IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO AXLE STEPS FOR CARRIAGES AND VEHICLES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I HARRY HOLSCHER BENNETT of 131 St Clements Ipswich in the County of
Suffolk Coach Builder do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO AXLE STEPS FOR CARRIAGES AND VEHICLES to be
as follows:-
"
This invention relates especially to a safety step to be carried upon the axle of
a carriage or other vehicle in a more convenient and advantageous manner than
heretofore.
As is usual in what is known as Collinge's arrangement the axle arm receives
the wheel box upon it and this box is retained in its place by a collette and a nut
screwed on the axle; the nut is locked by a linch pin and is enclosed with a cap
fixed upon the nave of the wheel. But in place of allowing the axle to terminate
within the cap as at present I cause the axle much reduced in diameter to project
out through a hole in the centre of the cap. The projecting part is squared near
the outer end and the square receives upon it a corresponding socket formed at the
lower end of an upwardly projecting stem. This stem carries a step plate imme-
diately over the nave of the wheel. The extremity of the axle projects through
the socket and has a thread cut upon it which receives a lock nut.
In this way in a very simple and efficient manner I provide a step which is
rigidly fixed to the axle and is independent of the wheel.
Dated this 30th day of January 1885.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements relating to Axles Steps for Carriages and
Vehicles.
I, HARRY HOLSCHER BENNETT of 131 St Clements Ipswich in the County of
Suffolk, Coach Builder 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 invention relates especially to a safety step to be carried upon the axle of
a carriage or other vehicle in a more convenient and advantageous manner than
heretofore.
As is usual in what is known as Collinge's arrangement the axle arm receives
the wheel box upon it and this box is retained in its place by a collette and a nut
screwed on the axle: the nut is locked by a linch pin and is enclosed with a cap
fixed upon the nave of the wheel. But in place of allowing the axle to terminate
within the cap as at present I cause the axle much reduced in diameter to project
out through a hole in the centre of the cap. The projecting part is squared near
the outer end and the square receives upon it a corresponding socket formed at the
lower end of an upwardly projecting stem. This stem carries a step plate imme-
diately over the nave of the wheel. The extremity of the axle projects through
the socket and has a thread cut upon it which receives a lock nut.
In this way in a very simple and efficient manner I provide a step which is
rigidly fixed to the axle and is independent of the wheel.
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
The improvements hereinbefore described relating to axle steps for carriages and
vehicles substantially as described.