IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WAGGONS OR CARRIAGES FOR RAILWAYS, ROADWAYS, AND TRAMWAYS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Walter Dyson and James Walden Stroud, both of
Gosport, in the County of Hants, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF WAGGONS OR CARRIAGES FOR RAILWAYS, ROADWAYS, AND
TRAMWAYS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Walter Dyson and
James Walden Stroud at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
24th April 1880.
JOSEPH WALTER DYSON and JAMES WALDEN STROUD, both of Gosport, in the
County of Hants.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF WAGGONS OR
CARRIAGES FOR RAILWAYS, ROADWAYS, AND TRAMWAYS."
The object of this our Invention is to construct goods and other waggons for
railways, roadways, and tramways in parts detachable from each other, so that the
goods contained in or carried by such waggon nay with the greatest facility be
transferred therefrom to a steam or other vessel, or vice versa, or to a waggon with
a different wheel gauge, and without disturbing the contents of such waggons or
unloading or unpacking the goods themselves. The Invention is applicable to
goods waggous for the transport of any goods, such as minerals or other
inerchandize, and for the transport of luggage, horses and other animals.
For the purpose of conveying heavy minerals, coal, stone, and other goods direct
from pit, quarry, vessel, wharf, or depot, the body of the wagon would be con-
structed in two separate parts, placed side by side on the trolly, secured together
with bars, bolts, or other fastenings, thereby enabling light cranes to be used in
lifting the merchandize or goods from pit, wharf, vessel, quarry, or depôt on to the
trolly, or vice versa, with safety and expedition. By this colliery owners and
others would find great advantage, as, for instance, coal could be loaded in or at
the pit and delivered to the consignees premises without intermediate unloading
or interference.
The Invention is especially suitable for the conveyance of luggage, mail bags,
private carriages, furniture, and any general merchandize, or live stock on a road,
tramway, or railway, thence by a steamer, then again if required by a railway of
the same or another wheel gauge than the first named railway, and so on, without

page_text: as stated disturbing the contents of the part of the waggon holding the goods to
be conveyed, thus producing a great saving in time and labour, and in proventing
damago to the goods, trouble and oxpense involved in obtaining compensation for
same.
According to this Invention we construct the body of the waggon or carriage
separate from the wheel or trolly part, and so that the former can fit in or between
a frame or part frame formed on the latter, but in such a manner as to be easily
detachable therefrom and attachable thereto. We prefer to make the body of tho
waggon (which is to contain the goods) with a narrower part or rebate or set off
part below, which part fits in a frame formed on the top of and along the outer
edges of the trolly or wheel frame proper, so that the outside of the body of the
waggon is flush with such trolly frame or nearly so. The narrow set off part may
be arranged under the floor of the body proper and be connected to the upper part
or body proper of the waggon by iron straps fitted with rings for hooking lifting
chains to, when the body with its contents is to be lifted in a cranc and swung
from one such trolly to another, of same or different gauge, or from a road or
railway trolly to the deck or hold of a steamer, or vice versa.
In adapting this Invention to the removal of furniture and for the collection and
delivery of goods conveyed by road, railway, tramway, or vessel, the road trolly
would be constructed with suitable wheels, and if necessary the wagon generally
made lighter than for heavier traffic.
We prefer to unite the body with the trolly by means of bolts and staples, say,
two on each side and vertically, or they may be connected by horizontal rods, hooks,
or other fastenings, so long as they are secure and simple and easily detached and
attached.
If the body is to be used for railway trolleys of different wheel gauge, or with
the space between its lower rebated part and the frame or part frame on the top
of a wider trolly, such framo will have to be filled in; or it may be provided with
set screws and blocks, which are made to bear against the rebated part of the body
so as to keep it in its place horizontally.
The Invention is also applicable to carriages for invalids or passenger carriages
generally.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Walter Dyson and James Walden Stroud in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 23rd October 1880.
