US1022084A - Combined car stake and bunk. - Google Patents

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W. HOUGHTON. GOMBINED OAR STAKE AND BUNK. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11, 1911.

1,622,084. Patented Apr. 2; 1912.

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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

COMBINED CAR STAKE AND BUNK.

Application filed November 11, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

Serial No. 659,741.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, WILLARD I'IOVGHTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of 'ashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Car Stakes and Blinks, of which the following a specification."

This invention relates to the bunks and stakes for logging cars and its object is the improvement in devices of this class whereby they are rendered more etticien't as well as more convenient tooperate.

The invention consists in the novel contruction in and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 stake therefor constructed according to the present invention, the car-stake being shown in operative position. Fig. 2 is a view of the same shown partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section with the stake in inoperative condition. Fig. 3 is a plan view with the parts occupying the positions in which illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. t is a cross sectional view taken through 4-4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a rail-cluiir upon which the bunk members are seated. Fig. (5 is a perspective view of the stake support shown detached. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the stake.

According to this invention, I provide a bunk ha ving a channel in its top and is desirably constructed of two parallel railway track rails 10 and 10' supported adjacent their ends upon chairs 11 and 11 and which, in turn, are secured to a our platform or the bolster of a car-truck. Positioned in the channel at an end of the bunk is a block 12 having hingcdly connected by a pivotal pin 13 to its outer end a leaf 14. This leaf is recessed by the provision of a transverse groove 15 affording walls 15 and 1. at the inner and outer sides of the same. Said block is adapted for movement lengthwise ot' the bunk. To effect such movement I employ a lever 16 fulcrumcd intermediate its length by a pin 17 to the bunk and extending through an aperture provided in the web 10 of the rail 10, as best shown in Fig. 4. The inner arm of said lever is con nccted to the block by a pin 18 (Fig. 6) and the outer arm is connected to a rod 19 ex-- tending to near the opposite end of the bunk whereat the rod is connected by a pin 20 to an operating lever 21 which is fulcrumed by a pin 22 to the bunk. The arm of the operating lever opposite to that which is connected to said rod serves as a handle whereby the rod is manipulated to actuate the block 12.

The car stake 23 consists in a substantially rectangular plate of a width equal to or slightly less than the distance between the webs 10 of the respective bunk-rails and of a thickness at the bottom to enable the same to be inserted between the walls 15 and 15 of said leaf. To accommodate the heads 10 of the rails, said stake is provided with recesses 23.

24 is a transversely disposed bolt positioned at a distance from the end of the bunk and having its ends secured in the rail webs 10 as shown in Fig. l. A flexible connection, such as a chain 25, is connected at one end to the bolt 24: and has its other end connected to the stake near the upper end of the latter.

The operation of the invention is as follows: Assuming that the stake 23 is in its operative position, as represented in Figs. 1 and 3, the stake is released by the operator moving the lever 21 from the position whereat it is shown by "full lines (Fig. 3) to that indicated by broken lines (1. in the View. Such movement of the lever 2L aii'ects the rod 19 to cause the connected lever 16 to push the block 12 outwardly and thereby prot rude the leaf 14 beyond the end of the bunk together with the lower end of the stake which is shoved outwardly with the block. The leaf then swings downwardly and the unsupported stake falls into the position in which it is represented in Fig. 2 and suspended by the chain 25, as shown. With the stake in this position logs may be loaded or unloaded from the bunk over the side of the car without any interference with respect to the stake or of the chain which is partially housed within the bunk channel and hangs from the bunk end. To restore the stake to its operative position the stake is raised clear of the block-leaf 15 which is then swung upward and pushed for a short distance into the bunk channel, the

lever and rod connections yielding accordrail heads 10 extending into the stake recesses 23. The operator now goes to the opposite side of the car and swings the lever 21 into the full line position in F ig. 3 resulting in the block 12 being further moved to drag the lower end of the stake into the bunk channel while the upper end of the stake is swung outwardly about a fulcrum afforded by the ends of the bunk railheads 10 hen the lever 21 is swung into the referred to'full line position (Fig. the pins and 22 are brought into alinement with the axes of the lever 21and the rod 19 to lock the same against any displacement due to a force exerted in a direction axially with the rod. Consequently, the block 12 is releasably maintained in position to hold the stake upright.

It is to be noted that a stake is released by an actuating lever at the end of thebunk opposite to that to which the stake is secured whereby the operator is not endangered by logs in the unloading of a car.

In practice stakes are employed at both ends of a bunk if the cars are to be'loaded or unloaded from either side of a car.

lVhat I claim, is"

1. The combination of a car bunk comprising two rail members, a block having a hinged leaf movable lengthwise of the bunk between the rails thereof, means to effect the inward and outward movements of said block with respect to the bunk, a stake adapted to seat within a receptacle provided in the aforesaid block-leaf, and a flexible connection between the bunk and the upper end of the stake. v

2. The combination of a car-bunk provided with a channel, a block positioned in said channel, a leaf hingedly connected to the block, a stake connected by a chain with the bunk and adapted to be supported by said leaf only when the latter is positioned within the bunk channel.

3. The combination of a car-bunk provided with a channel, a block positioned in said channel, a leaf hingedly connected tov the block, a lever connected to said block,.

a rod connected from one end to said lever, an actuating lever fulcrumed to the bunk and having an arm pivotally connected to the other end of said rod whereby the last named lever may be swung into position to prevent any. endwise movement to sand rod and thereby rendering the first named lever temporarily inoperative to afford motion to the block, or vice versa, and a stake connected by a chain with the bunk and adapted to be supported by said leaf only when the latter is positioned within the bunk channel.

l. The combination with a car-bunk provided with a channel, a block positioned in said channel, a leaf hingedly connected to the block, a stake connected by a chain with the bunk and adapted to be supported by WILLARD HOUGHTON.

lVitnesses HORACE BARNES, E. PETERSON.

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