A New or Improved Brake for Railway Luggage Trollies and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Brake for Railway Luggage Trollies and the like.
I, WALTER GRIFFITHS, of Highgate Square, Moseley Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, fanufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object a new or improved brake for railway luggage
trollies and the like which is particularly applicable to the trollies used on
railway platforms and by which such trollies whether loaded or otherwise are
automatically and normally braked when not in charge of any person.
My brake which is simple in action can be readily attached to the existing
four wheel luggage trollies now used which are moved by a handle and in con-
nection with which I will describe my invention and from which its application
to other such trollies will be readily understood.
Upon the inside faces of the two front wheels of the trolley, the axle of which
is pivoted in the ordinary way I provide a series of flanges, studs, or teeth pro-
jecting at right angles either from the side face of the wheel or from the boss.
A shaft or spindle is mounted by brackets upon and parallel to the axle and
upon each end of this shaft an escapement anchor is fixed in such a manner that
the pallets may or may not engage with the projections on the wheels while the
handle by which the trolley is moved is also fixed to this shaft in such a relative
position that when the handle is in the required position for moving the trolley
the pallets are clear of the projections on the wheel but upon the handle being
dropped upon the ground or reared upon the trolley one or other of the pallets
engage with the projections on the wheel and thus form a dead stop brake, the
pallets being so shaped and arranged that the pressure of the projections on the
pallets are in the direction of the centres of the anchors thus preventing any
possibility of the projections actuating the pallets and raising or lowering the
handle by such pressure.
In place of the escapement anchor I may provide cam shaped projections upon
the shaft which bear upon the ground when the handle is down or up but are
clear when the handle is in use.
Dated this 20th day of October 1808
LEWIS WM. GOOLD,
Agent for Applicant, 5, Corporation Street, Birmingham.
A New or improved Brake for Railway Luggage Trollies and the like.
I, WALTER GRIFFITHS, of Highgate Square, Moseley Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
[Price 8d.]

page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object improvements in railway luggage trollies and
the like which is particularly applicable to the trollies used on railway platforms
by which such trollies whether loaded or otherwise are automatically and
normally locked or braked when not in charge of any person.
My arrangement which is simple in action can be readily attached to the
existing four wheel luggage trollies now used which are moved by a handle.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise, I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
fully illustrated the nature of my said improvements applied to an ordinary
flat trolley and from which their application to other such trollies or barrows
will readily be understood.
Figure 1 is a view of one end of a trolley with my improvements applied
thereto and shewing the handle at rest when up.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation but shewing the position of the
locking brake when the trolley is in use.
Figure 3 is a similar sectional elevation but shewing the trolley when not in
use with the handle up and locked from backward movement in direction of
arrow.
Figure 4 is a similar view to Figure 3 but shewing the trolley locked from
forward movement in direction of arrow.
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation through trolley when not in use with the
handle down and when locked from backward movement in direction of arrow.
Figure 6 is a similar view to Figure 5 but shewing trolley locked from forward
movement in direction of arrow.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide a series of flanges studs or
other suitable projections A upon the inside of the faces of the two front wheels a¹
and which flanges project out at right angles to the face of the wheel or they
may be formed upon the boss.
The shaft 2 is mounted by brackets c upon and parallel to the axle support
and upon each end of this shaft the escapement anchors B are fixed in such a
manner that the pallets may or may not engage with the aforementioned
projections on the wheels as may be by the position of the handle B' which is
also attached to the shaft 62 in such a relative position to the anchors B that when
the handle B is in the required position for moving the trolley E the pallets 3
are clear of the projections A on the wheels a and the trolley is free to move,
but upon the handle B being lowered or dropped to the ground as shewn in
Figure 5 the wheels a' are immediately locked by one or other of the projections A
coming in contact with the ends of the anchor as shewn by Figure 5. The
flanges A are provided with perforations a³ so that the wheels are locked from any
material movement in the reverse direction by the entrance of the pallets 63
into the perforations a³.
Upon this handle B being reared against the trolley E the reverse ends of the
anchors B come into operation as shewn by Figures 3 and 4 and the wheels are
locked as described with regard to Figures 5 and 6 the pallets 63 being shaped
to hook on to the flange of the projections by which it is made impossible for
the wheel projection A to actuate or release the pallets whatever may be the
extent of the incline on which the trolley E stands or the load which it carries.
By this means the automatic locking of the wheels is effected immediately the
handle is dropped or raised and continues in force until such time as the handle
is again manipulated.
The perforations in the flange projections may be dispensed with in which case
the arms of the anchors are so shaped and arranged as to enter recesses formed
by the projections on the wheels and thus lock the same from turning in either

page_text: direction and in any case anchors may be provided for either one
wheels.
or both
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the manner the same is to be performed I declare
that what I claim is:
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1st. In railway luggage trollies and the like the anchor B connected with
handles B and having pallets 63 in combination with the perforated wheel
flanges A substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and illustrated.
2nd. In railway luggage trollies and the like a series of projections or studs
on the wheel or wheels in combination with anchor arms on the handle for
locking the wheel through the position of the handles substantially as and for
the purpose herein set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 20th day of July 1899.
LEWIS WM. GOOLD,
Agent for Applicant, 5, Corporation Street, Birmingham.