US1159843A - Poultry-car. - Google Patents

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W. P. JOHNSON.

POULTRY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 11. 1914.

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W. P. JOHNSON.

POULTRY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED 0CT.17, 1914.

1,1 59,843. Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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WALIDO I. JOHNSON, or onroAeo, ILLInoIs.

PGULTRY-CAR;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Y Patented N 0v. 9, 1915.

Application filed'fictober 17, 1914. Serial No..867,120..

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WALDO P.'JOHNSON, 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 Poultry-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of railway cars which are equipped for the shipment of live poultry by having built in them, with a View to sanitary and humane confinement of the fowls. tiers of coops on opposite sides of a central aisle, enlarged midway of its length into a vestibule for the attendants, from which aisle to gain access to the coops for replenishing them en route with feed and Water and for introducing and withdrawing the creatures and cleaning the coops. Each coop is provided with an open-work door pivoted atthe opposite ends of its lower edge, to hinge it. to adjacent aisle-posts, which are ordinarily provided with retaining means in position to be releasably en gaged by catches at or near the upper dooredges for securing the doors in their raised coop-closing positions. Modern cars of this type are steel structures, and the aisle-posts are channel-beams, with their flanges .eX-.

tending outwardly to present to the aisle their flat faces, upon which it is the more recent practice to rivet brackets provided with pintles for hinging the doors and catches for releasably holding them when raised for closure. By thus setting the aisle-posts, the outwardly-projecting beam-flanges not only take up valuable space. but the beams present lodgment for filth from the coops. which tends to render them unsanitary and is difiicult of removal in cleaning the coops. The brackets referred to are frequently broken in the rough usage to which the car is necessarily subjected, thereby-impairing the supports for the doors. rendering the matter of keeping them closed. en route. arduous, and, besides. adding materially to the expense of maintenance.

The primary purpose of my improvement is to overcome these objections, and this I accomplish by presenting the flat faces of the channel-beams forming the aisle-posts outwardly. toward the coops, and the flanges inwardly, toward the aisle; and this enables me to adapt the beam-flanges for hinging the aisle-doors in place and for releasably latching or retaining them when raised for closure, thereby dispensing with allfixtures,

such as brackets, hitherto applied for these purposes to the posts. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s a broken View in front elevation shbwing a portion of a tier of coops as they appear at'the aisle; Fig.2 is section on line 2, Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is an end viewof a coop-door Fig. 4 1s a section on line i, Fig. 2; Figs; 5, 6 and 7 are'views respectively like Figs. 1, 2 and 8, but illustrating a modification, and Fig. 8 is a section on line 8, Fig. 5.

The aisle-posts, one of which is shown at 9 containing openings 10 for insertion and withdrawal of feed-troughs (not shown), are channel-beams riveted to angle-beams 11 forming the inner sills supporting the adjacent ends of the coop-floors 11?. These posts are set with their flanges 91 projecting toward the aisle. The open-work coopdoors 12 (Figs. 1 to 1, inclusive) carry on each end-member 13 a lower pintle 1 1 and an upper catch 15 to enter, respectively, a closed elongated slot 1 1 and. an open or bayonet slot 15' in proper position in each flange. The pintle and catch are preferably formed on the opposite ends of and are thus connected by or integral with a strip 16 riveted to a door-member 13. This construction facilitates placing the doors in the first instance in the following manner:

lVith a strip 16 riveted near its upper and' lower endsto a member 13 on one end of a door, the pintle on that end may be inserted into the proper adjacent flange-slot 1e; and for then securing in place the strip for the opposite end ofthe door, the pintle thereon may be inserted into the proper flange-slot 14 and with the door opened and thelastnamed strip turned on its pintle downwardly, to render that door-end and the re- 'spective strip accessible for riveting them together, the rivets may be readily driven,

when the door is hingedly supported be tween adjacent posts and adapted to be raised, for closing it, on its pintles and then lifted in the respective slots 1? to enter the catches 15 into and drop themin theadjacent bayonet-slots 15. As will be understood, for opening a door, it requires to be first lifted to register the catches with and withdraw them through the open ends of the bayonet-slots.

The principle of utilizing the flanges at the aisle of the post-forming beams 9 for hingedly supporting the aisledoors and re leasably securing them in closed condition, may be employed by various means otherthan the described pintles and catches on the door-ends, though they produce those advantages hereinbefore mentioned in a superior manner. Of such other means, however, those illustrated in Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive, and hereinafter described, are believed to most nearly approach, in the matter of attaining these advantages, the construction illustrated in the preceding figures. In this modification, the pintles project from the post, instead of from the doors, being the ends of rods, one of which is shown at 17, extending through the flanges, and similarly disposed rods 18 are providedior engage ment with their projecting ends of catches on the doors 12. The pintle-ends of each rod 17 enter elongated slots i l" in the lower ends of the door-membersl3, which carry on their upper ends hook-like catches 19 to engage the projecting ends of the rods 18.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a poultry-car having tiers of coops along an aisle, aisle-posts formed of flanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly toward the aisle, and coop-doors each hingedly supported on the flanges of adjacent posts, said flanges being formed to constitute hinge and latch members for supporting the said doors.

2. In a poultry-car having tiers of coops along an aisle, aisle-posts formed of flanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly Copies of this patent may be obtained for toward the aisle, coop-doors hingedly supported at their lower ends on said flanges, and means on the upper parts of the doors for releasably latching them to said flanges when the doors are raised on their hinges into closed position, said flanges being formed to constitute hinge and latch members for supporting the said doors.

3. In a poultry-car having tiersof ,coops along an aisle, aisle=posts formed of flanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly toward the aisle, and having pintle-slots and open-slots in the flanges, and coop-doors provided on their end-members with lower pintles entering the pintle slots for hinging said doors, and with upper catchesto enter the open slots for releasably fastening said doors when raised on their hinges into closed position.

a. In a poultry-car having tiers of coops along an aisle, aisle-posts formed of flanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly toward the aisle, and having elongated pintle-slots and bayonet-slots in the flanges, and coop-doors having secured on the outer faces of their end-members strips terminating at their lower ends in pintles entering said pintle-slots and. at their upper ends in catches to enter the open slots for releasably fastening said doors when raised on their hinges into closed position. v

NALDO P. JOHNSON. In presence of" A. G. Frsonen, L. HnIsLAn.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Fatents,

Washington, D. C.

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