Improved Construction of Axle-boxes for Railway-carriages and the like Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1896—Accepted, 10th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Construction of Axle-boxes for Railway-carriages
and the like Vehicles.
I, JOHN DONNELLY 69 Tivoli Place, Higher Broughton Manchester, Lancashire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved construction of axle-boxes for
railway-carriages, railway-wagons and the like vehicles, the object of my said
invention being to make such axle-boxes lighter in weight, more available for
examining, cleaning, repairing and changing the brasses or bearing of same
when fixed in position, and cheaper in production than axle-boxes hitherto
constructed.
In carrying this invention into practice I make such improved axle boxes of or
from pressed or stamped steel, or wrought-iron sheet metal of suitable thickness,
with cast malleable iron, or cast-steel spring-seat, or such spring seat may be of
wrought-iron or forged steel, with cast-iron or cast-steel horn plates or axle guard
guides, and a stamped sheet of wrought-iron, or steel, or a cast metal bottom plate
to serve as an oil retaining plate.
The sides and top of such improved axle-boxes I cut out or make of suitable
shape and size from a single flat plate of mild steel or wrought-iron, and
by means of a suitable die or dies attached to a suitable machine worked by
hydraulic or other motive power I cut or stamp suitably shaped pieces from such
flat plate, so that when such shaped blank has been pressed or moulded into shape
by a suitable metallic die or dies to form the sides and crown of such axle-boxes,
the projections on a suitable casting may be forced or passed through such apertures
in the crown and sides of such axle-box blark, or such projections may be forced
through such apertures whilst such blank is in a flat state, the raised outer edges
of such apertures are then forced by a metallic die or other suitable means into
the recesses formed in, or beneath the projecting or enlarged upper portion of such
castings or stampings, thus giving additional strength to such horn-plates, or axle
guard guides, and the seat for the spring of the vehicle. A cast or stamped
metallic bottom plate with upturned sides and ends is then placed in position
between the lower portion of the sides of such moulded or stamped plate and rivetted
or bolted thereto, the cast or stamped dust-guard and door, and the metallic back
plate with flanges on three of their sides so as to pass or wrap over the flanges at
the front and back end of such axle box are secured thereto by rivets, bolts and
nuts or the like.
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JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Staffs, Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Improved Construction of Axle-boxes for Railway-carriages
and the like Vehicles.
1, JOHN DONNELLY 69 Tivoli Place Higher Broughton, Manchester Lancashire
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 :-
This my invention has reference to an improved construction of axle-boxes for
railway-carriages, railway-wagons and the like vehicles, the object of such invention
being to make such axle-boxes lighter in weight, more available for examining,
cleaning and repairing, changing the brasses or bearing of same when fixed in
position, and cheaper in production than like axle-boxes hitherto constructed.
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In carrying this invention into practice I make such improved axle-boxes by
pressing or stamping from sheet steel or wrought-iron sheet metal of suitable
thickness or thicknesses by means of a suitable die or dies attached to a suitable
machine or machines operated or worked by hydraulic or other motive power.
cast malleable iron, cast-steel or forged steel or forged iron spring seat and axle-
guard guides or horn plates being connected or affixed thereto in suitable positions
as hereinafter described.
In order that my said invention may be more readily understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings on which letters of reference
are marked on corresponding parts on all the figures alike.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a steel plate of suitable width and length having apertures
of suitable size punched out of, or formed therein by any suitable means, through
which apertures the lugs or sides of the axle-guides and spring seat are passed or
forced and secured in position, the sides of such plate being bent or turned at right
angles or at about right angles to the main portion of such plate so as to form
flanges of suitable width thereon.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the stamped steel or iron bottom or oil container of
such axle-boxes.
Figure 3 is an end elevation of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is an outer-end elevation of the stamped steel or iron outer-end cover of
such axle-boxes.
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation through line A-B of Figure 4.
Figure 6 is an outer-end elevation of the stamped steel or iron inner end cover of
such axle-boxes.
Figure 7 is a sectional elevation through line C-D of Figure 6.
Figure 8 is an elevation of a steel or iron plate or washer which is placed against
the inner end of such axle-boxes for preventing a leather or like flexible dust-guard
or shield placed between such plate and the inner end cover of such axle-boxes from
falling or getting into the interior of such axle-boxes.
Figure 9 is a sectional elevation through line E-F of Figure 8.
Figure 10 is a plan view of the cast-steel, or forged steel or iron axle-guard
guides.
Figure 11 is an end elevation of Figure 10.
Figure 12 is a plan view of a cast-steel or forged steel or iron combined spring
and axle seat.
Figures 13 and 14 are end and side elevations respectively of Figure 12.
Figure 15 is an elevation of the plate shewn at Figure 1 bent into shape by a

page_text: metallic die or dies or other suitable means to form the sides and top of such axle-
boxes, the dotted lines representing the relative positions of the spring-seat, axle-
guard guides, and bottom or oil container.
Figure 16 is a plan view of Figure 15.
Figure 17 is a longitudinal sectional elevation through line G-H of Figure 16.
Figure 18 is an enlarged view of the combined axle and spring-seat, shewing
more clearly the manner in which I connect or attach such cast or forged metallic
spring-seats to the top side or surface of such axle-boxes, and the axle-guard guides
to the sides of such boxes.
On reference to the drawings hereto annexed a represents a steel plate with
flanged sides b, to which plate after being bent into the form shewn at Figure 15,
I attach a suitably shaped metallic bottom or oil-container c by metallic rivets d or
the like suitable means, and a cast, or forged steel or iron spring-seat e, and axle
guard guides by forcing the edge or periphery of their respective apertures e², f2
into the recesses g, g² formed beneath the projecting ridge or enlarged upper portion
of such castings or stampings as shewn at Figures 17 and 18, the steel or iron
plate or washer / Figures 8 and 9, and the steel or iron inner end cover i Figures 6
and 7, and the steel or iron outer end cover j Figures 4 and 5 being attached to
the flanges 6 of the plate a after such plate has been pressed into the form shewn
at Figure 15 by any suitable number of metallic bolts and nuts, or the like
means.
Figures 1 to 17 inclusive are drawn about one-fourth of full size, and Figure 18
about half of full size.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
The mode of securing or fixing cast-steel, or forged steel or iron spring seats and
axle-guard guides to the pressed or stamped steel or iron bodies of axle-boxes for
railway-carriages and the like vehicles by pressing the lugs or ears of such cast or
forged spring-sents and axle guard guides through suitable apertures formed in the
bodies of such axle boxes, and afterwards forcing or pressing the edge or peripheries
of such apertures into recesses g, g' formed beneath the enlarged upper portion of
such cast or forged spring seats and axle guard guides as herein substantially
described, set forth and illustrated at Figures 17 and 18 of the drawings hereunto
annexed.
Dated this 5th day of September 1896.