IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP WAGONS FOR RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, HENRY EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for * IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP WAGONS FOR RAILWAYS AND
TRAMWAYS," to be as follows:-
The object of these improvements is to produce a tip wagon.from which the
materials may be tipped at as great a distance as possible from and well clear off
the rail or tramway.
In carrying out this invention a suitable standard is bolted at each end of tho
carriage frame and on the top of each standard is secured by bolts, rivets, or in
any other convenient manner a curved guide the ends of which are turned up to
form a hook.
This guide is preferably semi-circular in cross section except at the hooked parts
and is formed with a central boss, on either side of which fits a pivot pin or
trunnion secured in any convenient manner to the body of the wagon.
Above the pivot pins is secured in any convenient manner to the body a V piece
formed of angle iron or other suitable material which when the body is tipped will
turn with it until it comes in contact with the hooked portion of the guide.
The weight of the body and the charge it contains will then act as a lever tho
point of the hook forming the fulcrum and will serve to draw the pivot over into
the hook by which means the body of the wagon as the tipping continues is thrown
outwards and the material is not only shot well clear of the line but the body
assumes such a position that the emptying of the same will be greatly facilitated.
The V piece also serves to assure the maintenance of the angle of the body during
the emptying of the same.
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Dated thin 4th day of October 1981

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of the Office for Patents 6 Breams Buildings
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex Civil Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of the invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP WAGONS FOR RAILWAYS
AND TRAMWAYS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of these improvements is to produce a tip wagon from which the
materials may be tipped at as great a distance as possible from and well clear of
the rail or tramway.
In carrying out this invention a suitablo standard is bolted at each end of the
carriage frame and on the top of each standard is secured by bolts rivets or in
any other convenient manner a curved guide the ends of which are turned up to
form a hook.
This guide is preferably semicircular in cross section except at the hooked parts
and is formed with a central boss on either side of which fits a pivot pin or
trunnion secured in any convenient manner to the body of the wagon.
Above the pivot pins is secured in any convenient manner to the body a V pieco
formed of angle iron or other suitable material which when the body is tipped will
turn with it until it comes in contact with the hooked portion of the guide.
The weight of the body and the charge it contains will then act as a lever the
point of the hook forming the fulcrum and will serve to draw the pivot over into
the hook by which means the body of the wagon as the tipping continues is thrown
outwards and the material is not only shot well clear of the line but the body
assumes such a position that the emptying of the same will be greatly facilitated.
The V piece also serves to assure the maintenance of the angle of the body
during the emptying of the same.
In the accompanying drawing Fig 1 is an end elevation and Fig 2 a side
elevation of a railway tip wagon constructed according to this invention.
The standards G H I are bolted or rivetted on the platform or on the end of any
suitable truck or carriage T. These standards carry a double guide A B having
hooked ends a b the section of the guide being slightly rounded as shown at
Fig: 3 except at the extreme ends which remain flat to give a better seat for the
pivot pins or trunnions c d fixed in any convenient manner to the ends of the
body of the wagon and as nearly as possible in the horizontal plane passing through
the centre of gravity of the charge.
In the middle of the double guide is a semicircular or other suitably shaped 3
enlargement on either side of which the pivots or trunnions rest when the body
is upright.
Above the pivots or trunnions c and d and fixed to the body in any convenient
manner is a flanged V piece or guide C, D, E of cast metal, wood or other suitablo
material, the object of which is to assist in the tipping operation and to maintain 4
the body in the tipped position to enable it to be properly emptied.
The action of the apparatus will be as follows:-Let it be supposed the tipping
is required to the right. A slight effort will be sufficient to tip the body on the

page_text: pivot d. As the body tips the flange of the portion D E of the V piece or guide will
strike against the hook b. The centre of gravity being thus disturbed the weight
of the body will cause the flange to slide on the hook and will draw forward the
pivot d into the hook as shown in the dotted position Fig 1 and the side of the
body will strike on the edge e of the carriage by which means the charge will be
thrown well away from the rails the V piece serving to prevent the body returning
until assisted thereto by the attendant.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my Foreign Correspondent I declare that what I claim is
1. A railway tip wagon in which the tipping is effected progressively and the
contents are discharged well clear of the line as herein shown and described.
2. In a railway tip wagon the guides A B fixed to the standards G, H, I and
provided with hooks a band a semicircular enlargement M substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
3. The V piece C D E fixed above the pivots or trunnions, the combination of
which with the guides A B ensures the inaintenance of the body at the propor
angle to effect the complete discharge of the contents.