IMPROVE- MENTS IN ROAD VEHICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
We GEORGE BAILYE RICHARDS, of Sandbrook Road, Stoke Newington, Journalist
and ALFRED SPENCER of Ockenden Road Islington, Engineer, both in the County
of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ROAD VEHICLES" to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed as a further improvement upon, and addition to
an Invention for the application of Buffers and Breaks to Vehicles for which we
applied for Letters Patent, on the 8th day of April 1884. No. 6103.
First-The present Invention consists in the application to Road Vehicles of a
latch, bolt or catch, which is connected, and slides with the pole when the vehiclo
is pulled up or otherwise checked, and applies the break in manner, as described in
the Specification of the Patent applied for on the 8th day of April aforesaid.
The said latch, bolt, or catch is under the control of the drivor or other person
in charge, and so used by him that when the break is applied the lowering of the
latch, bolt, or catch into a recess provided to receive the same in the carriage frame,
will enable such latch, bolt, or catch, to lock or retain the break on the wheel or
wheels, until the said latch, bolt, or catch is again raised or withdrawn from the
aforesaid recess.
Second, the Invention relates to the staples or holdfasts, secured to the shafts
poles or cross bars of Road Vehicles to which the traces are secured, and consists
in so forming, the said staples or holdfasts, that they can be supported and slide in
fixed bearings, their position in such bearings being maintained by strong spiral
or other suitable form of spring, the object being to prevent the jerk or sudden
movement which the vehicle receives when starting or stopping.
THOMAS WRIGLEY,
36, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent to the Applicants.

page_text: We GEORGE BAILYE RICHARDS of 68 Sandbrook Road Stoke Newington in the
County of Middlesex Journalist and ALFRED SPENCER of 158 Queens Road
Dalston in the County of Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROAD VEHICLES" and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This Invention is designed as a further improvement upon and addition to an
invention for the application of Buffers and Brakes to Vehicles for which Letters
Patent have been allowed to us on the 8th day of April 1884 N° 6103.
In the Specification of the Patent above recited an arrangement of Buffer and
Brake apparatus is described and shewn as applied to Vehicles travelling on
ordinary roads which apparatus in the event of a sudden pull up of the horses or
concussion with the pole of the vehicle will not only yield to and ease the shock of
such concussion or pull up but will also automatically apply a brake to the wheels
and thereby prevent what would otherwise result in a serious accident. This
automatic action of the break when a backward thrust is given to the pole, though
being of considerable importance in the event of a concussion would be very
inconvenient at those times when the horses and vehicle were intentionally backed;
and to prevent the action of the break at those times and also to lock the break on
the wheels so as to prevent the vehicle moving when the horses are not in charge
of the driver is the primary object of this invention which consists in the
application of a latch bolt or catch to the front of the vehicle which can be so
operated on by the hand or foot of the driver or other person in charge of the
vehicle that it will when actuated in the manner hereinafter described, either check
or prevent the action of the brake when the vehicle is being intentionally backed
or will lock the brake on the wheels at those times when the horses and vehicle
are not in charge of the driver.
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Secondly the invention relates to the staples or holdfasts of the pole or shafts
by which the traces of the horses are connected with the vehicle and consists in
supporting such staples or holdfasts in sliding hearings and maintaining them in
their mean position by springs which will prevent any jerk or shock being
transmitted to the vehicle and its occupants at those times when the horses are
suddenly started or backed.
In order that the Invention may be well understood and explained in detail we
have hereunto annexed a sheet of Drawings upon which letters of reference are
marked on corresponding parts on all the Figures alike.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation the front portion of the carriage of a four
wheeled vehicle.
Figure 2 represents a plan of the same.
Figure 3 represents the latch bolt or catch expanded and as it would appear in its
normal condition if the vehicle were travelling.
Figure 4 represents the latch bolt or catch interposed between the boss of the
sliding pole and the fixed boss of the vehicle, in which position it fixes the pole and'
so prevents its backward thrust applying the break.
Figure 5 represents the same latch closed on the collar of the sliding boss at a
time when the pole has been thrust back so as to apply the break. In this position
the catch locks the break on the wheels.
Figure 6 represents a detached view of the yielding staples or holdfasts.
In these Figures a is the front portion of a carriage supported on the rotary
bearings a¹ which are old and well known parts. b is the sliding boss of the polo
and c is the fixed boss in which the sliding bolt of the boss b is supported and

page_text: slides when the pole is thrust back for applying the breaks f through the medium
of the lever e as described in the Specification of the Patent herein before recited.
In order to prevent the action of the brake when it is required to back the
vehicle we mount on the swivel bearings of the carriage a¹ a slotted lever g of
circular form. The front of this lever is provided with a projecting finger or
fingers g¹ so arranged in connection with the latch bolt or catch h that when the
said lever is in its lowest or normal position the said bolt h will be in its expanded
condition as shewn at Figure 3. When the bolts are so expanded the carriage is
free to travel and if a concussion with the pole takes place the said pole will yield
and have a backward motion which will apply the brakes f to the wheels of tho
vehicle. But at those times when the vehicle is intentionally backed the driver
will place his foot on the lever i so as to depress the same the action of which
raises the stud & sliding in the circular slot of the lever g and so raises this lever
and its finger g¹. This rising action of the lever g can be effected whether the
front carriage wheels and pole are in a line with the vehicle or at an angle thereto.―
The lever g¹ when raised as described actuates the catches h in such a manner that
when the sliding boss b of the pole is drawn out as shown at Figures 1 and 4 such
catches or bolts will be interposed between the inner surface of such sliding boss b
and the fixed boss c thus forming a check which will prevent the sliding boss b of
the pole applying the break whilst the vehicle is being backed. On the other
hand if it is required that the break should be locked on the wheel when the horses
are left standing then a similar action of the lever bolts or catches takes place but
instead of their being interposed between the surface of the bosses b and c tho
boss b is first thrust back so as to apply the brake and whilst in that position the
catch his actuated in the manner previously described and closed as shewn at
Figure 5 outside the collar b¹ of the boss b which prevents the return of the pole
and consequent removal of the breaks from the wheels. A release of the foot
lever i allows the lever g with its finger g¹ to drop into its lowest position and thus
free the catch or bolt h which then assumes its expanded condition as shewn at
Figure 3 at which time the carriage pole is free to yield and apply the breaks in
manner herein before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed wo declare that what
our claim is:-
First. The novel application of apparatus in connection with the automatic buffer
and break appliance to road vehicles described in the Specification of the Patent
granted to us on the 8th of April 1884 which will enable the driver or other
person in charge of such vehicle to prevent the action of the break when the
vehicle is intentionally backed.
Secondly. The novel employment and use of the same apparatus for locking the
break on the wheels when the horse and vehicle are not in charge of the driver or
other person.
Thirdly. The novel adaptation to the poles or shafts of vehicles of a yielding
staple or holdfast which will prevent or mitigate that sudden jerk or strain to the
vehicle which takes place when starting or backing. The whole of the said
apparatus to be employed in the manner and for the purposes as herein substantially
described set forth and illustrated in the drawings annexed hereto.
THOMAS WRIGLEY,
36, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent to the Applicants.