US1148829A

US1148829A - Track-sanding device.

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Publication number: US1148829A
Application number: US86717514A
Authority: US
Inventors: James Cassidy
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-10-17
Filing date: 1914-10-17
Publication date: 1915-08-03
Anticipated expiration: 1932-08-03

Description

J. CASSIDY.

TRACK SANDING DEVICE.

APPLICATlON FILED 0CT. 17,I914. 1,148,829. Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

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J. CASSIDY.

TRACK SANDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 17. 1914 1,148,829. Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

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J. CASSIDY.

TRACK SANDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 17. 1914.

Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLA JAMES CASSIDY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRACK-SANDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

Application filed October 17, 1914. Serial N 0. 867,175.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C'AssmY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Track-Sanding D evices, of which the followingis a specification.

Thi invention relates to a sanding device which is installed on motor and other cars, for the purpose of sanding the track on which said cars are propelled.

The object of the invention are to obtain a sanding device by means of which the tracks can be sanded before one or more of the wheels of the car, when the car is moving forward, at the will of the operator of the device; and a device by means of which the track can be sanded to the rear of certain and determined ones of the wheels of said car.

A further object is to obtain a device of the kind named which is operative at either end of the car on which the device is installed.

Further objects are to obtain a device which is not liable to get out of order, or be broken; which is economically made, and is simple in construction.

To those familiar with the operation of electric motor cars it is known that at times it is desirable to discharge sand in front of but one pair of the wheels of the car; at other times it is desirable to discharge sand in front of more than one pair of said wheels; and at times it is desirable, to prevent the car from slipping down a grade, or to move with certainty down said grade, to discharge to the rear of one or more of said pair of wheels.

I have illustrated a device embodyingthis invention in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car with the device installed therein, the upper part of the car being removed. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of the device and of a portion of a car. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the axles and wheels of a car with this device in place thereto. Fig. 4 is a view on line 44 of Fig. 5, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows. Fig. 5 is a section view on line 5-5 of Fig. 4:, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows. Fig. -6 is a side elevation of the valve and adjacent parts of the device. Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the lower end of the vertical shaft and tube shafts by means of which the device is actuated. And Fig. 8 is a side elevation of a modification of location of the valve and adjacent pipes. Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 7 are on an enlarged scale.

A reference character applied to a given part indicates said part throughout the several figures of the drawings, wherever the same are illustrated.

X is the floor of a car.

Y, 3/, are the wheels of said car.

Z are the side beams, and Z the side beams of the platform of the car.

A is a vertical shaft, and a, (Fig. 3) are handle by means of which said shaft is actuated.

B is a vertical tube, shaft A, to turn with said shaft.

C is an additional vertical tube, mounted on tube B, to turn with or independently of tube B and shaft A. Handle a is arranged, to actuate either or both of the tubes B and C with the shaft A, or to actuate shaft A only, as desired, by a construction which forms no part of this invention.

D is a chain wheel which is rigidly secured on shaft A, at the lowerend thereof, E is a like wheelon tube B and F, F like which is mounted on or independently of wheels on tube C.

G, boxes.

K, L, M and N are valves to said sand boxes, respectively, and 70, Z, m and n are the levers by means of which said valves are actuated.

O are springs which yieldingly hold the several valves K, L, M and N in a normal and closed position.

9,7t, z and j are sand pipes to direct sand flowing through the valves with which they are respectively attached to the track on which wheels Y, y rest.

P, Q, R and S are rock shafts which are mounted underneath the floor of the car.

T are arms which are rigidly secured to shafts P, Q, R and S, respectively, and t are additional arms which are also rigidly secured to said rock shafts, near the ends thereof.

U are links respectively connecting arms 2. with the levers 70, Z, m and a.

V, V V V are connecting chains and H, I, and J, respectively, are sand rods which are applied as follows z-I-Iaving reference to Fig. 1, where said connections are shown from one platform only of the car, (to avoid confusion in said Figi), a

v end to wheel F and at the other'end to arm sand will flowthrough T of rock shaft Q. These connections are also well illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, in addition to the like connections from the other platform of the car, which are,-con neotion V attached to chain wheel D and arm T of shaft 8 connection V attached at one end to wheel E and at the other end to arm T of shaft Q: connection V attached at one end to wheel, F and, at the other end to arm Tof shaft P, and'connection V 'attached' at one end to wheel F and at the other end to arm T of shaftR. I

