US125967A - Improvement in car-couplings - Google Patents
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- B61G1/00—Couplings comprising interengaging parts of different shape or form and having links, bars, pins, shackles, or hooks as coupling means
- B61G1/02—Couplings comprising interengaging parts of different shape or form and having links, bars, pins, shackles, or hooks as coupling means having links or bars coupling or uncoupling by rotating around a transverse horizontal axis
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- Wituezzza gunman A. WK 4 Y I M- TE? gttnrueg UNITED Snares PATENT Qrrron.
- Figure 1 represents a sectional side view of my improved ear-coupling.
- Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same.
- This invention relates to a new car-couplin g of very simple arrangement, in which the sys tem of detachable or removable coupling-pins is dispensed with, and swinging hooks are substituted in their place.
- the entire mechanism is extremely simple, not likely to get out of order, self-coupling, and substantial, and for these and other reasons better adapted to railroad cars than the ordinary couplings in common use.
- the invention consists in the new arrangement of coupling-hook and its combination with a vibrating coupling-link and with an uncoupling-lever, all as hereinafter more fully described.
- Ain the drawing represents the front beam or timber of a railroad car or platform.
- a projecting block, B grooved on top to receive the coupling-hook O that is, by a pin, a, pivoted thereto, as shown.
- From the hook projects back of the pivot a a shank, b, with an eye at the end fitting over a vertic- 211 post, d, that projects from the beam A.
- a spring, 6, under the shank b, serves to hold the hook down in the coupled position.
- D is a lever pivoted to a frame, E, that projects from the beam A, and provided with a fork, that straddles the post d above the eyeof the shank b.
- the lever is swung to press the fork f upon the shank b the hook Owill be elevated for uncoupling.
- the lever D may be connected with suitable extension levers or rods to be worked from anysuitable part of the car. and may also be provided with or arranged near a catch, whereby it can be locked in either position.
- F is the coupling-link,pivoted or hinged to the beam A of the opposite car. It has a pendent arm which will prevent it from dropping below the requisite level. When two cars meet the link F of one enters under the hook G of the other, and thereby automatically connects the cars, the spring 0 holding the hook down.
- Uncoupling can at any time be efi'ected by means of the lever D.
- Each car may at each end have one couplinghook and one link, as indicated in Fig. 2, to insure the certainty of connection.
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GEORGE W. LOYD.
Improvement in Car-Coupling.
No 125,967. PatentedApril23,1872.
Wituezzza: gunman A. WK 4 Y I M- TE? gttnrueg UNITED Snares PATENT Qrrron.
GEORGE W. LOYD, OF MARKLEYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH HIS RIGHT TO F. M. ARNETT, OF SAME PLACE, AND ONE-TWELFTH HIS RIGHT TO J OSEPH REGKNOR AND NORMAN REOKNOR.
IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,967, dated April 23, 1872.
Specification describing a new and Improved Car-Coupling, invented by GEORGE W. LOYD, of Markleysburg, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania.
Figure 1 represents a sectional side view of my improved ear-coupling. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
This invention relates to a new car-couplin g of very simple arrangement, in which the sys tem of detachable or removable coupling-pins is dispensed with, and swinging hooks are substituted in their place. The entire mechanism is extremely simple, not likely to get out of order, self-coupling, and substantial, and for these and other reasons better adapted to railroad cars than the ordinary couplings in common use. The invention consists in the new arrangement of coupling-hook and its combination with a vibrating coupling-link and with an uncoupling-lever, all as hereinafter more fully described.
Ain the drawing represents the front beam or timber of a railroad car or platform. To its face is secured a projecting block, B, grooved on top to receive the coupling-hook O that is, by a pin, a, pivoted thereto, as shown. From the hook projects back of the pivot a a shank, b, with an eye at the end fitting over a vertic- 211 post, d, that projects from the beam A. A spring, 6, under the shank b, serves to hold the hook down in the coupled position. D is a lever pivoted to a frame, E, that projects from the beam A, and provided with a fork, that straddles the post d above the eyeof the shank b. \Vhen the lever is swung to press the fork f upon the shank b the hook Owill be elevated for uncoupling. The lever D may be connected with suitable extension levers or rods to be worked from anysuitable part of the car. and may also be provided with or arranged near a catch, whereby it can be locked in either position. F is the coupling-link,pivoted or hinged to the beam A of the opposite car. It has a pendent arm which will prevent it from dropping below the requisite level. When two cars meet the link F of one enters under the hook G of the other, and thereby automatically connects the cars, the spring 0 holding the hook down.
Uncoupling can at any time be efi'ected by means of the lever D.
Each car may at each end have one couplinghook and one link, as indicated in Fig. 2, to insure the certainty of connection.
Having thus described my invent-ion, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patcut- The car-coupling, composed of the grooved plate 13, hook O, shank 1), spring 6, lever D, and link F, all combined to operate substantially as herein shown and described.
GEO. W. LOYD.
YVitnesses:
F. M. ARNETT, J OHN IVIARKLEY.
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