IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF RAIL OR TRAK WAGON SUITABLE FOR CARRYING AND TIPPING PURPOSES AS A TIP WAGCE, AND FOR CARRYING WITHOUT THE TIP BODY
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Simmons at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
September 1875. A communication from abroad by George Peter
Carr, residing at Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United
States of America.
I, JOHN SIMMONS, of 4, Queen Anne's Gate, in the City of West-
minster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF RAIL OR TRAK WAGON SUITABLE FOR CARRYING
AND TIPPING PURPOSES AS A TIP WAGCE, AND FOR CARRYING WITHOUT THE TIP
BODY," (communicated to me from abroad by George Peter Carr, residing
at Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States of America,) to
be as follows:
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This Invention relates specially to an improved construction of rail or
tram wagon, suitable for carrying and tipping purposes as a tip wagon,
and for carrying without the tip body.
The wagon is composed of a main frame of longitudinal or side
timbers braced at a distance apart by transverse beams and mounted
upon four flanged wheels like any ordinary rail or tramway truck or
trolly, so as to be moved upon rails by horse or other power. Upon
the main frame a platform of planking is fitted, and this has a ring of

page_text: metal secured down upon it, and also a disc or bearing plate. The
wagon thus constructed when provided with draw hooks or chains can
be used in the ordinary manner as a truck or trolly for the transport of
heavy stones, balks of timber, boxes of bricks, sand, lime, or other
material to be used in or for the construction or repairs of a lineo.
The disc is arranged about mid-distance between the wheels which aro
set more to one end than the other of the main frame, and has a hole
through it for the reception of a perch or swivel pin, the ring plato
before-mentioned being concentric with the disc to enable a plate on the
under side of a separate frame to bear, such frame being retained
centrally upon the disc by the pin, so that the separate frame may be
moved round the pin to the right or to the left when desired. The
separate frame has upon its upper side a couple or more of plates, whose
ends are turned over to form eyes, and are used in conjunction with
similarly formed eye plates fitted to the under side of a body or tip, the
two being connected by a rod passed through the eyes to serve as hinges
upon which the body can be tipped to discharge its contents at any
time. The hinge plates of the body are out of the centre as are also the
bingo plates of the separate frame, and this arrangement establishes a
kind of lift and a forward action of the body in the tipping operation, in
addition to effecting a more vertical angle of the body for the dis-
charge of earth or other loose material without the necessity of hand
labour.
When the body is horizontal the hinge plates rest upon each other
and thereby take the strain of any weight off the hinge rod. One end
of the body rests upon a transverse beam on the separate frame, when
that end is pulled down, which it can be by hauling on a chain fitted to
it, a link of the chain being then slipped over the loop end of a staple
attached to the transverse beam for the purpose, a key can then be put
through the staple to hold the chain link on.
The body portion of the wagon has a preponderance of weight at one
end, so than when the chain link is released the body can tip by itself or
by a slight upward pressure by an attendant, the angle to which it shall
tip being determined by the length of the separate frame from the hinge
plates outwards, the end of the separate frame beams being cut to an
angle for the bottom of the body to bear against, the tip alone being
sufficient to discharge the contents without a forcible bump against the
usual bumping blocks.

page_text: The angle at which the body can tip, whether at one of the sides of the
main frame or at one of its ends, is such that the whole of the contents
are discharged therefrom without the necessity of hand labour, a feature
of importance not heretofore accomplished except by running wagons at-
high speeds against a bumper, at all times a matter of danger to horses,
attendants, and wagons, neither has a provision been made in tip wagons-
for using the main frame independently as a truck for the transport of
heavy material by the removal of the body and separate frame.