US1140214A - Charging railway system. - Google Patents

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G, E. TITCUMB.

CHARGING RAlLWAY SYSTEM.

APPLICATION FILED FEB 17. 19H. 0 Patented May 18, 1915.

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CHARGING RAILWAY SYSTEM.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17. 191

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GEORGE E. TITCOIVIB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE.

ASSIGNMENTS, T0 LINK-BELT COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORA- TION OF ILLINOIS.

CHARGING RAILWAY SYSTEM.

Application filed February 17, 191 1.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. TITCOMB, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Charging Railway Systems, of which the following is a specilication.

In plants of the type to which my invention relates there is a central bin on each side of which is a series of coke ovens and there is a gas outlet at the center of each oven, communicating with a main so that the coal must be discharged into the ovens on each side of the gas outlet. This necessi- I tates, in large ovens, the use of two independent tracks on which the lorries or cars travel so as to convey the coal from the lorry bins to the different coke ovens.

The object of the present invention is to provide means for driving a car on each track from one car so that only one motorman is required to handle both cars.

In the accompanying drawings ;Figure 1, is an end view showing the coke ovens and the lorries or transfer cars located above the ovens; Fig. 2, is a view showing the lorries or transfer cars located under the lorry bin; Fig. 3, is a plan view of one of the transfer cars; Fig. 4, is an end View of the car shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5, is a diagram plan View of the plant, and Fig. 6, is a diagram illustrating the electric wiring by which the two cars are controlled by a motorman on one of the cars.

Referring in the first instance to the diagram Fig. 5, A is the lorry bin of sufficient size to store a quantity of coal. B-B are the coke ovens mounted on each side of the lorry bin and over the series of ovens are located the tracks CC on which the cars D travel in conveying the coal from the lorry bin to one of the series of ovens. EX- tending through the roof of each bin at a point midway between the sides of the ovens is a gas pipe B which communicates with the gas main B and at each side of the coke ovens are doors 6-6, which are closed during the coking process and opened when the coke is to be discharged. These doors can be operated by independent mechanism, if desired, but I prefer to operate them from the mechanism on the cars as described hereafter. The location of the several gas pipes at the center of the coke ovens necessitates the use of two tracks CC', one track Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedMay 18, 1915.

Serial No. 609,126.

being located above the ovens on one side of the series of gas pipes and the other track being located on the opposite side, as clearly shown in the drawings. Consequently, two cars D-D are necessary for the proper charging of the coke ovens with coal and as the charging should be done at the same time both cars must be loaded and driven simultaneously. If the cars were electrically driven in the ordinary manner, this would necessitate two sets of electric mechanism on each car and two motorinen or drivers, but by my invention I am enabled to dispense with the service of one motorman and to drive both cars from a point on one car, not only reducing the cost of operation, but making easily possible the simultaneous movement of the cars and the simultaneous discharge of the coal into the ovens. The lorry bin A is provided with six discharge spouts a in the present instance the discharge of coal being controlled by valves or gatesa" operated in any suitable manner and the lorry cars are each provided with three spouts 0! having valves or gates d (Fig. 4:). These valves d arein the form of sliding plates which are connected to arms on a rock shaft 0Z mounted on each car, on the rock shaft is a hand lever (i by which it is turned. The valves may be operated simultaneously in any other suitable manner so as to quickly discharge the coke into the oven. The oven has a series of openings 6 through which the coal is discharged from the cars. These openings are of tracks C. Trolley poles (not shown) are mounted on the cars DD' for conveying current to and from the two controllers II and between the controller I and the motor m'-N The controller I governs the motor N on the car D, while the controller I governs a similar motor on the car D. 70 is the resistance for each controller and N is the field for the motor on the car D and N is the field for .the motor on the car D". i

, mm are the armatures and s-s.' are the causes current to be delivered from the feed mains iz' to the connecting wires 71, i 11 i and thence to the motor mN Obviously both controllers include means for reversing their respective motors.

The arrangement of the mechanism may be varied according to the type of car used. In the present instance, referring to Figs. 3 and 4, ee are the Wheels mounted on the axles EE of the cars D. The axle E is the driven axle, driven from the shaft F through the medium of gears f and 6 N is the motor. motor is geared to the shaft F through gearings' ff In order to operate the doors b b, of the oven over which the cars DD are located, I provide a motor G on each car and this motor is geared by a worm g and worm wheel 9 to a driven shaft G on which is a drum 9 a rope or chain H extends from the drum and around a sheave h on a frame carried by the car, and the rope has a hook it at its free end to engage an eye on the door I) (Fig. 1) so that When the hooks are coupled to the doors and the motors started through the controller I both doors of the ovens will be raised so that a pusher can enter the oven to push out the finished coke, or a device ma be inserted to levei the coke in the oven be ore coking. In

some instances the door operating mechanism of the two-cars may be indeperrdeneof one another. Then there will be a controller I on each car.

In operation it will be seen that the lorry bins are charged with coal by any suitable bin the valves or gates 65' in the bottom of The armature shaft M of this 1 to level the charge, if necessary. After the another oven.

mechanism and the lorry cars are loaded simultaneously from the bin. Then, as soon as the'cars are charged and the doors are closed, the operator, through the medium of the twocontrollers II, traverses the cars over the tracks simultaneously and when the cars are over the openings of a particular the cars are opened and the coal flows frofg the cars through the openings directly into the oven; the coke charge having been pr viously removed. Preferably, while the cai are'located over theoven and beforethey are discharged, the hooks h of the hoisting chains II engage the eyes on the doors I) of the oven and the mechanism controlling the drum shafts is operated, causing the chain to Wrap around the drum g and lift the doors. While the doors are in the raised' position a discharging apparatus enters the. oven at one side and pushes the coke out of the oven at the opposite side. When this discharging apparatus is removed the doors are lowered and the gates of the cars are l opened, allowing the coal to flow directly into the oven and when the'oharge has been completed suitable mechanism can be used coal is discharged from the cars the mechanism is operated so as to traverse the cars back to a position under the lorry bins, where a fresh supply of coal is obtained for I claim The combination of two tracks; a car arranged to travel on each track; electric mechanism for driving the cars; and twof,

controllers mounted on one car for control-T85 GEORGE E. TITCOMB.

Witnesses: WM. E. SHUPE, WM. A. BARR.

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