Assuming the right hand end v of the car in Figs. 1,2 and '3 to be the front end, when shaft A is turned, by means of handle a, the connection V will be 'moved longitudinally toward the right, and; rock shaft P will be moved, to open valves K of sand boxes G, and sand will flow from said boxes Gr. through said valves and through pipes g in front of wheels y which are adjacent'to said pipe g; and this is the usual sanding requlred If what I term an emergency sanding is required theshaft A and-tube shaft B also are turned, by means of handle a, and in'addition to the sanding of the track through the pipe 9, the connection V will be moved longitudinally, and valves M of sand boxes I will be opened and pipes 2' in front of wheels Y, which are adjacent to said pipes i. If the car he on a grade, or itis'desired to back the car, andfit is necessary to sand the track to the rear of some of, the wheels thereof, the shaft A and tube shaft C are turned, and thereby in addition to sanding the track through pipe g, as hereinbefore described, connections V and V will be moved; longitudinally, the valves N and L will be opened, and sand will flow through the pipesj and h to the rear of wheels y (at the left hand end of the car) and wheels Y of thetru'ck at the right hand end. In Fig. 8 arm't is shown as extending down from rock shaft Q, to permit the valve L to be lowered, and sand box H to be placed below the floor X of the car. To make this arrangement it is simply necessary to place said rock shaft Q, on the other side of the sand boxes H from which they are illustratedpin Figs. 1, Qand 3, and to placethe sand box which is shown at the lower end of Fig. 3 onthe upper end, and

.at said othe'rend, when gitudinally movable thereto.

the one on the upper end at the lower end; that is, to change said sand boxes to opposite sides of the car.

In placing this already has sand above the floor of device on a .car which boxes at the ends, and the car the arrangement ofle'versgor arms, chain wheels,'ro'ck: shafts and S, thereto, and valves K and will be preferably as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 8, while the shafts Q, and It may be actuated as isillustrated in Fig. "7, to permit the placing ofsand boxes H and I below the floorX;

YVhether the sand boxes be above or below the floor. the shaft'A and tube shaftsB and G are unchanged, together with chain wheels D, E, F and F, with the connections V, V Vtand V.-*,thereto, respectively.

Theseveral connections V, W, V? and V comprise a short length of chain at the ends thereof, respectively, so that the" chain at one end may wind around its corresponding chain wheel, and movement of the arm T at the other end is permitted by the chainv the chain wheel at said other end is turned. I I

a m c 1. A car, provided with trucks, a plurality of axles in said, trucks, and'wheels on i said axles, sand boxes, valves arranged to control the Cl1Sh2LIgQ of, sand from said boxes, and gu de spoutsfrom said valves, in

combination with rock shafts, connections between said rock shafts and said valves,

separably movable vertical shafts at both endsof said car, and connections between all the shafts at both ends of said car and all of said rock shafts, whereby selectedones of said rock shafts may be operated from both ends of said car, h

- 2. A car, a plurality ofvertical shafts at each end of said'car and a plurality of rock shafts to saidcar, 'in'combination with lon connections, means to attach one end of said, connections to said vertical. shafts at one end, of; said car and means to attach the other end of said, conn'ecti'ons to said rock shafts, additional longitudinally movable connections, means to attach one end-of, said additional connections to said vertical, shafts at the other end'of said car and means to attach the other end of said additional connections to said rock shafts, sand boxes, valves corresponding in number to the number of said rock shafts, means to conduct sand from'sa id boxes to said valves, connections between said valves and said rock shafts, and directing pipes from said valves; all arranged sothat the turning of a given number of; said vertical shafts turns a determined number of said rock shafts toactuate the valves connected of vertical, shafts at 3. A'car, a plurality and wheels on said one end of, said car,

shafts, at the lower ends thereof, to turn therewith, a plurality of rock shafts and arms on said rock shafts, in combination with longitudinally movable connections, said connections comprising ends adapted to extend around said Wheels, rods, and additional ends of flexible material respectively attached to said arms, sand boxes, valves corresponding in number with the number of said rock shafts, means to conduct sand from said boxes to said valves, additional arms on said rock shafts, links connecting said additional arms to said valves, and directing pipes from said valves.

4. A car, a plurality of vertical shafts at the ends of said car, Wheels on said shafts, a plurality of rock shafts, and arms on said rock shafts, in combination with longitudinally movable connections respectively comprising ends adapted to be wound around said Wheels and ends adapted to be attached to said arms to permit movement of said arms Without corresponding movement of the body of said connections, said body consisting of rods, sand boxes, valves corresponding in number with the number of said rock shafts, means to conduct sand from said boxes to said valves, additional arms on said rock shafts, links connecting said additional arms to said valves, and directing pipes from said valves, all arranged so that the turning of a given number of said vertical shafts at one end of said car turns a determined number of said rock shafts to actuate the valves linked thereto.

JAMES CASSIDY.

In the presence of GOLDEN WELLS RYAN, CHARLES TURNER BROWN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0.

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