JOSEPH WALTER DYSON and JAMES WALDEN STROUD, both of Gosport, in the
County of Hants. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WAGGONS OR
CARRIAGES FOR RAILWAYS, ROADWAYS, AND TRAMWAYS."
The object of this our Invention is to construct goods and other waggons for
railways, roadways, and tramways in parts detachable from each other, so that
the goods contained in or carried by such waggon may with the greatest facility
be transferred therefrom to a steam or other vessel, or vice versa, or to a waggon
with a different wheel gauge, and without disturbing the contents of such waggons
or unloading or unpacking the goods themselves. The Invention is applicable to
goods waggons for the transport of any goods, such as minerals or other
merchandize.
The Invention is also specially suitable for the conveyance of luggage, mail bags,
private carriages, horses and other animals, and is of peculiar advantage where
such things or animals are to be conveyed partly by road, or trum, or rail, and
partly by steamer, or partly by one of these modes of conveyance and partly by
one or more of the other, and irrespective of or in spite of any difference there
may be in the railway gauges, the things or animals to be conveyed remaining
undisturbed in their waggons all the time during such varied modes of transport,
thus producing a great saving in time, labour, and trouble, and preventing
damage and the expense and delay involved in obtaining compensation for such
damage.
For the purpose of conveying heavy minerals or materials, such as coal, stone,
bricks, cement, slate, and other goods direct from pit, quarry, vessel, wharf, or
depôt, or generally for collecting and delivering minerals, goods, furniture, and
merchandize from and to vessel, railway, tramway, wharf, and depôt by roadway,
the body of the waggon would be constructed in two, three, or more separate parts,
roofed or open, placed side by side on the trolly, secured together with bars, bolts,
or other fastenings, thereby enabling light cranes to be used in lifting the said
parts containing the merchandize or goods from pit, wharf, vessel, quarry, or depôt,
on the trolly, or vice versa, with safety and expedition and without rehandling
in transit. By this arrangement colliery owners and others would find great
advantage, as, for instance, coal could be loaded in or at the pit and delivered to
the consignees premises without intermediate unloading or interference.
According to this Invention wo construct the body of the waggon or carriage
separate from the wheel or trolly part, and so that the former can fit in or between
a frame or part frame formed on the latter, but in such a manner as to be easily
detachable therefrom and attachable thereto, all as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation of such waggon body
made separate from the wheel or trolly part but placed thereon, and Figure 2 is a
vertical cross section; Figure 3 is a plan of the wheel or trolly part, and Figure 4
a plan of the body of the waggon part; Figure 5 shews the waggon part suspended
from a crane and ready to be lowered into the wheel or trolly part; we prefer to
make the body A of the waggon (which is to contain the goods) with a narrower
part or rebate, or set off part below, as shown here at A', which part fits in a
frame B' formed on the top of and along the outer edges of the trolly B or wheel
frame proper, so that the outside of the body A of the waggon is flush with such
trolly frame B', or nearly so.
The narrower set off part A¹ may be arranged under the floor of the body

page_text: proper A and be connected to the upper part or body proper of the waggon by iron
straps a fitted with rings b for hooking lifting chains to, as shewn in Figure 5,
when the body A, A², with its contents is to be lifted in a crane and swung from
one such trolly B to another of same or different gauge, or from a road or railway
trolly to the deck or hold of a steamer, or vice versa. The central part of the
body A is hinged as shewn.
We prefer to unite the body A, A, with the trolly B, B', by means of vertical
bolts c, say two on each side as here shewn, worked up and down by a pinion wheel
and rack or by a lever, and passed through staples & and e, or the parts may bo
connected by horizontal rods, hooks, or other fastenings so long as they are secure
and simple, and easily detached and attached. The bolts c or other fastenings may
be kept in place by pins f, or by screws or cross-bolts.
If the body A, A, is to be used for railway trollies of different wheel gauge, or
with the space between its lower rebated part A' and the frame B¹ or part frame
on the top of a wider trolly, such frame will have to be filled in, or it may be
provided with set screws and blocks which are to be made to bear against the
rebated part A¹ of the body so as to keep it in its place horizontally.
