US1328489A - Railroad way-construction and maintenance car - Google Patents

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R. E. BRESSLER. RAILROAD WAYCONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE CAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 3. I918- iatented Jan. 20, 1920.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT-3,1918.

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ROBERT E. BRESSLER, 6F HAMMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO 0. F. JORDAN CGMPANY, OF EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

RAILROAD HAY-CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE CAR.

Application filed September 3, 1918.

To all whom 2723' may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. BRESSLER,

:a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hammond, county of Lake, State of Indiana, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Railroad Nay-Construotion and Maintenance Cars, of which the following is a specification,

My invention relates to improvements in machines for constructing and maintaining railroads and has particular reference to improvements in ballast shaping and ditching cars.

The general object of my invention isto provide means wherewith the material, collected in ballast shaping. ditching or otherwise, can be carried along with the car through deep cuts and Wasted over the bank at the end of the cut, or in the event the out be a long one, left in spaced piles in the out for convenient removal thereafter.

Another object of my invention is to provide a ballast shaping and ditching car Wherevvith road can'be simultaneously shaped and ditched, the excess material from the ditch and elsewhere on the ballast shaping' Wing being carried along with the car, and if the cut be relatively short one Wasted over the back at the end of the out, or if the out be a long one left in spaced piles within the cut for convenient removal.

A further object of my invention is to provide a ditching attachment that can be employed in conjunction with railroad spreaders of in current use.

, A further objgect of my invention is to provide material conveyingmechanism that can be employed in conjunction with the ballast shaping wing or spreader Wing of such form and construction as to be autoni'atically moved from inoperative to operative position vice-versa through the mere movements of the ballast shaping,

spreader, or side,wing as the case may be.

lily invention iconsis'ts generall .in the form, construction, arrangement and coiip eration of the parts, whereby the above named objects, together With others which will appear hereinafter, are attainable; and my invention will be more readilyunder- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 20, 1920.

Serial No. 252,398.

stood by reference to the accompanying bodiment thereof.

In said drawings Figure l, is a plan View of a railroad car embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the car shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentar detailed View substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 2, certain of the structure being broken away better to disclose the bracing members In the drawings, Lhave shown my invention is-combined with or as a part of a railroad spreader car of the Well-known Jordan construction such as is disclosed by O. F. Jordan Patent No. 996,256 of June 27, 191.1. It should be distinctly understood however that this car is used for illustrating purposes, and that except Where limited by the clain'is, I may employ a car of any suitable construction. VJhile it is not necessary to describe the car in detail, since suc description will be found in said patent, neverthelessa general description of the car and its operation will be helpful. I might add that my invention as here embodied is applied to the standard Jordan spreader, the spreader Wings. marked 12 in said patent, and some of the braces, thereof having been removed. l.he car is provided with the front and rear trucks 1 and 2 and with. suitable center and side sills. At a point just back of the front trucks Will be found vertical columns which are secured to opposite sides of the under frames and which extend nearly to the rails. The ballast shaping Wing 12 operated in the same manner and by the same mechanism by which the spreader Wing 12 of the standard Jordan spreader is operated. The ballast shaping Wing 12 is attached at one end to the movable hinge posts 99 which are freely slidable in the column 6. These posts are operated by means of compressed air engines l0, l0 and the car is equipped The two sides of the car are exactly alike except that, the parts occupy reverse positions; this being the case a descrlptlon of one side, and its operating mechanism, will .the hinge occupies a vertical'position and the wing 12 is pivoted in the part 11 by means of thehorizontal pin 13. The two pivot pins being atright angles, allow the wing 12 to swing in both horizontal and vertical directions. The horizontal movement occurs in distending and retracting the wing to and from its working position and the vertical movement when it is desired to incline the same to any desired angle to the horizontal plane in the ballast shaping of the road bed. The free end of the wing 12 is sustained and also braced by an adjustable telescopic brace member 14?, the lower end of which is pivotally attached to the wing at 14*, and the upper end of which is vertically pivoted at 14 to a plate 9 upon the upper part of the post 9. vThe wing 12 being attached to the post obviously rises and falls with the post.

The wing 12 .is shown in distended or operative position on the near side of the car in Fig. 1 and in closed or inoperative position on the far side.

For holding the wing distended against the ballast, which it must displace as the car is moved forward, I prefer to employ a plurality of braces a-a; which extend from the side of the car to the inner side of the wing and which are constructed and operated in the manner of the braces w-a in said Patent No. 996,256. It is not thought necessary to describe these in detail and it will be only said these braces aa serve both as braces and as toggle members whereby when the shaft 18 is rocked, as by means of an air engine 19, they (serve to throw or move the wing 12 outwardly to operative position or inwardly to inoperative position.

lWhen it is desired to form a ditch Don the side of the road bed the wing 12 is of a form having a portion 12 which isigiven that'shape'desired in the completed ditch.

