Improvements in Railway Carriage and other Brakes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1889
Complete Specification Loft 12th Mar 1800 Accepted, 12th Apr. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Railway Carriage and other Brakes.
LOUIS CARSTEN NIEBOUR Clarence Street Kingston on Thames Dealer in Musical
Instruments do hereby declare the nature of this invention be as follows :-
Improvements in railway carriage & other brakes. For this purpose I use the
usual centre coupling book extended under the carriage to a suitable distance the end
of which is bolted to the centre of the inner circular part of a carriage spring which
spring is fixed to the underpart of the carriage.
In the centre of the outward circular part of the carriage spring is bolted another
bar of metal which extends to the line of the further end of the first two wheels.
From the centre bar of metal branches at right angles two other bars of metal
attached to the centre bar by bolts and having a centre bolt attached to the underpart
of the carriage. At the end of the last mentioned two bars of metal are attached
wooden or other blocks which press against the said wheels. Attached to the inner
end of the buffers are bars of metal parallel to the end of the carriage and bolted at
the other end to the extended end of the centre coupling hook. Between the ends of
the last mentioned bars of metal are bolts which are secured to the underpart of the
carriage. The whole acts in such a manner that on a strain being put on the centre
coupling hook or a pressure being placed against the buffers the brakes are removed
from the wheels.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Railway Carriage and other Brakes.
I, LOUIS CARSTEN NIEBOUR, Music Seller of Clarence Street, Kingston-on-Thames,
in the County of Surrey, 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:—
My invention relates to improvements in railway carriage and other brakes.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Figure I, represents a view of half the underside of the body of a railway carriage,
with the apparatus in its normal position, that is with the brake full on, and the
carriage at a standstill. This figure is broken off at the sides b, b, of the body, of the
carriage, and in the centre of the spring f.
Figure 2, is the top side of the body of the carriage describing the top of figure 1.
For this purpose I use the usual centre coupling hook k with a thread on the same
and a nut with a bandle, the said coupling hook passes through the end body b of
the carriage to a suitable distance, the end of which is bolted to the centre bar
attached to the opposite similar apparatus at the other end of the body by a spring f
From the centre bar and pivotted at eat right angles are two bars d, d, pivotted
at e. on the body b supporting the segmental brake blocks c, c.
Attached to the centre bar g, at the end near the coupling hook I pivot two
bars h, h, right and left, with the ends twisted and perforated, and the buffer pins i, i,
passed through and a stop pin inserted with a coil spring in the buffer box j for
holding the pins i, i, in position. The aforesaid connecting bars work on pivots e, e, e
and at the end of the centre bar g, I attach or pivot the screwed coupling hook for
the purpose of when the carriage is in motion the pull causes the brake to be placed

page_text: off the wheels a, a, but directly the pull is off the coupling hook k, the spring f
places the brakes c. c. on the wheels.
The whole of the apparatus is bolted to the underside of the body of a carriage and
is connected by the spring f in the centre; and will act in such a manner that on a
strain being put on the centre coupling hook the brakes are taken off the wheels, or
on a pressure being placed against the buffers the brakes are removed from the wheels,
by forcing the ends of the bars h, h, backwards and thereby drawing the centre
bar
g. forwards, and at the same time pull the ends of the brake bars d, d, for the
purpose herein described.
The nut on the coupling bar is intended for use so as to permit the brakes to be
placed off the wheels by screwing up the nut to force the coupling outwards.
I do not bind myself to the particular shape, size or the mode of constructing
the various metallic parts, or the manner in which they are connected, as it is
obvious, various ways may be employed without departing from the nature of my
said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:
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First The combination of the apparatus placed at each end of the underside of
the body of a carriage and connected together by a spring, and the coupling hooks, to
operate the brakes on each wheel directly the strain is taken off the coupling hooks
substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying drawings..
Secondly: The combination of the apparatus operated on by the pins i, i, when the
buffers are forced inwards and thereby throw the brakes off the wheels, substantially
as herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly: I claim to construct the apparatus of any material, shape, or size sub-
stantially as herein described.
Dated this 10th day of March 1900
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.