US104306A - Improved railway car-coupling - Google Patents

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' No. 104.306. Patented June 14, 1870..

It PEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WASH NGTON u C amt swat ALEXIS HEBERT, or

MALONE, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 104,306, dated June 14, 1870.

IMPROVED RAILWAY CAR-COUPLIN G.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXIS HEBERI, of Malone, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a new'and improved Oar-Oouplin-g; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact; description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing which forms part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a plan View of a constructed according to my invention;

Figure 2 represents an end view of the same; and

Figure 3 represents a horizontal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists of a self-locking car-coupling, of novel construction, whereby great convenience is afforded for detaching, and whereby the same may be operated without entering between the platforms.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A is the hunter of a car-coupling, provided, internally, with pivoted coupling-hooks, a b.

These are made to incline inwardly by a spring or springs, t, and to operate, simultaneously with each other, by means of a notched arm, b, and abell-crank, b.

Secured to the ends of the pivot-rods ff; on the upper side of the bunter'B, is a horizontally-arranged- 1- )ck-shaft, passing through the hunter at a point hehind the pivoted ends of the hooks to a, and provided with a crank-like arm, 0, which, by the backward turn ing of the shaft, is made to operate upon the rear arm or lever of the bell-crank I), so as to open the hooks.

Arranged at the opposite end of the rock-shaft from that on which the crank c is carried, is an India-rubber spring, m.

Said spring, by yielding while the crank cis being exerted against the arm of the bell-crank, and reactcar-couplin g,

ing when said crank is brought opposite a cavity, s,

formed near the end of said arm, serves to retain said crank and arm in that position, and the hook a, thereby open, until shifted by the brakeman.

The crank or handle 0, when the coupling is being used upon a passenger or platform-car, may be operatcd by the-hand while the brakeman is on the ground, or by the foot while he is on thccar. WVhen it isbeing used on box cars, the rock-shaft B may have a rod attached thereto, reaching nearly to the top of the car, with its upper-end constructed somethinglikea brake-shaft, and with a crank-like lever similar to the one represented at c in the drawing, so that the brakeman, in passing from car to car, may unshackle the car he wishes with his foot. This coupling can be attachedito the tender of an engine, and supplied with a suitable connecting-rod, so arranged as to enable the cngincer to unshackle without moving from his place. p

O is a rod, secured to the rear end of the hunter.

Upon this rod, and within a suitable frame, E,is a rubber spring, D.

At the ends of this spring, and encircling the rod (J, are disks or washers, g g, which are constructed or providedwith sleeves, h It.

These sleeves, extending outwardly through the frame E and along the rod, are received between a. fixed collar, i, and a screw-nut, o, as shown, so that the spring D is acted upon by one or the other of the said disks or washers y, during the backward or forward jerks of the cars. Said spring D,instead of being constructed of a continuous piece of rubber, may

'be composed of several sections, and with interposed metal washers between them, as shown, so that old springs from other castings may be used. The advantage gained by the use of the disksg g and their sleeves h h, is the more convenient removal of the spring D, or any of its sections, for repairs or other purpose, without unbolting the frame E from the car, the reniot'al of the not 0 and withdrawal of the rod 0 being all that is necessary.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to have secured by Letters Patent, is-

p The coupling-hooks a (1., the notched arm I), and bell-crank b, and the cranked rock-shaft B, combined for operation substantially as herein illescribed.

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