. In railroad practice it is necessary even after the ditch is originally formed to clearit several times during the year if the'road bed is to be maintained in proper order. Whether the ballast shaping and ditching portion 12 be used in the initial construction work or in maintenance work a quantity of material indicated at M in the draw- ,ings will pile tip-forward of the wing 12.

' neaaeee In passing through a cut this would soon waste over the end of the wing 12* and. into the preformed ditch thus making impossible the formation of a proper ditch. To prevent any such action, I provide what 1 term a material carrying wing, indicated at 60. This wing is secured to the outer end of the wing 12 as by means of the hinge member 61 and vertical hinge pin 62 and, as indicated, in operative position, extends forwardly in somewhat parallel relation to the side of the car. As the car moves and the material accumulates forwardly against the wing 12 this tends to displace the material carrying wing and in order to hold the same in desired position against such forces, I provide a bracing strut or member 62 which extends between the forward end of wing and the car.

The strut 62 is composed of two parts 62' and 62", pivotally joined by a hinge having a horizontal pivot pin 63. It is pivoted to the car by means of a vertical pivot pin 64, and to the outer end of the ma terial carrying wing 60,- by means of a vertical pivot pin 65. The strut is further braced by means of the diagonal angle frame 66 which has one end-pivoted, by

means of a vertical pivoted pin at the front lower end of the wing 60 asinclicated' at 67, and which has its other end secured to the lower part of the brace portion 62". As the car moves forward, the ballasting or other material will engage the brace 66 and for this reason, I prefer to make'it of an angle iron so positioned that the nose 66 thereof points forwardly thus presenting a wedge shaped structure to the material well adapted for passage therethrough.

So soon as the material begins to accumu-- late between the wing 60' and the wing 12*, it is obvious that the wing 60 will be held in its outer position, but with my apparatus it is not necessary to depend upon the material to perform this function inasmuch as the wing is positively and powerfully held in the proper position by means ofthe bracing structure just described. In order to assist in supporting the wing 60 especially when it is of considerable length, I prefer to provide a chain 68 which is anchored to the vertical column 9 of the car, as indicated at 69, and to the outer end of the wing at 70. Such a chain while not essential assists in relieving the strain from the hinge parts.

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12 is moved outwardly, by means of engine 19 that the wing and bracing member 62 will be automatically distended into the proper operative position. Likewise when the wing 12 is retracted, the wing 60 and its braces are automatically collapsed or folded in to the proper position shown on the far side of the car in Fig. 1. It will also be understood that the entire wing struc ture, i. c. the wings 12 and 60, may be raised or lowered from the car by operation of the engines 10. If the out were long one, the wings might be raised several times during the passage of the car through the cut in order to place the accumulated ballast or other material in spaced piles within the cut for convenient removal later on.

While I have referred herein to ballast material, I wish it would be understood that my apparatus may be used to advantage for other purposes one of which is the removal of snow.

Since this disclosure wili readily suggest.

to others modified structures wherewith the substantial objects and purposes of my invention may be attained, I do not wish to be limited to the specific structure herein shown and described. or to use with any particular type of railroad spreader or car unless there be such limitations in the here unto appended claims.

I claim r 1. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing, means for swinging the side wing, and combined means for bracing the forward end of the material carrying wing and for causing it to swing when the swinging movement is imparted to the side wing i 2. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having one end pivotally joined to the side wing. wing swinging and holding braces joining the side wing and the car, means for actuating said braces to swing the side Wing, and wing swinging and holding braces joining the material carrying wing and the car whereby movement of the side wing causes movement of the material carrying wing.

35. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having its comprising a car in combination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing and a bracing member extending between the forward end of the material carryingwing and the car, said brace being formed of pivot-ally united sections.

5. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing, a bracing member extending between the forward end of the material carrying wing and the car, said brace being formed or pivotally united sections, one of the sections of the brace being relatively short, and a bracing strut extending diagonally from the short section to the material carrying wing.

.6. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combination with aside wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing, and a bracing member extending between the forward end of the material carrying wing and the car, said brace being formed of pivotally united sections, one section being relatively short, and a bracing strut extending diagonally. from the short brace member to the material carrying wing, saiddiagonal brace being of wedge-like form presenting, when the wings are in operating position,.its nose forwardly as and for the purpose specified.

7. The improvements herein described comp ising a car, in combination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing and a bracing member extending between the material carrying wing and the car one end of said brace being pivotally joined to the car and the other end pivotally joined to the material carrying wing.

8. The improvements herein describedisomprising a car, in combination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing and a bracing member extending between the material carrying wing and the car one end of said brace being pivot-ally joined to the car and the other end pivotally joined to the material carrying wing, said brace being formed of two parts united by a horizontally disposed pivot member.

9. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combination with a side wing provided with a ditch forming portion adjacent its outer end and having its inner end pivoted to the car, a material carrying having rear end pivoted to ing portion, and means for simultaneously operating said wings from the car.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 16th day of August, 1918, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 15

ROBERT E. BRESSLER.

Vitnesses: BEATRICE EGKENBEY,

ANNA F. ONns.

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