An Improved Appliance for Facilitating the Tipping of Carts, Waggons, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1888

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An Improved Appliance for Facilitating the Tipping of Carts,
Waggons, and other Vehicles.
I, LEON COCHEPAIN, of 26 and 28 Boulevard de la Courtille, Chartres (Eure
& Loir) France, Carriage Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an appliance for tipping carts, waggons and other
vehicles.
As will be seen from the following description, the said device can be operated
simply by the horizontal displacement of a handle. Over the devices heretofore
employed for similar purposes it presents the advantages of very great simplicity
sure operation, and absolute safety.
In order to make my invention well understood, I have represented in the accom-
panying drawing an appliance constructed in accordance therewith as. used for
tipping carts.
In this drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of a tipping cart which is provided with my
improved appliance.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same, and
Figure 3 is a front view showing the position of the levers hereinafter describeu
upon the cross-bar and shafts of the cart.
Figure 4 is a perspective view, showing the appliance in engagement with the
frame of the cart.
Figure 5 is also a perspective view showing the position of the appliance when the
body of the cart is tipped over.
The said appliance comprises two levers a b that are adapted to turn upon bolts or
pivots and to operate in conjunction through the medium of a swivel joint c, or
any other suitable connecting device, which is held upon a cross bar d secured to the
shafts of the cart. The aforesaid two levers are arranged to slide below two
bridges ef, and can pass above the longitudinal beams 9h of the frame in order

page_text: to retain the latter in line with the said shafts. The appliance is provided with a
safety bolt which, when inserted in the holej formed in one of the said longitudinal
beams, keeps the two levers locked in their position above these beams, despite any
shocks to which the levers may be subjected.
The connection of the longitudinal beams of the frame with the shafts of the cart is
effected either by means of bolts 1, or by any other suitable device.
It will be understood that if the frame of the cart is in the horizontal position, it is
in every case sufficient, for tipping it, to withdraw the bolt i and to pull the handle k
so that the two levers a b pass to the position y y¹ Figure 2, whereby the longitudinal
beams 1 of the frame of the cart are disengaged from the levers a b, as indicated in
Figure 2, and the body of the cart can turn upon the axis or pivot 1 of the shafts, as
shown in Figure 5.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Appliance for Facilitating the Tipping of Carts,
Waggons, and other Vehicles.
I, LÉON COCHEPAIN, of 26 and 28 Boulevard de la Courtille, Chartres (Eure
& Loir). France, Carriage builder, 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 an appliance for tipping carts, waggons and other
vehicles.
As will be seen from the following description, the said device can be operated
simply by the horizontal displacement, of a handle. Over the devices heretofore
employed for similar purposes it presents the advantages of very great simplicity,
sure operation, and absolute safety.
In the drawing left with the provisional specification I have represented an
appliance for tipping carts constructed according to the present invention.
In this drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of a tipping cart which is provided with my
improved appliance.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same, and
Figure 3 is a front view showing the position of the levers upon the cross bar and
shafts of the cart hereinafter described.
Figure 4 is a perspective view, showing the appliance in engagement with the frame
of the cart.
Figure 5 is also a perspective view showing the position of the appliance when the
body of the cart is tipped over.
I
The said appliance comprises two levers a, 6 that are adapted to turn upon bolts or
pivots and to operate in conjunction through the medium of a swivel joint c, or
any other suitable connecting device, which is held upon a cross bar d secured to the
shafts of the cart. The aforesaid two levers are arranged to slide below two
bridges ef, and can pass above the longitudinal beams g h of the frame in order to
retain the latter in line with the said shafts. The appliance is provided with a safety
bolt i which, when inserted in the hole j formed in one of the said longitudinal beams,
keeps the two levers locked in their position above these beams, despite any shocks to
which the levers may be subjected.
The connection of the longitudinal beams of the frame with the shafts of the cart is
effected either by means of bolts l, or by any other suitable device.
It will be understood that if the frame of the cart is in the horizontal position, it is
in every case sufficient, for tipping it, to withdraw the bolt i and to pull the handle k
so that the two levers a, b, pass to the position y, y, Figure 2, whereby the longi-
tudinal beams 9, h of the frame of the cart are disengaged from the levers a b, as
indicated in Figure 2, and the body of the cart can turn upon the axis or pivot / of
the shafts, as shown in Figure 5.

page_text: 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 :-
:
In the above described device for facilitating the tipping of carts, waggons, and the
like, the arrangement of two levers a b in connection with each other in the axis of
the vehicle, by means of a swivel joint c; these levers being provided with an
actuating lever k by which they are displaced upon their respective axis x, x in order
to disengage the longitudinal beams g h of the shaft upon which the device is fixed in
order to permit the vehicle to swing backwards, the whole being arranged, and
combined as above described, and represented in the drawing.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.