Improvements in Transporting Vehicles for Railway Stations, Warehouses and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1899-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Transporting Vehicles for Railway Stations,
Warehouses and the like.
I, HUGO BERG, of Elberfeld, Schwanenstrasse No. 9, Germany, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide a vehicle for use in warehouses,
railway stations and the like, where boxes, large packages and goods in similar
form have to be transported small distances on even ground, without requiring
to raise them up so that they can be conveniently loaded upon and unloaded
from the vehicle, while this itself is so arranged that it can be easily directed in
any way desired and pushed or rolled forwards easily and conveniently.
In order to answer these conditions the vehicle or small cart consists of a
triangular frame put together preferably of angle iron or any suitably shaped
rolled or bar iron; at each corner of this triangular frame small turn-tables
are fixed to the lower side which carry the transporting wheels or rollers. By
this means these rollers can arrange themselves automatically to roll in any
direction in which the vehicle is pushed forwards without requiring to turn it.
The turntables run on antifriction balls so that they can adjust themselves
with the least friction possible.
The upper frames of the turntables can at the same time be so arranged and
designed that they serve as a sort of shoe for holding together the triangular
frame and that the load is taken up by them and is therefore transferred direct
upon the carrying rollers, and that the frame bars merely serve to hold the
roller casings, that is the turntables together.
Barmen. the 23rd day of March 1899.
Improvements in Transporting vehicles for Railway Stations,
Warehouses and the like.
I, HUGO BERG, of Elberfeld, Schwanenstrasse No. 9, Germany, Manufacturer,
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 has for its object to provide a vehicle for use in warehouses,
railway stations and the like, where boxes, large packages and goods in similar

page_text: Impts. in Transporting Vehicles for Railway Stations, Warehouses and the like.
form have to be transported small distances on even ground, without requiring
to raise them up so that they can be conveniently loaded upon and unloaded
from the vehicle, while this itself is so arranged that it can be easily directed in
any way desired and pushed or rolled forwards easily and conveniently.
in order to answer these conditions the vehicle or small cart is constructed as 5
hereafter described and as shown in the accompanying drawing, in which
Fig. 1 shows an elevation, partly in section;
Fig. 2 shows a view in plan;
Fig. 3 shows in detail in an enlarged scale the turntable part of the shoe with
the travelling rollers in plan;
Fig. 4 shows the same partly in section in front elevation;
Fig. 5 is a side view of Fig. 4.
The vehicle consists of a triangular frame A of angle iron; these angle irons
are held together at the corners of the frame by means of cast iron shoes B and
bolts C. The sides of these shoes project beyond the upper edges or the angle
irons and are saw shaped at their upper edges as seen at D, so that a box or the
like, put thereon, will not slide off while it is carried along on the cart. At the
bottom side of these shoes is arranged a projecting circular part E, which is
planed and forms a sort of turntable, a circular groove is turned therein for
hardened steel balls F to roll therein. At the center of this part the shoe is
bored through and at its upper side a circular recess G is worked therein to
take up a bolt H and its broad head and balls J for the head to run on in order
to reduce the friction.
To the lower end of the bolt H is fixed a bracket K, carrying a travelling
roller L on a bolt M held in ears N of the bracket. These ears are placed
eccentrically to the turning bolt H.. The upper side of the bracket is planed it
forms the counterpart to the circular part E of the shoe and in it is also worked
a circular groove corresponding with the groove in the part E so that the balls F
are held between these two grooves and the weight on the frame A is taken
up by the balls and by them transmitted to the brackets K and to the travelling
rollers L.
By means of this construction the vehicle can be easily pushed forwards in
any direction, straight on or sideways, the turntable brackets running on balls
and therefore causing nearly no friction follow any side push and therefore the
travelling rollers adjust themselves directly to the direction in which the vehicle
is pushed or pulled forwards.
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:
A transporting vehicle for railway stations, warehouses, and the like con-
sisting of an angle iron frame A bolted to shoes B having saw shaped upper
edges D and a planed projecting part E at their lower side, a circular groove
cut therein, and of brackets K bolted movably to said shoes by broad headed
bolts H, passing through the center of said circular grooves the upper face of
said brackets being also planed and having a circular groove corresponding to
the groove in the bottom face of the shoes worked therein, so as to be able to
take up hardened steel balls F in said grooves; and of travelling rollers L
carried on bolts M held in ears N of the brackets K the whole as described and
illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
This 1st of December 1899