US126554A - Improvement in car-couplings - Google Patents

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WILEY KENYON.

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

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JIM/WM mm PATENT OFFICE.

WILEY KENYON, OF ORAWFQRDSVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,554, dated May 7, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILEY KENYON, of Orawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Gravitating Link for Coupling Railway 0 rs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and correct description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making apart of this specification, in which- Figure l of the drawing represents a plan View of my invention; Fi 2 is a longitudinal section; and Figs. 3 and 4 are details.

My invention relates to means for coupling and disconnecting railway cars; and consists in a novel arrangement of devices intended to chea pen, si m plit'y. and render safe and elfective the process of such connection and disconnection.

A A of the drawing represents the bumpers oftwocal-shaving,respectively,springsmarked c 0. Immediately underneath each of these bumpers I arrange my draw-heads, marked B, and unite them with said bumpers by means of the adjustable staples D and the guard-pins or bolts E. A pin, n, is passed through the proper openings in staple 1) under the drawhead, and thereby secures for such draw-head the pitch or inclination the operator may desire it to have. The draw-bars B are mortised in their front ends in the manner shown on Figs. 3 and 4, to receive the coupling-pin G, next mentioned. My coupling-pin is formed in the shape of a circular rod with flattened and enlarged ends, as shown at n. These enlarged flattened ends have shoulders,o, adapted to engage with the sides of the drawhead outside the mortise and hold the cars securely together. This couplingpin has also a rod extending at right angles therewith from its center, marked 2!, to the end of which is attached the removable ball or weight w and its ring, y. When desirable the ball may be screwed upon the end of rod 2 and a cord affixed in the ring, thereby enabling the operator to uncouple the cars from the platform.

I claim as my invention- The coupling apparatus herein described, consisting of the draw heads B under the bumpers, and connected therewith by means of the adjustable staples D and guard-bolts E, and arranged, as described, for connection by means of the double-headed pin G, having rod 11 and removable ball and ring 3 when the several parts are constructed and arranged substantially as specified.

\VILEY KENYON.

Attest:

W. T. BRUSH, GEORGE D. HURLEY.

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