Improvements in Carts for Distributing Road Making Materials and other purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carts for Distributing Road Making Materials and
other purposes.
I, WALTER RIDLINGTON, of Holbeach, in the County of Lincoln, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a cart intended more particularly for distributing or
spreading broken granite, flints or other suitable road-making material over the
rond to be made or repaired but is also suitable for the carriage of dust or refuse
and is adapted to be emptied without tipping.
The improved cart is made with its bottom sloping downwards, its highest part
being at the front of the cart and its lowest part close to the ground across the
back of the cart.
The back, which may be removable for emptying the contents of the cart bodily
in any one place, has also a hinged portion or flap below for permitting the contents
to pass slowly out on to the surface of the road over which the cart is drawn and
for spreading the material evenly over such surface. Adjustment is obtained by
suitable gear operated by a hand wheel near the front of the cart where the
driver sits. The cart body is so mounted on its wheels as to be balanced when it
is charged.
Dated this 14th day of November 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to the Applicant.
Improvements in Carts for Distributing Road Making Materials and
other purposes.
I, WALTER RIDLINGTON, of Holbeach, in the County of Lincoln, Merchant,
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 consists of a cart intended more particularly for distributing or
spreading broken granite, flints, or other suitable road making materials over the
road to be made or repaired but is also suitable for the carriage of dust or refuse
and is adapted to be emptied without tipping.
The improved cart is made with its bottom sloping downwards its highest part
being at the front of the cart and its lowest part close to the ground across the
back of the cart.
The back, which may be removable for emptying the contents of the cart bodily
in any one place, has also a hinged portion or portions or flap or flaps below for
permitting the contents to pass slowly out on to the surface of the road over which
the cart is drawn and for spreading the material evenly over such surface.
Ajustment is obtained by suitable gear operated by a hand wheel near the front of
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page_text: the cart where the driver sits. The cart body is so mounted on its wheels as to be
balanced when it is charged.
.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improved cart.
Fig. 2 is a front view and Fig. 3 a rear view thereof.
A is the body of the cart, shaped substantially as shown in the sloping floor of
which are three openings B B B2 (see Fig. 2) the centre one B of which is
slightly larger than those ou each side. These openings or doors BB' B are
opened and closed by suitable rods and levers. C' C operated by a shaft D carried
in bearings Di D' at tlie end of which shaft is a hand wheel E placed in a
eonvenient position within reach of the driver seated on the seat F. The lower
part B3 of the back of the cart is also made removable for emptying and is
hinged at C. G are the shafts carried in brackets G fixed to the-sides of the
'vehicle. -
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
.claim is
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In a cart for distributing stones and other materials, the sloping bottom in
combination with the delivery doors operated by any suitable means and the
binged back part all substantially as illustrated and described.
Dated this 12th day of Amanst. 1898.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Bückingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Bückingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.