US1028760A - Draft-sill construction for cars. - Google Patents

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W. R. MGKEEN, JR. DRAFT SILL CONSTRUCTION POR GARS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 7, 1911..

Patented June 4, 1912.

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W. R. MGKBEN, JR. DRAFT SILL CONSTRUCTION `FOR GARS.

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.Y new anduseful Improvements in Drafta 'V-shaped orwedgefsliaped filler and tiebut4 extending through theV entire vert-ical v transverse section on the line-4-4 of Fi sill` D the end'sill, andfEthe body -bgolster'l A horizontal flanges, andrenld plates or ang'es l riveted thereto, and of topand bottoni necting plates riveted to the' horizmtal,y flanges otsaid steel sections, in aymannerl tively',

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Specification of L'etters Patent. application med :my v, 19'1'1. serial No. 637,326.

or Iianges of the bolster castings 'to the vertical web of the center sill pass' through ksaid flangesv andf center sill, and fhenoefrmly lunite `the bolster sections with i each 4other and with the sill. They construction 'of the To all u1/wm, z may concern:

Be it knownthat l, 'WILLiAM R. MCKEEN, Jr., a citizenof theUnited States, residing at maha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented' certain Sill Construetionfior' Cars, Aof which the -prior ap followingis a speciication.` j reason o thetw'o main` castings thereof be- This invention pertainsto draft sills for fing arrangedfto abut against k,the faces fof railway cars, and isin the nature of an imthe vertical weby ofthe'feenter sill, said sill prpvement -u on or addition to the draft is enabled to pass through ,thebolster at the sill construction set""forth and claimed in mi'dlen vh-oi' thelatte'r, *and to extendboth my application Serial No. 352,725, filed inforwar and the 'United States Patent Oiiice on the 17thv `and rigidly t-i'ed toand made substantially day of "January, i907. integral lwith .the center sill'and side vsills v'The invention or limprovement resides in* 'by reason of being rivet/ed thereto. Diagonal bracing otv the [herringbone order 4is employed between 'theside sills, end sill, centersill, and draftjsills, as indicated in part in Fig.' 1, but' as .no'clairn 'will `be made in the ."present application to said bracin per se, further description'thereof-,is deelne unl ...I necessary l' Figure l is a. top plan view of one end of'. F and G a steel under frarneforicars, providedwith made of, channel iron 'or,steel, of theforixl my improvement; Fig.2 is la horizontal sec! lbest shown 'in Figl, lthatjsuto say, cointion on the line 2 2 of Fig. .3; Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. k2,

block, placed between and secnred to thei nclined inner portions ofv the two draft sill menibers disclosed in-iny aforesaid applica, tion.'Av` p, ,f

The invention is illustrated in theaccoinl' panying drawings, wherein:

I ,Snail-vertical 1fa theywenn#onwardr be.- measu'rernent or depth of the draftsilhand A:e the-oeiih'allngicenter sill and body bolster;'Fig'. 4.

looking in the direct-ion of the arrows' v said Fig. 3,; and Figs. 5 and liars, respecyl rear and front perspective -yie'wsoi` u the liller block toV fwhieliniy inventiony more Tand.,fillerplatesjbfoffltliesaine thickness as particularly pertains. 1, l, .v i'saidfansfw, andforlniingyinaei'e'ct 'an ex- In said drawings, A `indicates the forward tension .t 4er end of a steel under `frame` Jfor car bodies, of ofthecenter-'silhi'soastoaiford ,a Hat and which B, B, are the `side-sills, C the ,center evenfbearing for'f-thejvertical webs .of the orfftianges Said bolster E .consists y'of two vmain steel', castings, each having a vertical weben/,d

abutting respectively againstv the Aweblfoii` the center sill C .and

common in the art and well understood@ The rivets connecting the inner endgplates @es PATENT OFFICE.

rearward thereof, yet is tirx'nlyA represent f sills, which are v prisinga vertic'al-amb',anditippenand lower horizontal flanges pro] e'cting' `tnitvs'fard from @of,in-thsdirecanbf Ithe length" Patented June 4., i912. y

bolster tli'us setr forth is the same as in my icat-ion above 'referred to, and byf faheiiueif pistes b,

'atinnScientl-to .permitirle intro- Abrigaffordefl.- From l l v l1'l other, and. withthe side sills; l.Sn'iitalblef"braceSl'-,are carried 'to the This is preferably of cast steel, in one piece,

horizontal UWebs and flanges, as best'illusedf.' in f Figsj'l i and 65.-# This;.gblockis, at

ther-draf both for the purpose 'of lighptening .,it,5` and termed; therein,gft'his lilo'ei'rig; iuoiisInaterilendconseqnent draft rigffmaysb fofan constructibng--andapplied I ingang convenient m'ztrmex",J

im. scribed-is to guard ageinstfpossibledist/on converging portonsotthe-dra sills'f;

Y, tieinlplace the converging sections` of the "dra/N sills, f` d y. rigid x5 sills and 'the center sill.

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etiiselitastllrfnedgefform" imherizsmel. 10 section, but ofhollojij of bon-Alike construction, suitably vsti ffend mid* strengthened fby respects alike. ,f

forward-'f@morfine-,1611erabloekiis. recessedf,

to *afford 'space orwtheinnerfaor rear -fend,

it V'.lhe' .purpose of* the vfiller block @herekv de? to i maken al more.; direct end je', @lineman lltwceniithef more Widely seperated portions of the drfit-w incenso Under,` the construction yhere set 'Sforth,

onecoiitinuous `end 4subs'tantielly intgral Ile/c ti-igcenter sill composed' of sections united by the Vvcouplers and draft rigs. Both in dreyvlng and in coupling or backing this ine'iber receives directly .the'primery stress,

which, however, is distributed through the` diagonal .bracing to the other portions 'of -f'nd fother-y bracing fend gtie4 members, to disftributeZ-it `over the ,entireA under frame, which,

under the construction, shown, becomes one sill-construction here shown is ,duplicated at are .in all Ineterial ends of which, iisg-.usual gfom cerfs' the; combiiirafesi ends" of which bend towardfndillep past :the adienteml; 0i -lenlsr sill; and a euer mockringweg d be f ,ngcportfns Q fth e bodviliolsers; `si'n'gl center sill In; anfgndeif me for cars, the Combintion with e; single) center sill 'of f'substantially I-cross-section of ydraft sills, the inner endsof ich are erranged'onopposite sides andeloseto the vertical web of the cenin'fndvancejof orfbey'ond the end, 0f said .',center sill, vsind thence lextend parallel Awith fetichl other; n ller` -block interposed between ",diverging portions of' the 'draft sllls;

fandrfstenings rigidly*uniting the draft sills` ,to the 't'.enter'jsill,I uid the filler block to the draft 5111s;

4." vIn "an under frame for carsfth'e combi? vnet-ion of e center sill; draft sills secured at their innerends to/th'e center ,'sill, and di- Vergizig therefrom' 'through a :portion of their length, and'throghfnother portlon extending' parallel with each other; a filler lsftlie ,rear

rgfsvill, end-Which divergethnce to a point 1,028,760- t l a .black nterposedbetween the divergin'g pori In. testimony whereof I have signed tions of the draft sills, and h ving .a slQt name tol this speclcation in` the presence at its rear-or inner end into whi hlthe vertiof two subscribmg witnesses.A

cal web of the .center sill is carried; und l WILLIAM R. MGKEEN, JR.

5 fastenings firmly uniting the draft Sills and Witnesses:

the filler block to the center sill and to each. WILLIAM W. DODGE, 'othexx A DEAN BURTON.

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