US1152547A

US1152547A - Support for bleed-rods.

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Publication number: US1152547A
Application number: US82344714A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward P Quirk
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-03-09
Filing date: 1914-03-09
Publication date: 1915-09-07
Anticipated expiration: 1932-09-07

Description

E. P. QUIRK. SUPPORT FOR BLEED RODS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9, 1914.

1,152,547.. Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

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To all whom it may concern-1 Be it known that I, EDWARD P. Q'UIRK, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Supports for Bleed-Rods, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in supports for bleed rods for operating the air-valves of air cylinders of train pipes. V p

It is well known among those familiar with the art that in freight trains particularly each car is provided with an air cylinder or drum and a bleed rod for operating the valve controlling the cylinder and that under present methods, the brakeman or other employee must go to each of the cars, pull or push the bleed rod to operate the air-valve and hold the rod in that position until the air is released, consuming in many cases two or three minutes for each car.

The object of my invention, therefore, is to provide means of support for the bleed rod and at the same time so construct and dispose a portion of said support that it will grasp and hold the bleed rod in its air releasing position so that the brakeman may simply push or pull the rod to valve-operating position and then force it laterally into engagement with a portion of the support by means of which it will be held in that position without further necessity of the presence of the operator. 7

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a sectional view of a broken away portion of a car showing the air cylinder, and the bleedrod supported in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is aside view, partially in section, of the bleed-rod support. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same.

The invention comprises a bleed-rod-supporting device, preferably formed of a single strip of material, having an intermediate curved portion -1- forming a return bend and parallel extending end portions -2 and 3.

The device is adapted to be attached to the bottom of a railroad car 4 and for this purpose is provided with a laterally enlarged portion -5- having'openings for the reception of screws -6 forming the attaching means. 1

The end portion 2 has a bolt -7 rigidly secured thereto and the end portion -3= has an opening through which this bolt passes, and preferably this belt is pro This device, as before stated, is to be secured to the bottom of a railroad car and is adapted to receive the bleed rod 9, which rod has suitable connections with the valve of an air drum or cylinder 10 so that a pull or push upon the rod operates the valve, to release the air, in the usual well known manner. Normally, the rod -9 is positioned in the enlarged portion -1 of the support but when it is necessary to release the air from the cylinder, theoperator may push or pull the rod to open the air-valve and may then force the rod laterally between the

end portions

2 and 3, spreading them against their own natural tension, tending to cause them to remain in substantially parallel relation, a predetermined distance apart, said distance less than the diameter of the bleed rod 9-. The rod -9 is firmly grasped between these end portions and held in valve-releasing position Without further necessity of the presence of the operator and preferably in order to increase the friction and, therefore, the tendency to hold the rod in this position, the inner faces of the end portions -2 and 3 are provided with V-shaped kerfs or cuts -11, pointing in either direction and of any desired size and depth.

It will now be apparent that, although 1 have described the preferable form of my invention, changes may be made in the details of construction and shape Without departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the class described, a strip of sheet metal return-bent to form an eyefor the reception of a bleed rod and in which eye the bleed rod is free to move longitudinally, said strip of sheet metal having its end portions normally spaced apart a distance less than the diameter of the bleed rod fatentedSepti 7, 1915..

and adapted to be spread apart against the resilient action of the metal strip by lateral movement of said rod and-to grip the rod in eye for the reception of a bleed rod and in Which eye the bleed rod is free to move longitudinally, said strip of sheel metal hav ing its end portions normally spaced apart a distance less than the diameter of the bleed rod and adapted to be spread apart against- "the resilient action of the metal strip by lateral movement of said rod and to grip the rod in this position to prevent longitudinal movement of the same, and means for preventing separation of said end portions beyond a predetermined point. e

3. In a device of the class described, a

sheet metal strip return-bent to form an eye for the reception of a bleed rod, said strip having its endportions normally spaced apart a distance less than the diameterof said rod and adapted to be spread EDWARD P. QUIRK.

W'itnesses:

E. A. THOMPSON, EVA E. GREENLEAF.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.