IMPROVEMENTS APPARATUS FOR COUPLING RAILWAY TRUCKS AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Heeley, of Blackrod, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
APPARATUS FOR COUPLING RAILWAY TRUCKS AND OTHER CARRIAGES.”
IN
Sealed the 30th July 1875, and dated the 1st May 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Heeley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st May 1875.
I, SAMUEL HEELEY, of Blackrod, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
." IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COUPLING RAILWAY TRUCKS AND OTHER
CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists in coupling railway trucks and other carriages
by means of improved draw bars, the ends of which pass through
washers of vulcanized or other preparation of india-rubber placed in a
cylinder which is supported by the draw bars; this cylinder is provided
with ends, and the washer of india-rubber is held between the end of

page_text: the cylinder and a wrought-iron washer by a nut or other equivalent.
When the hooked ends of the draw bars are coupled up, and the strain is
on the draw bars, the india-rubber washers are compressed, and the
whole strain is resisted by the ends of the cylinder, thereby relieving the
framework of the truck from the strain.
By means of this Invention railway trucks and other carriages will be
more durable than heretoforc, and the injury owing to sudden jerks on
the draw bars is avoided.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Heeley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HEELEY, of Blackrod, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Heeley, Her special licence.
that I, the said Samuel Heeley, my executors, 'administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Heeley, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR COUPLING RAILWAY TRUCKS AND OTHER CARRIAGES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Heeley, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Heeley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in coupling railway trucks and other carriages
by means of improved draw bars, the ends of which pass through
washers of vulcanized or other preparation of india-rubber placed in a
cylinder which is supported by the draw bars; this cylinder is provided
with ends, and the washer of india-rubber is held between the end of the
cylinder and a wrought-iron washer by a nut or other equivalent. When
the hooked ends of the draw bars are coupled up, and the strain is on
the draw bars, the india-rubber washers are compressed, and the whole
strain is resisted by the ends of the cylinder, thereby relieving the
framework of the truck from the strain.
By means of this Invention railway trucks and other carriages will be
rendered more durable than heretofore, and the injury owing to sudden
jerks on the draw bars is avoided.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood, and readily
carried into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked
thereon.
Fig. 1 is an end view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of my improved
draw bar coupling apparatus; and Fig. 3 is a plan of the framework of
a railway waggon, shewing the application of the same.
a, a, are the ordinary draw bars passing through the framework of the
carriage, as usual, the inner ends of which are provided with screws and
nuts; b, b, are washers of vulcanized or other preparation of india-rubber
placed in the cylinder c, which is closed at each end by the lids d, d.
The washers of india-rubber 6 are secured to the ends of the draw bars
by the metal washers e, e, and the screw nuts f, f. The lids d, d, are
secured to the ends of the cylinder c by the bolts
strong enough to resist the strain on the draw bars.
g, which must be
When the hooked ends of the draw bars are coupled up, and the strain
of the engine is on the draw bars, the india-rubber washers are com-
pressed, and the whole strain bears against and is resisted by the ends of
the cylinder, thereby relieving the framework of the truck or carriage.
from the strain.

page_text: By means of these improvements railway trucks and other carriages
are rendered more durable than heretofore, and the injury occasioned by
sudden jerks on the draw bars is avoided.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described a
convenient mode of performing the same, I wish to remark that I do
not intend to limit myself to the details given, and that I do not claim
the use of washers of india-rubber as applied to the draw bars of railway
trucks and carriages, as such washers have before been used in various
ways; but what I do claim is, the improved apparatus shewn and
described for coupling railway trucks and other carriages in which the
strain is self-contained and entirely removed from the framework of the
truck or carriage.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Heeley, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of October One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
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