US1004372A - Check-lock. - Google Patents

Description

W. J. CONNELL.

CHECK LOOK.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

Attorneys 7 UN ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.WILLIAIVI J'. CONNELL, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-THIRD'TO ANGUS M. BALDWIN, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

CHECK-LOCK.

Specification of Iletters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

Application filed September 16, 1910. Serial No. 582,358.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM J. CONNELL,

a citizen of the United States, residing at .sons not infrequently exchange their ownchecks for the checks of the miners or quarry men who have actually done the work of loading the car.

It is the object of this invention to provide a locking device whereby a check or the like may be secured to a car, the check being held in place until the car has been unloaded.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings,Figure 1 shows the invention in side elevation, mounted in a car body, the car body being sectioned; Fig. 2 is a top plan, portions of the car body being sectioned; Fig. 3 shows the invention in perspective, parts being broken away; and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective, showing a certain modification in the locking bar.

In the drawings, the bottom of the car is denoted by the numeral 1, and the side of the car by the numeral 9.. In the side 2 of the car there is a hole 3, hereinafter referred to as the upper opening in the car body. In this hole 3, a bar 4 is mounted for longitu dinal sliding movement. The inner end of the bar 4 is adapted to rest upon the bottom 1 of the car body. The outer end of the bar 4 carries a transverse grip 6, disposed in upright position, and channeled along its sides, as denoted by the numeral 7, so that a firm finger hold upon the grip 6 may be acquired. The grip 6 is held upon the outer end of the bar 4 y means of a pin 8, or other securing device adapted to a like end.

Formed integrally with the inner end of the bar 4, is an upstanding head 5.

A finger 9 projects toward the car body, this finger 9 being mounted in the grip 6, below the bar 4. In the bottom 1 of the car body there is a hole. 10, adapted to receive the finger 9. This hole 10 willbe referred to hereinafter as the lower opening in the car body. A fixed stop, preferably an angle plate 11 is secured to the bottom 1 of the car, in close vicinity to the side wall 2 thereof, this angle member 11 extending across the lower portion of the hole 3 in which the bar 4 is slidably mounted. The lower face of the bar 4 is notched to form a shoulder 12, adapted to be engaged by the up standing flange of the angle member 11. Into the upper face of the bar 4, the stop pin 14 is inserted. If desired, this stop pin 14 may be replaced by a shoulder 15 (Fig. 4) formed integrally with the bar 4.

The operation of the device is as follows. Before the car is loaded, the miner grasps the grip 6, and slides the bar 4 in the hole 3 in the side 2 of the car body, until the inner end of the finger 9 is withdrawn from the hole 10 in the bottom 1 of the car body. The miners check 16 is then slipped over the finger 9. The bar 4 is then slid toward the center of the car, until the inner extremity of the finger 9 is housed within the bottom 1 of the car body, in the hole 10 therein. This sliding of the bar 4 toward the center of the car body, will cause the shoulder 12 in the bar 4 to engage with the upright flange of the angle member 11. The bar 4 is loosely mounted in the hole 3, and the inner end of the bar will sag down on the bottom 1 of the car, under its own weight. It will be seen that when the load is thrown into the ear, the inner end of the bar 4, together with the head 5 thereon, will be bound closely against the bottom 1 of the ear, holding the elements 11-42 in engagement. Thus, the finger 9 cannot be withdrawn from the hole 10, to permit the removal of the check 16, until the contents of the car have been removed. The upstanding pin 14 in Fig. 1, and the shoulder 15 in Fig. 4, serve as stops, to prevent the bar 4 from being pulled out of the car body to too reat an extent.

Having thus descrlbed the invention, what is claimed is 1. A device for securing checks to cars,

consisting of a bar adapted to extend slidably through the side wall of a car, and having a rigid head at its inner end, adapted to upstand into the contents of the car, there being a rigid shoulder in the lower face of the bar; means adapted to be attached to a car, for engagement with the shoulder, to prevent a longitudinal movement of the bar; a grip mounted upon the outer end of the bar and adapted to engage the outer face of the side wall of a car; a securing device uniting the grip with the bar; and a finger" from a car.

2. In a device of the class described, a car body having upper and lower openings therein; a shouldered bar slidable in the upper opening, and adapted at its inner end to rest upon the bottom of the car body; a grip secured to the outer end of the bar; a check-holding finger projecting from the grip and adapted to register in the lower opening; an angle member secured to the car body in the vicinity of the upper opening therein, and adapted to engage with the shoulder upon the bar, to hold the finger within the lower opening; and a projection upstanding from the bar and engageable by the car body to prevent the complete withdrawal of the bar therefrom.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as .my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM J. GONNELL.

Witnesses:

J ESSE WATTS, S. A. CONNELL.

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