IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE BODIES
Year: 1884

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I, WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, of Alfred House, Newtown, Ashford, in the County
of Kent, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent to the South Eastern Railway
Company, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARRIAGE BODIES" to be as follows:-
In the provisional specification left with a former application for Letters Patent
made by me the 15th day of August, 1884 N° 11308 I described the use in the
construction of carriage bodies of panels or plates of sheet metal with an external
surface rendered bright and reflective by plating or coating with suitable metal
such as nickel or silver, such panels being secured to the frame work of the
carriage body.
Now according to my present invention in lieu of plates or sheets rendered
bright as described I use panels or plates having a polished or a dull surface. which
may be either the surface natural to the metal employed or may be produced by
any suitable meaus, such as by attacking the surface of the metal by a suitable
chemical agent.
In constructing carriage bodies with metal panels or plates it will usually be
advantageous to employ a framework of metal which I form with bars of angular
section joined by cutting away part of the flange of one angle iron, inserting the
end of that Bange in a recess in a flange of the other angle iron; passing the end
of the first named angle iron through a slot or hole formed in the one to which it
is to be attached and then securing it by a split pin or equivalent inserted through
the projecting end.

page_text: I, WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, of Alfred House, Newtown, Ashford, in the county
of Kent, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent to the South Eastern Railway
Company do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CARRIAGE BODIES" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
In my former Specification N° 11308 A.D. 1884, I described the use in the
construction of carriage bodies of panels or plates of sheet metal with an external
surface rendered bright and reflective by plating or coating with suitablo metal
such as nickel or silver, such panels being secured to the framework of the carriago
body.
Now according to my present invention in lieu of plates or sheets rendered
bright as described, I use panels or plates having a polished or a dull surface
which may be either the surface natural to the metal employed or may be
produced by any suitable means such as by attacking the surface of the metal by
a suitable chemical agent. In constructing carriage bodies with metal panels or
plates it will usually be advantageous to employ a framework of metal which
I form with bars of angular section joined by cutting away part of the flange of
one angle iron inserting the end of that flange in a recess in a flange of the other
angle iron passing the end of the first named angle iron through a slot or hole
formed in the one to which it is to be attached and then securing it by a split pin
or equivalent inserted through the projecting end.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Fig 1 represents
part of the body of a railway carriage constructed according to my present
invention, and which is shown in side elevation partly with the outer panels in
place and partly with the outside panels removed to clearly show the framework.
Fig 2 is a horizontal section shewing the construction of the side portion of the
carriage. Figs 3 to 14 are detail views to a larger scale illustrating the method of
joining and fastening the angle irons forming the framework of the carriage body.
A. (Figs 1 & 2) is the framework. B. B are panels or plates of suitable meta!
having a polished or a dull external surface as hereinbefore described. C is the
ventilator bonnet or cover of the ventilator (not shown) and which has a similar
surface to that of the panels or plates B. E. E are door pillars. F. F. are
beads or mouldings of metal pressed or otherwise formed to the desired shape and
having a polished or dull surface; they are secured in place by any convenient
means.
Fig 3 is a view illustrating the method of joining and fastening an angle iron G
constituting a side rail of the framework (Fig 1) with an angle iron H constituting
a standing pillar thereof. Fig 4 is a view partly in section at right angles to
Fig 3 as seen when looking in the direction of the arrow 1 and Fig 5 is a view,
also at right angles to Fig 3 as seen when looking in the direction of the arrow 2.
Fig 6 is a sectional plan or top view of Fig 3. The end portion of the flange G¹ of
the angle iron G is cut away as shown in Figs 3 and 6, and the end G* of the
remaining portion of the flange is fitted into a recess H* cut in the flange H¹ of
the angle iron H. The end of the angle iron G, that is to say its other Hange G

page_text: is cut away so as to leave a projecting end G³ which is passed through a hole
formed in the other flange H' of the angle iron H and then secured by a split
pin I.
Fig 7 is an elevation; Fig 8 is a view partly in section at right angles thereto
as seen when looking in the direction of the arrow 3; Fig 9 is a plan or top view
of Fig 7 and Fig 10 is an underside view partly in section also of Fig 7, illus-
trating the method of joining and fastening the angle irons J and K constituting
the upright framing and light rail respectively of the carriage frame work. As will
be seen the method of joining and fastening these angle irons is similar to that
herein before described and will be readily understood without further description.
Fig 11 is an elevation, Figs 12 and 13 are end views, partly in section at right
angles thereto as seen when looking in the direction of the arrows 4, 5, respectively,
and Fig 14 is a sectional plan or top view illustrating the method of joining and
fastening angle irons L. M constituting the end pillar and end cross rail respec-
tively, of the carriage framework. In this example the joining and fastening is
not effected at the end of one of the angle irons as in the two previously described
arrangements but at an intermediate point in each of them. A portion of the
flange L of the angle iron L is cut away as shown, and the flange M' of the angle
iron M is recessed at M* for the reception of the portion L* of the flange L' as
before. The flange L' of the angle iron L is provided with a slot, the end of which
is indicated by a dotted line (Figs 12, 13, and 14), for the reception of the
flange M of angle iron M. The flange M2 is provided with a slot at M³ for the
reception of the adjacent portion of the flange L. I is a split pin as before for
fastening the angle irons together; it passes through a hole in the flange M* so as
to fit against the inside of the flange L' as clearly shown in Figs 12 and 14.
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. The use of polished or dull metallic plates to form the panels of carriage
bodies substantially in the manner hereinabove described.
2. In the construction of the framework of carriage bodies the use of metallic
bars of angular section joined and fastened substantially in the manner herein-
above described with reference to and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
TLCT-
1002
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Applicant's Agent.