Tramway Wagons, and other Analogous Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 2nd Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 25th Mar., 1887.
Tramway Wagons, and other Analogous Purposes.
I, ERNEST WILKES of Pelsall Foundry near Walsall in the County of Stafford,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED HAULING
CLIP FOR HAULING COLLIERY TUBS, TRAMWAY WAGONS AND OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES to be as follows :-
Before explaining the features of my improvement, it will be as well to describe the
old-fashioned hauling clip, the place of which my invention is intended to supply, and
thus illustrate the superiority of construction of the latter over the former.
In coal and other mines, the tubs which convey the minerals to the bottom of the
shafts are usually run upon iram-rails, and drawn along by metal ropes or wires, io
which clips are attached at various distances. These clips have a loose bar or rod at
one end which is secured to the tubs, and have also two jaws similar to the jaws of a
vice which clip the rope or wire, and are actuated by a projecting screw having a
Thandle with one end turned at right-angles perpendicularly.
These projecting screws have long been found to be very objectionable for the
following reasons namely that when the ropes or wires become slack, or the tubs are
decending an incline the length and consequent weight of them frequently causes
them to overbalance on one side or the other upon the ropes or wires, and from the
rough, and oftentimes careless usage to which they are subjected they get bent or
broken, and being fast upon the ropes or wires connot be disconnected, and consequently
cause serious accidents, breakages, and delay, and they are these defects and objections
which my improvement is intended to remedy.
My Invention consists in the construction of Hauling Clips" with a solid body,
having a longitudinal square recess therein, with a projecting piece on one side to
which the loose rod or bar is attached, and a stop at one end, and a jaw with a semi-
square hole in at the other end, each at eight-angles with the longitudinal recess.
I next employ a moveable jaw having also a semi-square hole therein and a block
projecting on the under side which coincides and moves in the beforementioned
longitudinal recess. In about the centre of this block I employ a hole with a female
screw therein, and in each end of the solid body of the clip 1 form holes which are

page_text: countersunk on the outer sides, and through the one on the opposite end to that on
which is the jaw, I pass a screw, which corresponds and coincides with the female
screw in the block on the under side of the moveable jaw, and which I secure in its
place by a collar at the other end in the countersink thereof, ihus I not only dispense
with the objectionable projecting screw with T handle but by virtue of the screw
heing collared, and passing through the longitudinal square recess helow the level of
the sides of the same, and also through the block on the under side of the moveable
jaw, which has a bearing on either side of the longitudinal recess, the said jaw cannoi.
overlap the rope or wire when being attached or connected, and thus the screw is not
only capable of being made stronger, but is also protected from damage by contact
with anything else.
The head of the screw may be either a tetragon, pentagon, exagon or any other
suitable shape, and turned by a spanner having a corresponding hole therein, and the
action of the clip is precisely the same as that of a parallel vice.
I also claim the covering of the screw thread by means of a projecting piece upon
the back of the moveable jaw, and moving through the block when the jaws are open,
thus the screw is protected from the accumulation of dust and grit which would act so
detrimentally to the wear of the same.
I do not however strictly confine myself to the exact details herein contained as the
same may be open to some slight modification.
Dated this tith day of Lana 1884

page_text: An Improved Screw Hauling Clip for Hauling Colliery Tubs,
Tramway Wagons, and other Analogous Purposes.
I, ERNEST WILKES of Pelsall Foundry near Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
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:―
Before explaining the features of my improvement it will be as well to describe the
old-fashioned hauling clip, the place of which my invention is intended to supply, and
thus illustrate the superiority of construction of the latter over the former.
In coal and other mines, the tubs which convey the minerals to the bottom of the
shafts are usually run upon iram rails and drawn along by metal ropes or wires, to
which clips are attached at various distances. These clips have a loose bar or rod at
one end which is secured to the tubs, and have also two jaws-similar to the jaws of
vice which clip the rope or wire, and are actuated by a projecting screw having a
Thandle, with one end turned at right angles perpendicularly.
These projecting screws have long been found to be very objectionable, for the
following reasonsnamely that when the ropes or wires become slack, or the tubs
are descending an incline, the length and consequent weight of them frequently
causes them to overbalance on one side or the other upon the ropes or wires, and
from the rough, and oftentimes careless usage to which they are subjected they get
bent or broken, and being fast upon the ropes or wires, cannot be disconnected, and
consequently cause serious breakages, accidents and delay, and they are these defects
and objections which my improvement is intended to remedy.
My Invention consists in the construction of Hauling Clips with a solid body A. A. A.
Fig. 1, having a longitudinal square recess B therein, with a projecting pice-C, on
the one side to which the loose rod or bar is attached, and a stop--at one end,
and a jaw-with semi-square hole in at the other end, each at right-angles withi
the longitudinal recess.
I next employ a moveable jaw--having also a semi-square hole therein and a
block projecting on the under side which coincides and moves in the before mentioned
longitudinal recess. In about the centre of this block I employ a hole-G. Fig. 2—
with female screw therein, and through the stop end-D. pass a screw-H-which
corresponds and coincides with the female screw in the block on the under side of the
moveable jaw, and which I secure in its place by a collar-I-immediately in front of
the stop D, thus by virtue of the screw being collared, and passing through the
longitudinal square recess below the level of the sides of the same, and also through
the block on the under side of the moveable jaw which has a bearing on either side of
the longitudinal recess, the said jaws cannot overlap the rope or wire when being
attached or connected, and thus the screw is not only capable of being made stronger,
but is also protected from damage by contact with anything else.

page_text: Through the head of the screw I preferably employ a square hole-J. through
which a loose shaft or rod-K-is passed when screwing the clip to the rope.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
Fig. 1 is a front view of Clip-Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1-Fig. 3 is a side
section, the parts of which are as follows
1 is the solid body of Clip-2 is the moveable jaw with block underneath through
which the screw passes.
3 is the screw 4 the collar thereon--5 the stop.
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 hauling clip with solid body, substantially as described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawing.
2-A moveable jaw working in a longitudinal recess in the body, substantially as
described and illustrated by the said drawing.
3-Working the screw in the longitudinal recess so as to protect it from damage by
contact, substantially as described and illustrated by the said drawing,
Dated this 1st day of February 1887.
W. H.. ST. AUBIN,
Agent to the Applicant.