Improvements in Railway Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
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Improvements in Railway Vehicles.
I SORABJI MUNCHERJI RUTNAGUR of 27 Medows Street, Fort, Bombay,
India, Journalist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to prevent accidents to persons employed in.
coupling or uncoupling railway vehicles. This operation is generally performed
by a man standing on the ground between two vehicles, in which position he is in
danger of being injured or run over in the event of the carriage moving before he
can retreat. There are several devices invented or in use by which the coupling
or uncoupling is done from the sides of the vehicles thus obviating the necessity of
a person having to go between them. Many of these however are costly and
complicated and the object of the present invention, is to substitute a simple and
cheap and easily applied device. It consists in providing each vehicle with a
transverse foot board suspended below the buffers so as to serve as a platform to
stand on when coupling or uncoupling the vehicles. In the event of the vehicle
moving during the operation of coupling or uncoupling the person performing the
operation will simply remain on the footboard and travel with the vehicle. While
the vehicle is moving he can walk along the footboard and bending under the.
buffers can reach the ground in safety.
Dated this 31st day of July 1895.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70 Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Railway CERCATO.
I SORABJI MUNCHERJI RUTNAGUR of 27 Medows Street, Fort, Bombay,
India, Journalist, 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 object of this invention is to prevent accidents to persons employed in
coupling or uncoupling railway vehicles. This operation is generally performed
by a man standing on the ground between two vehicles, in which position he is in.
danger of being injured or run over, in the event of the carriage moving before he
can retreat. There are several devices in use by which the coupling or uncoupling
is done from the sides of the vehicles, thus obviating the necessity of a person
going between them. Many of these however are costly, and complicated, and the
object of the present invention is to substitute a simple cheap and easily applied
device.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my said invention, a is
a transverse foot board suspended below the buffers b, and reaching from one side
to the other of the vehicle, so as to serve as a platform to stand on when coupling
or uncoupling the vehicles. In the event of the vehicle moving, during the

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operation of coupling or uncoupling, the person performing the operation will
simply remain on the foot-board a, and travel with the vehicle, or while the vehicle
is moving he can walk along the foot-board, and bending under the buffers b can
reach the ground in safety.
The transverse foot-board a which may be applied to either or both ends of the
vehicle, may be hinged or pivoted so as to allow of it being hinged up and locked
when not required as shown in dotted lines at a'.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
A transverse foot-board suspended below the buffers of railway vehicles to serve
as a platform to facilitate the coupling or uncoupling of vehicles substantially as
set forth and shown.
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E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70 Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.