US1084950A - Railway-car. - Google Patents

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F. X. MUDD. RAILWAY OAR. APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1913.

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Application filed May 26, 1913. Serial No. 769,936.

To all "whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS X. MUDD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in freight-cars and, more particularly, in such cars as requiretobe ventilated through the roof to properly equip them for the transportation, more especially, of live poultry, which is the immediate purpose of my improvement.

Requirement of the United States Government makes it necessary to provide, on the ordinary variety of freight-car, a running board extending continuously, or unbrokenly', along the center of the car-roof and throughout the length of the car. This requirement has rendered useless means hitherto commonly employed for ventilating these cars through their roofs; and it has necessitated the devising of a construction to comply with it whereby the indispensable and extensive ventilation through the car-roof shall'be attained.

The construction I have devised effectually accomplishes the ventilating purpose and conforms to the requirement referred to; and it is-illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of one-half of a freight-car roof embodying my improvement and showing the hinged ventilating doors open on one side and closed on. the other; Fig. 2 1s a'broken view of the same in side elevation, with one of the doors closed and'the other open; Fig. 3'is a sect-ion on line 3, Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section on line 4, Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a broken plan view of the central part of the roof-structure.

The side-sections 6 and 7 of the freightcar roof are of ordinary or any suitable construction and are supported at their inner edges on timbers 9 upon posts 10 the lines of which flank a central longitudinal aisle in a live-poultry shipping car. The central space thus produced lengthwise of the carroof is provided with an interstitial covering comprising bars 11 spaced apart and supported at their ends on the timbers 9. At intervals along this interstitial ventilating cover rise cross-beams 12, supported at their ends on the timbers 9 and having upwardly-converging edges 13; and at each of these edges is rovided on the roof a cleat 14. The running-board 16 is supported on the cross-beams to extend in elevated position unbrokenly and centrally throughout the length of the roof. To the inner ends of the cleats 14 are hinged doors 17 for regulating the Ventilation and to close, in incleinent Weather, against the inclined edges of the 'cross-beams, with their free edges beneath the overhanging edges of the running-board, and they are provided on their outer sides, at intervals, with transverse cleats 18 for propping the doors when they are laid back, in their opened condition,

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In a poultry-shipping car it is usual to provide a transverse central aisle, or compartment, to accommodate the attendant and contain feed and water-holding tanks; hence it is not customary to extend over that compartment the interstitial ventilating cover, which is therefore shown to be there omitted in the drawings.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In a ventilated car-roof, a longitudinal opening in its center provided with an' 1nterstitial horizontal ventilating covering, cross-beams at intervals along said center and extending above the roo a runn1ngboard supported in elevated position upon said beams to extend continuously throughout the length of the roofand form lateral openings beneath said board extending from the edges thereof to the roof, and doors extending along the ends of the series of said beams to be shut against them, for closing said openings, and opened, for the purpose set forth. 7

2. In a ventilated car-roof, longitudinal openings in its center extending from the car-ends short of its transverse center and provided with interstitial horizontal ventilating coverings, a series of cross-beams at intervals throughout the roof along said center and extending above the roof, an elevated running-board supported in elevated position upon said beams to extend continuously throughout the length of the roof and form openings beneath said board extending from the edges thereof to the'roof, and doors extending along the ends of said series of beams to be shutagainst them, for closing said openings, and opened, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a ventilated car-roof,- longitudinal openings in its center extending from the car-ends short of its transverse center, a series of cross-beams at intervals throughout the roof along said center, extending above the roof and havin upwardly-converging lateral edges, an e evated runningboard supported in elevated position upon said bars to extend continuously throughout the length of the roof and form openings extending fromthe edges of said board to the roof and overhung by said board, and doors hinged upon the roof to extend along the ends of said series of beams and close against their said edges, for the purpose set forth.

FRANCIS X. MUDD.

In the presence of NnLLm B. DEARBORN', OTTILIE C. AvIsUs.

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