US1016220A - Railway freight-car. - Google Patents

Description

L. E. EVENS.

RAILWAY FREIGHT GAR.

APPLICATION FILED 00w. 1a, 1910.

Patented Jan. 30, 1912.

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' Lad-E. EVENS,' or WArEn oo, Iowa,-

BAII 'WAY I FREIGHT-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30,1912

Application filed October 13, 1910. Serial No. 586,905. a g a To all whom it may concern. 1

Be it known that I, Lno .E. Evans, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Freight-Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates ,to improvements in maximum number of such objects, with're-' sulting economy in haulage expense to' the common carrier. This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter fully described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: n I

4 Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway freight car, with one side removed in order to better disclose the inner arrangement of my improvements therein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail broken view of a part of said car and my improvements, taken in plan. Fig. 3 is a similar view, but showing a modification of my improved movable supporting means. Fig. 4 is a broken detail in elevation, showing the-slideway for the movable table. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the upper part of a freight car, showing the suspended table therein. Fig. 6 isa side elevation of one of the A-shaped trestles used as an auxiliary support to said table.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

- In ordinary box-cars it is possible to transport but such a number of automobiles as may be stowed therein upon their floors, one deep. It is my intent to provide mow able means for supporting a second tier of the automobiles or other objects to be trans ported above the lower tier. This I am able to accomplish in the following way:

The numeral 6 designates an auxiliary floor, hereinafter called the table, which lies above the floor 15 of the car 1, and is parallel therewith, and secured on longitudinal beams 7. The ends ofthis table 6,:have recesses 16 to permit the entrance of the guiderails t,'which latter are fixed vertically to beams 3 at the ends of the car. When desired, a variation may be adopted for the table shown, as will appear in Fig. 3, where the supporting-means consists of longitudinal channel-bars, their concavities upwardly, connectedby cross-bars 18, the ends of such channel-bars being grooved to admit the guide-rails 4. The channel-bars 17 are more particularly intended to support automo-' biles, the bars being spaced apart the right distance to receive the wheel-tiresfand having their concavities ofsufficient width to receive tires of different diameters.

I.The numerals 8 and l designate rotary shafts, the same lying longitudinally .along said car, the shaft 8 being located within the car and in its upper angle of junction of the roofo w'ith the side along the left-hand side, while the shaft 1 1 is located immediately below the bottom of the car, near its lefthand side. The shaft 14 is supported by hangers 31, while the upper shaft 8 is supported by the hangers 30 as well as the ends .of the car. The ends of the shaft 8 which project outwardly from the ends 2 of the on, which carry the sprocket-chain 10, the lower end of the latter being carried by a sprocket-wheel (not shown) on a projectrng stud-shaft, the latter also carrying a gearwheel 11. "The adjacent end of'the shaft 14:

.car, have sprocket-wheels 9 mounted there'- means shown permits of greater stiffness and less strain in lifting the load. Each of D the pinions-13 is provided with a removable crank-handle 12, which, when not in use may be detached and stowed inside the car. In the upper corner or angle of the lnslde of the car on right-hand side is located a longitudinal fixed shaft 26. At different places cables 5 are arranged in said car with oneend of each secured to said fixed shaft 26. These cables are then carried downward and under the movable table 6, or

under the movable channel-bars 1.7 as the case may be, then upwardly and secured to the rotary shaft 8 so as to be wound thereupon. find it advisable in practice, to mount small grooved pulleys 27 and 28 at .theangles of the table 6 to carry the cables with a minimum of Friction, and alsopreventingfluneven strains on" the table.

The guide-rails 4 are provided with a plurality ofpin-holes 24, therealong, adapted to receive pins 23. f

The numeral 20 designates a trestle, whose members are pivoted at their converging uppersends on a, transverse rod and are adapted to be adjustably spaced apart and connected'by means of a movable arm or. lever provided witha number of ratchet-teeth which engage a stop-pin 22 removably.

1 The ear is provided with doors 32, preferably having beveled edges to fit beveled casings in order to always insure a close fit,

while the width of the door-opening-is sufficientf to permit of theintroduction of an adtomobile of any-length therethrough lengthwise. t

The method of loadin my improved car is the following: The ta le 6, or-the channeled bars 17 as the case may be, havingbeen lowered upon the. floor 15 of the car, the automobiles 34 are laced in the car resting upon said table, or in case the channel bars 17 are used, with their wheel tires resting in the concavi'ties of the bars. By means of the theends of the table, while the trestle 20 may mechanism previously described, the. table is l then elevated in the-"car. with its load, s'u'fficiently topermit of working space thereunder-,andj the pins 23'are used to support be placed under the table to support the mid- (116 part thereof; The automobiles 33 are then placed directly upon the floor 15 of the car.v Then the table is lowered a proper disa. tance, the pins 23 inserted in the holes 24 of the, guide-rails 4, and the trestle 20. placed under the middle of the table with its transverse rod 35'. extending'unde'rthe table 'from side-to side. The trestle-thus suppofls the [middle ,of the table,"removes strain from the their character, it is to be understood that ends of the car, the weight, of'the load on said table thus being transferred 'directly to the floor of. the-car, The table, or bars 17 when secured asindicated also braces the ends of the c'ar,' hel 'ing to stiflen its structure. The useoft 's mvent-ion-permits of fully" oading the car to its capacity, with resulting economy in-transportationi 1 The devices shown being illustrative in variations. other than those shown are ters Patent, is: 1. In combination, a freighteer, a mov- Oct, 1910.

included in the scope and within the principles of my invention.

- Having described-my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letable table therein having longitudinal channels on its upper surface, and means. for raising and lowering said tableaway from or to the floor ofthe car.

p 2. In combination, a freight-car, a movable support therein provided with ri id -longitudinal channeled bars, and meansor adjusting the position of sad movablesuport. f

'3. In combination, a freight-car a movable table therein, vertical uideways for said table, cables secured to t e upper part of the car and passed under said table, and a' rotary shaft, said cables bein wound about said shaft to raise said table a ong said guideways.

. 4., In' combination; a freight-car, a verticall -movable sup ortin -frame therein,

vertical guideways or the ends of said supporting-means, cables fixed at one end and carried under said supporting-means anti-. friction means between said table and said cables, and means for winding up said cables A to elevate said supporting-frame along said guideways.

5. In combination, a freight-car, a niov- .guideways, aiid removable adjustable supports 'forthe table adapted to be located thereinunder. v Signed at Wa'terloo,Iowa this 8th day of I LEO E'. EVENS. Witnesses:

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'able table therein having longitudinal chan-

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