IMPROVEMENTS IN AXLES AND AXLES BOXES OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES AND OTHER RAILWAY CARRIAGES
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BARRANS, of Saint Paul, Deptford, in the County of Kent, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of
November, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the thirteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Barrans, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph
Barrans, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said Joseph
Barrans, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS IN AXLES AND AXLES BOXES OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES AND OTHER
RAILWAY CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
I, the said Joseph Barrans, should cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next.

page_text: and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Barrans, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
This Invention may be varied in the form of the parts, but consists of
employing wedges or filling pieces in such manner that as the brasses or
bearings of the axles wear the axles may be prevented from endway motion
by reason of the ends or other parts of the axles being stopped by filling
pieces or surfaces capable of adjustment from time to time.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews an external view of the box of a railway axle. Figure 2 is a
section thereof. a is the end of the axle, which I prefer to have faced at its
end with a surface of steel b, so that it may act against the wedge c, and it
is better that the face of the steel which comes against the wedge should be
slightly rounding. d is the brass or other metal bearing. e is the outer end
of the box.. f is a screw by which the wedge c.is set up, and 9 is a fixing nut
to retain the screw. h is another screw, and fixing. nut to retain the wedge c
from movement in that direction. And it should be understood that the end
of the axle does not constantly bear against the surface c, on the contrary
the surface ċ is to be set at a slight distance from the end of the axle; so that
ordinarily it may turn without touching it, and the surface c only comes; into
play to prevent excess of endway motion. Figure 3 shews an outside view
of another axle box similar to that above described, and Figure 4 is a section
thereof. In this arrangement the end of the axle is somewhat different, but
in other respects the description above; given will apply to this arrangement.
Figure 5 shews an outside view, and Figure 6 a section of another box and
axle, in which the wedge c has a screw stem, and it is moved and fixed by
means of nuts d; this wedge acts on the parts e¹, sexangular piece e, and on
the pressing piece f, the stem of which pressing piece passes into the part e¹ of
the piece e, and is also of a sexangular form; the object of which is that these
parts should not turn with the axle. The wedge is, retained at the side by
a screw and fixing nut, as in: the previous cases. From the above description
it will be seen that the great object of the Invention is to obtain adjustable

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filling pieces at the end or other part herein described of the axle, by means of
which pieces the wear can readily be compensated and the injurious extent of
endway motion of the axletrees prevented. Figure 7 shews an outside view,
and Figure 8 a section of another arrangement, in which the filling or
adjusting piece is capable of being set up from time to time by a screw.having
fixing nut and also a "set or fixing. screw and nut. Figures 9 and 10 shew
two similar views with the addition of a capillary wick and oil. vessel w, for
supplying oil to the end of the axle in addition to the harder lubricating
matter employed in the box. The hole z through the screw is to admit
a rod to knock out the filling piece. Figures 11 and 12 shew two views
similar to those, last mentioned (the end of the axle however is different)
with the addition of means for preventing grit getting into the.box.
a ring of metal having a projecting flanch; this hoop or ring is fixed
on the axletree in the. position shewn, the, casting u having been first
placed on the axletree, so that when the box is on the axletree the.casting
u is fixed to the box by means of screws.t. By this improved arrangement
of parts grit will be prevented getting into the axletree box. In place of the
adjustable filling pieces being employed at the ends of the axletrees, as is the
case in the before-mentioned arrangement, such pieces may be applied when
suitably formed to the axletrees behind the axletree boxes. Figure 13-shews
an external view, and Figure 14 a section of such an arrangement.
adjustable filling piece which being set up from time to time will make up
for wear and prevent an injurious extent of endway motion to the axletree.
This filling piece is in the form of a hoop surrounding the axletree. e is a
nut for setting up the filling piece, and thus to make up for wear; this nut is
retained in position by the instrument e¹, which resting on one of the flat
surfaces of the exterior of the nut prevents the nut turning. Or the nut e
may be retained in position by other convenient means.
c is the
Another part of the Invention consists in applying a small box or drawer
under or attached to the axle box, so as to catch the grease which is now
wasted. x, x, is this box or drawer which slides into the receptacle, as
shewn, such receptacle being fixed to the box by a screw y, or other convenient
means. This apparatus is shewn applied to the several axletree boxes, as
shewn by the Drawings.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the details as herein described, so long as the peculiar character of any part
of my Invention be retained. But what I claim is,-
First, the arranging axletrees and axletree boxes of locomotive engines and.
:

page_text: railway carriages with adjustable apparatus for making up for wear in order
to prevent prejudicial endway motion. And I also claim the means of pre-
venting grit getting into axletree boxes. And,
Secondly, I claim the arranging axletree boxes with a drawer or receptacle
for catching the grease, as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Barrans, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of May, One thousand eight
Lundred and fifty