A New and Improved Method for Coupling and Uncoupling Railway Wagons.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 28th May, 1892
·PROVISIONAL Specification.
A New and Improved Method for Coupling and Uncoupling Railway
Wagons.
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BENJAMIN ROUND LEPPARD, 203 Bloxwich Road, Walsall, Railway Booking
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The new method consists of an inverted draw-bar hook, fitted with a tongue.
which is raised when the coupling link is passed into position & then drops so as
to securely hold the link in the hook; & the wagons are then properly coupled up..
The mode of coupling the wagons is effected by a rod having two projecting rods,
to which are attached short chains connected to the extreme link of the coupling,
the rod being worked by means of a handle at either side of wagon so as to raise &
pass coupling link into the hook.
To uncouple the wagons, the tongue of hook is raised by means of a handle at.
either side of wagon attached to a rod, which passes through the tongue, & the.
coupling then drops out of the hook.
Dated this Third day of March 1892.
BENJAMIN ROUND LEPPARD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Method for Coupling and Uncoupling Railway
Wagons.
BENJAMIN ROUND LEPPARD 203, Bloxwich Road, Walsall Railway Booking
Clerk, 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 new method consists of an inverted hook to draw-bar of wagon, fitted with
a tongue, which tongue is raised when the coupling link is passed into position and
then drops so as to securely hold the link in the hook, and the wagons are then
properly coupled up.
The mode of coupling the wagons is effected by a rod, (a, Fig. 1 and 2,) on end
of wagon, having two short projecting rods, (b b, Fig. 1 and 2,) to which are
attached short chains connected to the extreme link, (c, Fig. 1 and 2,) of the
coupling. The rod is worked by means of handles (d. d. Fig. 1) at the sides of
the wagon, so as to raise and pass the coupling link (c, Fig. 1 and 2) into the draw-
bar hook of the opposite wagon.
To uncouple the wagons, the tongue (e, Fig. 1, 2 and 3) of the hook is raised to
the position shown in dotted lines, by means of a handle (, Fig. 1) at the side of
the wagon, attached to a rod (y, Fig. 1 and 2) which passes through and connects the
tongue to the draw-bar hook, thus allowing the coupling link (c, Fig. 2 and 3)
to drop out of the hook. The tongue (e) may be retained in the lower position
shown in Fig. 2 and 3 by means of a spring or other well known means.
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:
1. An invention to obviate the necessity of a man going between the wagons to
couple or uncouple them:

page_text: 2. The wagons can be coupled or uncoupled instantaneously by raising the handle
at the side of the wagon:
3. The wagons can be coupled or uncoupled from either side.
Dated this 4th day of April 1892.
BENJAMIN ROUND LEPPARD.