Improvements in Tipping Wagons.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tipping Wagons.
CHARLES WILLIAM LYON, Engineer, Thornhill-Lees, Dewsbury, Yorks, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object an improved method of fastening the body
of a tipping wagon in its vertical or travelling position, to accomplish this I
place a block of iron or other suitable substance on each side of the standard
carrying the tipping arrangement, these blocks are fitted with pins at one end &
will swing over on their respective pins to & from the tipping arrangement, &
have a motion across the line of rails, and are constructed of such a shape that
when the body is in the travelling position & the blocks are turned over to
their travelling position it is impossible for the wagon body to be tipped with
ordinary rough usage, also when the blocks are turned over in the opposite
direction the wagon body can be tipped with ease.
Dated this 24th day of October 1899.
CHARLES WILLIAM LYON.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM LYON, of Thornhill-Lees, Dewsbury, in the County of
York, 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:--
My invention relates to tipping wagons such as may be tipped for discharge
at either side, the object being to provide an improved means of securing the
body of the wagon in its vertical or travelling position.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of a side-tipping wagon with my improvements
applied.
Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation of a side-tipping wagon with my improve-
ments applied.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation (in section) showing in detail the arrange-
ment of the guide lug F.
According to my said invention I employ a suitably shaped block or cam A,
preferably of iron, on each side of the standard B which carries the tipping
rocker C of the wagon body D). The said blocks or cams A are pivotted on

page_text: pins E carried by the standard B, and have a transverse swinging movement
on their respective pins to and from the tipping rocker C, that is to say, at
right angles to the line of travel of the wagon.
The said blocks or cams A are of such a shape that when in their travelling
position they bear against the tipping rocker C, one at each side, making it
impossible for the wagon body D to be accidentally tipped by ordinary rough
usage.
When either of the said blocks or cams A is swung over on its pin E, so
as to be clear of the rocker C (as shown in dotted lines at A¹), the wagon body D
can be tipped with ease (to the position as shown at D¹).
The tipping may be done at either side, according to which of the blocks or
cams A is released.
To further secure the wagon body D in its travelling position, especially when
working on an incline or round a curve, I provide on the under side of the
tipping rocker C a small central lug or projection F. This lug F fits in a cor-
responding central recess in the top of the standard B, and has also an overhang-
ing lip G which bears against the face of the said standard B. By this means
any excessive side play in rounding curves, and forward or backward play
in working on an incline, is effectually prevented.
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. In a side tipping wagon, the transversely swinging blocks or cams A car-
ried by the standard B so as to secure and release at will the tipping rocker C,
substantially as shown and described.
2. In a side tipping wagon having a tipping rocker C, the employment of
the lug F, lip G, and blocks or cams A A upon pivots or pins E E, all arranged
and operated substantially as, and for the purposes, shown and described.
Dated this
day of May 1900.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.