wheel H is fast with a nut H¹ which nuts can be rovolved in
bearings carried by brackets I which are bolted to the longitudinal wooden bars A of
the frame, one bracket I to each frame A.
Each nut has screwed into it a vertical screw K-these at their upper ends have
secured to them a horizontal plate or bolster L. When the trolley has been brought

page_text: below a cart and the plate L below the axle of the cart the plate can be made to rise
and lift the cart by turning the longitudinal axis G which can be done by means of a
crank handle applied to either of its ends.
The plate has a vertical flange L standing up along one of its sides-opposite to
this is a jaw M which can be moyed towards or away from the flange I by a longi-
tudinal screw N which can be turned by a crank handle applied to either end of its
axis. In this way the axle of the cart can easily be nipped between the flange L
and the jaw M or can be released as may be desired.
In the trolley shewn at Figures 4, 5 and 6 A A are two side frames formed of rolled
girders or channel irons to which the bearings C for the axles of the trolley wheels are
secured B is a star shaped casting coupling the two side frames A-this casting
carries at its centre a vertical pin which forms the pivot of a locking or swivelling
bar D. The ends of the locking or swivelling bar D rests on the top of the wrought
iron side girder A.
The locking bar carries bearings for two screw nuts H' each having fast with it a
toothed wheel H to gear with a toothed wheel E which can turn freely on the vertical
pivot of the locking bar. This wheel has also as in the trolley just described a bevil
toothed wheel E' into which gears a bevil pinion G' on an axis G which can be turned
by a crank handle applied to either of its ends.
By constructing a trolley which runs on a rail or tramway in the manner herein
before described narrow enough to be run between the wheels of a cart or wagon and
with self carried mechanism for then lifting and taking upon itself the weight of the
cart the cart when it arrives at a tramway can be conveyed along it without un-
harnessing or detaching the animals from the carts or wagons and the animals so
remaining attached can be used for hauling the trolley with the cart or wagon upon it
along the tramway.
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:-
1. A trolley adapted to run on a rail or tramway and carrying lifting mechanism
for raising a cart or wagon and taking the weight upon itself substantially as described
to enable the cart or wagon to make use of the tramway without detaching the animal
or animals by which the trolley and cart or wagon are to be drawn.
2. The construction of trolleys substantially as herein before described and illustrated
at Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings annexed.
3. The construction of trolleys substantially as herein before described and illustrated
at Figures 4, 5 and 6.
4. Forming the trolley in such a way that it can be secured to the axle of the
cart and then raised off the tram rails by the same mechanism that is used for lifting
the carts on to the trolley.
Dated this 25th day of February 1887.