Safety Wagon or Carriage for Lessening the Effects of Railway Collisions and Preventing Derailments
Year: 1898

page_text: Safety Wagon or Carriage for Lessening the Effects of Railway
Collisions and Preventing Derailments,
I, JULIUS EMDEN, of 10, An der Schönen Aussicht, Hamburg, Germany,
Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
The present invention relates to a wagon or carriage intended to be con-
nected to and behind the locomotive of a railway train with the object of prevent-
ing derailment thereof and of deadening the communication of any shock
(produced by a collision or by any sudden application of the brakes) from one
wagon or carriage to another.
The safety wagon is strongly constructed of iron and of a sufficiently con-
siderable weight to effect the desired objects of its use. At the lower part of its
front are arranged projecting beams which embrace the locomotive on its two
sides or pass through apertures made in the lower part of the locomotive, the
construction of which will be modified in a corresponding manner; these beams
serve to prevent derailment of the locomotive in a collision. Towards the middle
and at the upper part of the wagon there are other projecting beams which are
connected by means of cross-bars or stays to the frame-work of the wagon,
and pass through correspondingly situated slots or apertures in frames erected on
the locomotive. These latter projecting beams form a kind of roof above the
locomotive, which, owing to the weight of the wagon, serve to prevent the loco-
motive from rising or being lifted from off the rails. Below the side beams,
there are projecting arms secured to the frame or other convenient part of the
locomotive, and which, when the locomotive has a tendency to rise at the time of
a collision, bear against said side beams and prevent the locomotive from leaving
the rails. All the beams are disposed in such a manner that the locomotive,
with or without an attached tender, can be freely connected to and disconnected
from the wagon.
At the back of the safety wagon (which, like the adjacent end of the following
wagon or carriage may or may not be fitted with ordinary buffers) are arranged
two or more cushions of suitable material serving to deaden any shock arising from
a collision or a sudden application of the brakes.
Dated this 7th day of Danamban 1000
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents, 321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Safety Wagon or Carriage for Lessening the Effects of Railway
Collisions and Preventing Derailments.
I, JULIUS EMDEN, of 10, An der Schönen Aussicht, Uhlenhorst, Hamburg,
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:-
The present invention relates to a wagon or carriage designed to be placed
behind the locomotive of a railway train, with the objects of preventing, as much as
possible, derailment thereof and of deadening shocks produced by a collision
or by the application of the brakes and transmitted from one wagon or carriage
to another.
On the accompanying drawing is represented by way of example, one way of
carrying out my invention, and on the drawing:
Figure, 1, represents the head or fore-part of a railway train adapted with the
new safety wagon;
Fig. 2, is a plan view of the safety wagon;
Fig. 3, is a transverse section on the plane, -, Fig. 1;
Fig. 4, is a similar section on the plane, y-y, Fig. 1; and
Figs. 5, and 6, are perspective views respectively of the safety wagon and a
corresponding locomotive.
The safety wagon is strongly built of iron and of a sufficiently considerable
weight, so that it can, without harm, withstand the shock from the locomotive
when there is a collision or the application of the brakes.
At the front and lower part of the safety wagon are arranged projecting
beams or bars, a, which hold or bear against the two sides of the locomotive or
which pass through suitable apertures or openings in the lower part of the
locomotive, which must be built or modified in a corresponding manner, these
beanis serve more especially to prevent the locomotive from leaving the rails,
which often happens in a collision.
Towards the middle and at the upper part of the safety wagon are other
projecting beams, b, which are connected in any convenient manner, for example, by
means of cross bars or beams, to the upper part or body, c, of the carriage or wagon,
and which pass through suitable apertures or openings, d, in frames or uprights, d¹,
erected on the locomotive. These projecting beams form a kind of roof above
the locomotive which prevents the latter from any rising movement.
Below the side beams, a, are transverse arms, e, which are secured to the under-
frame of the locomotive or to the body of the boiler of the latter, and which,
should the locomotive begin to rise so as to leave the rails, bear against the side
beams and prevent such movement of the locomotive.
The beam-roof is horizontal, and this as well as all the other beams are so
arranged that the locomotive can move about freely and be coupled and un-
coupled as desired, and as to permit of the ordinary tender being employed.
At the hinder part of the safety wagon, which, at this end, is not provided with
any buffers, like also the next following wagon, there are arranged one or more
cushions, s, which serve for receiving and deadening shocks arising from a
collision or from the sudden application of the brakes.
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 rigid safety wagon or carriage for railway trains, serving for receiving

page_text: and taking up or deadening shocks arising or consequent on a collision or an
application of the brakes, characterized by projecting beams or bars, a, which
rest against the sides of and engage with openings or recesses made in the lower
part of the locomotive, and by projecting beams, b, arranged about the middle
and at the upper part of the wagon and extending as a roof above the locomotive,
in combination with lateral arms, e, and apertures or openings, d, in a framing or
uprights, d, arranged on the locomotive, for preventing the overturning, as also
the rising and derailment of the locomotive, substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of July 1899.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents, 321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.