NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE RAMPS FOR USE ON RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Russell, of 96, Cornwall Road, Westbourne Park;
London, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED
PORTABLE RAMPS FOR USE ON RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS
"
Sealed the 26th May 1877, and dated the 29th January 1877
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Russell at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th January 1877
DAVID RUSSELL, of 96, Cornwall Road, Westbourne Park, London, in the County
of Middlesex NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE RAMPS FOR USE ON RAILWAYS AND
TRAMWAYS"
The object of my Invention is to replace speedily a train or tiam cars, or any
portion of a train, which may be thrown off the rails
My portable lamps consist of two pieces of tapered channel non, or other suitable
metal, fostened to the permanent way with an non clip and quadrant, and kept in
proper gauge by an iron pin A portion of each ramp is hinged so as to dip under
the wheels when sunk in the ballast (no "jacking" up being required), the vehicles
can then be re-railed at once
When the ramps are laid on the sleepers or ballast, and adjusted, the wheels of
the vehicle off the line are drawn forward by locomotive or other power until they
reach the extreme point resting on permanent rail, when the vehicles drop on to the
main line in proper position
The ramps can be made to suit any railway or tramway to any section of rail
or iron of any suitable length or strength, and can be easily used by two men.

page_text: This Invention has for its object apparatus to be employed in replacing speedily
on a line of railway or tramway cariages, engines, or other vehicles which have
been thrown off the rails
My apparatus is in the nature of two portable ramps, which can be applied to
any line of railway or tramway that may be requned, and it consists of two pieces
of tapered channel non, or other suitable metal, fastened to the permanent way
with an iron clip and quadrant, and kept or regulated to any gauge by an iron pin
in each quadrant A part of each ramp is hinged, so as to dip under the wheels
when sunk in the ballast, and can be made to reach the wheels at any angle, as
cucumstances may require
In order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS,
Figure 1 19 a plan of a portion of a line of railway or tramway, shewing the
ramps applied to wheels off the rails in two positions
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Figure 2.is.a transverse section on the line A, B
Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line C, D
Figure 4 is an elevation of the two ramps shewing part as hinged, and quadrants
and clips fastened on permanent way
The inside ramp A² is pin jointed, and fastened to the clip a, and can tuin round
on the pivot or pin to suit either right or left hand side of railway as required.
The outside ramp A passes over the main line rail, and has lugs b at extreme end
embracing the ail, both ramps being further secured by the quadrants c, and
supported by short guides or blocks d bolted to the ramps, as shown on line;
c, hinge
When the ramps are laid on the sleepers or ballast, and adjusted, the wheels of
the vehicle off the line ale diawn forward by locomotive or other power until they
reach the extreme points resting on permanent 1ail, when the vehicles diop on to
the main line in proper position
The portable lamps can be made to suit any railway or tramway to any section
of rail on iron of any suitable length or strength, and can be easily used by two
men
The new or improved portable lamps complete will bo very moderate in price,
can be carried by every train in guards' or break van, and kept at stations to be
ready at all times when requned, and thereby prevent many of the accidents which
now occur through the delay in procuring and using the present appliances used
for replacing trains or a portion of them or tram cais
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is or may be performed, I would have it understood that I
do not limit or restrict myself to the precise details and configurations of parts
expressed or shewn, as the same may be vaned or modified without in any degree
departing from the arrangement or principle set forth in this Specification, and that
I clann as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent 18,-
1° The mechanical arrangement of the lamps for replacing railway or tramway
vehicles on lines of railways or tramways, substantially as described.
2° In lamps generally, making the ramp in two pieces joined by a hinge, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Russell, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Loid One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.