US1545939A - Wear plate for journal boxes - Google Patents

Description

July 14, 1925.

A. O. BUCKIUS, JR

WEAR PLATE FOR JOURNAL BOXES Filed Nov. 16, 1921 Patented July 14, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT 0. BUCKIUS, JR., 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO NATIONAL MALLEABLE AND STEEL CASTINGS COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO,

A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

WEAR PLATE FOR JOURNAL BOXES.

Application filed November 16, 1921. Serial No. 515,472.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT O. BUoK'IUs, Jr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements-in Wear Plates for Journal Boxes, of which the.

following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective of a journal box, showing the application of my improvements thereto; Fig. 2 is a partial section of a journal box; and Fig. 3 is a perspective of the wear plate.

My invention relates to wear plates for journal boxes and journal box pedestals, and comprises providing a wear plate interposed between journal box and pedestal guide which may be detachably secured to the journal box. My invention in particular consists in the means by which the wear plate is attached to the journal box, and in the various features which I shall hereinafter describe and claim.

Referring to the drawings, I have shown my invention applied to a journal box A having on each side one wide insert or wear plate B seated in the pedestal guide, but, ohviously, the invention is applicable to any journal box in which wear plates are to be employed, regardless of number or width of the pedestal guides. The journal box A has ribs 2 which form the grooves or truck pedestal guides. The wear plate B is of channel shape, having a web 3 and flanges 4 at right angles thereto, which bear against the inner faces of the ribs 2 on the box A. At the upper end of the wear plate the web 3 is formed into a hook-shaped projection 5 which takes about a projecting rib 6 upon the top side edge of the box. The lower side edge of the box between the ribs 2 is formed with an inclined face7, and at the lower end of the web of the wear plate is an angled extension 8, which engages the inclined face 7.

In applying the wear plate to the box, its projection 5 is hooked over the projecting rib 6 and the wear plate is then rotated about the rib 6 until the Web 3 bears against the side of the box and the extension 8 underlies the inclined face 7, while the flanges 4 on the plate bear against the inside faces of the ribs 2 on the box A. Rivets 9 or other securing means may then be applied through the registering apertures 10 in the flanges 4 of the wear plate and ribs 2 of the journal box to hold the wear plate securely in position. The apertures 10 in the wear plate are countersunk, as shown, to prevent the rivets from projecting into the channel guide. If desired, the rivet apertures may be located in the web 3, as is shown at 11 in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3. The rivets are relieved of all strain by the gripping action of the wear plate overlapping ends, and also by the pedestal when the box is in place. The rivets are used primarily to prevent displacement of the wear plate before installation of the box on the car.

In applying my invention to journal boxes I have found that the wear plate may be made of cast metal, or it may be made of pressed steel case hardened or tempered. It is obvious that my invention is of great advantage, since in event the box becomes unfit for service because of wear to the plate B the wornout plate may be readily removed by merely chipping away the rivets 9, and then substituting a new wear plate therefor.

The terms and expressions which I hav employed are used as terms of description and not of limitation, and I have no intention, in the use of such terms and expressions, of excluding any mechanical equivalents of the features shown and described, or portions thereof, but recognize that various structural modifications are possible within the scope of the invention claimed.

What I claim is:

1. In a journal box, a wear plate comprising a piece of metal having a web, flanges at ri ht angles to the web, one end of the web' having a hook-shaped projection engaging a rib on the journal box, an angled extension at the other end of the web engaging a portion of the journal box, the journal box and wear plate being apertured, and means passing through said apertured members for securing the Wear plate from rotative movement.

2. In a journal box, a wear plate having at one end a hook-shaped projection, at the other end an angled extension, said projection and said extension engaging portions of the journal box and serving to hold the plate from movement in two directions, projections on the journal box holding the Wear plate against movement in the two other directiqns, the journal box and wear plate having registering apertures and securing means passing through said apertures for holding the wear plate from movement in another direction.

3. In a journal box, a wear plate having a bearing against a side of the journal box, projections on the plate overlapping the ends of the sides of the journal box, the distance between the ends of the journal box sides being greater than the distance between the edges of the overlapping projections, and a securing member passing through the wear plate and journal box to prevent disengagement of the projections from the ends of the journal box sides.

4. In a journal box having a pedestal guide in the side thereof,ja;wear plate having at one end a hook-shaped projection engaging a rib adjacent said pedestal guide, a projection at the end of said plate opposite said projection arranged to engage a surface on the box on rotation of the plate about said rib, one end of the plate being riveted to the box to prevent rotative movement of the plate relative to the box.

5. The combination of a journal box having a side Wall portion of relatively thickened material, of a projection extending from said thickened portion, and a wear liner having an end portion adapted to be bent about said projection.

6. The combination with a journal box having a side wall portion of relatively thickened material, of a projection extending from said thickened portion, and a wear plate adapted to be connected to said projection.

ALBERT O. BUCKIUS, JR.

Images