Figure 6 shews a railway truck adapted for holding three such separate body
parts A, each secured to the trolly part B in between tho upstanding frame part B,
as in the previous examples. Figure 7 is a vertical cross section through the trolly,
and half section and half end view of the body parts A. Figure 8 is a horizontal
section through the body parts A; and Figure 9 a plan section of the trolly.
Figure 10 is an end view, and Figure 11 a front view of one of the bolts c for
connecting with the trolly B; these bolts are in this instance shewn with a recess c¹
in the taper bottom part for the purpose of taking the point of a set screw f
The central body part A is in this case shewn fitted with wheels g for facilitating
its conveyance along some sloping or ather platform or tramway, and therefrom on to
the trolly B. The wheels g may be double flanged, and the floor of the trolly be
fitted with grooved rails to suit flush with the floor, or the wheels may have a
groove in them to run in and upon a raised rail. The parts or divisions A thus
form of themselves convenient carriages for transmission of goods, &c., for short
distances, as, for instance, between a railway train and the end of a passenger or
goods pier or quay.
The sides of the trucks or parts A are hinged, as also shewn in Figure 1.
For the conveyance of passengers' baggage or damageable merchandize the parts
or divisions of the truck or van would be covered and made water tight, and so
affords additional security in sea transit.
For the collection and delivery of minorals, goods, furniture, and merchandize
generally from and to vessel, railway, tramway, wharf, and depôt by roadway, we
propose to adapt an ordinary road trolly, on to and from which the whole or divisions
of waggon are to be loaded or unloaded for delivery either full or empty. Figure 12
is a side elevation of such a road carriage or trolly with its truck or body part A
placed thereon; Figure 13 is part vertical cross section and part end elevation of
same; and Figure 14 a plan view of the trolly. The road trolly is backed to the
sido of the railway or tramway line, and regulated to the floor level of the rail or
tramway trolly as near as possible by means of a rising and falling platform C
forming bed or floor of road trolly. Such platform may be worked by one or two
pairs of vertical or horizontal screw rods to be turned by cranked handles by manual
labor, or instead we propose to use (either as an alternative or auxiliary scheme)
longitudinally wedge shaped skids E to be placed on the ground for the road trolly
wheels to run on. The two, three, or more divisions are used from rail and tramway
for conveyance by the road trollys, or vice versú, and are to be fitted with double
flanged wheels g, as already described with reference to Figures 6, 7, 8, and 9, or
with grooved wheels.
The railway and road trollies for conveyance of the two, three, or more
divisions A have grooved rails fitted to them (flush with floor) to receive the double

page_text: flanged wheels g of such divisions or raised rails for grooved wheels. The sides of
railway trolly and end of road trolly are to be hinged as flaps for falling down
when loading or unloading.
Iron skids with grooves for wheels, or with rails for grooved wheels, moveable or
hinged, to be provided on road trolly for the running off and on of divisions when
a cranc is not used.
The Invention is also applicable to carriages for invalid or passenger carriages
generally.
And having thus described the nature of this our Invention, we declare that we
claim,―
Firstly. Constructing the upper part or body of a railway or other carriage in one
or more parts separate from the lower or wheel part, the latter being formed with
an upstanding frame or part frame wherein the upper part or body can be placed,
and whereto it can be detachably secured by bolts and staples, or otherwise, so that
the body may be transported from or to tram, road, rails of same or different gauges,
vessel, quay, pier, or other places without disturbing the contents of such body,
substantially as described and shewn.
Secondly. Constructing the lower part of such body with a set off for convenient
combination with a trolly, and with or without travelling wheels and sliding
platform or flap so that it may conveniently be conveyed short distances by itself,
and be adapted for varying levels of carriages, or platforms, or roads, substantially
as described and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Walter Dyson, for myself and on
behalf of the said James Walden Stroud, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.