Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Drying and Facilitating the Transit of Fat, Suet, Skins, Game, or other Perishable Articles in Railway Wagons or other Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Lelt, 15th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Drying and
Facilitating the Transit of Fat, Suet, Skins, Game, or other
Perishable Articles in Railway Wagons or other Vehicles.
We, WILLIAM MCNAUGHT and WHINYATES WEBSTER, MCNAUGHT & Co.,
LIMITED both of the Market, Gill Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Hide Brokers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to means or apparatus for drying and facilitating the transit
of fat, suet, skins, game or other perishable articles in railway wagons or other
vehicles.
In the carriage of fats and suct it is necessary, particularly in hot weather,
to place the substances in such a position that they shall be fully exposed to
a current of fresh air, otherwise they are liable to deteriorate. The railway
companies as a rule forbid the permanent attachment of hooks or other means
for hanging the suet on. The present invention is designed to overcome the
difficulty.
We take a railway wagon such as is used in the conveyance of beer with
horizontal slits between the boards. We then take a series of bars slightly longer
than the width of the wagon body and support them at their ends in the interstices
between the boards and at suitable distances apart. These bars are formed in a
peculiar manner having shoulders at each end preventing any movement trans-
versely across the vehicle, and to prevent movement longitudinally along the
vehicle, they are formed or provided with projections or fingers projecting at right
angles, which form distance pieces and keep each bar at the required distance apart.
These fingers may be hinged if desired so as to fold down when not required for
use, and may or may not be provided with springs.
The mode of action is as follows-
The bars are arranged at suitable intervals in the wagon, being supported at
suitable distances apart, and the suet or other substance is hung on the bars, the
second layer of bars being preferably not immediately under the top layer so as
to be quite clear of the suet which hangs down from the top layer, and the other
layers of bars are arranged in a similar way. In this manner the suet or other
substance is fully exposed to the air. At the end of the journey when the bars are
finished with, they are taken down, the fingers folded on to the bars and the wagons
may then be used for any other purpose required.
We have described the above way in which the invention may be carried
into effect, but we wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not confine
ourselves to the exact details herein set forth, as the same may be altered
without departing from the principle of the invention, as for example the bars
may be arranged longitudinally in the vehicle instead of transversely, and
moreover the invention may be used for the carriage of numerous other goods
besides fats and suets.
Di, 04h do of December 1905

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Drying and
Facilitating the Transit of Fat, Suet, Skins, Game, or other
Perishable Articles in Railway Wagons or other Vehicles.
We, WILLIAM MCNAUGHT, and WHINYATES WEBSTER, MCNAUGHT & Co.,.
LIMITED both of the Market, Gill Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Hide Brokers, 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 relates to means or apparatus for drying and facilitating the
transit of fat, suet, skins, game or other perishable articles in railway wagons or
a
other vehicles.
In the carriage of fats and suet it is necessary particularly in hot weather,
to place the substances in such a position that they shall be fully exposed to
current of fresh air, otherwise they are liable to deteriorate. The railway
companies as a rule forbid the permanent attachment of hooks or other means
for hanging the suet on. The present invention is designed to overcome the
difficulty.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a cross section through the body of a railway wagon or van with the
invention applied thereto;
Figure 2 a longitudinal section through the bars;
Figure 3 a slight modification.
We take a railway wagon or other vehicle such as is used in the conveyance
of beer, with horizontal slits A between the boards. We then take a series of
bars B slightly longer over all than the width inside of the wagon body, and
support them at their ends in the interstices A between the boards, and at suitable
distances apart. These bars B are formed in a peculiar manner, having shoulders b
at each end preventing any movement transversely across the vehicle, and to
prevent movement longitudinally along the vehicle they may be formed or provided,
if so desired, with projections or fingers projecting at right angles, which form
distance pieces and keep each bar at the required distance apart. These fingers
may be hinged, if so desired, so as to fold down when not required for use, and may
or may not be provided with springs.
The mode of action is as follows:-
The bars B are arranged at intervals in the wagon, being supported at suit-
able distances apart by hooking them on to the boards at each slit A, and the
suét C or other substance is hung on the bars. The second layer of bars is
by preference not immediately under the top layer so as to be quite clear of the
suet which hangs down from the top layer, and the other layers of bars are
arranged in a similar way so as to allow clearance for the suet which hangs down.
In this manner the suet or other substance is fully exposed to the air.
end of the journey when the bars are finished with, they are taken down, the
fingers folded on the bars and the wagon may then be used for any other purpose
required.
At the
We have described the above way in which the invention may be carried into
effect, but we wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not confine ourselves
to the exact details herein set forth, as the same may be departed from without
altering the principle of the invention. Thus, for example, instead of hooks or
claws at the end of the bars as shown in Figure 1, the bars may have a
projection for engaging in the interstices between the boards, as depicted in

page_text: Figure 3, or other suitable device. Moreover the bars may be arranged longi-.
tudinally in the vehicle instead of transversely, and the invention may be used for
the carriage of numerous other goods besides fats and suets, also it is not
confined strictly to railway vehicles, as in some instances it may be used for road
vehicles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven--
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination with a railway or other wagon having horizontal slits or
spaces between the boards forming the ends or sides thereof, of a series of detach-
able bars or rails extending transversely across the wagon body or longitudinally,.
the ends of said bars or rails being formed so as to hook on to or be otherwise
supported in the interstices between the boards, whereby by hanging the suet or
other substances on the rails, the said substances are fully exposed to the current
of fresh air passing through the vehicle and are not liable to deterioration in transit,
while at the same time the permanent attachment to the wagon of hooks or other
like means for hanging the substances on is avoided.
2. The arrangement whereby the transit of fat, suet and other substances in.
railway wagons is effected without permanently attaching to the wagon, hooks or
other means for hauging the suet on, namely, forming in the sides or ends
of the vehicles slits or interstices and in providing a series of bars or rails adapted
engage, hook on to, or otherwise be supported in the slits or interstices aforesaid,
the said bars being provided or not as required with means for keeping the bars at.
the required distance apart substantially as described.
to
Doted this 14th day of Januar 1896
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents..