An Elevated or Platform Tipping Waggon, Trolly, or like Véhicle.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Elevated or Platform Tipping Waggon, Trolly, or like Véhicle.
I, JOHN BOND of 347 Green Lanes, Small Heath, near the City of Birmingham,
Brick Manufacturer, 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 pertains primarily to that class of open four wheel waggons
commonly called tips, for the conveying or transporting of clay or like materials,
from a pugging or pulverising mill to the working table, upon which bricks and tiles
are moulded or made.
My said invention relates to detail improvements in the construction, fitting and
accessories of the same, as hereinafter described.
The said improvements consist, first, in the particular mounting of the body
part; secondly, in the particular construction of rest stage upon which the said
body part, is mounted; thirdly, in automatic means of securing or locking the
said body part to the carrying framing, on the said body part being turned into
a horizontal position; fourthly, in means for automatically securing the folding
doors in their turned back positions; fifthly, combining with a front open and
tipping side of the body part, of inwardly sloping end and back sides.
The said waggon or vehicle, consists essentially of an open topped body part,
with an open side closed by doors, and jointedly connected, from the middle of its
underside, to a rest stage, carried upon a platform, which is elevated upon uprights,
carried by a carriage, having four wheels, adapted to run upon rails.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in transverse vertical section,
and with the lower part in elevation, an elevated or platform tipping waggon, con-
structed and arranged according to my invention.
It will be seen that the open body part, is jointed at the middle of its underside,
to the upper part of its elevated carrying framing, and in manner that the same
admits of being canted up or tipped, in order to discharge its load, or for emptying
its contents.
The inner half of the said body part, which is open at top, and temporarily
closed at one side by horizontally swinging doors, comes, when filling, upon horizontal
rests, directed upwardly from the carrying platform, and which rests have canting
stops or inclined planes, which direct the angle of the tipping.
Figure 2 represents a side elevation of the said elevated or platform tipping
waggon, showing the means of fastening or securing the body part to its rest
framing, during the time when the same is being filled, or when full.
The said body part is at a lower level than the outlet to the pug-mill from which
clay is to be transported to one of the working tables of a brick works.
The said view also shows the means for retaining the doors in their turned back
positions prior to tipping.
Figure 3 shows a horizontal section of the body part of the waggon, upon the
dotted lines A, B, Figure 2..
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
a is an open topped body part, having inwardly sloping sides a', a², and an open
outer side a³, closed by horizontally swinging doors, or removable half sides a*,
jointed at a³, to the opposite sides.a², a² of the said body part, which is pivotedly 'or
jointedly connected at b, to a rest or carrying stage c, having a horizontal part or
parts c², upon which the inner underside of the body of the waggon a, comes, when
filling or when filled, and also a clearance c³, and stop c*, the latter consisting of an

page_text: inclined plane or planes, against which the outer underside of the said body comes,
when canted or tipped.
The opening or folding doors as best seen in Figure 3, are automatically held in
their turned back positions, by devices, consisting of a pawl catch d, jointed and
connected at d¹, to outstanding brackets d³, connected to the fixed sides of the
waggon.
The pawl catches d, are lifted by lifters d³.
The body part of the waggon. is temporarily fastened or secured to the rest
stage during the time that the same is being filled, or being transported, when
full, to the working table, by means of a depending arm catch e, pivoted at e²,
at one end, and having at the other and lower end, a catch e³, which engages
with a snug or projection c³, located upon one side, and affixedly connected and
carried by the rest stage c.
The arm catch e, is confined within a guide e, and has connected with it a
pusher, jointed to the said arm at f, and working within a guide f³, carried,
as the whole of the fastening means are, by and upon the body part, which
admits of tilting or tipping upon the horizontally directed joint b, as a centre
of motion.
The catch may be brought back to its fastening position by means of a
spring 9, attached at one end to the waggon, and at its other end to the
catch arm.
By the pushing forward of the pusher rodf, or the turning of the same upon the
guide, as a fulcrum the catch part e³, is removed from the snug or projection co,
hence the unfastening of the waggon body part from its framing, when the same
can be tipped, and the contents discharged, after the lifting of an ordinary door
fastener, attached to the folding doors.
The rest stage, upon which the waggon part is mounted, is carried by an elevated
platform h, supported upon rods, pillars and struts h¹, h, resting at their lower ends
upon a carriage i, having wheels, whose axles k, are connected to bracket bearings 1,
carried by or secured to the underside of the said carriage.
Between the pugging-mill and the working table, tramlines are laid,
the elevated or platform waggon or trolly runs.
on which
When in use, the body part is turned to a horizontal position upon the rest stage,
and is there automatically locked or fastened to the said rest stage and platform
parts carried by it, by the wiping of the curved part of the catch e, over the lug c³,
when the said lug is caught and fastened by the pulling forward of the spring, after
the fastening of the shoulder.
The body part now being secured to the platform carrying framing, the swing
doors are then fastened, and the waggon or appliance then run under the outlet of
the pug-mill, and filled with the clay, which is to be conveyed to the working table,
situated at a lower level than the height of the tipping body part.
A workman now removes the catch from the door, turns the said doors back, which
are then retained by the holding devices. The body part is then unlocked from the
frame part, by the said workman pushing or levering the bar handle f, after
which the waggon is tipped, and the contents discharged on to the working
table.
Although I have described the waggon as being applicable for the transporting
and discharging of clay, yet the said waggon or platform vehicle may be employed
for other purposes, to which the same is or may be applicable.
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 :-
First-In elevated or platform tipping waggons or trollies, mounting and
jointing the same to a rest stage, having a clearance upon one side, and a horizontal
rest upon the other side, and with the boundary line of the clearance with the stage,
made inclined, forming thereby a canting or tipping stop, for the waggon body

page_text: part, when tipped or canted, and which stage, in combination with the waggon
body part, is constructed, arranged and provided, substantially as described and set.
forth.
Secondly-In elevated or platform tipping waggons or trollies, automatically
securing or locking the said open body part to the said framing part, and unlocking
or unfastening the same, by a swinging and lever catch, with cognate parts, arranged
and combined substantially as set forth.
Thirdly-In elevated or platform tipping waggons or trollies, fitting the swing
door or doors of the open topped body part or waggon, with automatic holding back
means or catches, as described and set forth.
Fourthly: The construction, arrangement, combination and fitting of the parts
of elevated or platform tipping waggons, trollies or vehicles, for the conveying and
discharging of clay and other materials for various purposes, substantially as
described and set forth.
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1000
By Henry Skerrett,
JOHN BOND,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.